1. bxsioshc Oct 7, 2025 parent

   I never really understood why "owning" a domain is any more owning than you own your Gmail address: a company is letting you use it and that works until they don't. What an I missing?
2. bxsioshc Sep 22, 2025 parent

   I believe it's so they can put on their CV that they're contributors to XYZ famous projects.
3. bxsioshc Sep 16, 2025 parent

   Are you arguing that whether something does or doesn't genocide can the boiled down to a percentage. As it turns out, a lot of people disagree with that view.
4. bxsioshc Sep 9, 2025 parent

   You sold me on mastodon. Is there a node for scientists? How do I find it?
5. bxsioshc Sep 9, 2025 parent

   > decentralized web is a good idea on paper but won't work in practic

   This claim is so vague it's meaningless. I could just as well argue that torrents are the purest example of decentralisation, and work amazing.

6. bxsioshc Sep 9, 2025 parent

   Just look at HN. Nominally an educated crowd, but talk about physics, and you immediately see terms like "ivory towers" or "return on investment", despite the fact that most on HN doesn't understand in fundamental science works.
7. bxsioshc Sep 8, 2025 parent

   Confuses "database" and "types" with "state".
8. bxsioshc Sep 1, 2025 parent

   Also her husband died a few year ago.

   These people want to do things that they know are extremely dangerous, and some times die. I don't empathize. Compare to those people who die by no fault of their own. Drunk driver, war, etc. Am I callous to believe that the two are not equally deserving of our empathy?

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