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> It is the most populus federated network I have seen. Yes, same; but that's kind of the point. Mastodon is the best effort I have seen so far; which is why it was disappointing t…

> but still - is that the consensus now? That federated protocols are dead and "no longer have a place in the modern world"? Having see what has happened (is happening?) to Mastodo…

Yes, fair point. This is a common problem for social studies. One must keep in mind and be explicit about the population the study sample is drawn from; and very cautious about ext…

First of all, thank you for sharing your experience. It was insightful, and I completely agree with your criticism of the article. I would like to make a small, and perhaps somewha…

> In that case, surely the professor should be commenting on the original assessment, not any paper that accepts the published literature? She does. Most of the criticism in the bl…

You are right, the authors of the paper only claim that their results demonstrate a); they are, however, assuming b) based on previous studies. What the Professor is arguing, as I …

Yup, it's kind of surprising "traditional news outlets" didn't make that list.

It's nice to see something like this being proposed, but, the NHS probably have a tonne of bespoke software running on top of Windows, all of which would need to be ported. And giv…

Well, there'd be a massive box for systemd in userspace, udev, dbus...

Reminds me of: here was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers…

It's misalignment of incentives rather than stupidity (well, in some cases, maybe also stupidity). Governments make decisions from one election cycle to the next. So taking on debt…

> I don't know what the bias is called but there is this belief that many successful people have or try to bestow that they "did it all themselves" and "you can too". This is a com…

> 1) Happiness is not as subjective as people think. Research suggest that what people state about their own happiness correlates very well with how friends and colleagues would de…

> Most researchers probably can't afford to pay an outside lab to duplicate their research. Even if they could, we probably don't want the researchers paying for their results to b…

>have already seen improvements in concentration and a decrease in anxiety. Interesting to hear. Meditation is something I have considered looking into for a similar purpose. Do yo…

>>You can trade off future maintenance by spending more initially, or vice versa > Umm is that really true ? Maybe not universally, but often, yes. E.g., you can build using more e…

> I wonder if the cig companies have coped by pivoting into the global market and pushing hard that way. That is exactly what happened. Global tobacco business is better than ever:…

The issue isn't just the lack of EXAMPLES, but also with how man pages tend to be structured. They tend to be very "encyclopedic". There is a set ordering for sections, with a lot …

You might find this intersting: https://github.com/tldr-pages/tldr

What would your example achieve? You're making the format more verbose and error-prone (someone might easily forget to match a paren), without imposting any additional structure ov…

Essentially, yes -- it will be down to whether the company is willing to risk having to withdraw from UK market. And if a company does choose to cave in into UK government's demand…

@grandparent: In other words, no, they can't read the texts you've sent up to this point. But they may be able to a month or year from now. Your texts up to the point the law passe…

The answers to your questions will come down to which a particular company values more -- their UK revenue or the privacy and safety of their UK customers.