Klye @khird@qoto.org
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I prefer apps when they use a common protocol - Mastodon apps, IRC clients, XMPP programs, etc. That's even true for non-social media: I prefer IMAP clients to webmail pages, dedicated music players to streaming webapps, and so on.
Apps that speak some opaque undocumented protocol on the wire are much less welcome - a browser parsing HTML may give me less interface control than the above examples, but at least it doesn't hide what it's doing.
I was just thinking about this. Knowing that he's going to be acquitted by the Senate, and that he might benefit, electorally speaking, from claiming that he was exonerated, it didn't make much sense to me.
I think the Democrats are already pretty confident of winning the presidency - they lost by only 50k votes (combined margin in Pennsylvania and Michigan, which together would have been enough to flip the Electoral College) and they can expect pretty much anyone they have currently in the race to outperform Clinton. They aren't really trying to remove the president, or to weaken him in the next election.
My guess is that this is actually a move to improve their chances of retaking the Senate. If Trump loses his reelection bid as they predict, it's likely that his supporters at trial will also take a hit at the polls, so the Democrats want to force the Republican senators to link their fates to the president's. They're specifically targetting seats in Maine, Colorado, North Carolina, and Iowa. With those four seats and the vice presidency, they would control the Senate even while losing Alabama.
Even if they only pick up a couple, it would put the Republicans in a tough situation in 2022, when they must defend swing states of Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, and Arizona. Opposing Obama helped the Republicans gain more seats, but now as the ones they won in 2014 and 2016 come back up for reelection, they mightn't have enough support anymore to retain them.
I don't know how many times I scrolled past this before I noticed it wasn't just a monolithic mob approaching. Looking over her head, the sea of signs appears to be continuous, but it's actually partitioned.
The figures associated with sex work and those dressed like scene kids or hipsters bear the slogans of the political left and approach from her left. The ones associated with the military, religion, and patriotism bear the slogans of the political right and approach from her right.
The attention to detail is such that none of the background figures on the left of the image are even bearing firearms.
Well done.
It happens occasionally that even an empty net gets missed, in which case the referee properly denies the goal.
The real problem is not in a particular case where the court issued the warrant, it's in the system designed to remove all obstacles to the state getting warrants as it wishes. When supporters say, "Support the police! They need this tool to fight terrorists," it's important to be cautious.
> Do they have no responsibility to ask questions about/discuss the evidence in these warrants?
Well, no. That's why the whole FISA setup was so heavily criticised from the start. Cross-examining the state's evidence is the job of the defence, not the judge, in British-derived systems like the US. But since there is no defence in FISA, it's entirely one-sided, an adversarial system with no adversary. The FBI just has to score on an empty net.
I'd like that. The more inertia the mainstream Fediverse has, the less power the extremists wield. I consider Twitter likely to take a moderate stance, blocking the really abusive instances but leaving ones like ours alone. Since it increases the audience for instances with which it federates, it would reward maintaining basic standards of decency but not provide an incentive to be overly uptight. Its huge userbase would be a big payoff for meeting a sane behavioural baseline.
I didn't see @Gargron＠mastodon.social call you any names, but it's entirely possible I've missed the relevant messages.
The bulk of "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" is designed to help you avoid provoking umbrage in the first place, but there are two headings that may be helpful in deflating it once it's come up: "Dealing with rudeness" and "On Not Reacting Like a Loser".
I would argue you *do* have some limited control over what others do - for example, if you antagonise them, they are likely to behave in a more hostile way. You could consider "How to Ask Questions the Smart Way" advice concerning responsible excercise of this control.
Thanks! :)
I figured it was something like that - as far as I can tell, there's an exception whereby replies are listed if (a) the target post is listed, and (b) the author of both posts is the same user. I suppose that's convenient for users on instances with shorter post limits.
Would you mind posting your self-replies as unlisted? I'd rather not mute you as you do post interesting content, but at this point there are 22 consecutive posts at the top of the local timeline about a TV show, which is becoming a bit much.
It occurs to me that you are likely the same dragfyre as on other services. Do you think it might be practical to bridge the Discord and IRC channels?
Would you like non-admin users such as myself to flag spam when we come across it? I know that some moderators dislike that as it reduces the signal-to-noise ratio for more serious reports[1] but I'll take the time to do so if that's your preference.
I have a lot less activity in my home feed so naturally it takes a bit longer to catch up on the local one. It's true that I skim past way more on the local feed since it isn't curated to my specific interests, but on balance it still takes more time.
I think handwriting is likely less similar hand-to-hand than you think. I'm right-handed and learning to handwrite Persian (a right-to-left language) gave me a lot of appreciation for the difficulty lefties experience in writing English - the tip of your pen tends to be at an angle where it digs into the paper rather than smoothly brushing against it, you drag your hand through the ink you've just written, etc. It seems probable that the muscle movements to guide a pen along a certain path with one hand are going to be quite different from those to guide it along the same path with the other hand, so much so that it's essentially a different skill.
This sort of thing has been likened to evaporative cooling[1]. From a collection of particles of varying temperature, you can allow the hottest ones to escape, and the average temperature of the remaining particles will be lower even if no individual particle has cooled.
Similarly, if people aren't restricted from being hostile and insulting on a certain instance, eventually the moderates who don't like being insulted seek a less hostile environment elsewhere - but since it's not the extremists that leave, the average of the remaining members becomes more extremist. You can start with free speech and wind up with Nazis depressingly easily.
A balance has to be struck to maintain a stable community. On one hand, enough dissent must be tolerated that you're not constantly retreating from the advancing frontier of forbidden expression. On the other, you have to be willing to expel the troublemakers before they drive off your moderate members. I think @freemo and the gang are doing a pretty good job here of striking that balance.
1: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZQG9cwKbct2LtmL3p/evaporative-cooling-of-group-beliefs
You have to think through how it would scale. An image you post could appear in arbitrarily many people's timelines simultaneously due to federation. If several thousand Mastodon clients all of a sudden try to load the same image from the webserver, that's a big spike it would have to handle.
One alternative would be for the client's instance to make a local copy on the first request, and rewrite the url so its users don't have to keep going back to the original. You'd get only one hit per instance instead of per user, but then you're back to storing a local copy anyway, so what's the gain?
Thanks! I found Discord nearly unusable in a mobile browser, but the website itself is very nice. A suggestion: it might be worth linking from the Study Hall page to the official bookstores, which I find have content not present in the free repositories.
Solution
Sounds like you aren't implementing this line from the problem description : "When he returns, he notices that all Xmasium-atoms in the pot now are of the same type."
Solution
Let a, b, c be the count of each species in no particular order. Three operations exist:
1. a++; b--; c--
2. a--; b++; c--
3. a--; b--; c++
Note that a' = (b+c) either decreases by two or is unchanged. This implies two properties:
a' cannot change from odd to even.
a' cannot increase.
The surviving species at the end (a' = 0) has to be γ, since the others have odd initial a'. And no more than 29 can be of this type, limited by the initial a' of the α species.
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