It’d be nice if sites could provide this info. Local-based sites could tell search engines where their constituency is likely to be and search engines could promote those results above others.
Feb. 18, 2020
It’d be nice if sites could provide this info. Local-based sites could tell search engines where their constituency is likely to be and search engines could promote those results above others.
Is there any way for a website to specify (preferably in its markup) that the document’s contents are relevant to a given geographic area?
It doesn’t seem like there is.
TIL there’s a pager emoji. 📟
Also the Apple TV emoji is solidly stuck in the past. I know it’s more distinctive than just a black rectangle but there has to be something better than 📺
Anyone have thoughts on React Native for Android development?
I know basically nothing about either. Used React extensively but not natively.
Admittedly it wasn’t really my intention to incentivize more in depth reading, but I’ve notified it in myself and I want to figure out how to incentivize it further.
If you’re tired of the news being presented in overly simplistic formats on platforms that discourage reading the whole story check out Pine.blog.
I’ve found that I read a lot more articles and understand the news better than I really ever have.
And with that, I'm finally done with what I'd planned to finish at 10 AM. \o/
Pine.blog Downtime Post-Mortem: A Story of Finite Resources
Pine.blog was down for a while today; here's why.
tl;dr Turns out parsing and storing entire portions of the web is hard.
I'll probably post a full post-mortem in the next few hours.
The Quick Version: The web is pretty large; my servers aren't.
Well that was fun. Pine.blog was out of commission for the last few hours, but it should be back up at 100% now.
Apologies for the downtime.
Underappreciated Apple Support Article of the Week:
What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk?"
They're pronounced the same, but, technically speaking, there is a distinct difference between a disc and a disk.
I applaud Senator Gillibrand for her Data Protection Agency proposal.
I never explicitly said this so here it goes:
I’m going to IndieWebCamp Austin! See y’all there!
Lots of candidates have called for something like this and Seattle tried it!
one aspect of his political vision has been less examined: the overhaul of our dysfunctional campaign finance system.
... Sanders wants to radically expand who is a political contributor by giving all Americans vouchers... for the exclusive purpose of funding eligible political candidates.
Unrelated: Development on the next major step for Pine.blog is wrapping up and should be released soon!
Reading @ezraklein’s Why We’re Polarized and this explanation really stood out. Great clarification.
Sorting ≠ Polarization
But the two are related.
One of the worst things that can happen to a system of government is that its rules become biased towards one party. When the system is against you, it looks illegitimate. Illegitimate systems die. When we start to see the system as biased, its time to do some tweaking.
Regardless of political preference, the systems we use to enact policy (progressive or conservative) shouldn't be biased towards one outcome. The system should strive to be neutral and self-preserving. A system that incentivises bypassing its own rules will not endure.
Of the three branches, the Supreme Court and the President have the power to negate acts of Congress. The bicameral Congress also exherts a negating check on ambition. Institutions already exist to preserve the status quo; something must exist to push us forward.
Congress' job is to consider options and take votes on matters, but simply ignoring the problem is a valid political move in our republic. This turns Congress into a branch that prefers inaction.
IMO the biggest flaw in our Madisonian System, which I think has a lot of benefits, is that the cost of doing something is nowhere near the cost of doing nothing.
Our system incentivises inaction.
Thought Experiment:
A Constitutional Amendment that any bill passed by one chamber of Congress, but not taken to a vote in the other chamber by the end of the session is deemed "tacitly approved" and sent to the President.
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