yunesj

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Comment · 10 months ago
I'd prefer to write markdown, publish to my static site, and cross-post to social media. I imagine I'd also want to get an overview of - or make an ad-hoc post from - one of several accounts on one of several platforms.

I came across Posse Party and Postiz, both of which are self-hosted. It doesn't seem like either is built for this use case.

Which direction would you go in?

Comment · 1 year ago
No, I mean they did things like privatized state businesses, allowed entrepreneurs to start their own businesses, and created special economic zones.
Comment · 1 year ago
China liberalized their economy to compete with Western economies, showing their leaders don’t really believe in communism.

And the US and Europe are moving towards command economies to keep up with China, showing their politicians don’t really believe in liberalism.

Comment · 1 year ago
If Valve limited credit card purchases to PG games, but let customers purchase other games via crypto, then payment processors couldn’t complain about alleged high chargeback rates or association with adult content.

I imagine payment processors wouldn’t love this solution, but at that point they’re just asking for full editorial control, and we should resist.

Comment · 1 year ago
Wow, thanks for the warning that Couchers bans naturists. I am aware of many unique and beautiful experiences by naturists hosts. It’s disappointing that Couchers would want to eliminate them.
Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve been having trouble with Pocket’s offline mode and TTS feature for a while, and just migrated (yesterday!) to Obsidian via Obsidian Web Clipper (automated using Pupeteer).

Obsidian doesn’t have all the features necessary for a read-it-later app, but almost!

Comment · 1 year ago
I was talking about market accountability. Companies that don’t get anything done fail.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I wish there were better ways to align incentives here.

I have a crazy idea that might work to hold organizations accountable if they never get anything done.

Comment · 1 year ago
Fake privacy experts like Caro Robson need to be held accountable.
Comment · 2 years ago
I check for an RSS feed, and if it does not exist, subscribe via KTN.

It would be awesome if KTN provided an easy way to upgrade/redirect at KTN feed to an original feed, if one exists. I'm not sure how conveniently redirects would be handled by RSS clients...

Comment · 2 years ago
A lot of communities use Discourse (https://discourse.org).

LPSF (https://forum.lpsf.org) migrated to it when Yahoo Groups was discontinued.

Some of the advantages are that it's open source, self-hostable, and can be configured to work as both a traditional mailing list and modern forum.

Comment · 2 years ago
"an employee disrupted a coworker who was giving a presentation — interfering with an official company-sponsored event"
Comment · 2 years ago
It should be up to the employer. If one company thinks that a past conviction is irrelevant while other companies think a past conviction is disqualifying, then the former may get the employee at a better rate, the company will thrive depending on whether they were right, they'll have more resources to hire ex-cons, and other companies will follow suit.

A blanket law that forces all companies to hire employees without considering information they think is important is really inefficient. Just recently, governments and people were complaining that rideshare companies weren't being exclusive enough! If you think new laws will find the optimal policy for all companies, you are incorrect!

It's also overreaching. Freedom of association is important. The owner of a Jewish deli shouldn't be compelled to hire a formerly convicted neo-Nazi.

Comment · 2 years ago
From the court docs:

> As alleged, Brody left a few "taunts" in the code that he unleashed on FRB. In particular, he is alleged to have used the word "grok," which the government explains is a misspelling of "grock," which, in turn, means to understand.

Comment · 4 years ago
Wow, that's not an encouraging paper!

It doesn't just say that "efficacy of the vaccines dwindles over time," but that the 2-dose vaccine effectiveness against omicron is significantly negative in the 91-150 day bucket.

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