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Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley can't be neutral any longer(sfstandard.com)
114 points by afavour 9mo ago|33 comments
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by afavour 9mo ago
Both could be true. But they aren’t. The story was never buried.
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by afavour 9mo ago
> Hillary Clinton used a randomly hosted email server to send out official government emails for months. The story was quickly buried You cannot be serious. That story arguably changed the course of the 2016 election. It was by absolutel
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by afavour 9mo ago
Couldn't you just use vending/automat machines in these scenarios? Beers in particular are... not complicated. I believe the go tech makes the existing situation better but if you were to reimagine it from ground up I can't h
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by afavour 9mo ago
To intimidate. They're probably quite aware they'll lose in court. But in the mean time they might discourage some folks from turning out on the street.
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by afavour 9mo ago
We’ve seen it documented before that they do indeed have a facial recognition database. Good news is it doesn’t seem all that reliable so who knows who is being labelled.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Author is the CEO of an SEO company and their submission history is almost exclusively political posts. Can only assume is bait to get some good incoming link juice. Flagged and moving on.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Mirror: https://nitter.net/KenoFischer/status/2014327875277602983
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by afavour 9mo ago
Minidiscs had a data capacity of around 150MB, IIRC. By that point Zip drives were already very common so you'd need a compelling reason for MD and I just don't think one was there.
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by afavour 9mo ago
> I was processing “precise location data” a decade ago at work Were you working at TikTok? If not, I don’t see the relevance. The TikTok app didn’t used to demand precise location data. Now it does. That’s a difference.
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by afavour 9mo ago
I know it’s just a joke but the “ll” in Welsh is a completely distinct character in the Welsh alphabet and doesn’t sound anything like “l”, nor is it used as a substitute for l. It’s rarely used but it has its own Middle-Welsh character: ỻ
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by afavour 9mo ago
No, they haven’t. Read the article.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Well, precise location data for one.
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by afavour 9mo ago
We don't have to examine every situation in the theoretical. We can pay attention to context. These are not good faith actors, they are not seeking the truth.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Not only that, they did it with the intention of overturning elections: > The unnamed employees secretly conferred with a political advocacy group about a request to match Social Security data with state voter rolls to "find evidenc
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by afavour 9mo ago
> Everybody can drive a car. Not everyone can/wants to own a car, though.
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by afavour 9mo ago
IIRC ReactOS uses and contributes heavily to WINE. So in many ways your #3 isn't far from using ReactOS, and if done correctly it'll be friendlier for the average person than Linux itself.
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by afavour 9mo ago
This reminds me of the differences between the US version of The Office and the UK one. I’m actually fond of both but the boss character (as played by Ricky Gervais) in the UK version is absolutely reprehensible. And he’s the main focus of
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by afavour 9mo ago
But the definition of what counts as "politics" is entirely arbitrary. A thread complaining about, say, homeless people in SF will remain just fine. We'd all be better off with meaningful guidelines.
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by afavour 9mo ago
Your faulty assumption is that any criticism of DOGE, ICE etc is automatically “left wing”. Not true. My point is not a left vs right one, it’s that topics like DOGE are worthy of discussion on HN. They are absolutely tech relevant. Many ot
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by afavour 9mo ago
I imagine a lot of companies have contracts with Vimeo and switching costs are real. They'll likely stick with Vimeo if they manage to maintain their offering to the level it exists at today. In the long term I think it guarantees deat
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by afavour 9mo ago
I’m glad the flagging system exists on HN but I think it could do with improvements. I think it would be interesting to be able to see how many flags an item has gotten and who has flagged it. There’s a clear pattern to items that get flagg
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by afavour 9mo ago
IMO the reason is that he is a senile old man lashing out at the world. I really don't think there's a lot to it beyond that. Everyone else goes along with it because they know the administration's entire legitimacy comes fro
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by afavour 9mo ago
> That sounds like a rhetoric for better negotiating power against Trump. In the Canadian example at least the deal is signed. It's not just words. > Chinese are our adversaries Increasingly the US is a European adversary. They a
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by afavour 9mo ago
It's symbolism. But it's important symbolism. Far more notable, I think, is Macron saying this morning that Europe needs more investment from China. Canada signing a deal with China to allow their cars to be sold in the country. I
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by afavour 9mo ago
I’ve heard coding agents best described as a fleet of junior developers available to you 24/7 and I think that’s about right. With the added downside that they don’t really learn as they go so they will forever be junior developers (un
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by afavour 9mo ago
Fine, "what would best serve users", then.
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by afavour 9mo ago
And they don't. Web development practices are largely driven by what developers want, not what users want. Which is why Google started doing things like measuring Core Web Vitals and having it affect SEO rankings, to force developers t
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by afavour 9mo ago
IMO it's because the web has a huge diversity of behaviors (in a way that, say, native apps do not) but a monoculture on the development side. React makes sense if you're making Gmail. It doesn't really make sense if you&#x27
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by afavour 9mo ago
> Are those days permanently gone? The days when actual UI/UX innovation was a thing? To an extent, yes. The ecosystem has matured. The things that work have been discovered, the things that don't have been discarded. I think i

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