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I think they are only moderating against bots that solely retweet everything posted to the site. A real user can post the statements and pundit in whatever direction they want.

Mighty will eat thru your $1k budget in 2 years with subscription fees alone. And you haven't even bought a budget laptop to run Mighty on yet. Mighty does not save you money. Also…

The website also infers that Mighty runs an ad-blocker, which itself is a huge boost to browser performance. For $0/month Mighty users could become uBlock Origin users, or Brave us…

If this is really the future, and users are willing to pay $300+/yr for 16gb of RAM, device manufacturers could eat Mighty's lunch by selling laptops with dedicated browser RAM.

This only makes Chrome faster until you saturate your remote instance's memory with open tabs. The faster isn't really there. A 16gb machine on your desk would run Chrome just as f…

Google could easily lower pagerank for blogspam by measuring density of affiliate links. They don't, because low quality consumerist search results make the ads fit right in. Also …

I think the source of the maturation adds another interesting twist to the story. A lot of 2D games today are built with 3D engines, and use modern GPU-assisted tech like shaders f…

I think there's a conflation of processes and tools which leads to the false comparison. Print debugging is a process, which uses a tool called print statements. Stepping through c…

The other way I thought of that the building itself appreciates is if the craftsmanship style becomes antique or vintage down the line. Or the architect becomes notable, etc.

I would pin the failure on how we view home ownership as an investment vehicle. There's little inherently appreciable to a building. In fact they depreciate over time and require c…

If Windows devices started charging Apple prices for hardware, would they now be giving the OS away for free too?

Does this argument imply that there is a race to the bottom for all metrics a corporation might care about? For example, wages moving to countries with less worker protections. Cou…

I didn't know, thank you for sharing! > If you think the world is overpopulated and has serious environmental problems, you might welcome this news. It me

I agree that most people are unquestioning anthropocentrists and that itself is fine. I disagree that it's the responsibility of everything else on the planet to meet us at the tab…

Until humans find something capable of the level of creation that humans deem higher order, then human logic is the only viable measurement? This is a circular argument for anthrop…

This is an incredibly anthropocentric perspective and possibly not one shared by the person you're replying to, so the name calling is out of line.

I was surprised that Github Actions allows you to write scripts that anon users could trigger by opening PRs. But then it turns out this is how a lot of open source CI flows work. …

As a compromise they could display only the magnitude of likes and dislikes. There's no difference to me if something has 100 or 900 dislikes; 1.2M or 7.9M likes.

Maybe animated gif horizontal rule is more accurate. One that comes to mind is a lightsaber, laying on its side. Placed between paragraphs (hopefully) about Star Wars. Alternativel…

It's been interesting to watch the rise and fall of internet comment sections. They used to be found at the bottom of just about every page. But the moderation burden has led to th…

Most of the things you mention are associated with the hype cycle peak and have not found their big use-case yet. VR has only a few niche applications in entertainment. Crypto is a…

There's a $5/month Classic option which still gives you all the vanity features without the server boost scheme. If you get value from Discord, would be sad to see it go out of bus…

The enragement alone isn't the concern. Social media can enrage people at a previously unattainable scale and speed, and with less central authority (proxy for trust) than ever bef…

Oh, a hacker dolphin. We are now only one laser garotte away from possessing all the tech in Johnny Mnemonic.