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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
But that's enabled by the DNS MX record. There isn't anything like that for social AFAIK, so if you wanted to do the same with your mastodon account you are hosed. Some people are saying once you have million followers on mastdon.social, you are not going to restart from zero on mastodon.net. You can, but it's hard. So centralized or federated, without handle portability, it's not very different. You are stuck. It seems to me federated mail and federated social are similar for people who don't own their DNS entry (gmail addresses), but for people like you, that's a substantial difference. You'd have to run your own instance to have your own social handle, and that isn't portability, that's DIY. It only works for a small number of techies, you have to have an instance and a domain.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
You lose all your followers. It's like going from [email protected] to [email protected]. It's on you to go to you 1M followers and beg them to refollow you. The goal is to go from tmobile to verizon and your grandma can just call you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
What are the shortcomings of Wordpress, Tumblr etc and how did you address them? Thanks
Comment · 5 years ago
And when a post starts by lying by a factor close to 2 about the rate of obesity (42% 2018-2019 per CDC as opposed to 71%) what else in this post is trustworthy?
Comment · 5 years ago
FYI, Ozonetel bid successfully for the top line ad in my google search [ozonetel], dialpad taking second. You don't get there if you don't bid.
Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
It seems to me the authors make three main points 1) Pay-per-action confuses correlation (action when seeing ad) with causation (action because of seeing ad). Hence click-through-rate maximizes correlation instead of causation. Google knows you were going to buy anyway, thus serves you an ad. 2) Marketers and ad networks interests' are aligned in that they want to maximize advertisement budgets. Hence marketers will ignore randomized studies showing ads of some type are not effective. 3) Even when these studies are performed, even major sample sizes are insufficient to support any conclusion
Comment · 7 years ago
Add lack of support of polar coordinates. But every lib started immature, and altair is quite new. I think they could use a few good PRs though.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Should've said a generalized rope, as ropes are generally described as a replacement for strings, but if you replace characters with other fixed size data types everything still works.

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