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by websites420 5y ago
People outside of tech have no concept of what the algorithm does and in general take what’s on their feed at face value. How could they not? The news very often runs stories about tweets and Twitter trends as if they represent the real org
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by websites420 5y ago
Americans eat too many calories already. Let us eat some vegetables for a few weeks, it won't kill us.
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by websites420 5y ago
>The east bay has hundreds of people on a waiting list just for shelter space. There aren't enough beds for the night, let alone supportive housing, so we haven't even come close to trying the "build all the houses that th
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by websites420 5y ago
Small government means not making laws which otherwise interfere in the citizens' ability to make their own choices about how to live. It doesn't have anything to do with the size of the military, whose missions are mostly abroad
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by websites420 5y ago
Putting them in jail prevents them from doing things that the taxpayers don't like: building fires under overpasses, leaving needles and human waste in the streets, harassing passersby, etc. It also puts them in contact with social ser
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by websites420 5y ago
There are no simple solutions here. I do believe the homeless ought to be assigned housing by making California’s Project Room Key permanent and national. If you can prove some connection to the location where you’re sleeping rough, you get
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by websites420 5y ago
>ultimately it is an illegal annexation of public land that belongs to the taxpayers and has other intended uses (even if that use is just greenspace or empty land). This is exactly how I feel seeing the homeless camps in Austin. Primari
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by websites420 5y ago
Really? I recall netbooks being pretty bad. Cramped keyboards, short battery life, weak processors... the worst of all worlds, really. What attracts you to them?
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by websites420 5y ago
This was written by a person, not the editorial board of NYT. Could you please back your claims of antisemitism? That is a serious accusation that is unfortunately overused to apply to anyone who criticizes Israel.
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by websites420 5y ago
I made no statement about whether anyone's actions were justified, only that they made sense given the state of affairs.
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by websites420 5y ago
This is a the consequence of having an administration that transparently lied at every turn. Even if they were right, no one would believe them.
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by websites420 5y ago
Oh the users would most certainly be tracked by the government. In fact, that's part of the point. One of the unfortunate byproducts of Parler getting shut down was the loss of visibility of right-wing terrorists. I'm not sure I f
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by websites420 5y ago
>It would be unusable. Porn is legal, gore is legal, hate speech is legal, as is any threat that’s not likely to cause “specific and imminent lawlessness”. Such is the nature of living in a free society. Certainly there are ways, in even
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by websites420 5y ago
My vision doesn’t create a distinction between commercial and personal speech. In fact, it does the opposite, by not privileging commercial speech and giving it a special space on the page. If you want to advertise you wares, do so, but you
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by websites420 5y ago
> There are already tons of sites you can move to if you get banned from a platform, so there is no functional difference. But none of those platforms draw a direct line between the constitutional guarantee of free speech and implementat
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by websites420 5y ago
Sure! Your account is going to be linked your driver's license. It's your space. Go nuts!
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by websites420 5y ago
The issue at stake: governments telling private businesses what they can and can't host on their servers. Impact of a government social media: If you get banned from Facebook, you have the option to post your non-illegal content on tow
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by websites420 5y ago
To be clear, in my vision of this, people would be allowed to advertise however they want. Businesses could have accounts. But having a space for ads and then using behavioral ad targeting would be out.
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by websites420 5y ago
The point is that it settles, once and for all, the role of government in policing social media. If social media really is the replication of the public town square, then one that has the same operating model is called for. Doesn't mat
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by websites420 5y ago
A public option for social media is exactly what I want. Townsquare.us, run by the government, where all speech except that which is literally illegal is allowed. Supreme Court for challenges. No ads or tracking allowed. Post illegal conten
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by websites420 5y ago
It applies to anything said by the judge in open court. It is intended to elicit a response from the parties. Judges don’t make comments on their thoughts out loud for the benefit of participants.
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by websites420 5y ago
>but it seems like there's at least some indication of how she feels about it. This is not true. The judge's job is to follow pertinent line of inquiries to the case and get responses from the plaintiff and defense. Not pursuin
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by websites420 5y ago
This is because you are translating your words to fit the medium. It’s a reduction. This is exactly what DHH folks have to do, except it’s to practically a different language.
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by websites420 5y ago
It’s a combination of a few things: (1) Tech demands a lot from its employees. We are dedicating a significant portion of our waking hours. They expect us to believe in their mission, and so we also expect that mission to align with our val
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by websites420 5y ago
> I think Apple's point is they think users are too dumb to handle that and they don't want user ignorance to reflect poorly on them or their product experience. And I sympathize with this argument, which is why I propose calli
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by websites420 5y ago
Written English is quite different from ASL. For a person who was born deaf and learned to sign from the start, text chat would not be easier. This is an acknowledgment that sign is a distinct language and, the same way that Apple Stores ar
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by websites420 5y ago
No, I don’t see anything bad about this, because I don’t see how a user misses out. What lock-in does ALAC afford Apple? If Apple took FLAC and tweaked it a bit to make it work with their streaming better, would you have a similar objection
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by websites420 5y ago
>Instead of building hardware that can efficiently play FLAC, they created their own format in order to promote harder lock in to their walled garden. I don't follow how ALAC promotes a harder lock into their walled garden. If you h
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by websites420 5y ago
It’s sad that Apple is using an open source codec for their streaming service? Why?
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by websites420 5y ago
Is that how he feels about surveillance, too? Is that why he's building probably the evilest corporation out there?

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