Maybe we just need a law that criminalizes being a piece of shit.
If it applies to everyone, it would be constitutional, right?
Maybe we just need a law that criminalizes being a piece of shit.
If it applies to everyone, it would be constitutional, right?
🧵> A coisa tinha um ferro de construção em toda volta, e a argamassa das juntas e revestimento devia ser 80% cimento. E em baixo tinha uma fundação de concreto de 10 cm, sobre uma camada de 2 cm, que, pela aparência, calculo ser 120% cimento, 30% carbeto de tungstênio, e 10% nitreto de boro, sinterizada a uns 2000 C.
E a "terra" era argila vermelha socada. Blindagem contra raios gama, obviamente.
Mas ainda vou vencer...
Cismei de demolir uma jardineira na entrada de carros da minha casa. Uma caixa de 50 cm de altura, 50 x100 cm, feita de tijolo. As plantas lá não vingavam e incomodava um pouco a passagem. Trabalhinho fácil, pensei.
Bom, pelo que deduzi a posteriori, o dono anterior que mandou fazer essa coisa queria um abrigo contra bomba atômica, mas depois de pronto viu que era muito pequeno e resolveu usar como jardineira. 🧵>
Ainda tenho que tirar uns 10 cm de "terra" para depois colocar ladrilhos. Tenho medo de descobrir uma laje de granito com uma grande argola de bronze no meio e selos cabalísticos gravados em toda volta...
I can see that an app could keep track of the messages I have read (like the old mail and Usenet readers did). Or a centralized service like Xitter and Whatzap. But how could a browser-based AND decentralized service do it?
Mastodon is a well-intentioned but half-baked idea, poorly implemented. It is fun, but not an effective communication medium.
That is one of the problems of the fediverse: its is fragmented into many more or less incompatible platforms. Few users have the time to check out more than one, or migrate between them.
The fediverse itself is a half-baked idea, poorly implemented. The old USENET worked because it had a much better overall design.
It is not just the user interface, it is the very basic design of the fediverse.
One of the annoying features is that the same post shows up again and again in my feed, every time someone I follow boosts it. The old USENET avoided that by keeping track - in my local machine - of the messages I had already seen. Like any email server does. But the fediverse cannot do that, because it cannot keep such memory anywhere...
"We already explained it to you, Mr Strawberry: you are NOT a fruit. So what are you doing here? Security, would you please remove Mr. Strawberry, and let Ms. Tomato in, please?"
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* The folded paper ballots should be deposited in a translucent ballot box in front of a bunch of election officers, in public view but out of anyone else's reach.
* At the end of the election day, the same officers open the box and count the votes, reading them aloud, still in view of the public. They then sign the total sheet and send the numbers to a central station, that adds up the totals. 🧵>
🧵> As for people who can't get to the voting station on election day: it goes without saying that there should be a voting station within walking distance of every place with a few hundred residents. This is another argument against electronic voting machines, because it makes the cost of a voting station to be $1000 or more rather than $10. 🧵>
🧵> Venezuela under Chavez is a good example for my point. They used electronic voting machines, but of the type that prints the vote, lets the voter verify it, and then deposits it in a ballot box. Twice the opposition tried to start a civil war by claiming that the election that they lost had been rigged; but the votes were recounted manually and confirmed the result, and the civil war was avoided. International observers too confirmed the result.
🧵> The election process should be run by an Election Commission set up just for each election, and voting station officers should be chosen by lot, like jurors...
🧵> For sparsely populated areas, and bed-ridden voters, one can have moving voting stations, complete with ballot box and team of election officers.
It also goes without saying that members of the current government, of any branch, should not be allowed to interfere in the voting process. Voting laws should be enacted by the Federal government and should take effect only 8 years after that. 🧵>
🧵> That is why it is not enough that an election be honest and fair. It must be OBVIOUSLY honest and fair, even and ESPECIALLY to the losing side.
The winning side does not care if the election was honest, or even if there was one: if someone tells them that they won because someone read so on a chicken liver, they will readily believe it, or pretend to believe. Again, the only purpose of an election is to convince THE LOSERS that they are a minority. 🧵>
Another big change: no public pay phones on the streets. (This is obviously related to, but distinct from, everybody carrying a cellphone.)
No newspapers.
On ads, instead of phone numbers, weird "www..." or "@..." notations.
But mainly: half the people are carrying a small rectangular thing and are talking loud to themselves, like lunatics.
BREAKING: Amazon just revealed that operating its own datacenters has not been cost-effective, and therefore will shut them down and re-implement its AWS service on Microsoft's Azure platform.
Also, in a separate announcement today, Microsoft informed that, for economic reasons, it is shutting down its private datacenters and implementing its Azure service on Amazon's AWS platform.
É uma resposta adequada pra quem vem com essas! Mas pergunto se existe um nome para a atitude, por exemplo para qualificar previsões de terceiros.
Qual seria a tradução de "wishful thinking" em português?
O sentido é acreditar em uma hipótese ou previsão porque as consequências são agradáveis, e não por qualquer análise racional.
Por exemplo, um cara sinceramente acreditando que a ação da Tesla vai subir só porque ele investiu muito na Tesla, sem ver dados de produção, vendas, lucros etc.
É mais forte que "otimismo".
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