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by apatters 8y ago
Yeah, the "RSS is dead" meme is totally nuts. This protocol is all over the place, the entire podcast industry is built on it, there's still a healthy industry of people who use RSS readers to consume their news, and its use
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> Mastodon has meanwhile managed to either do something right or get lucky wrt the path dependency of building structures where prosocial hosting behavior is convenient It seems to me that Mastodon gained traction in a way that wasn&#x27
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Ok, fair enough. The article isn't about Facebook forcing their shitty software down our throats (which they still do, via notification and email spam). It's about Facebook paying OEMs to force its shitty software down our throats
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As long as they force their shitty software down people's throats every day (literally what the article is about), people will keep complaining about them. Just like everyone who's forced to use Comcast complains. In fact it'
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I don't think it matters necessarily. It depends on the category your product falls into, and you have to look at how similar products acquire their users. What software have you purchased in the past year? For my pesonal sample size o
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That slogan was actually marketing the pill towards men in 1964, not women. So what you're actually comparing is how marketers appealed to men in 1964 vs how they would in 2019. Sure I agree that like many things in the 60s that ad w
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Great comment and I guess he really did see more of it coming than I was aware of. It seems like the main thing he miscalculated, ironically, was how people would use these devices -- it turns out that all that functional stuff is totally d
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Going to start using this every time I work with a sqlite database now!
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YMMV I suppose. Some people seem to have good experiences with their driver but mine have been terrible. I've used Ubuntu as my daily driver for 7 years now and Nvidia's driver has been the #1 source of crashes and configuration p
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Page 1315 (actually page 5 in the PDF) has a graph which illustrates an interesting fact that many people don't seem to be aware of. The percentage of foreign-born people living in the United States is the highest it's been in nea
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This is actually a reasonable position in my opinion, but there are two problems (neither of them is Google or Chromium's fault): 1) Nouveau is buggy and problematic (related more to performance and a lack of support for many features)
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Has Bill ever been good at predictions? No mention of smartphones or social media in The Road Ahead. Blindsided by how quickly the Internet developed, underestimated "bazaar" economies that enabled millions of people building both
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Someone gets it, thank you. Startups are high-risk, high-reward ventures which make less sense to attempt as you age. It's normally a good idea to start moving your assets into fixed income and other low risk investments as you approac
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What you've done here is create multiple strawmen, attribute them to me, and then rationalize this fictional version of me as a "typical American." It's very insulting. Nowhere did I say luck doesn't play a part. No
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If you're currently an employee, start thinking by your 40s about how you could become your own boss. By 50, if you've played your cards right, you have a lot of connections, a lot of expertise, and you've become rather expen
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For that matter, there aren't a lot of local banks anymore, either. Post-2008 regulatory reforms killed them all off. Much ado is made about how out the American intelligentsia are out of touch and I think this line is a pretty good ex
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This assumes that our level of technology will increase over such long time scales. It might be cyclical, resetting to zero periodically.
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Any metric or KPI is going to get gamed in harmful ways if it's prioritized too highly. So the answer is to use A/B testing to make sure you're not regressing on the goals of a design change, and judiciously, to validate whet
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I agree that other forces are at work behind the rise of loneliness and alienation in modern society, but I think Facebook exacerbates these problems. Facebook ultimately encourages you to carry out social interactions online with people wh
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Your comment seems disingenuous. What if I told you that piercing the corporate veil is regular and common when a single member LLC can't pay its debt, and an LLC isn't eligible for things humans need to improve their futures like
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On this note, because of the lack of virtualization support in Windows Home, in my small business we're encouraging everyone to get rid of Windows both at home and in the office. They've intentionally crippled Windows Home in a wa
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FB is a direct competitor to media brands -- eyeball time that would have gone to CNN or WashPo or MTV now go to FB. FB then resells those eyeballs to said media brands, and it's big enough to command market power--it can control price
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Just to add another +1 to the anecdata points here, I had pretty bad acne well into my 20s, and experimented with a variety of measures for controlling it. The biggest win was to stop using ordinary soap to clean my face. Once I switched to
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On the other hand, Mastodon doesn't have this drive. Facebook, Twitter et al are designed to be addictive because higher engagement translates to higher ad revenue. But Mastodon is ad free and the cost of operating the service is defra
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Tech giants can't go just anywhere. They need to locate their offices in cities which have large, highly educated, tech savvy workforces (or at least the infrastructure to relocate, satisfy and sustain those workforces). This acts as a
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Why is this so hard, though? It might be a little tedious to sit through their ramblings, but it seems to me a sign of the times that this would be considered hard to do.
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I don't understand why this comment was downvoted--my understanding has been that a major component of rising housing prices globally is Chinese investors wanting to move their money out of the Chinese economy and into something they p
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The Samsung A5 meets these criteria except that it's got Samsung's junkware stack. Edit: oops, battery isn't removable either. Can't remember the last time I saw a phone with that:(
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If you still need or want the old editing experience, you don't need to switch to a fork. WordPress is keeping the old editor available as a plugin for at least the next 4 years: https://wordpress.org/plugins/class
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> This is another thing that adds to my deep sense of shame to live in this country (sadly, that list is long and growing). I don't support this legislation, but I have to ask, which country is doing a better job on human rights iss

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