BrainVirus

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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>All the fun and weird stuff is still around, it just typically doesn't SEO well and doesn't show up on Google, and is too long-tail to show up on popularity-based algorithms like those of Reddit or Facebook. In other words,
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>With very large customers, clouds have to be price competitive because if you're at a large scale, it is totally worth spending millions of dollars for a 5 year plan to change clouds. You've literally just explained why a la
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>"People who consume games" and "Gamers" are not necessarily the same group though? How do you know if someone posting a random nasty comment on the internet is a "Gamer"? How do you know if someone postin
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It's interesting that you focused on this particular aspect of my message and replied with an assertion that rests on a whole stack of shaky assumptions. One, that I was talking about reporting of Russia's cyber activities. Two, t
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At least someone here gets it. Except the emphasis on moderation. YouTube comments are triple-moderated (by algorithms, by channel owners and by Alphabet contractors) and still are a cesspool. Think about that.
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>Gamers are the most entitled consumer group I've ever seen. Replace "gamers" with "book readers" and it should become obvious why this is not an insightful comment, but rather an expression of some kind of exi
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The sad thing about news like this is that most people only pay attention at all because they've been bombarded with anti-Russian propaganda, not because this showcases Google's awful anti-privacy practices. Despite years of warni
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>Isn't this a fairly trivial insight though? >Same as saying that everything anyone, or any organization, does is political. The are both trivial (e.g. post-modernism) and non-trivial (e.g. McLuhan, Postman, Ellul) versions of
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>What the hell is up with prices? We deliberately raised the gas prices to punish Putin. Gas prices affect the price of food due to shipping. Food prices affect the price of software due to eating. Don't worry, it's all under
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>Well when 80% of all US Dollars were "printed" / created in the last 2-3 years massive inflation will follow I've heard this is a completely debunked conspiracy theory: https://leadstories.com/hoax-
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There is little information in this interview about why they chose Haskell except the general notion that they liked it and maybe that it was faster than Python for their particular task. (I say "maybe", because rewrites generally
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Getters and setters are not a "concept" in OOP. They're just a naming convention that is occasionally built into language syntax for brevity. FP people constantly miss something fundamental about OOP. Objects only exist at r