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> hasn’t been amended in any meaningful way since 1971 Already inserting subjectivity into the discussion to support it's premise. I'm not going to like this article. > It’s always…

Professionals... A state has an asset. They can assess the population of a certain animal, assess its growth rate, assess the impact it can have, both to human populations and to t…

Its like fish bait. You set these feeders out to get them to hang around an area so that when you're ready to hunt you have an easier time finding them. Hunters don't feed anything…

There's Briar, its peer to peer and pretty great. XMPP/Jabber with OMEMO encryption, it runs on federating servers. Session is a fork of signal that doesn't require phone numbers, …

Matrix is great, but it leaks a ton of data.

Why do these people always frame a reduction in housing prices as a bad thing and a turnaround to upward price pressure as a good thing? This housing market has been crazy for over…

Why? Isn't the distinction somewhat arbitrary? A lattice or scaffold is indistinguishable from a crysralling structure only due to it's scale, but when a large, rigid ststructure i…

Well of course they have useful applications in mind. But it does demonstrate something interesting: computation occurs naturally, on the "bare metal" of the universe, and systems …

Well thankfully I'm not, but even if I were I think that's a bit of a stretch. A materialist acknowledging an effect he cannot quantify or directly observe is not much of a materia…

At it's core, the argument for caution can be articulated as "utility and availability of this technology must be limited to incumbent actors in the industry for our protection" an…

If someone wants to crank it to what amounts to a high tech doodle of me doing naughty things to myself I don't see how that's any of my business. There are people in the world how…

Replace pencil and paper with a camera then if it makes you happy, although I don't think the quality of the images make a single bit of difference. Why should only the few have ac…

I think even the phrase "negative externalities" is overstating it. There's a big difference between "I push this button and now the woods behind my house are destroyed" and "I pus…

The response to incentives created by EU legislation were predictable. Are governments not responsible for the outcomes of incentives they create?

The EU, home of laws like this and the reason for the cookies popup, where the citizens talk about how they have better privacy than the united states.

The amount of time it took you to type this response is longer than it takes to enable third party sources in settings. Most people do it at some point anyway, such as when downloa…

But that's not "discouraged by the system UX" and what better way to get people to use f-droid than offering incentives to use it? Like your favorite app having better features whe…

Lots of people use f-droid. It's as easy as installing f-droid from browser and then checking a box in settings.

So put it in f-droid.

That's why I don't go to these sites.

All this is not very intuitive to me, but my mind's eye is telling me it would appear as accelerating expansion until you reach the horizon, and reaching the event horizon would fe…

Brave will not implement manifest v3, so yes it is a good choice for this.

I do, after reading the information and reasoning about it for myself. Other people deciding what information I have access to are trying to disempower me from doing that whether I…

I'd love to see this. I'm a huge fan of the information availability the internet has brought and a firm believer that education is transforming into something we do of our own vol…

No, and it's not just iPhone. The same class of problems is present on Android as well. It's because they keep getting ideas, want to make things more complicated and need to justi…