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Comment · 3 years ago
I'm replying to myself because re-reading this comment is sounds a little callus. While I am implying that we can't say for sure what fair looks like given human variation, we also can't say that the current distribution is fair the way basketball appears to be.
Comment · 3 years ago
I find shorter lines difficult to read, they require so much more eye movement than longer lines. When a site will let me I prefer the whole length of my monitor as the line length. In my experience I can read on my monitor for 12+ hours a day without eye strain.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
It seems you do need to log in, but just unchecking 'responsive' makes everything load a lot faster and become a lot more usable.
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm glad I don't believe in that proverb or I'd be much more guarded against out groups.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why would exclusive spots for top tier talent in an industry not include a genetic component when exclusive spots for top tier talent in a sport clearly does?
Comment · 3 years ago
You can even turn off responsive design in the settings. I should have checked earlier.
Comment · 3 years ago
I took some quick measurements. The previous version leaves 2% of my browser window as whitespace containing no images or text. By comparison, the new version is 53% whitespace. That seems pretty extreme to me.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why is everyone moving to so much white space? I wish there was more of an emphasis on information density on the modern web.
Comment · 3 years ago
I’m highly skeptical of Passkeys/Webauthn as it would seem to not have the same legal protections that a password has in the US. Maybe this is me becoming a conspiracy theorist.
Comment · 3 years ago
I hate that videos appear in my feed long before they are available. I don't want to load a video only to discover it's coming in 48 hours. Just add the video to my feed 48 hours later.
Comment · 3 years ago
Anything that reduces societal trust raises prices. Security guards and anti-theft systems have costs.
Comment · 3 years ago
After harassment I ensure my username isn't traceable back to me anywhere. No references to a username used anywhere else and no information that is related to me.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't beleive people assume a closed and fair system, but instead find the fairness of the system irrelevant.
Comment · 3 years ago
Mabye it's the expirements that changed my settings until I found the about:config way to opt out, or the whitespace heavy and unclear UI changes.

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