Eszik

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by Eszik 4y ago
This idea of an "infomediary"--a company that collects and aggregates information from a lot of users--has long been popular among Net gurus. AllAdvantage was supposed to finance the whole deal by selling advertisers information
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by Eszik 4y ago
What a pathetic comment. My gut reaction to "I started sobbing" was "man, that's rough, I feel bad for them". No further assumption about their gender. Seems to me that you're projecting your thoughts on gender
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by Eszik 4y ago
Somewhat unrelated to the article, but I always find the foo/bar style of code examples difficult to read. It's especially egregious here ; one of the points of the article is that types are often easy to guess from variable names
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by Eszik 5y ago
I think GP was referring to Montagnier's support of the water memory theory (a fraudulent theory made up to support homeopathy), rather than his comments on covid 19.
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by Eszik 5y ago
FWIW, this is the policy on HN. But I agree it's irresponsible.
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by Eszik 5y ago
I think that generally, you "get" more out of playing videogames than doomscrolling on Twitter, or mindlessly watching your YouTube recommendations. Can depend on the game for sure, but video games usually have some artistic merit
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by Eszik 6y ago
I mean, it might not offer any improvement for you, but it certainly does for someone who uses a screen reader that doesn't default to English.
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by Eszik 6y ago
Have you read the article? "Credit" here is not meant as recognition, it's meant as retribution. Performers put their name down as writers/producers despite being no part of the songwriting process, taking a cut from the
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by Eszik 6y ago
> 73% of 18-24 year olds say they voted remain, but did they actually show up? I haven't done the math, so I won't make assumptions, but I would bet the percentages from the polls roughly match up with the actual results from t
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by Eszik 6y ago
I mean, 73% of the 18-24 and 62% of the 25-34 voted remain, whereas 60% of the 55+ voted leave. Statistically, it's a pretty valid point.
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by Eszik 6y ago
I agree with your general sentiment but please don't you use "gaslighting" when you just mean "exaggarating". Gaslighting is a very specific process of denying reality to abuse someone, it's not just any bad fa