roywiggins

Born on June 25, 2013•14625 Karma

on Jan 24, 2025

•on: PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory

Optimistically, if all you want to do is prove you are, in fact, a person, and not prove that you are a specific person, there's no real reason to need to lose privacy. A service could vouch that you are a real person, verified on their end, and provide no context to the site owner as to what person you are.

avalys•

on Oct 13, 2021

•on: Advanced Inertial Reference Sphere (1997)

This is exactly what Reader View does. On my iPhone the address bar flashes “Reader View Available” when I load that site. But you can also get to it from the context menu that includes other website settings.

lostmsu•

on Sept 9, 2021

•on: New math book rescues landmark topology proof

> mathematics is not plagued with false "theorems."

But you don't know that.

There certainly were precedents: https://mathoverflow.net/questions/291158/proofs-shown-to-be...

xerxespoy•

on Jan 24, 2021

•on: Proof of X

> At their core, social networks are primarily about one thing: Building social capital through signaling.

Maybe for the author.

People also use social networks without expecting or requiring any net social "capital" benefit through "signalling".

Examples:

- keeping in touch with people (privately or publicly)

- inform others about something they may be interested in (without needing or requiring acknowledgement)

- lessening loneliness

- gathering or dispensing intel on a topic

- filling in time / looking for entertainment

I can readily think of many more reasons than the singlular one of signalling to heighten social status. I'm sure that occurs, but listing it as a primary reason cast the article immediately in disfavour for this reader.

Y_Y•

on Sept 25, 2018

•on: No class action for unhappy Uber drivers: U.S. app...

Can't Uber force a driver it has a dispute with to engage in binding arbitration, rather than resolve the case in court, which is typically the entitlement of both parties?

sanxiyn•

on March 28, 2018

•on: Why I’m quitting GMO research

This is a meaningless distinction. It's like saying two files with idential content and checksum are different because one file was written by Vim and the other by Emacs.