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691.
by blfr 6y ago
However, the treatment group also became less knowledgeable about current events. Apparently, they couldn't identify any downsides to quitting Facebook.
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by blfr 6y ago
OK, complacent then. It doesn't change the argument.
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by blfr 6y ago
Yes, pizza places had it figured out. Everyone else, not so much. And on Uber Eats or many of their competitors you can order pancakes with coffee, burgers, traditional food, Georgian, whatever. In Poland, Pyszne.pl is usually better and of
694.
by blfr 7y ago
All that building your brand and trying to convince people of your identity in place of actually having one is not exhibitionism but narcissism. There used to be a very good blog about this being the root of cultural and social rot we see a
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by blfr 7y ago
I like it a lot. They're compatible and they're warm which makes for a much nicer environment when you look at it for hours. The cool and elegant design is impressive at first but gets tiresome usually.
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by blfr 7y ago
Perhaps I'm not hip enough but I'm pretty sure there is nothing more sophisticated than Signal.
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by blfr 7y ago
There is nothing sophistic about this argument. It's pretty obvious. This is why some people argue that we might be living in a simulation. Because we don't have direct (not mediated by our senses) access to the underlying reality
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by blfr 7y ago
Relativity is a physical phenomenon that does not require sentience to operate We do not and cannot know that because all observations me make involve sentience. In fact, we can't even know if anything exists without sentience.
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by blfr 7y ago
Why, what changed in the last couple years?
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by blfr 7y ago
There is no slack to cut. There is literally nothing worse in human history than communism. He was simply right about it. In Warsaw, after the war, when it fell under Soviet occupation, a popular opposition slogan was Truman, Truman, spuść
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by blfr 7y ago
Bloomberg is not manufacturing any consent though. He's just proving, again after Hillary did it in 2016, that money doesn't win elections. I for one am glad this talking point is being finally put to rest.
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by blfr 7y ago
Yes, some very popular apps have bad UX. But some apps have incredible UX. OP gave examples. Could you provide a couple of examples as well?
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by blfr 7y ago
Yes, for a good long while UIs were improving and the last few years I'm fighting most of my computers to stay as usable as they were a decade+ ago. And it's usually a losing battle wherever a terminal isn't available, most p
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by blfr 7y ago
Same here. My last TV broke about 12 years ago and I never bothered to get another one. I do, however, think that there is a difference between TV, HN, YouTube, and Twitter/Snap/Insta. Each gives you more and more control over wha
705.
by blfr 7y ago
Is there a video?
706.
by blfr 7y ago
And, since it's per installation, it nicely ties all your profiles together for Google.
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by blfr 7y ago
Yes, if you look in your Google Maps timeline it can even often guess which mode of transportation you used.
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by blfr 7y ago
Why, because it requires a MITM position? Yes, pretty much.
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by blfr 7y ago
Chinese came up with many inventions (gun powder, printing press, ocean faring ships) we consider civilization-defining and didn't do much with them. Meanwhile Europeans took them to new heights and conquered the world. A level of indi
710.
by blfr 7y ago
They stole some of it but that is what jacquesm is advocating: copying ideas. And in the space race they were also first with the unmanned Sputnik with no such safety concerns.
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by blfr 7y ago
It doesn't work like that. The Soviet Union which had some of the most tightly controlled access to information, and didn't have to worry about the Internet, managed to stay at the cutting edge of science and technology, even some
712.
by blfr 7y ago
Vast majority of journalists don't make it past #2. The problems you mention are stretch goals, it would be nice to have them.
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by blfr 7y ago
The boilerplate views do not accurately reflect the situation. For example, Essentially, she says: “It’s important to remember that Google is an ad platform and that Facebook is a surveillance platform.” Google does indeed run an ad platf
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by blfr 7y ago
I remember someone noticing that their Techcrunch Disrupt crowd was very white but they were using real footage. Although the best commentary probably comes late in the series, and very briefly so it's easy to miss, when a sociopathic
715.
by blfr 7y ago
This common criticism misses the fact that FANG, and greenfield startups, and even HN, set the tone for much of the tech industry. It is very likely that these grass root coders are or will be in the coming years using the very tools, metho
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by blfr 7y ago
Maybe the writeup doesn't do book justice but it all sounds like boiler plate views journalists have on SV with no real insight. Mike Judge probably doesn't have to worry about any competition even after the series ended.
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by blfr 7y ago
I expect it to only be one, silent step involving your Titan X brain chip by 2030.
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by blfr 7y ago
I use Google’s with many accounts (personal/work/partner) You don't mention your use case but it's almost always a bad idea to be logging in as someone else, not just at Google but everywhere. Some sort of access deleg
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by blfr 7y ago
Both Chrome and Firefox handle that form just fine. In my case it's four steps: login, password, hardware key, and clickthrough. It is fast and painless though. Plus if you have a bunch of tabs open (G Suite), it will log you in all of
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by blfr 7y ago
Oh, so good. My manager still doesn't fill in the address properly but better nonetheless. Thanks!

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