neuland

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by neuland 6y ago
Or, people are just inconsistent and not thinking about things beyond their politics. People will praise the Arab Spring organizing on Twitter without considering the implications for the events at the Capital on Jan 6th. People are fine wi
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by neuland 6y ago
Ah ok. Yes, I was mistaking Aether Pro. You have excellent docs!
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by neuland 6y ago
Oh cool. I didn't actually try it myself, since I read in the docs that it would take a long time. Good to see it's quick. Urbit looks like a really interesting system with great design underpinnings and philosophy.
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by neuland 6y ago
I was looking at your service recently while surveying the landscape of currently active P2P projects. Am I right in seeing that a monthly subscription is the only option to get a client and start using Aether?
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by neuland 6y ago
This is difficult to balance with having data be available when you are offline. If your data is local to a user's device (laptop, desktop, tablet, phone), then it's not online 24/7. So, you need some way for other people to
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by neuland 6y ago
Where are you getting an Urbit ID in 3 minutes? I am not super familiar with Urbit. But my understanding is that even getting a temporary Urbit ID (a commet) takes hours.
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by neuland 6y ago
It's not strange if you view it through from their point of view. Rightly or wrongly, these people just want to see much less centralized moderation. And they feel unherd and oppressed (again regardless of whether that's actually
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by neuland 6y ago
I don't see how these apps dont eventually get taken down like the Fediverse apps earlier this year. Eventually (probably once it's polished enough to be usable) the deplatformed communities will discover SSB and then Google/
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by neuland 6y ago
How do they enforce the code of conduct on E2E encrypted rooms?
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by neuland 6y ago
This project seemed innocuous enough. And it's a shame Discord killed it. As long as services are centralized, platform owners keep doing things like this.
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by neuland 6y ago
I realize most wouldn't. But I would accept that trade. HN is a rare exception. And, there would still be sources for tech news: personal blogs, company sites, LWN and other news sites. It's true that news and discussion would flo
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by neuland 6y ago
I didn't watch the episode. But, I don't think the effect of repealing 230 is in dispute. It would make hosting content you didn't write unfeasible. The questions is whether that is a good thing or not. And what new rule woul
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by neuland 6y ago
I agree the web as a platform for publishing static information is feature complete. You can publish basically any kind of static content you want (news, academic articles, personal sites, business landing pages, restaurant menus, etc) with
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by neuland 6y ago
The author mentions Sway and i3 window managers as examples of finished software. I'd be interest if anyone has more examples. What is a piece of software that is feature complete in your opinion? A couple more examples I can think of:
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Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability(drewdevault.com)
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by neuland 6y ago
I pulled the trigger on remote years ago and took a about a 5% salary cut. The state I moved to has an income tax. However after adjusting for lower income tax, cost of living [0], and my RSU's being unaffected, I ended up slightly ahe
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by neuland 6y ago
I’ll be spending much of 2021 scouting new places to live - places that never locked down in 2020. So by the end of 2021 I hope to have decided where to move and living in an apartment there.
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by neuland 6y ago
Yeah, I think people in this thread are really underestimating the ability for courts to over-apply laws that talk about commercial activity. If growing food on your own property for personal consumption can be "interstate commerce&quo
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by neuland 6y ago
Tell that to the family that lost their job and is now homeless. Tell that to the people who've lost love ones to suicide, overdose, alcoholism. (see I can be snarky and unhelpful, too) The broader point is that it's not clear tha
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by neuland 6y ago
Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine. Edit: also, the military, FEMA, and non-profits built temporary hospitals in spring, but they weren't needed.
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by neuland 6y ago
Florida, Texas, and Sweden seem to be doing fine enough.
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by neuland 6y ago
And yet they didn't stop the lockdowns once it was clear the stimulus was not going to happen.
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by neuland 6y ago
Yeah, that would be perfect. It'd be disruptive to force everyone to pick. And, I'm sure there'd be some demagoging about which options there are & how they're presented. But, I haven't heard any other suggestio
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by neuland 6y ago
I also really like this option. But what about the default? I expect there would still be significant disagreement between different factions over what is censored / labeled / prioritized / deprioritized for those users that
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by neuland 6y ago
The republicans want Twitter, Facebook, and Google to stop censoring (incl. down-ranking, labeling, etc.) mainstream right wing views. If they don't act more neutrally, the GOP will attempt force social media to behave as a common carr
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by neuland 6y ago
Labor says no. Capital says yes. We mostly end up somewhere in the middle.
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by neuland 6y ago
I can also recommend Deep C Secrets. For me, a lot of C didn't really click until I read that book. In particular, having mainly done Python and other very high level languages up until that point, this book's discussion of pointe
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by neuland 6y ago
I am a person not a company, but I do often forget that twitter exists. And when I'm reminded it does exist, I have about as low an opinion of it as you describe.
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by neuland 6y ago
Other people have mentioned a lot of good 2 player games that I like, particularly Dominion, Carcassonne, Hive, and Sagrada. But, I'll add the following recommendations that I haven't seen mentioned: - Jaipur - Century: Spice Road
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by neuland 6y ago
I think this would have the interesting effect of strongly incentivizing people to form a group with other people that share their political views. Kinda like a micro-party. And I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.

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