@deanputney votes here in CA don't matter at all. So I will be sending considerable amounts of money to states where votes *will* matter.

@dsteele713 @JeremyIClarke the take I understood is that Clinton used her considerable D party influence to ram-rod her candidacy through the D primaries. And to be fair, it was a confluence of *multiple* terrible events that cost the election by a slim margin, not just that.

@robhague can't say enough good things about https://t.co/XlGgBbya0l -- we know a LOT about this because email is foundational to @discourse

Yay, California loves {candidate x}. Doesn't matter one damn bit. Tell me how they can get votes in MI, WA, PA, OH, and FL, and I'm interested.

@keerthiko @ashishanand @paulg all advice should be viewed skeptically, because everyone is biased. For example the whole @dhh versus @sama thing recently. Both of these guys are biased as hell in their own weird ways. Which doesn't mean they never say anything worth hearing, either.

@dsteele713 nope, just @discourse

@BradKilshaw @paulg more like "how dare people keep making the same sort of mistakes over and over"

@paulg too many incidents with this guy to dismiss it as "comedy" in my book (the fiverr thing, etc). However, I will accept it as an indictment of toxic gamer culture, which over time delivers irony poisoning at minimum and red-pilling at worst.

@paulg have you been red-pilled Paul? You know this guy "accidentally" said the n-word on a live stream once, right? These are not the kinds of things that "accidentally" happen.

@timbray @toxic this should mostly be directed at his email provider, he's likely not the only person suffering under a broken email regime

@timbray Yeah I know but whoever he pays for email service has fucked it up real bad, most likely.

@timbray This usually means their email provider is set up extremely poorly, e.g. incorrectly

@pjpartridge No this has never happened https://t.co/fzzpMqjT5x

@Carnage4Life @paulg @mikeal the new gilded age we've entered is some bullshit https://t.co/Bd1t5RdsoA

@paulg @mikeal @Schwarzenegger more *obscenely rich* people who make more than 10 million dollars per year, anyway... though I hope the context of that was abundantly obvious

@paulg @mikeal these two things really do not seem comparable to me at all, in any way. More people should take the @Schwarzenegger approach to taxes: “I always tell my accountant, If you’re in doubt about taxes, pay more .. I love paying my taxes!” https://t.co/arNHdiamU0

@paulg @mikeal "harming" by increasing taxes on the ultra-wealthy? How is that harm by any rational definition? Taxes increase the public good: build schools, roads, pay for policemen/firefighters, etc.

@lazdnet Well we didn’t walk around *that* much, I guess

@spies_please Any particularly funny tweets you recommend that we can steal? Something that makes us look super cool and real hilarious-like

@ftrain @textfiles womp womp https://t.co/wnG1zd7wgv (though Fortnite is a HYUUGE factor)

@ftrain @textfiles the gold mine to overall incompetence ratio is certainly up there with Player Unknown's Battlegrounds

@ftrain this is legit amazing

@mathowie Are you doing the night rammers again? Maybe robot jammers, or springboard slammers? Huh?

@tobermatt @Supermathie as featured to terrifying effect in No Country for Old Men

@stas_kulesh I believe you, but citation?

@tqbf @paulg FINE it was technically four, geez, lay off already ya human compiler ;)

@jarrod_dixon #firstwesternproblems

@patio11 maybe @leahculver would know

@pamelafox "may the odds be ever in your favor"

@paulg I don't feel that human interactions really scale in any meaningful sense. You can't "talk" to 10,000 people or even 1,000 people in a day .. much less understand where they're coming from

@siracusa @ID_AA_Carmack @paulg you need considerably less tooling to handle social weirdness when you're a man, for sure

@JohnONolan I don't think this is quite right. People wil tolerate a LOT of things (ads) for a pricetag of "free". However the ad market seems to be collapsing, so..

@paulg the experience of people on Twitter with 1m and 250k followers is *radically* different from the average person's experience

@jennschiffer @betsyphd read Bad Blood and she was positively agog at all the stuff that went down. Also @eviltrout my buddy and co-founder said that Bad Blood gave him like phantom 'nam flashbacks super bad. Apparently.. it's a tale.

@stevesi we had a parent teacher night tonight, and my 4th grade son got out his school issued laptop to show me a presentation about a book he made with a fellow student. It was running Windows 10, but the actual "app" was a website 🤔

"Do not be afraid of the pepper, Carlo! The pepper is your friend!" https://t.co/vWqvO1X6AF

@jongalloway @JtFinlay I LIKE-A DA PEPPA https://t.co/vWqvO1X6AF

@unklesteve @DocPop what were the big changes in yo-yo over the last 10 years (hint: china) .. and where do you see yo-yo in 10 years?

@drewtetz pet that kitty for me

@getaclue_1 @Pinboard two new bans for all Discourse instances (by default), Bing was already on the "add slow directive" otherwise it crushes sites with bad crawling https://t.co/tg6M8R44u9

oh, and that's usually ON TOP OF a fixed "wire fee"

@jennschiffer oh geez yeah there's no reason to even look at any other company, this is easily the winner

@kemitchell something that references API in the name would be SUPER helpful in understanding it by reading the name alone

@sarahjeong people were the original mistake tho

@mathowie lookin' good Haughey 😎

@seesharp @kevindente yep, and it's $92/month. Still worth it though, the bandwidth is verifiably crazy. I assume AT&T owns the fiber in my neighborhood..?

@getaclue_1 @Pinboard well, our hosted customers also pay for hosting plans that count pageviews.. all pageviews .. since they're all server load. So we have introduced reports and tools to ban the bad crawlers, of which there are a surprising number *cough BING*

@Pinboard Can you share the user agents? We just banned ahrefsbot and semrushbot by default in all Discourse instances, for example.

@rbfowler9 in the article he noted gmail (they still serve a low bandwidth UI if you ask for it) was still quite workable. It was the one thing that still worked.

@NickSurmanidze 2G is roughly modem speeds from what I'm reading.. 50kbps ish

to contextualize this, a modem gets about 40kbps at best, while even a pretty poor 3G connection is 400kbps (download).

@bvansomeren @b0rk I think you meant "don't forget all Unixes ever"

@elllipsis @deadprogrammer It's acquisition time again!

@deadprogrammer TL;DR they bought Instagram

@mbogh @adampacitti https://t.co/AUSdvODbDz

@lutherlowe @DaveDri @timoreilly @randfish it's a bad, adversarial business model that won't survive long term. That's all.

@timoreilly @lutherlowe @DaveDri @randfish It goes deeper than that. I strongly believe that short oneboxed search info-cards are in fact what users want, and do serve users best. When I type "define: word" I want the definition to appear, NOT a link to the merriam-webster website.

@b0rk how to get your key on a new machine is a big one. I recently did this and imported the key as root, which set the resulting folder permissions weird such that the imported key was THERE, but didn't work.. much pulling of hair ensued

@lutherlowe @DaveDri @timoreilly @randfish Yelp isn't exactly making the world a better place with their conflicted "collect insurance fees in case bad reviews 'accidentally' happen" sales model. https://t.co/e9OxM70wSI

@willmanduffy @callmevlad https://t.co/HnIKW8rvjt

@lutherlowe @DaveDri @timoreilly @randfish is this really about Yelp? I'm unclear what your motives are here.

@PhilipBattin you gotta watch that documentary on the desperate battle of the two competing Fyre Festival documentaries.. truly harrowing

@textfiles I actually think it's kinda awesome

@callmevlad but wait! What if I promise NOT to drive you crazy! https://t.co/IhXDhSWNFW

@lutherlowe @timoreilly I also dispute that you would even *want* a lot of drive by trivial editing by casual folks

@lutherlowe @timoreilly @randfish I don't see "mo' traffic" as the most concrete problems facing Wikipedia. The vast impenetrability of their user interface (on the editing side) and entrenched VERY weird old editor norms / culture are far more urgent.

@lutherlowe @timoreilly In my experience building a comprehensive wiki system (Stack Overflow) the kinds of users who become prolific contributors aren't going to be inhibited by an additional click to see the details of the source.

@lutherlowe @timoreilly wait, is Wikipedia really in a "death spiral"? For serious?

@timkevinoxley @ejstembler see https://t.co/QpiBf849bw which covers this in extreme, exruciating detail with examples

@callmevlad ✔ A lover

(looks around) wait what is this tweet about again?

@kevindente it's fiber and it's definitely AT&T since that's what the guy's unform and business card said when he came to run the fiber drop to the house. Was signed up for on the Sonic website though.. it's also $90/month not the $40/50 that @seesharp was reporting. So that's the diff?

for comparison I thought it was gonna be a big deal when every human had universal access to reliable single-speed CD-ROM bandwidth equivalent on their internet. That's 150 Kb/sec or 1.2 MBps ;)

This is a seriously *bonkers* amount of bandwidth. In theory it is like having gigabit ethernet.. on your internet.. https://t.co/rbm8qaI7pe

I have never smashed a virtual button harder in my life https://t.co/NP2pUDuSh7

@BennettElder eeeeddeellllvveiiiisssss... eeeeeddddd--iiiii-lllll-veeiiiii--ssssss

also that super creepy serial killer Edelweiss theme song isn't helping matters

@seesharp through AT&T it is DEFINITELY not $40 or $50 per month. I'm seeing like $96. Just logged in to https://t.co/itsPjdU9g9 to check and.. yep. So maybe that's the difference. Hefty fee for going through AT&T fiber versus their own?

@chetfaliszek let's see what the democratic primaries tell us first

@chetfaliszek I don't agree

@chetfaliszek I’m a lot less optimistic about 2020. The stakes are way too high. We cannot have 4 more years of worst president in history.

@chetfaliszek we need an old white dude to defeat the super dangerous old white dude that's currently in office. the stakes are too high

@tomcoates no no no no no always design for evil https://t.co/LK6UNXgcE5

@kemitchell Discourse is legit one of the best experiences out there on a bad connection. Try it if you don't believe me. It's true! (However this does assume you will visit more than 1 "page" on the target Discourse.)

@kemitchell https://t.co/hmJ9Jmxzgx

@seesharp mine is set up! I get this but it's detecting the IPs as AT&T not Sonic? https://t.co/CDpL6DR4b2

@KristyT more fit than Trump

@KristyT not even joking TBH

@KristyT I still want Beyonce 2020

@olafurw JavaScript.

@scottastevenson @paulg @imleslahdin Trust me, “grow at all and any costs” is something your investors will regularly beat into you. It is absolutely the case.

@scottastevenson @paulg @imleslahdin I don’t hate startups. I like asking harder questions. Everything has downsides, and everyone is biased in their own way.

@The6P4C I have won many, many times there .. but I've noticed a lot of the bigger sellers mirror their stuff on https://t.co/xBerjD2FN9 which is an easier way for me

@paulg @imleslahdin must grow like a cancer does

@Voidy_ @paulg my point is that what is and is not a "mob" is a matter of perspective

@paulg that's why I avoided ever founding a startup

@susanthesquark I've had some luck following people who almost never comment on the daily or weekly news. There is a lot to be genuinely outraged about, but it's fatiguing.

@drewtetz actually seriously *why* haven't I ever seen a yo-yo with spinning animation laser etching? 🤔

@drewtetz where is the yo-yo with this kind of anodization TETZ, we need to make that exist TETZ

@ironicsans https://t.co/tQ7VCVVCbf