digianarchist

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by digianarchist 10mo ago
It’s not one or the other. There are plenty of societies that meet the bar you describe without the restrictions Singapore has in place.
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by digianarchist 10mo ago
> Valdi is a cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance without sacrificing developer velocity. Write your UI once in declarative TypeScript, and it compiles directly to native views on iOS, Android, and macOS—no web vi
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
The proscribing of Palestine Action as a 'terrorist group" is an absolute farce but that doesn't prevent you criticising the governments position on Palestine.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I don’t agree with that assessment at all. I’m free to criticise my government in the UK in any way I wish to. I would have no such freedom in Singapore.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Other platforms are over-policed and Twitter is under-policed. There was a sweet-spot, subjectively speaking, for Twitter mid-2022.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Singaporeans have chosen economic security and social authoritarianism over the freedoms we enjoy in the West. That's their choice. A powerful passport doesn't mean they can move anywhere to live permanently and if they choose to
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
No freedom of press, no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, government owns/operates roughly ⅓ of the economy that features many state monopolies, the PAP maintains a gerrymandered control over the electorate, criticizing the go
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
A wasted opportunity to explore related ideas.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
A good point is made at the end of the article: > But preemptive surrender is no sign of wisdom. Any reality made by human beings can be remade by them. The price of this power is mutual obligation: we can never let ourselves off the hoo
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I got a payout today from BMO Bank to my Paypal account for $38
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I have a particular disdain for the profanity-laden slop that is works penned by Mark Manson. He's not alone as most "self-help" books are trash reads that only serve as some form of cathartic release to their readers. That&#
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Apple is far behind the competition when it comes to image editing... https://www.instagram.com/reels/DPWkNZHjebe/
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Nothing. Filled out the form and heard nothing since.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
It’s not just convenience. This single box is a single point of failure.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
There's a tunnel between Detroit and Windsor. Faster than the bridge sometimes because no trucks.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
You're probably right. I scanned the FDA website and wasn't sure how easy it would be to meet the requirements for personal medicine importation [0]. As a Canadian national in the US I wouldn't even attempt doing this in the
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
$450 CAD I believe. US consumers would have to travel to Canada for injections which isn't practical unless you live on a border town. It's unlikely to meet the bar for personal importation as you say. That probably won't sto
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Also Libation for Audible books.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Less than 24 hours after I posted this Musk intervened on the idea of winding down the creator program favoring an increase in payments. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1978721345279082596
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I saw Nikita mention that X will flag account locations in order to be transparent around a poster's origin [0] which is a step in the right direction, though abandoning the creator program altogether more so. Nikita has had a rough co
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Anything that requires state syncing between client and server.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I don't understand why frameworks that offer file based routing don't provide a way to define routes using either a configuration file or some library calls.
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
I recommend this talk by Breno Gazzola that details the history of the Rails-JS ecosystem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFgQco_ccgg
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by digianarchist 11mo ago
Stimulus is basically a very small event system with HTML hooks that integrates well with the Rails request lifecycle. I'd love to know if anyone has built anything sophisticated with it because I found it difficult to do anything rem
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by digianarchist 1y ago
The exact text is: > Note: This decision was made without the assistance of automation. At the end of any messages from the Admin team.
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by digianarchist 1y ago
Reddit's appeal system should indicate if a human reviewed the decision. Did it say the words "automation was not used in this decision" or something similar. I have personally never seen reddit overturn a ban and they don&#x
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by digianarchist 1y ago
California has passed SB79 which is a minor step forward. The opposition it received was pretty high for such a limited Bill. I don't have a huge amount of faith CA will get housing costs under control but doing so is clearly one of th
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by digianarchist 1y ago
Wouldn't that push people into black markets for day to day living?
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by digianarchist 1y ago
If it's only applicable to citizens then how do they hope it will help on migration? Edit: The Times says this is to include all workers: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/digital-id-comp...
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by digianarchist 1y ago
It’s 50/50 if the screenshot thumbnail screen shows for me these days. The action works 100% of the time.

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