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by Barrin92 6mo ago
>then they should close their ears rather than trying to maim others criticism isn't maiming anyone. I don't know about you but I was taught that debating culture is part of a living society. A lot of people think that the huma
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>HN commenters complain about how some TODO app is using 300Mb of memory or has 700 dependencies. yes because as we've learned this year nothing bad ever happens when you have hundreds of dependencies we're living in an obese s
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>CSAM on social media will be 100x suppressed because banning people is way easier on small servers. No it isn't. Small servers often don't have paid security or moderation, are run in anonymous fashion, and have no profit moti
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I don't advocate living like a monk. I play in a band and play football every weekend, play chess, you can go to church, most of that is practically free. I'm very much in favour of participating in culture, real culture though. Y
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we're currently (indirectly) engaged in the largest land war since WW II in Europe so weapons do matter. But also the second part of that sentence isn't true, the former East German States, Saxony in particular have been building
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mind you given the topic of the article I took the jobs in question to mean largely in the software industry, not talking about minimum wage workers here. But as a programmer I am quite baffled when peers my age, often without kids struggl
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a good job is one that brings you joy and improves your creativitiy, they by definition can't be in hell. if you mean well paying, that's a different thing entirely, ditch the fancy car and adjust your lifestyle
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>IF the feds are a sufficiently large market your viability as a business sure if you're Lockheed you might be screwed, but that's not the case for Google. Military contracts, or even government contracts as a whole are a tiny
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with the caveat that I think this should only apply to social media in the strong sense of that term, that is platforms where you present with an identity and that function as public squares, you having any rights is conditional on you bein
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you answered your own implicit question. You have a choice who you sell your work to, you don't have a choice what your taxes do. Seems pretty straight forward why the former elicits more push back. The government forces you to pay tax
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provided you have the financial freedom to, don't apply to jobs where this mentality is rewarded. After getting my CS degree I deliberately went into a sector where I suspected this kind of attitude doesn't exist (defense in my ca
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the parent company (Schwarz Group) has over half a million employees and makes something like 200 billion in revenue per year, I think calling it a discount grocer is underselling it a bit lol.
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>It can be argued that humans actually hate forgetting things I agree with you, I don't even think that needs to be argued, we without a doubt hate forgetting things, but we also hate eating our vegetables. We do hate a lot of thing
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real world social networks have agency if you define ephemerality as agency. It's an accident of digital platforms that nothing is ever forgotten, not a feature inherent to normal human relations. In the real world you drop phone numbe
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>Are there organic movements in Germany, UK, USA, Norway etc of common citizens agitating for social media controls for kids? Are they actually composed of citizens? Are they funded by grassroots organizations? Yes, tons of them honestly
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>the less likely it is to be based on the needs of any particular country there has been no such thing in decades. The idea that there are 'organic needs of countries' compared to 'artificial needs of global consumers&#x27
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>One heuristic for spotting when you might be wrong is that you hold a very uncommon belief. this is only the case in a 'wisdom of the crowd' world where people hold uncorrelated, authentic, self-formed opinions. If you're
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by Barrin92 6mo ago
choosing 2021 is itself a really odd cutoff date to choose. The really bizarre hiring happened between 2016 and 2021 https://i.redd.it/c94hnp9kvzy91.png They had 17k employees in 2016 and 80k in 2022. And given that a lot o
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>Adults can easily do this. no they can't, as showcased by the countless of people who don't. This isn't how human beings work. If you give someone a tool that facilitates taking mental shortcuts they will abuse it. You pu
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>linguistic games it's far more than that. By giving into the television like hyper-reality they create you're giving up base reality. That power and legitimate institutions are derived from the people and due process. To surre
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>Presumably the vast majority of OTC painkiller usage is for short-lived and low-severity pain which is far from harmless given how many people use them as a replacement for treating underlying symptoms and changing their life. Case stud
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the Israeli military did a study about ~15 years ago where they looked at soldier suicide rates after they had enacted a policy of leaving the weapons at base over the weekend and if I recall correctly it cut the rate of suicides by 40-50%.
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without a doubt liberty and privacy don't seem to be particularly high up on the list of priorities in the land of the free. Although if the American founders had 24/7 surveilled, compliant, worker drones at mega corporations in m
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>Except availability of chargers is spotty in most of the country, the UK is a small country. The average British driver drives 20-30km per day. One full EV charge almost gets you through England South to North. If you're putting a
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>You know you are at work and monitored. unless you're in a jurisdiction that has anti-surveillance workplace laws, which if you don't should probably think about before Mark Zuckerberg gets the idea to monitor to your body tem
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>This is obviously a strategic move at a national level. no it isn't. That's the kind of thing people say who've never worked in the Chinese software ecosystem. It's how the Chinese internet has worked for 20+ years.
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but that has nothing to do with what you just said. How would being able to continue to download, or purchase, old books affect the ability of authors to create books to new standards going forward? It's not like me being able to still
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I don't follow the logic here. Users of old devices aren't asking for new features, they're merely asking for their devices not to be bricked. If an author wants to design against a new set of features they can do that, and t
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>No, it's really a form of sincerity permitted by a sort of willfully affected naivete The willful part turns the sincerity into nihilism, people who utter sentences like: "I could fill a notebook of quotes from this conversat
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In urban areas China is just as car centric. A lot of cities look like Robert Moses wet dreams[1]. Beijing and Shanghai have so many expressways, ring roads and arterial streets they look like they were built by Americans. The rail network

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