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Reply to comment by flabberghaster in accidentally pressed "clear notifications" on my 1700+ notifications so im going thru them solemnly by twovests
nono i went through each of them, i'm done now
might still take down the site tho
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Reply to Maybe this is just a tumblr thing but it's weird that the primary method of online pro-palestine activism has become donating and reposting gofundmes by neku
I think you're right, and the hostility you mention (wrt suspecting GoFundMe-s) is something (1) youth centric, and (2) weaponized effectively by people running scams.
I want to emphasize "youth centric"-- I think everyone I know (who is mostly 25+) feels the same wariness to Go Fund Me's and whatnot. I think we've all seen our share of scams.
And there's nothing wrong with the basic principle of "effective altruism"! It's the Effective Altruism movement of LessWrong types who'll throw out the vast troves of unquantifiable facts in favor of what they personally have the tools to measure and model. It makes them ignorant to their own insular culture, to the point where they are actually worried about, like, Roko's Basilisk.
But wanting to maximize the good that comes from your time/money/energy is still a good idea. I've donated exclusively to the two you mention (UNRWA and PCRF) for their long track record of making good use of their money, and not to any GoFundMe.
That said, I believe GoFundMe allows you to start a campaign in benefit of another beneficiary, e.g. this GoFundMe with the PCRF as a beneficiary. Who can say if the loss from GoFundMe's 3% cut balances out with a campaign potentially getting more people to donate
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Reply to comment by emma in donkey kong 64 by twovests
i picked a bad time to stop following siivagunner, this is excellent. thank u for sharing this
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in videogame graphics are finished. we don't need better gpus anymore by twovests
To be fair, neither is RTX ;p (it's path tracing) (i am told this is different)
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in videogame graphics are finished. we don't need better gpus anymore by twovests
that's how every post from the past 8 years feel to me
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Would you tie a bunch of sticks to your horses tails, only to have them go through the mud?
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Reply to comment by nitori in accidentally pressed "clear notifications" on my 1700+ notifications so im going thru them solemnly by twovests
Nono I just stopped clearing them in 2020
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Reply to comment by twovests in i wanna learn how to have multiple sites on one server by twovests
Update: Nginx sucx and Caddy is the way to go B)
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Reply to cryptocurrencies are good actually by twovests
i want to delete this post but that would be unpostlylike
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Reply to comment by emma in donkey kong 64 by twovests
Woah... This is really good
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Reply to comment by cute_spider_ni_srsly in donkey kong 64 by twovests
Woah... This is really bad
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in videogame graphics are finished. we don't need better gpus anymore by twovests
https://youtu.be/kI40AoVzE48?t=42
reflective mirrors in sunshine (but i think i was being facetious at the time)
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Cryptocurrency expert here! I'd like to dispell some common misconceptions about NFTs. :) Myth: NFTs are good. Truth: NFTs are not good by twovests
been thinking about this and the big problem is (1) i have to place trust in a local trump supporter who's great grandfather's middle name was honestly "wigglesworth" and (2) so does everyone else
that's fine if i'm interacting with a government and we're all pretending government works, but what if i want to notarize something to real people?
well, cryptotrash hasn't gotten usable for anyone to use it
and i think committing the document (or a hash of it) to a public github repo is good enough, for as long as github exists. any site with timestamps people trust
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Reply to comment by Moonside in postmill recommendations: make the upvote button bigger so i can click it easier for every post by twovests
Lost in the transfer, one of my favorites :(
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Reply to My news feeds all jumped straight to "Oprah should not run for president in 2020" by cute_spider_ni_srsly
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This is post 69!!
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One of my proudest and earliest trolling moments was being a child in 2007 and telling people on AnimalCrossingCommunity.com that I think Oprah should run for president and getting long long long replies in response
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Reply to comment by wbn in Distributed computing with centralized payments? Does anyone know if such a system exists? by twovests
woah i missed this entire post two years ago!! Jstpst's deep technical knowledge is something I appreciate so I'm reading this now.
I really appreciate this deep-dive and I am sorry it took me literally 2.5 years to read it. I appreciate that you somehow could prognosticate what I did and did not already know (51%, halting problem, etc).
The big thing is that I honestly didn't know that ETH requires every EVM computation to be run on every node. That does seem wildly frustrating.
I can't imagine a use I'd have for Burner Machine, unless I was an especially cool journalist.
I have nothing to add but I really appreciate this post
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Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in the year is 1980 and ada is the language that will save you from memory unsafety. the year is 1995 and java is the language that will save you from memory unsafety. the year is 2010 and rust by twovests
Coming back to this... Ada was actually pretty fantastic and I think of it regularly. It brought things way forward, it's a shame it was basically entirely unadopted outside of govt agencies and contractors lol
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Reply to comment by Moonside in "Linux doesn't need ccleaner," I say, by twovests
I missed this, but I agree. The big benefit of the command line is the uniformity. Every interface is its own language, subject to change, laborious to speak, and unrecordable.
But the Linux command line can be stored and every solution recorded for future use. It kicks ass.
Sometime after this post, I broke my bootloader partition because I made it hilariously small. But my "things to do after installing Linux" script was pretty thorough so I just copied my home dir and reinstalled Linux lol
It took ~1h of copying and a bit of attention in between baking cookies, autumn of 2022 :)
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Reply to comment by devtesla in Remember Amazon's videogame, Crucible? They dumped tens of millions into its first real videogame, which was legitimately poised to redefine hero shooters with a lot of interesting features, and then they shut it down a few months later? by twovests
Looks like it's succeeding. Amazon Games needed a win, good for 'em
(jk, but i am glad they didn't kill the game under their tutelage)
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Reply to comment by musou in i am sick and tired of seeing ryan reynolds. (i am roommates with ryan reynolds) by twovests
wait. that's your government name?
i missed this 2 years ago
i'm so sorry
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Reply to comment by Moonside in I am upset: Dall-e Mini really only works fine for some stuff by Moonside
monkey paw status: curled
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Reply to googled my real name to see if the internet has discovered me yet and theres vague related content out there... i don't like it by neku
you should change your name to that of a famed celebrity. or even one infamed. good for the soul