BowBun

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by BowBun 3y ago
Your experience is very, very different than what the article was about. Starting your own company means you have ownership and pride of everything going on in the business. That motivation and entrepreneurial spirit will obviously paint ev
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Grand generalizations vs. experience from people having experienced life there. I know which points I give more weight to.
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Following up on my other comment to say I appreciate how personal this topic is to you, and I mean no disrespect. That said I don't think moving 30 grams of Heroin is 'just sharing'. In Singapore, this kind of crime is the ab
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by BowBun 3y ago
I don't think you're making much of a point besides that there are other crimes you should consider separately from this example. I was pretty clear that I am ok with the example this post is about. The law in Singapore that illeg
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Right and wrong are relative to the culture you are raised in or are currently living in, so your statement can't be true.
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I agree with you, but it sometimes feels like a 'great browser' is supposed to be free, bleeding-edge while also backwards compatible, tracking-free, ad-free, and somehow altruistic and for the good of the open web. Where are we g
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by BowBun 3y ago
Having lived in Singapore, I'm ok with this. I can't judge foreign countries by my Western values when all the countries that agree with those values face crippling drug problems. If this is the extent of it and it isn't abus
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I mean, you called it crap and then said it's super important. That's what hoarders say. Subjectively you may feel that your data is super important, but objectively it probably isn't. When people talk about 'super impor
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by BowBun 3y ago
Well, no. By length it's the same # of bricks if the wall is the same thickness. It requires less bricks to wall off an area using a single-layer wavy wall than it does with a double-layer straight wall
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Not exactly the same thing, but they had a phone version of this at MeowWolf, the huge interactive trippy art exhibit, in Denver. They had phone terminals laying around with a whole directory of fake businesses. At first, I thought they sta
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It's quite popular in the indie game community and seems to work well, but that's a different beast than software and software support.
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> And I especially don't think it means anything about gullibility about information found online You really think it means absolutely _nothing_ about this topic? It's literally an example of people believing what they read onl
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Hey everyone, this isn't an Ask HN. There's an article with many of the points to discuss: Knowing what to build, Doing fewer things, Tooling that reacts quickly, Knowledge in the developer’s head, etc.
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Your points are short and without substance, so it's hard to follow along as other sibling comments seem to also indicate. Anyway, the point stands. The fallacy is believing with certainty that something will happen because of past eve
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by BowBun 3y ago
I get what you're saying, but realize your response is tone-deaf when the GP comment said that they had to give in to support the elderly and emergency responses in their area during the pandemic. There's some opportunity cost you
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Are you referring to slippery slope? That doesn't apply here since there's no small step that is causing them to believe the models will continue to get better. What about Moore's law? Observing trends and predicting what mig
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by BowBun 3y ago
Did you read the article? The author is, well, an author. They don't program or 3d model. Computation sped wasn't even mentioned in the point they were making. I guess I don't see the reason to read an article about a specifi
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by BowBun 3y ago
Sorry I misunderstood your point. You're right that they tend to support more socialistic policies, though I don't necessarily believe in how much they actually want these policies passed. They all greatly benefit from the status
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by BowBun 3y ago
Not always, but yes, information brokers tend to consolidate wealth and power. And I made no mention of political orientation, please stop with the tired idea that this is a conservative/liberal issue. I have more in common with a redn
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Expected when the newspaper is owned by some of the richest families on Earth. This is basically the same as a police department investigating themselves for wrongdoing.
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by BowBun 3y ago
A reminder that The Economist is owned by oligarchs and part of the very system it is poorly defending in this article. Look up who owns the Newspaper - as always, it's rich families like the Rothschilds, Cadburys, etc. Really stop and
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Oh snap, called out by the man himself! Good story though
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I think we're seeing increased scrutiny towards any social network remaining after Reddit and Twitter have been anti-consumer in their monetization practices. Personally, I've taken a great interest in ultimate-guitar.com, which I
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by BowBun 3y ago
What about in 5 years, when they've normalized subscriptions with the ad levels you expect today, and their shareholders demand more dividends. What then? Ads baby. Why would it stop when literally every public corporation's ONLY
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by BowBun 3y ago
I can't wait. Reddit will not be able to afford moderation like FB/Twitter (which already isn't sufficient) and will run afoul of content laws in multiple countries. Sweet karma.
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It's not a mistake, they do it on purpose. Most tech companies spin up with free offerings to acquire critical mass, and then pull the rug out from under their users once they feel like they can squeeze money out of them without scarin
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by BowBun 3y ago
You're conflating the wallstreetbets crowd with the crypto crowd who are kinda polar opposites. Some of the applications crypto folks were going on about: decentralization (of course) until the IRS started taxing your crypto transactio
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by BowBun 3y ago
I'm not necessarily arguing that they're the same, but let's be honest with ourselves - crypto said the _same_ things as it was ramping up. Just replace all the applications of AI you listed with the many hypothetical use-cas
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No I don't believe it supports collaboration, though I could be wrong. This is really a pretty notepad with great Markdown integration, nothing much more (which is why it's still good!)
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What I meant is that there's a large electronic reading scene for both American and Japanese comics. Both have had large pirate scenes for decades, but recently more and more legal avenues have popped up too for reading electronically.

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