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by ajkjk 6mo ago
well I do hate late-stage capitalism... but mostly I am just disappointed in people. Why can't the individuals who make these sites respect their customers? why can't people respect each other? Why doesn't everyone else even
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
people definitely buy Leicas and this is a much better value prop.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
It's so easy. Off the top of my head: "Discover the worlds hidden in every moment with WideluxX™" -> "Take sweeping panaromic analog photos with WideLux" "The WideluxX™ is not a nostalgic return to the past.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
I love this style of post, independent of the content. For all of tech's ambitions I don't feel like the industries spends all that much time openly ideating on how to make a better world. People accept all sorts of things as norm
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
the copy on this page is so grating. not uncommon but man can't anything just be sincere instead of fake marketing bullshit?
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
if the question was "is this more blue or more green" it would be somewhat more agreeable. but there really just have to be a "can't decide" option as well.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
I chose to close the tab.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
I closed it also. What's going to happen is all the people who care about the ambiguousness leave, so the resulting population is a bad sample even of the people who open the site in the first place.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
There's no way for me to answer truthfully whether teal is blue or green. It is neither. Anything I give gives a false answer. The data is invalid.
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
It's not about true or false. The point is that it's true if you're conceptualizing corporations as enemies to be handled and false if you're conceptualizing them as something you're part of that you're respons
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
this take is irritating because it implies that people at companies don't have to bother being ethical or holding the people around them accountable at a personal level for being ethical, as if it's somehow predetermined by the en
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
what's the job?
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
they make me feel embarrassed to be human
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
joke's on them, I have not consciously experienced a youtube advertisement in ten years
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
you expect them to recall some analogous example of politic deportations years ago? and anyway, almost certainly the answer is yes; it is not hard to believe that a person's stance is that systematically deporting people for disagreein
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by ajkjk 6mo ago
It communicates a certain tone that is sometimes what one is going for. I do it in HN comments sometimes if I'm feeling, like, dry or dismissive.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
it... feels... more captured than usual, lately
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
That is certainly an example of it, but I feel like what I'm talking about is more general. In algorithms you tend to be able to say concretely exactly how much space vs time you're trading off. But in a game like Connect 4 or che
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
I've been intrigued about the thing they call the "data product" for a long time: the fact that there's a sort of equivalence between precomputing position analysis and doing no runtime analysis vs knowing nothing and do
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
I for one am not playing along I did enjoy this, though. Even the title worked.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
I wish the original title was kept here. People ought to be able to give their essays poetic titles.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
Presumably the reason this article delays showing you the before/after photos is to get you to scroll and see more ads, since you'll probably just close the tab after. Which sucks, but, fine. What really gets me is that: I scroll
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
Even if you don't like birds... It's one of my favorite things I've ever watched.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
They sure are stretching to find a way to make this have something to do with being pro-America.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
I want to love Excalidraw but it can be really frustratingly mediocre a lot of the time. For example, I'm constantly retrying to rescale something and then an arrow repositions or resizes itself, which reveals some kind of mistake in t
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
This only gets better when there's a financial penalty for doing it. Ads do almost nothing but it costs them even less.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
well it's a good solution in the sense that it would solve the problem and it would be great for all of us.
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
'admit' isn't really the right word for that... the fact that it was placating you wasn't true until you prompted it to say so. Unlike a person who has an 'internal emotional state' independent of what they say
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
I dunno, it is the most obvious nazi reference I've ever seen. Personally I feel like tone does translate well over text, although it's proportional to the speakers' familiarity in how to do it whereas for verbal communicat
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by ajkjk 7mo ago
You can be for or against anything. This is a lot like having an opinion about, say, Oxford commas in a style guide, or the format of a tax form. Which is to say: not likely to do anything in the short term, until the day that someone is de

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