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by GuiA 9y ago
My comment applies to many societies beyond the US, but yes I will certainly agree that the US is backwards in many, many ways.
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is incredibly cynical and so off the mark in absurd ways that I can’t even start listing them all, and I’m saying this as a very cynical person. Have you heard of things like paid holidays, free public education for all children, the a
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by GuiA 9y ago
Twitter is profitable as of 2 weeks ago , and with just $91M in profits. Let's wait and see where this ship goes over the next 2-3 years before claiming victory.
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by GuiA 9y ago
+1. The sad thing is that this is what Ted Nelson has been advocating for since the late 1960s (amongst with many other things that made his vision of a worldwide web much more compelling than the one we have now, but technologically unfeas
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by GuiA 9y ago
For all we know, it never had to be initially wound.
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by GuiA 9y ago
This article[0] claims that the shelter system has 1200 beds, and that official figures put the homeless population count at ~7000, while unofficial figures put it more around 10 000-12 000 and the parent article quotes 21 000. [0] https:&
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by GuiA 9y ago
The whole report is a great read, which completely lines up with my experience living in various places in the US (particularly California + Louisiana) as a European - but this example near the beginning particularly stands out to me becaus
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by GuiA 9y ago
I moved to the US for grad school (in the south). Biking to school, I remember people yelling at me, and people driving pickup trucks feigning to run into me and honking very loudly. Very confused as to the thought process going on in the m
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by GuiA 9y ago
> No, here in "socialist Europe" he'd have been fired as well. That's an extremely strong claim that does not match my experience and will highly depend on the company, which country in Europe, etc. For instance I&#
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by GuiA 9y ago
Out of curiosity, who or what has designated you an “ethical UX designer”? I’m sure you could find an Apple designer who would claim that forcing people to upgrade ensures that their device is patched and secure, preventing many potentially
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by GuiA 9y ago
You make a reasonable point. That said, all the countries you mention have strong track records of human rights violations. So really China's not surrounded by good company on that issue, and maybe the takeaway should be more that we s
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by GuiA 9y ago
Reminds me of this story from last year: But those [Chinese] students often bring to campus something else from home: the watchful eyes and occasionally heavy hand of the Chinese government, manifested through its ties to many of the 150-o
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by GuiA 9y ago
You are being downvoted, but are asking the right questions. I learned the fundamentals of graphic design through print design, as that is a medium that designers have worked with for much longer than the computer screen. A lot of designers
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by GuiA 9y ago
Papers are published in journal/conference proceedings/etc. that will have the date of the issue ("Transactions for the International Symposium on Computational Yak Shaving 2018"). The paper might have been written in 20
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by GuiA 9y ago
It looks like they use the flag colors to seed the palette.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Not everyone can become Michelangelo, but anyone can become fairly proficient with a piece of charcoal with just a few months of instruction (given motor abilities that fall within the norm, but I don’t think this is what you were alluding
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by GuiA 9y ago
They are principles; meant to be guiding rules of thumb, but of course not meant to be applied blindly and systematically. Otherwise they would be dogma.
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by GuiA 9y ago
I love that the journalist asked ”What do your critics say to that?” , and that the researcher gave a meaningful, non disparaging reply. This should be expected from everyone doing research work, but is sadly far from the norm. It’s along
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by GuiA 9y ago
”Enjoy content. Not too much. Mostly paid [...] if you actually want to learn, to improve your mind, to improve your awareness and understanding of the world, you have to shell out.” The “paid” part seems awfully arbitrary. I went to a
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by GuiA 9y ago
True but sadly my friends do not post pictures of their babies and vacations through RSS :(
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by GuiA 9y ago
From the Ganges, and they suffer for it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_of_the_Ganges#Huma...
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by GuiA 9y ago
Trying to find more info about what the company has done in the past, it looks like they contributed to a Linkin Park VR experience: https://www.roadtovr.com/linkin-park-release-vr-experience-b...
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by GuiA 9y ago
This fundamental property of "show me only things from people I explicitly added, and show me everything they post (ideally in reverse chronological order)" is what many (myself included) seem to want from social media. Sadly, i
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by GuiA 9y ago
Technological disruption can often be a good thing - more/better product/services can be had for less money - I don’t think the HN crowd needs to be convinced of this. However, it also means that in the short term, the people doin
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by GuiA 9y ago
For those who might not be familiar with the distinction, Stallman's article "Why Open Source misses the point of Free Software" is worth a read: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-poin
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by GuiA 9y ago
Sure, but phrasing it as “abstract/can’t abstract” seems reductionist and arbitrary. By and large, the overwhelming majority of humans will bring you a cup or bottle of water if you ask them for “water”, rather than bringing you water
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by GuiA 9y ago
This seems like a strawman. Are there any humans with a high school diploma/college degree who "cannot abstract"?
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The Social Dynamics of Programming Together in Dynamicland(dynamicland.org)
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by GuiA 9y ago
If you are legitimately curious and open minded about digging more into this topic, I highly recommend the recently published book "So You Want to Talk About Race" by Ijeoma Oluo. https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Ta
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by GuiA 9y ago
The French translation in the article matches what Google returns today (ie garbage), albeit for one difference (it now translates "in pairs" to "par deux" instead of "en paires" (which is a slight improvement,

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