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seemslegit··on Bible API
At least in the old testament verses range from sentences to paragraphs, have any interesting examples of a non-sentence verse ?
seemslegit··on Bible API
Is "balkanization" really a general term for "dividing into parts" ? I think some sort of both internal and geopolitical strife needs to be involved.

And verses are not disconnected logical propositions, they are a structure between a sentence and a chapter aka. a paragraph. If anything - the grouping of verses into chapters is far more arbitrary than that of sentences into verses.

seemslegit··on The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments
Lack of sunlight might be a problem
seemslegit··on LinkedIn copies clipboard on each keystroke
That would make it to #73 on the list of reasons to never install an app when a website would do
seemslegit··on The Idea of Entropy Has Led Us Astray
Nautilus writers are the first to lose their jobs to GPT-3 and not have the readership notice.
seemslegit··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
I'm not sure, their Publisher Agreement seems to also have been very recently revised to remove some very strong prohibitions against trying to gather your subscribers data on your own so maybe they realized it's a bad idea - do you know what information is included in the csv ?
seemslegit··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
Great, so now you have a website to maintain and pay for and your customers with their associated revenue are still owned by substack.

Getting paying subscribers to change their subscription method is huge friction and risk of churn, the more revenue you already have established on substack the bigger the risk cost of trying to move away, aka the boiled frog business model.

seemslegit··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
> Here's how this plays out. The successful writers on Substack will eventually leave the platform for more control over their audience and lower fees (there's a reason Ben Thompson isn't on Substack).

Except the entire model of substack is based on writers not having access even to their audience's mail addresses.

seemslegit··on Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
So... where are the 57 e-parliament startups trying to implement them in web software ?
seemslegit··on Substack has spawned a new class of newsletter entrepreneurs
In the same sense Uber has spawned a new class of driving entrepreneurs.

The only asset a newsletter author has is his audience - with substack they won't even have that, in fact their publisher agreement explicitly prohibits the authors from asking any sort of contact information from their readers.

seemslegit··on U.S. seizes $800k shipment of Xinjiang products made with human hair
Are they trying to imply that the hair itself comes from Xinjiang prisoners or just that the wigs are made by forced labor ?
seemslegit··on Entr: Rerun your build when files change
This should go nicely with that new js bundler and that new package manager.
seemslegit··on California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste
As a cisgender hetherosexual male of European descent (that's apex privilege tier in case it's not obvious) I can't help notice that the things that keep the Indian caste system alive are Brahmins opining against it at every opportunity while prepending their statements with 'As a Brahmin...' and the fact that promoting Brahmins makes sense for many companies with significant Hindu workforce because other castes naturally defer to their authority and in many cases this is pretty much all you want from a line/middle manager.
seemslegit··on Thousands of U.S. judges who broke laws, oaths remained on the bench
Just because someone was elected to a position doesn't mean they should be indismissable for misconduct, in general being able to elect judges is good and democratic it's just that the system has adapted to compensate for that.
seemslegit··on The End of the Redis Adventure
You are a unique kind of hero of a unique age.
seemslegit··on The End of the Redis Adventure
I'm grateful to Antirez for inventing Redis in the first place and putting in all the great work he's done since. However I'm worried about the implications of this change for the continued existence of Redis as open-source in the public-goods sense.

What does it mean that Yossi and Oran are taking over as maintainers - are they doing so in their personal capacity or as employees of Redis Labs ?

How are potential conflicts between the business interests of Redis Labs and the interests of the community to be identified and resolved ?

Who will own the copyright over the newly submitted code and are there any safeguards against future versions of Redis being released under licenses more restrictive than the current one ?

seemslegit··on How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)
Quite well actually
seemslegit··on Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
Enlisted-class does not mean uneducated or unskilled (in fact the skill is usually concentrated in senior enlisted and warrant officer levels) - it means educated for certain norms of conduct. What is the police equivalent of West Point where an honor code violation would see one expelled ?
seemslegit··on Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks
The military is made up from officers and enlisted personnel with the former selected and cultivated for higher personal characteristics. The police otoh while referring to themselves as officers is almost entirely enlisted-class material.
seemslegit··on Dems pitch $100B broadband plan
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get reliable 4G/5G coverage to currently undeserved places ?
seemslegit··on Keeping your private information private
Sundar Pichai was personally responsible for google's in-depth user tracking strategy across services, sites and devices even in incognito mode and the overall spywarization of chrome and android.

He is dishonourable, untrustworthy and any privacy posturing made by him and google should only serve so as to make their often-involuntary users that much more wary.

seemslegit··on Deno will stop using TypeScript
"Why X ?" is a common shorthand for "What is the raison d'être of X ?"
seemslegit··on The University Is Like a CD in the Streaming Age
Remains available when the Internet goes out ?
seemslegit··on The Importance of India
Country of 1.3 billion people immensely grateful to a valley wantrapaneur for recognizing its importance.
seemslegit··on Deno will stop using TypeScript
That wasn't a question about the naming.
seemslegit··on Deno will stop using TypeScript
Why Deno ?
seemslegit··on Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections
What does this have to do with technical literacy ? They're not writing an RFC and there's nothing technical about section 230 of the communication decency act.
seemslegit··on Apple is threatening to terminate my developer account with no clear reason
Impudent code serf thinks he's owed reasoning by his corporate lord.
seemslegit··on Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections
That's really not that much to show for an economic superpower of almost half a billion people and none of these companies rely on the protections offered by Section 230. I mean maybe if you got creative enough in minecraft you could trigger some but it's owned by Microsoft now so you'll have to deal with their censorship first.
seemslegit··on Justice Department to propose limiting internet firms’ Section 230 protections
> If the EU's laws are so burdensome, why is there a thriving startup ecosystem in the EU? I have read about EU's stances on hate speech, defamation, and libel (though I wouldn't call that hobby reading research), and I am fine with their stances.

There is nothing particularly thriving about it. There are just a lot of them because it costs almost nothing to incorporate a company and 'startup' sounds cooler than a 'small consulting business' or a 'software house'.

Can you name many EU startups that IPOd or got acquired for an impressive amount during the last decade or were even considered "unicorns" at any point by anyone other than themselves ?

In any case, Section 230 isn't about startups per se but specifically about 3rd party content providers - know any such companies that are EU-based ?

> I think we could use more hate speech protection, when I see reports that as much as 60% of the tweets in the current U.S. political conversations are done by biased bots.

Have you considered the possibility of those reports being disseminated by biased bots ?

> And no, I am firmly against EARN IT and the other 230 attacks. We need internet legislation that is thoughtful, created by technical SME staffers and constitutional law SME staffers, not broad-brush legislation pandering to votes, FUD, or special interests.

You sound confused. How do you expect those hate speech protections to materialize if not by modifying or cancelling Section 230 ? I mean there's always the option of cancelling the 1st amendment - no one seems to like that pesky thing anyway today.

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