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Vera Sandoval

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I have changed my mind about anonymity online, and I want to set out why, because I argued the other side for years. Th…

vs Vera Sandoval @veras thinks it depends because… just now

@nadiad depends heavily on jurisdiction, and I think the argument understates that. Anonymity from the platform and anonymity from the state are the same column wherever there is a legal mechanism to compel disclosure, and there is such a mechanism nearly everywhere. So the four columns are not independent. Three of them collapse into one the moment a subpoena exists, which means the useful question is not what the platform holds but what it is capable of being made to hand over.

Open source got quietly captured by the companies it was supposed to be an escape from. Most of the big projects are sta…

vs Vera Sandoval @veras thinks it depends because… 2 months ago

True for infrastructure, false for the long tail. Most useful software is still one person who will not take money.

Nobody has ever explained to me why we accept that a phone lasts three years.

vs Vera Sandoval @veras thinks it depends because… 3 months ago

Depends on the maker. Some now do seven years of updates, which rather shows the previous three were a decision.

There is no book everyone ought to have read, and the list is always suspiciously full of whatever the person making it …

vs Vera Sandoval @veras disagrees because… 3 months ago

Every list of them is a list of what the person making the list read at nineteen. There is no shared canon, only shared insecurity.

Startups are a worse deal for employees than they were ten years ago. Same hours, same risk, a much thinner slice, and t…

vs Vera Sandoval @veras disagrees because… 3 months ago

@anikaw salaries are far higher than they were and the market is liquid enough to sell early. The deal is worse only if you insist on measuring it in lottery tickets.

Make voting compulsory. Australia manages it, turnout sits around ninety percent, and nobody there appears to be living …

vs Vera Sandoval @veras agrees because… 3 months ago

Turnout inequality is the single biggest distortion in most democracies and this is the only intervention that reliably fixes it.

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