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Isn't this basically how Reddit got popular, when everyone was mad about Digg's UI update so they wanted an alternative?

After /r/TheDonald was banned, a bunch of right wingers did exactly this by creating TheDonald.win and other sites (including one for /r/TheRedPill), forming the win network. Honestly, the interface was better than Reddit and the site was very active, demonstrating that moving communities off-Reddit is very doable.

TheDonald.win went down because the admin saw the light after Jan 6 (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/05/why-the...)

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Your population size is not growing anywhere near exponentially: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=us+popula...

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I didn't even know David Hasselhoff made music and this song is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing!

>Funnily enough, the old.reddit.com view does have a <link> to the RSS feed.

Maybe that's not a coincidence! Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of Reddit, was also one of the developers of RSS. Most people already know his story, but for those who don't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

Who says the two parties aren't on the same team? Maybe the winning team is corrupt politicians and the facade of ideology is a marketing gimmick that sells tickets but at the end of the day, the NFL doesn't care whether you buy a the 49ers jersey or the Raiders jersey.

Imo the real teams aren't you versus me, it's us versus them.

You are completely correct, I didn't mean to argue against the Dems, just noting that I hear this critique raised against them a lot.

>Arguably by the same reasoning, republicans benefit from legal abortion and their finally getting Roe v Wade reversed was terrible for their electoral performance.

Indeed, the far-right has raised exactly this criticism of overturning Roe v Wade:

>If you have limited energy and a limited number of possible wins, it is important to focus your limited energy on one kind of win: wins that make future wins easier. By definition, these are the kinds of wins that augment your power. These are real wins. > >There is another kind of “win,” wins which expend your power in order to achieve some result you want. These are sometimes called “Pyrrhic victories.” Pyrrhus took the battlefield, but after the battle his chances of winning were reduced. His tactical “victory” was a strategic defeat.

Source: You can only lose the culture war (https://graymirror.substack.com/p/you-can-only-lose-the-cult...)

This kind of thinking isn't partisan, I think it describes the a problem that occurs with institutions in any society. I'm not sure what the solution is, other than to be collectively vigilant against institutions succumbing to these tendencies. Which seems woefully inadequate.

TIL about the contenteditable attribute, which it turns out can be used on arbitrary elements to make them editable!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att...

You seem like a really cool person!

He probably didn't have the stat off the top of his head, so it was exaggerated based on assumptions. But the underlying intuition had a kernel of truth and applies to any political party, or any institution, really. For example, if an organization dedicated to the poor mainly draws support from poor people, they have a kind of incentive to subtly maintain poverty.

This theory that institutions kind of have a tendency to perpetuate the conditions that necessitate their existence was developed by Durkheim, and like most of the other early sociologists, I really recommend it over newer stuff. It's not conspiratorial, the idea is that organizations that do this outsurvive groups that legitimately solve the problems they are created to solve, and so through an evolutionary process, the longest lived and deepest institutions tend to be ones with behaviors ironically antithetical to their supposed mission (even if the members of the institution totally believe in and earnestly support the mission).

The typical example (at least when I was into this kind of stuff) is the Catholic Church earnestly helping the poor, but doing so in a way that societaly, will never actually alleviate poverty, or may even exacerbate it. Now days I tend to hear this line of thinking used about liberals supporting policies that "help" minorities but really perpetuate the cycle of poverty.

Whether you believe this is beside the point, I only mean to suggest that OP is wrong, but a steelman of his point is deeper than it seems, and deserves our good faith imo.

> GNU Taler is developed as part of the GNU project for the GNU operating system.

Ha, yes, the GNU operating system. I appreciate GNU's commitment to this idea notion that they are developing an operating system (for which Linux is just the kernel)! And, I mean, I understand their thinking (I think). But it stills makes me chuckle for some reason.

A time of my life that I deeply regret and learned a lot from, full of brutality and fear, but also moments of beauty and wonder.

I wonder if any other excons are here on HN.

As a Judoka, I wish this was about normal Judo. You know what, I'm going to blog about Judo and submit it here when I'm done. See you in a few days!

Migrant caravans are definitely real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_American_migrant_carav...

I've been to Tapachula, Chiapas and it's wild. If you ever go, ask the mototaxi guys for a balsa across the river for a fascinating experience.

And only 40 minutes for this thread to become about Hitler.

That is the lowest possible bar for free speech, which as a philosophical principle goes way further. Here's a good talk from Hitchens on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z2uzEM0ugY

I'm not a free speech person, but since I think you're unwittingly falling for a strawman I think I can help.

Contrapoints also made a really good response (against) hitchens you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMIDAUdQ56E

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I learned about Chez when Racket started their rewrite from C to Chez. Made me think why they don't just build Racket entirely in its self!

To be fair, Goodreads also doesn't let you read the book right there on the site. And while I agree it would be convenient for music, I'm so desperate for a good discovery mechanism that I'll gladly accept this (currently I use ListenToThis and then look the names up on Youtube if they seem interesting)

It seems so. According to https://worldhistorycommons.org/sumerian-school-days:

>This tablet, from ancient Sumeria (as early as 2000 B.C.E.), details a day in the life of a school boy. Students learned by copying lessons on clay tablets, memorizing the lessons, and then reciting them for the school's headmaster (the "school father") or other teachers, monitors, and proctors of the school.

This web page includes a full translation if you want to read it, and cites the paper "Schooldays: A Sumerian Composition Relating to the Education of a Scribe" (https://www.jstor.org/stable/596246)

It makes sense that scribes would have formal education, like other highly-skilled professions imo, but I know nothing about history so who knows!

Any specific texts you can recommend?? Thanks!

Which famously resulted in the Reign of Terror (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror) before collapsing into Napoleon's imperial dictatorship.

You mean "frisco" :D

Probably too much load, should've implemented a modern cache for this page

The same debate applies to all of those things, so this is just another instance of Python battling with a philosophical principle underlying the language, which naturally arises anytime a redundant (but good) feature like this is added to the language

This debate could be summed up as:

There's more than one way to do it *vs* there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do it

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