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by accountface 10y ago
The current concept of advertising has been around for more than 200 years now... I think the "all ads have to go away forever" approach is doomed to fail.
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by accountface 10y ago
But at the end of the day a lot of low-level employees are the ones making this stuff happen — they're doing the gruntwork and ghostwriting this stuff. They might be shielded by some specific data that is direct top-down evil, but many
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by accountface 10y ago
I'm comparing Monsanto to the Third Reich, so I considered it Godwinning (what an amazingly terrible phrase). Fair enough though, I don't disagree with you.
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by accountface 10y ago
I'm going to Godwin myself here, but it kind of echoes Hannah Arendt's 'Banality of Evil' — this summary from Wikipedia covers it a bit, but I recommend reading the actual text, especially in the context of today's
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by accountface 10y ago
You start getting into weird questions with "usefulness" right? Is an artist useful?
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by accountface 10y ago
That's generally how I feel about it myself, I just hit 30 and I'm done with the "work hard play hard" mentality a lot of startups run with. I want to do great, efficient work, and leave at 5pm every day to spend time wi
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by accountface 10y ago
• You couldn't go to a public school and shout "smoke weed everyday" • you couldn't make a sign with a pornographic image and use it as a protest • you can't advertise tobacco in public spaces that's just off t
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by accountface 10y ago
>The context you are referring to has repeatedly born out that American law allows private citizens to say or express anything, no matter how hateful, as long as it's not an incitement to violence nor slanders a specific party. This
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by accountface 10y ago
It's amazing how many people attempt to take the term "free speech" literally and avoid reading the few sentences in the actual amendment that provide context. Free speech is absolutely not the ability to say anything to anyo
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by accountface 10y ago
Free speech is more complex than simply taking the term "free speech" literally.
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by accountface 10y ago
It literally says "will not divide" and you're here making a comment that specifically divides. I guess the flag really is wrong.
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by accountface 10y ago
This is the most mind-bendingly deluded post I've seen on HN in a while. > individuals coming together, learning new things, and working towards a common goal the common goal here is being an asshole > if this was a nazi flag, wo
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by accountface 10y ago
Then you're effectively banning someone's existing account, which they could have been using for years at that point. There's a lot of potential content there. Not a great feeling for anyone. Seems like the simplest solution
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by accountface 10y ago
You don't care about the account, but the admin should. Look at all the compromised account issue on twitter. There's spam everywhere.
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by accountface 10y ago
Hangouts, Voice, and Allo are all meant to be SMS replacements — so they are directly competing with their SMS app.
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by accountface 10y ago
Except Google Fi, where you can't use Google Voice. FFS Google.
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by accountface 10y ago
This is spot on. TONS of people are using Slack in their personal lives because it's a good chat app. It doesn't matter if it was originally built to support business teams.
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by accountface 10y ago
I actually went into the CSS to try to turn off uppercase (seriously stop using it) and it turns out all the text is an image :|
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by accountface 10y ago
In my anecdotal experience using bootstrap correctly with enduser efficiency in mind is the exception, not the rule. >Reflects poorly on those people then, not Bootstrap. Yes. >Of course, who wouldn't plan their project ahead of
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by accountface 10y ago
You're sacrificing personal efficiency for bandwidth efficiency. You get to decide which is the best option for you and your users. I generally share the opinion that most people using bootstrap probably don't need to. I'd re
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by accountface 10y ago
The future of food needs to be meatless.
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by accountface 10y ago
I think it's a little different when the person "looking over your shoulder" is omnipotent.
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by accountface 10y ago
The OS these services run on isn't secure, so wouldn't these services by definition not be secure?
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by accountface 10y ago
The plan is to test larger spheres in the ocean
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by accountface 10y ago
It also seems crazy to me that we'd be successful at sabotage 88% of the time
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by accountface 10y ago
It sounds like based on the other comments that there's no way to track down one sole source because there are so many varying from public records to machine learning... That being said, is there a simple way to better obscure yourself
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by accountface 10y ago
so you take a false assumption and turn it into additional assumptions?
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by accountface 10y ago
livable wages for drivers
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by accountface 10y ago
I literally stay at my job because I'm the sole earner for my family and the health insurance is very good (PPO) - if it wasn't for health insurance I'd probably freelance and spend more time at home
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by accountface 10y ago
The cost is artificially low due to loss-backed driver subsidies.

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