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Comment #49053298
Hmmm. I thought it was thoughtful and informative. I didn’t see any aggression.
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Comment #48836980
Interested
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Comment #48432457
Wait, really? Can you give specifics?
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Comment #46975417
I’m pretty curious. What are those too 30 misconceptions in US commercial astronomy texts? Is there a list somewhere? Or can you name some?
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Comment #45551626
I think clickable links in the markdown would be great, at least as an option. Even if they would break when the original file is moved.
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Comment #45519268
Maybe Lifestreams? https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/freeman/ericchi96.html
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Comment #45513370
I’m not sure how exactly timelinize stores photos, but you could sync photos as you take them to timelinize, and then, if they are accessible, point immich to the timelinize photos…
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Comment #45476184
I want to be able to do all these same kinds of searches too. Especially layering on searches, like what you said about how the search ideally could be bookmarked and searched on. …
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Comment #45458994
A lot of things in science/technology have been invented essentially by accident though, with little to no understanding of why it worked. Who’s to say aging can’t be similar.
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Comment #45458981
Maybe they did but when they realized it was working decided not to publish /joking
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Comment #45458763
What’s this updatable BitTorrent protocol? I wished for something like this years ago as an auto-updating torrent for downloading Wikipedia with live (or daily or whatever) changes…
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Comment #45364773
My question too
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Comment #45352199
One more update: it’s a UZ801, with the Qualcomm MSM8916 chipset (according to `adb shell getprop ro.product.model` etc, and the fact that openstick works). I got it running Debian…
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Comment #45337578
Just wanted to update that I got this in the mail today. Not bad—6 days from order to delivery, all for just over a dollar. I haven’t tried to hack it at all yet. Here are photos: …
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Comment #45337432
Yeah. You’re probably right.
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Comment #45291052
I think this is a joke but it’s interesting to note that Amish people have essentially this. https://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/2022/09/30/ohios-a...
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Comment #45264418
This is a good critique, and I’ve been wondering the same ever since watching that TED talk. Still. I’m not sure it’s much worse (or worse at all) than what we have right now, at l…
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Comment #45264369
I don’t know. I asked chatgpt where I can get the most calories for my money when eating fast food, tempered by the qualification that the food is delicious. It very confidently an…
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Comment #45257759
I just bought one for $1.07 US with free shipping. I was buying with a new account so I probably got that discount. But even so, before buying I got $2.99 the first time I loaded t…
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Comment #45235385
Same here! But really wonder if we don’t already have all the needed technology and someone just needs to put it together…and convince their society to make use of it. I really lik…
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Comment #45235373
Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. I didn’t mean the overthrow of the government was democratic. I was referring to the people in the discord server choosing a new leader.
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Comment #45235321
Isn’t there a way to do the first option, but without attaching anyone’s votes to their digital id, except in a cryptographic way such that any individual person can look up their …
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Comment #45230225
This also makes me wonder what could be done to make discord (or something similar) a better venue for direct democracy. I know the circumstances in Nepal were exceptional, but I w…
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Comment #45230036
I thought it was super ironic that after the government of Nepal banned almost all social media platforms last week, this week the Gen Z protesters who overthrew the government use…
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