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by _qulr 6y ago
You're correct that the reality is much more complex. To expand, I would say that people are indeed susceptible to propaganda, but only propaganda of a certain kind. It has to reinforce their preexisting biases. You can't just for
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Held accountable by whom? The government? Which is controlled roughly half the time by a party which you probably disagree with vehemently?
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I would argue that this is the result of a free market of news. These media organizations only exist because they tell people what they want to hear. There's a huge market for that. In order to peddle anything, you have to get people t
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The people do it to themselves. They believe what they want to believe, hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see. This is still largely a free country where there are multiple independent sources of "news", and indiv
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But again, these are not job interviews, they're professional licensing requirement imposed by the government, not by employers. And I don't think Facebook requires its engineers to re-interview for their own jobs every x number o
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The US Medical Licensing Examination is mainly for medical students not "senior" physicians, and the pass rate is extremely high for U.S. M.D. medical school graduates, over 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by _qulr 6y ago
This is unhelpful quibbling over the semantics of one word. You know what I meant. Everyone knows what I meant. I even explained in more detail what I meant. You're also wrong about the word, but I'm not going to bother arguing th
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It should be noted that there's a significant difference between Safari and Chrome in this respect, however. Safari content blockers are not actually JavaScript at all, they're nothing more than JSON rules, so content blockers hav
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> Chrome extensions only support the 'chrome' namespace, while Firefox supports 'chrome' and 'browser', but Safari 14 only supports 'browser'. According to the documentation, "Safari web exten
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Why is that funny? The point is that they're less effective at blocking than uBlock Origin, not that they're useless.
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> not possible as of yet Never. The Safari team already (wrongly) feels that their Safari-specific "content blocker" API is adequate, and moreover, Google Chrome has announced the deprecation of the webRequest blocking API used
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You are correct. Safari does not support webRequest blocking and will almost certainly never support it. Indeed, Google Chrome has already announced its deprecation of this API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs&
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Fiddling with the clocks while Rome burns.
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"For healthy adults, the FDA has cited 400 milligrams a day—that's about four or five cups of coffee—as an amount not generally associated with dangerous, negative effects." https://www.fda.gov/consumers/
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> So you take caffeine just because you're addicted to it, but see no upside to getting rid of the addiction? I agree that freedom from addiction is an upside. I would say that goes without saying. But the withdrawal symptoms are tr
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I don't understand the idea that a week of headaches is somehow worth it in return for quitting caffeine. I've cut down my caffeine intake, but frankly I don't see any real benefit in quitting entirely. I take one caffeine pi
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> The prime mover behind the rise of adtech was lack of any standards or easy usage for payment acceptance on the Internet. I disagree. Online commerce has always been very healthy and pervasive almost since the beginning of the web. Pay
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> So politicians cave to large organized groups who can cause them problems and effect their ability to be elected? That's not what I said? I said the general public (who are unorganized) have a great deal of deference for police of
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I've dined with philosophers. The real problem is splitting the bill.
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With regard to police officers, I would say that it's not just the police unions that circle the wagons and protect them. The courts have been extremely reluctant to charge or convict police officers with crimes for acts in the lin
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> I'm much more inclined to believe that the purpose of unions is to extract maximum concessions from the employer(s) for the benefit of the people they control while ignoring any externalities. I agree that this is one purpose of u
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> The other side is to be a large enough entity to influence elections and then “negotiate” with those you helped get elected. That's the nature of politics. Businesses and business leaders lobby politicians and donate to their poli
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This is complicated, because public schools (and police departments, mentioned by another replier) are not for-profit entities. I don't think we can treat public employee unions and private employee unions the same. Public schools, pol
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> After watching how a mechanics union did absolutely nothing while CEOs ripped apart my Dad's pension and put him through hell, I have a bit of a dim view on this sort of thing to begin with. I would say that unions aren't mag
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"Trade association" would be the more common term for business owners.
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We need to talk about how difficult it is to monetize browser extensions. Most of these problems occur when a reputable extension gets sold to a less reputable owner, frequently for a relatively small amount of money (4-5 figures). Even ver
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And my comment got downvoted of course. Because HN can't let pesky facts get in the way of good argument. This site, sigh.
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Top voted comment from the previous HN discussion, advice to the developer: "they all the cards and you will lose this one and regret the wasted bandwidth."
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"Just got off a call with @Apple. Appeal accepted and Amphetamine will remain on the @AppStore." https://twitter.com/x74353/status/1345421211677949957
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> I assume Apple has access to the source code of the app No, Apple doesn't get our source code. Why would you assume that?

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