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I once again ask, how much of the tech industry today could survive a recession? How much of the tech industry revolves around the assumption that user data and advertising space will always have a growing market? How much of the tech ind
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>If Uber somehow lost money to drive out competitors (an insane strategy) This is quite exactly what they did.
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>I know that there definitely is a set of artists who explicitly don't use it, who are more concerned with accurately expressing their creative intent and musical virtuosity than they are with gaining popularity and mass appeal I th
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This comment was generated by AI. Does HN allow for AI comments on submissions?
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What's the deal with squashing commits anyways? I'm genuinely asking, because I've only worked with "squash everything before you put it up for review" but have never really figured out why past "it's what
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Can't believe https://neocities.org wasn't mentioned!
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>IRC, email, BBS, gopher You need to take a step back, and look at what the average Joe is actually using. Don't assume that because your programmer friends use these obscure protocols for everyday communication that everyone is.
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“We should know when users leave their house, their commute to work, and everywhere they go throughout the day. Anything less is useless. We get a lot more than that from other tech companies.” This should be posted absolutely everywhere wi
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>Use Telegram! It's unencrypted by default! You mean the messaging service with no SMS support and an assumption that criminals are the main users? Signal was great because it gave encrypted messaging to people who didn't know
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I have a few qualms with this "twitter" app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting a mastodon account, joining an instance of your choosing with your acccount, and then using
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Lost the ability to actually reach people. Lost the ability to actually talk with people in your communities. Lost the ability for fucking anybody who isn't a wizard to know how to even read something. I mean Jesus, bulletin boards a
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What the fuck happened with Signal? Why did we remove SMS (step 1 into "only criminals use this app") and then start adding stuff that has absolutely nothing at all to do with messaging? Did a federal agent start running the show
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Has anyone ever watched a single person try to understand what you just said? "I have a mastodon account. Why can't I view their mastodon posts? Mastodon is broken". End of story. Platform is done. The fact that people are
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What's a tunneling service? Do I need to use that before I can make a Mastodon account? What app is that on - wait, there are "instances", what the hell is that? Screw it, this is too complicated - I'm going back to twit
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It's actually infuriating to read. If it's harder than "App downloaded, account made" then you've already lost. Anything more complex than that is a complete non-starter.
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Virality is a big part of social media. The fact that a lot of people wanting to see something I made punishes me with hundreds of dollars worth of overage fees means that it's just bad to use it. You are punished for "succeeding&
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>Thing Elon built Are we really going to act like Elon built Twitter now?
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My hardline 1TB per month up/down data cap says no to that entire idea. Can't selfhost when 1 person requesting a lot means you are out hundreds of dollars. But I do wish selfhosting was just easy. It shouldn't be this hard.
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There was a voting machine posted here a while back that was literally transparent, as in you would literally be able to see the computer marking off the paper ballot through a transparent box. Is this the same thing, or is this something
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Employment is a lagging indicator.
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>I find it funny to imagine Mr. Beast "spending hours" coming up with "next level content" As silly as it is for me to be the guy "defending Mr. Beast" of all people, I don't think you have any idea wha
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> corporate world is absolutely loaded with cash right now. ...Is it? Or is it loaded with debt masquerading as cash?
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>I think it's unlikely rates will continue to rise for an entire year. Where do you get this idea from? Especially since the Fed has said over and over that they are going to do exactly that.
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Posting this as its own top level comment for better visibility: Look at how (relatively) low it was in September 2007. One can assume in February it was even lower - and February is when Greenspan said a recession was obviously coming. The
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Look at how (relatively) low it was in September 2007. One can assume in February it was even lower - and February is when Greenspan said a recession was obviously coming. The subprime mortgage crisis started in April 2007. But the job mark
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Read the About page.
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I mean is this really a reason to not use something? Just because you don't agree with the views of the people running it?
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A lot of people in this thread are asking for a reputation/"verified user" solution for this, but really I think just pulling a gazillion dependencies for applications is just all around bad. I actually think having a reputat
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It's mentioned here: https://atproto.com/guides/faq Honestly this project looks pretty interesting, and I hope it takes off. Want more decentralized tech without horrendous "defi" attached.
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>Not everything is a conspiracy to make more money. ???? That's literally exactly what the point of every business decision is.

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