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by ayngg 5y ago
I think it largely comes from a lack of empathy that has been cultivated for a while now through the loss of social cohesion. It seems like across the board (families, friends, local communities, spouses etc), people are suffering socially
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Aren't they basically being kept alive by Google at this point? Almost 90% of their revenue is from that one deal at it has felt like they have been more concerned with other initiatives for a while now.
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I have noticed that there has been a kind of resurgence in older digital cameras that used ccd sensors and different sensor filters compared to contemporary models. A lot of people feel like new cameras now are almost clinical in how they t
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IIRC New York is also going in that direction as their DA recently announced similar policies. Clearly I do not have the level of understanding to have any idea what is going on, but the fact that this is happening is so many major metro ar
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by ayngg 5y ago
A similar thread could be the proliferation of literature meant to help identify and condemn witches with the invention of the printing press, which greatly influenced the witch hunt moral panic that followed. In contrast, telephones don&#x
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by ayngg 5y ago
"Trust the science" hasn't made people more rational, it has made "science" more dogmatic. I wonder what governments and the media will latch onto once they have eroded the trust in science, because there aren'
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think there is a misunderstanding here, I'm not involved in any web3 stuff I am just discussing it. I think whether or not you or I think it is a good idea or not is irrelevant because the reality is that there are people that are wo
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by ayngg 5y ago
Also turning down money for yourself is one thing, but turning it down for your employees and everyone else involved is different.
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The big company isn't taking over, the big company is making the thing so they own it. The point was that having a similar distributed solution takes power away from the big company because it provides an option for users to choose if
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by ayngg 5y ago
No that isn't what I am saying, I am simply saying that there appears to be trends in the way technology is going to be developed and used. Facebook wasn't the first to think of a metaverse, but they are a big player in how it wil
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think the idea is that there are entities like facebook/ meta who believe that the metaverse is going to be a big thing, so if a "metaverse" is going to exist and see adoption, most people would much rather have it not be u
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by ayngg 5y ago
In what way is crypto not anathema already? HN has basically been dumpstering it for over a decade now at every opportunity, the general public considers it some imaginary money ponzi scheme scam, over the last year people are laughing at t
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by ayngg 5y ago
I think most of the ire towards NFTs and the greater cryptocurrency space in general is misattributed to the technology instead of the human behavior (specifically the audacious and immoral) that influences some of how it has been used. Whe
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by ayngg 5y ago
Yeah that was what I thought too, but I don't have a full enough understanding to definitively say if IBM had any culpability or not.
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by ayngg 5y ago
It wasn't necessarily just IBM's fault either, it was complete incompetence by the government who continuously pushed the change through in the face of ample evidence (and IBM's own suggestion) that it should have been delaye
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It is almost the natural progression I would say. Steve Jobs talked about it with regards to Xerox in a famous interview where technology gets you to a dominant position, but marketing monetizes that position so there will be a natural prog
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by ayngg 5y ago
I assume they found much more insular communities either in the form of obscure subreddits or other communities (like here for example). It might not be the case of them actually leaving, it is just that for every user like that, there are
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by ayngg 5y ago
Reddit to me is the kind of thing where monetization methods feel like they run counter to what I consider the main value of the website is. People visit because of the communities, but advertisements and astroturfing erodes that by making
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Depression is like a catchall term to represent symptoms that could have any number of causes, which is why treatment is very difficult and inconsistent from person to person. A lot of the time the change in behavior is a coping mechanism r
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by ayngg 5y ago
As cheesy as it sounds, afterwards I sort of felt like the bad cg (and copy pasting assets) was intentional. Maybe it was meant to contrast the eva specific parts with the rest of the regularly animated sequences with human characters. The
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by ayngg 5y ago
I agree too, for me it sort of boils down to don't hate the player, hate the game, and congress are the ones that make the game's rules. The game right now rewards unscrupulous behavior, so it makes sense that successful companies
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by ayngg 5y ago
Yeah you are right, it was more like getting into the black.
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by ayngg 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean that what I said was the origin, only that was what it was marketed as around that period, and I should clarify my context that I was talking about what it was like in Canada, where it has only relatively recently
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by ayngg 5y ago
It has been interesting watching the concept of Black Friday (and cyber monday) evolve over the past 20 or so years from being mostly an "American big box retailer dumping excess stock" thing to "oh boy its black Friday, time
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iirc it is because it heavily implicates both Peter Daszak, who was the head of the UN investigation of the Lab Leak theory, who orchestrated the Lancet letter denouncing the Lab Leak theory, who has now been shown to have conducted gain of
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by ayngg 5y ago
Blizzard has been the walking dead for a very long time now. They could very well be the Xerox of the video game industry. At that point of merger, they were big dogs in esports, and had the best rts, arpg, and mmo games out but they haven&
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by ayngg 5y ago
I am not familiar with the specifics, but when I lived there last year the cheapest nvmo plans would offer 20gb data for ~2-3k yen/mo, while main infrastructure carriers would be 2-3x that, but recently Rakuten has become rich enough t
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It's free advertising at this point, people are memeing them into relevance.
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I think the best part is the dance you do when looking for a therapist where you try to say you really need help, but you have to temper that severity by saying that you aren't in such bad shape that you are suicidal for fear that they
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by ayngg 5y ago
No you are absolutely correct, I was just illustrating the disconnect between what people think they are communicating and what it actually comes across as. There is a degree of nuance that is definitely lost when people say to trust the sc

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