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Can’t believe someone flagged this, thanks for actually looking into it.

Never believe “nothing leaves your browser” unless it’s a locally saved SPA and the network is unplugged.

That’s even worse? That sounds like the power company saying that individuals shouldn’t own solar panels because they might not be getting 100% utilization out of them. Or Big Ag making a similar argument about people with kitchen gardens or smallhold farms. For someone in his position, it’s transparently self-serving and anticompetitive. I for one do not feel bad that he has to compete for RAM with other users, not one bit.

Fair, I do most of my browsing in an RSS reader and only link out if needed for comments or following branches.

Do you just comment without reading the articles or what? Because if you click the links then you’re obviously reading things from other sites.

> The only reason I clicked was because I wanted to find out where it was.

It sounds like it was a successful title. Click obtained.

I have heard from some native Japanese people that it’s all about efficiency—as in maintaining a comfortable level of inefficiency. Jobs at traditional companies in Japan are more of a lifestyle, and your co-workers are your family (sometimes moreso than your real family). The workday is slow and steady. Disrupting this dynamic by making everyone work harder or faster is frowned upon.

Not everyone likes this setup, especially the young, but many older Japanese prefer it, as it helps them maintain a comfortable lifestyle that they are used to, until eventual retirement. I won’t say either side is in the wrong here, it’s a cultural choice, but it’s probably not sustainable once the older generation retires.

Reddit still has plenty of those things as well. As does HN! It may not be as concentrated as places like 4chan, but it’s there. (9gag is weak sauce compared to 4chan, as well.)

But anyway, I don’t really much of a difference between idle wishes and advocacy. Both empower the people who want to “sanitize” the internet.

I also think the site is dumb, but when are we going to end this idea that everything we dislike needs to be removed from the internet? Is that permanent now? Because it wasn’t always like that.

I think Reddit is a cesspool of idiocy and propaganda too, but I don’t think it needs to be “taken offline”.

Lemmy is OK, definitely a smaller and more select crowd though. Tildes is also decent but fairly low volume.

I think there may no longer be such a place as “the front page of the internet” given the divergence in ideologies over the years and the overall decrease in civility. You have to pick a tribe. Even within the Lemmyverse different instances defederate with each other over differences in opinion and policy.

Sample size of one: this decision has resulted in me accessing Reddit exactly zero times since the implementation. And no I will not use the “new” UI.

This has actually been a time saver, and I haven’t missed it even for research. In fact it’s made me realize just how bad Reddit was as a source for research, these days. It’s all bots and activists with an axe to grind.

Reticulum (for multi medium) and Tor onion sites (for private hosting over legacy IP) and you’re already there.

All those unemployed SWEs will just have to work together and build plausibly deniable local AI tools that can be passed around through covert channels.

From a purely explanatory perspective, this is correct. Nobody wants to be the one who didn’t kick the can.

True, it was more of a pivot that involved copying PUBG’s successful format.

It doesn’t have to reach the floor. Even introducing an advanced draft in committee can be a signal of intent to voters and a plank for campaigning.

Resolutions are cheap theater. There’s been a huge number from both parties over the last decade, with very few tangible results except from some joint resolutions that stripped away regulations.

Then bypass them. Shop it internally among the party, and privately with defecting Rs who see which way the wind is blowing. Bring the results to the committee as a “show your work” moment for voters and draw a line in the sand.

Promises aren’t worth anything without action. Drawing up an actual bill and gathering early feedback/support is action, as real work is being accomplished through that process. Better to do the bulk of the work early and use it as proof to voters that there is real intent.

This is bad, but it seems better than a complete collapse of the economy, mass starvation, and a bloody revolution, which is what often happens when a declining status quo is maintained by force. Reality has a way of exerting itself, eventually.

True, but this effect tends to diminish at the highest levels of wealth.

At lower levels you have the “labor aristocracy” effect, which gives the more well-off workers a material stake in racism. And this division is useful to prevent organization.

> the end goal is getting theirs first and foremost

Seconded

*Everything in America is about class, with race as a frequent proxy for class

Fixed that for you

Well great, then stop saying that people who want this are somehow wrong for wanting it. You were responding negatively to someone who was asking for more of this, saying it’s somehow not possible.

He wasn’t saying that it had to actually get into the floor. Just make an effort and use that as an explicit position when campaigning, then follow through.

Every creative work is a copy of a copy; that’s just culture. The commons of ideas is a collective work, until someone pulls them out of the air, reworks them into something “original”, and plops them onto a page.

Ulysses is a copy of the Odyssey, Minecraft was a copy of Infiniminer, Stardew Valley copied Harvest Moon, Fortnite copied PUBG, film directors copy and spread each others’ techniques and storylines all the time. George Lucas even admits that Star Wars was heavily based on Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress, while Kurosawa’s film was derived from historical plays and John Ford’s westerns.

Why is the “bust” part of the economic cycle something to be avoided at all costs? Isn’t this a natural part of the cycle, like smaller fires that clear out undergrowth in the forest? Isn’t it possible that preventing this by any and all means will lead to much worse outcomes in the long run?

Moral hazard as a concept (as something to be avoided) basically doesn’t exist anymore. Or rather, the whole market now embodies moral hazard. This seems bad.

So try to pass it, let it fail, and then publish the bill text as an example of what you’ll pass when you win the election. Then when you win, actually pass the damn bill. “Promises kept.” It’s not rocket science.

Edit: love the downvotes, keep them coming. “We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas.” Classic Big D.

OK yes, you can get 10% access at state schools, absolutely. Most of these have PMC feeder programs that give you a direct path to this kind of career. Just have to pick the right degree/program (not hard to do, they often advertise it heavily and have visible corporate partners).

Because people are unable to conceptualize the idea of government-funded voluntary preventative campaigns, despite these showing success in the past.

This may be partially due to the many all-or-nothing crusaders who would prefer to use force in their quest for full protection of the citizen. Many people overcorrect because they fear that even voluntary programs are steps in this direction. Trust is low.

We have a long and sordid history with extreme and failed prevention (prohibition, the Mann Act, war on drugs).

Also who the hell cares if something is a “copy”, what matters is if it’s better or worse

Linux is a copy of UNIX. Who cares

If that kind of access is what you’re looking for, you really need to be focusing on a smaller slice of schools. If you just want access to job networks for PMC-type[0] jobs, state schools are fine. PMC-type jobs are reasonably profitable (for now) but they are by no means for the “upper crust” (I usually interpret this to mean 0.1% or similar).

[0] Professional-managerial class, since everyone hates acronyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%E2%80%93manageria...