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by arkades 7y ago
Netflix never put all their content out on the internet to be accessed anonymously for free. It's almost as if the news media created this expectation in their industry.
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by arkades 7y ago
I keep hearing this. Every time the NYT writes an article on X, while being a hypocrite on X, "Do you think the guy who wrote this was also in charge of X at the NYT?" It's a valid counterpoint. The guy who wrote about X is n
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by arkades 7y ago
“My unit is bleeding money for lack of a CRM solution so cheap I can finance it on my personal credit card. Help?!” “Cool, we will get back to you two years after you’re out of a jo- I mean, we will have a solution ready in three years.” Ye
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by arkades 7y ago
As marginal utility goes, though, it sounds like “spending more money” in this story includes things like “having more than one room to live in.” And, admittedly this was an inference rather than baldly stated, “nice vacations.” Money doesn
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by arkades 7y ago
Reselling agencies promising to sell you electricity cheaper than the local utility. Of course, they’re buying the electricity from the local utility, so the contract generally looks something like a monthly price of U - x for a couple mont
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by arkades 7y ago
It’s not a broken system. It’s a limitation of the current state of human knowledge. Perfect information about X without the state of knowledge to interpret that information prompts flawed action. You are not living at the end of time, at t
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by arkades 7y ago
Countdown to “but more data is always better.”
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by arkades 7y ago
I don’t know about rich, but: I use NotePlan on my phone for WYSIWYM notes and calendar entries, with GTD support. It used the same (Dropbox) directory as my Kiwi app, which is a personal wiki with WYSIWYM. On my desktop I have Sublime text
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by arkades 7y ago
This would be a more useful discussion if both of you just named the relevant airports.
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by arkades 7y ago
Yeah, I didn’t miss that. I was being snarky.
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by arkades 7y ago
This is not unique to forums. Anyone that’s owned a retail or retail-analog business (eg, medicine) has to deal with precisely this sort of crazy-ass behavior on a reasonably frequent basis. A tiny sliver of the population is effing nuts.
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by arkades 7y ago
Or host your backups on DigitalOcean.
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by arkades 7y ago
Who else’s first embedded advert in the article about online prostitution was a picture of a beautiful woman with the tagline, “Here for every beauty. Shop now.”? Top notch work, there, Yahoo Marketing.
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by arkades 7y ago
As a fountain pen enthusiast, do you mind naming the shop in question?
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by arkades 7y ago
Who gives a shit if it -is- self promoting? I was reading a blog post about narcissism. The author’s comment regarding whether one went on a Red Cross trip to Haiti out of good motives or bad matters to what kind of person you are, but sure
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by arkades 7y ago
Do we have no way of handling people being complete ass-hats without involving the legal system? I agree that this guy's behavior is repugnant, but criminal? This feels less like a judicial ruling than a Penal Downvote.
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by arkades 7y ago
People kept saying that apple had to remember the tech crowd. This looks like a good start.
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by arkades 7y ago
This article does not show any evidence of a nocebo effect. It shows increased reporting following publicity - without distinguishing whether the result was increased incidence of perceived harm, or just increased /reporting/ of p
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by arkades 7y ago
> A video of a toddler being beaten by an adult would prompt hundreds of calls by Facebook users for its removal. But as the documentary reveals, a video showing just that is being used by CPL to train moderators on the type of content t
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by arkades 7y ago
I once did an FOIA request and found I was being monitored by the NYPD for being a regular donor to the NYCLU. Law /enforcement/ isn’t always bad, but mass surveillance of the general populace is.
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by arkades 7y ago
> If this becomes a reality If? They’re acting in keeping with their business model. There’s no “if,” just “when.” I’ve already started reaching out to all the people that I’m family-and-friends tech support for and begun pitching a tran
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by arkades 7y ago
No, it is ridiculous. A public speech in which one says “we are effectively supporting the freedom of European states with this liquid natural gas export” may not be ridiculous, but once you strip context and just start calling it “freedom
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by arkades 7y ago
Right. These are the precise prevalence numbers that have been addressed in multiple studies showing that the change is attributable to increases in public awareness / detection efforts, and broadened diagnostic criteria. Thank you for
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by arkades 7y ago
I’m also unfamiliar with any data to suggest the increase in rates is anything but a change in diagnostic criteria. And it’s my field, so I’d OP has data to share, I’d be very appreciative of a link.
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by arkades 7y ago
Eh. (1) I'm more sympathetic to schools that don't graduate everyone - which is part of what the article is arguing for, explicitly - back in the old days when you could pay for college with a couple of summers worth of full time
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by arkades 7y ago
Agreed. Considering the headphones have a mic and are used -for sending and receiving the contents of actual phone calls- it’s hard for me to imagine how prying into their data isn’t wiretapping.
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by arkades 7y ago
That’s true. I’m still having trouble internalizing that my multi-hundred-dollar Bose headphones are spying on me. I’ve yet to delete the app, though I should.
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by arkades 7y ago
Worth noting that the article was last updated in Mar 2019.
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In Defense of Inclusionism(gwern.net)
5 points by arkades 7y ago|2 comments
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by arkades 7y ago
No, he’s complaining about how frequently Polar ads show up on the HN front page. The blog post being an ad.

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