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This is a video by the guys behind the Comingle project, which aims to create a platform to allow people to set up a peer-to-peer basic income scheme. However, the video is not about basic income or even the Comingle project, but just an overview of how extreme the wealth distribution in the US really is.

I've seen lots of these U.S. wealth distribution charts, and I already knew it sucks. But it never hit me just how completely out of whack the thing is. Rather than explain a static chart, they actually sourced the data from the federal government and built a dynamic data exploration tool which they then use to demonstrate the sheer scale of the imbalance, with an effectiveness I had not seen before. I just had to share this.

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submitted 3 months ago by waldyrious@lemm.ee to c/portugal@lemmy.pt

Mais uma vez, vê-se que o sistema beneficia imensamente os partidos maiores: PS, AD e CH puderam aproveitar praticamente todos os votos, enquanto a IL, BE, CDU, Livre e PAN tiveram entre 1/4 a quase 3/4 (!!!) de votos que não elegeram deputados.

(Fonte da imagem: https://omeuvoto.com)

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submitted 5 months ago by waldyrious@lemm.ee to c/portugal@lemmy.pt

Deparei-me recentemente com esta Iniciativa de Cidadania Europeia (o mecanismo oficial da UE para petições públicas) intitulada “Tax the Rich”, que propõe ao Parlamento Europeu que discuta a implementação de um imposto sobre grandes fortunas ao nível europeu. Um dos promotores da iniciativa é o próprio Thomas Piketty.

Segundo as estatísticas da petição, as assinaturas em Portugal ainda estão bastante abaixo das necessárias. Se acharem interessante a ideia, assinem para dar apoio!

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago

What do you mean? It's right in the lead section:

Even with several details altered, Stoker's heirs sued over the adaptation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre.

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submitted 7 months ago by waldyrious@lemm.ee to c/portugal@lemmy.pt

Gostei bastante deste discurso. Conseguiu mostrar uma visão clara do futuro para que o Livre pretende caminhar, através de exemplos concretos de medidas no presente, implementadas ou em curso — ou seja, ao mesmo tempo idealista e com os pés na terra. Achei que valia a pena partilhar :)

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submitted 9 months ago by waldyrious@lemm.ee to c/portugal@lemmy.pt

Um excelente episódio do Inpertinente (podcast da FFMS) sobre o sistema eleitoral português. Não tem muito de novo para quem já andou a explorar o tema, mas é uma excelente introdução para quem tem curiosidade sobre o assunto. Além disso, cobre (especialmente mais perto do fim) vários pontos importantes sobre alternativas e reformas que se poderiam fazer: círculos de compensação, voto preferencial, etc.

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 12 points 9 months ago

Wow, these are really great updates! I especially like the improved UX around sign up and opening links on servers other than our native one.

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

OS: Linux, Arch (btw).

FTFY

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

But why is that such a great benefit? We already have a myriad accounts for different services/platforms; would this be merely a marginal improvement over the current situation?

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 57 points 11 months ago

IMO both of these ended up being poor names.

"Open source" can be co-opted to mean any project with public source code even if it's not open contribution (think SQLite, and many of the projects effectively run by major tech corporations).

"Free software" falls victim to the eternal mixup with freeware, requiring the endless repetition of the "beer vs. speech" analogy.

I personally think "Libre software" is the term that best encapsulates the intended meaning while being unambiguous and not vulnerable to misinterpretation.

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

Are you nerd-sniping? Cause that comment is begging for an xkcd reference 😁 → https://xkcd.com/605/

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 69 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I keep hearing people mention all of these apps, and I've tried most of them (I'm on Android, and besides Sync, I currently have Liftoff, Connect and Thunder installed; I had Jerboa and the Voyager PWA, but removed the former due to bugs and the latter due to slow startup).

Honestly, none of them feel as polished as Sync. They do offer pretty much the same functionality, sometimes even better, but the UI and UX of Sync is just smoother.

Maybe it's just that I'm used to Sync after using it for reddit for many years, but in any case I thought I'd put this out there in case others were feeling puzzled as I was from all the mentions of other apps suggesting they can replace Sync without any quality loss. Sure, maybe not functionality-wise, but to me the user experience is just as important.

Edit: for reference, here's an album of screenshots comparing the same views in Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Thunder (yeah, I'm a fan of the compact list view): https://imgur.com/a/MvawTYm — there are pros and cons to all of these, but IMO the sync experience is the one with the best design and UX polish. Happy to hear your thoughts, though!

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Yes, it's on the sidebar:

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago

I wonder why you have a 🍑 app recommendation... 😛

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

While more smarts in natural language understanding would be welcome, I don't feel like that's what the assistant is missing the most. The biggest advantage that google assistant has is the potential for tight integration with the system (Android). IMHO it would pay off to make it more capable in terms of interacting with existing apps, setting up flows of actions, etc., than necessarily making it be able to communicate more fluently.

[-] waldyrious@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

And with a file browser sidebar 🤦

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