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Comment · 3 years ago
Online meetings leave evidence.
Comment · 3 years ago
NZ is exceedingly plain so I don't get that comment. Most are of the form 1337 Great North Road Pt. Chevalier Auckland 1002

You could even omit Auckland as it's implied by the simple 1000-series postcode.

The property boom may have led to subdivisions making a 1337/2 necessary but the vast majority of buildings outside of metro areas are detached, single family properties.

Comment · 3 years ago
His Twitter internship put paid to that notion for me.
Comment · 3 years ago
if only someone could invent a device with physical buttons that could connect to a device like a tablet or other computer.
Comment · 4 years ago
All things are liquid if the transaction fees are big enough
Comment · 4 years ago
Great analogy. Lovely way of thinking about it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Also try to go outside of regular hours, often meaning finding alternative transport. At least in Angkor Wat you don't have to take a bus and then outside of those core hours you have lots of alone time.

Granted this experience was pre-iPhone so the specific example may not hold!

Comment · 4 years ago
If it is a public square, then it is so because the majority of people choose to use it because of the controls and filtering and exclusion of "undesirables". If it's a company with a reach in billions that's because it provides, in its current form including filtering, a service that is valued (in attention time, if not dollars) by its users.

If one compels a Twitter to host things it has decided people don't want to see, why aren't we compelling the Kochs and Murdoch's of the world to support equally "leftist" positions? It's frankly an incoherent position that Twitter should be compelled to behave a certain way and yet Rupert can continue spouting his propaganda for literal generations unimpeded.

It's still an absolute dumpster fire regardless.

Comment · 4 years ago
My favourite brainwave on UBI was to brand it a negative income tax. Would stymie a lot of the more traditional fiscal conservative arguments (albeit not going to counter the drive for regressive rates).
Comment · 4 years ago
If you're saying there's no evidence in terms of accounting audit for money going to addicts on Skid Row then, well, good luck with that bar of evidence.

I have seen him let the Whittaker family buy trolleys full of stuff from Walmart for their house. I have seen that prostitute (Angel maybe?) interviewed a second time after he paid for her rent and gave her money multiple times after the first video and it turned out she was just giving it to her pimp (and she doesn't refute any of this on camera).

So does he deserve total faith based trust, no, but it's easy to see enough of his videos where they are clearly benefiting from the funds and that's probably enough for many of us to say it's net positive.

Comment · 4 years ago
"They" also ban anyone not supporting Trump from posting to their site

...or from forever blocking nonsense unscientific articles from a newsfeed

...or from wearing a shirt that's pro-Democrat at a convention

...or from bringing scientific consensus into Fox talking heads shows

...or from posting on their subreddit unless certified by a peer as being sufficiently conservative

That your post focuses singularly on denial of Republican establishment talking points shows the real intent implied by those pushing such laws, without any consideration that the "cancel culture" has been a deep tradition pervasive in media and American life on both sides of the aisle.

Comment · 4 years ago
It may seem a bizarre tangent... but humour me: you don't know any of the members of Radiohead do you? Right town, time and age.
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm echoing what others have said but as a Commonwealth citizen turned British citizen with a grandmother who was the same age but died last year, I can't help but feel an extended member of my family has passed.

I am not a monarchist by any means, but I felt an attachment and affection for the Queen that made me value the institution. I know she led a privileged life but ceaseless service and consistency across literal generations is, to my view, no easy ride.

Rest in peace

Comment · 4 years ago
I think a lot about UI but have never thought about a temporally driven setting before. Great idea!
Comment · 4 years ago
Or the author intended it for HR to read with the implicit critique "don't send me trash" (from their perspective of course, saying nothing about OP)

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