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7 votes
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'Arrested Development' finishes with a whimper, not a bang
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Anti-Muslim hate speech is absolutely relentless on social media even as platforms crack down on other extremist groups
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500 million years of climate history pinned on plate tectonics
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What re-recording or variation of a classic song do you believe beats the original?
Did a lot of comparisons tonight, and I have to say I feel the variation of “Why Don’t You Do Right” sung by Amy Irving in Who Framed Roger Rabbit holds far more impact than the original...
Did a lot of comparisons tonight, and I have to say I feel the variation of “Why Don’t You Do Right” sung by Amy Irving in Who Framed Roger Rabbit holds far more impact than the original recordings done by Peggy Lee, or even many artists after.
What redo/variation of a classic still holds you speechless?
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Apple announces new iPad Air and iPad mini
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Who are some interesting people or organisations to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse?
I created a Mastodon account today, and am interested in filling my timeline with interesting people and ideas.
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Human body might be able to pick up on Earth's magnetic field
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"It’s a constant battle just to survive”: Many California wildfire survivors are still homeless months after a historic blaze
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Whats the most important alias or function in your bashrc file?
Hello new member here to Tildes! I just wanted to see what all people are putting in their bashrc file that makes them more productive?
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President Filipe Nyusi says more than 100,000 are at risk after storm hit Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe
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Kurzgesagt's "Trust" video may have been a preemptive move to avoid criticism
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What have you been watching/reading this week? (Anime/Manga)
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was...
What have you been watching and reading this week? You don't need to give us a whole essay if you don't want to, but please write something! Feel free to talk about something you saw that was cool, something that was bad, ask for recommendations, or anything else you can think of.
If you want to, feel free to find the thing you're talking about and link to its pages on Anilist, MAL, or any other database you use!
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Dick Dale, surf rock icon, dead at 81
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Co-founder of Mode 7 (developer of Frozen Synapse) is leaving - Mode 7 will no longer develop large-scale games
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Something has changed, and, thankfully, those trying to manipulate us haven't recognized it yet.
The one thing people didn't learn regarding Trump and is repeating itself with AOC. When you consider a politician stupid, it actually empowers them to be crafty. I think Trump would love for you...
The one thing people didn't learn regarding Trump and is repeating itself with AOC.
When you consider a politician stupid, it actually empowers them to be crafty. I think Trump would love for you to think he is stupid.
When you constantly attack a politician, you actually give them more followers. It's strange, but the Streisand Effect is real, especially in this Internet era.
The biggest weapon in someone's arsenal is to actually just talk about what they are for. Not attack their opponent and give them press. The rules have changed.
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How Boeing, US FAA certified the suspect 737 MAX flight control system
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Does a new genetic analysis finally reveal the identity of Jack the Ripper?
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Astronomers discover eighty-three supermassive black holes in the early universe
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Dutch shooting: Utrecht police arrest suspect after three killed
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Santana - Soul Sacrifice 1969 "Woodstock" Live Video HQ
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Comments, bumping, trees. Helping user discovering newer comments.
Suppose you want to participate in an old post with hundreds of comments. You made your fresh new comment, injecting your thoughts and effort into it and hit the post button with hopes and dreams....
Suppose you want to participate in an old post with hundreds of comments. You made your fresh new comment, injecting your thoughts and effort into it and hit the post button with hopes and dreams.
The post is bumped to the top under Activity. Other tilders saw the old post on the top, they are intrigued, perhaps as much as you are and wonder what you can add to the discussion, but they couldn't find your comment.
Why is that?
You replied to a thread with a very old top-level comment.
As Tildes is still relatively new, this isn't much of a issue now, but one that I feel needed to be addressed eventually as the site grows. It is certainly a low priority issue for the time being.
Sort by new only sorts comments by the time when top-level comment is posted, which is an inherent characteristic of comment threads. If my last years of memeing on redditting has taught me anything, it is that a new post gathers the most views in the first few minutes when it was posted (This might be a few days on Tildes).
Bumping helps extend the longevity of a given post if the thread gathers enough attention and discussion value to warrant a comment, but that alone would not alleviate the fact that new comments is seen by less and less people as the post gets older (as indicated by votes). If we want to make high-quality comments seen by more people, we need to make comment age a less limiting factor.
Tildes needs to help its users to discover new comments.
A few solutions come to my mind.
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By presenting comments in a linear fashion like the good old bulletin board does without any hierarchy such that sort by new would truly be sort by new.
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By highlighting ( or whichever other means ) comments that meet certain criteria (Comments that are among the latest 10 or comments that were posted within the last hour, this can vary depending on the activities of the comments)
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I would like to propose a novel solution to this problem by compacting the comment threads to a forest of trees with navigable nodes. This sounds totally outlandish, it might very well be, but its an idea that I think worth sharing.
The editing is rudimentary but I hope the idea is communicated well.
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Elite colleges constantly tell low-income students that they do not belong
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Tilderinoes with mental health issues: do you feel like happiness is impossible?
By “happiness” I don't mean “the place where happy people are happy all the time”, but rather “the absence of persisting suffering”. For some context, I've been suffering from clinical depression...
By “happiness” I don't mean “the place where happy people are happy all the time”, but rather “the absence of persisting suffering”.
For some context, I've been suffering from clinical depression for over nine years now. Maybe more. I've been hurt by other people many times in my life, especially in childhood and during school. I have almost never felt connected to another human being, and the older I get, the harder it gets to get any kind of intimacy. I feel like “I'm a creep and I'm a weirdo” regularly, as if my teen angst has never left me. On a good day I will merely be tired, and I think I don't need to describe a bad day.
Recently I've been discovering interesting approaches to therapy and using awareness to “pull yourself by the boot straps”, but whenever the time comes to actually use them in practice, a very real question: “Why should I do it? Happiness is impossible, I will always be what I am, so why go through additional pain of trying to change anything when the result isn't guaranteed?”.
So the question is: how do you answer this (loaded) question? How do you get back your faith in better future for yourself when you have so little experience actually being better? Can you actually do that?
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Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015
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Towers | Official prototype trailer 1
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US and Saudi Arabia blocking regulation of geoengineering, sources say
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Why tech companies failed to keep the New Zealand shooter’s extremism from going viral
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Thieves steal a famous painting from an Italian church — but don't worry, it's fake
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Inside the 'shitposting' subculture the alleged Christchurch shooter belonged to
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Boeing 737MAX, a software engineers perspective
@trevorsumner: Some people are calling the 737MAX tragedies a #software failure. Here's my response: It's not a software problem. It was an * Economic problem that the 737 engines used too much fuel, so they decided to install more efficient engines with bigger fans and make the 737MAX.
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Fifteen books that influenced top UX and UI influencers
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Slack hands over control of encryption keys to regulated customers
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Several alternatives to LinkedIn
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The cigarette company that reinvented television news
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Utrecht shooting: 'Three dead' after attack on tram
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Putin has signed into law Russia's ‘fake news’ and ‘Internet insults’ bans
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A plea to make fiber cool
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Triple Frontier has released yesterday, what are your thoughts?
IMDB
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Apple and Stanford’s Apple Watch study identified irregular heartbeats in over 2,000 patients
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Bill raising Federal minimum wage to $15 heads to US House floor
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what creative projects are you working on?
it's been a month since the last thread, so i think it's time for a new one of these. here you can share some of the projects that you're working on (of any kind, be they digital, physical, or...
it's been a month since the last thread, so i think it's time for a new one of these. here you can share some of the projects that you're working on (of any kind, be they digital, physical, or whatever) that wouldn't really work as its own post.
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Ethiopia's Boeing 737 MAX 8 black box data 'shows clear similarities' with Lion Air crash
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Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun
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MLS Week 3: All Match Discussions
Seattle Sounders @ Chicago Fire FC Dallas @ Columbus Crew Vancouver Whitecaps @ Houston Dynamo San Jose Earthquakes @ New York Red Bulls Montreal Impact @ Orlando City SC Real Salt Lake @ DC...
Seattle Sounders @ Chicago Fire
FC Dallas @ Columbus Crew
Vancouver Whitecaps @ Houston Dynamo
San Jose Earthquakes @ New York Red Bulls
Montreal Impact @ Orlando City SC
Real Salt Lake @ DC United
Minnesota United FC @ LA Galaxy
Los Angeles FC @ New York City FC
Portland Timbers @ FC Cincinnati
Philadelphia Union @ Atlanta United FC
New England Revolution @ Toronto FC
Sporting Kansas City @ Colorado Rapids6 votes -
Beware online "filter bubbles" | Eli Pariser
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Puzzling number of men tied to Ferguson protests have died
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Groomed by a grandfather: A mother discovers that her children have been sexually abused by a close relative for years.
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Christchurch victims from all walks of life and corners of globe
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For some Colorado lawmakers, the death penalty debate is personal
3 votes