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by bosswipe 6y ago
Imagine how much Fox News and a hundred talk radio shows would contribute in that scenario.
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Spoken as a skilled cultural warrior that knows which weaponized stories to deploy to generate outrage for their side.
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I'm not a fan of stored procedures because 1) It's more maintainable to keep all the logic unified in the one language and system with which developers will be more familiar with 2) The programming tools are normally much better f
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I have a related story, WhatsApp permanently banned my account after I refused to give it contacts permission. Longer story: I went to create my first ever WhatsApp account after I was invited to a friends group chat. I downloaded the Andro
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by bosswipe 6y ago
The only reason Firefox was able to gain traction over IE in the early 00's was the antitrust case. Without it Chrome and Safari probably wouldn't exist either.
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Completely agree. For something that's going to affect the rest of your life it only makes sense to invest the time to become an expert on your issue.
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Wow this comment is getting downvoted a lot. I think I wasn't clear with what I meant. What I meant is that there's no reason to believe that lurkers have big difference in which browser they use.
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There's no reason to believe that lurkers have substantially different behavior than commenters. More likely is that those who use firefox are more passionate and informed about browser issues.
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I do it maybe a dozen times a year. Most of the younger bay area people I know go at minimum once or twice every winter. It is definitely one of the perks of living here along with all the other cool nature.
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A big city with world-class skiing nearby is pretty rare worldwide. If you don't appreciate it that's ok but many other people do appreciate it.
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The hypocrisy of the same FCC that said that network neutrality was too much regulation to now demand "political neutrality" is outrageous.
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by bosswipe 6y ago
Everybody is being censored on all these platforms, it's called moderation. Most people appreciate it, including you or you would be commenting on 4chan instead of the heavily moderated HN.
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They're using revocation of 230 as extortion to try to abridge the freedom of the press.
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Throwing in Tahoe kind of disproves your point because Tahoe is one of the reasons to live here, it's a very popular weekend trip.
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Here's a list of radical actions, even if you think these were good ideas I don't see how you can argue they're not radical in the sense that it's outside anything previous presidents have tried to do - increased militar
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I don't understand how anybody cannot be shocked by Trump. He's unlike any previous president, he has aggressively pursued his radical agenda, has broken every norm that has gotten in his way, communicates in purposefully shocking
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by bosswipe 6y ago
> Right wing populism is happening all over the world, in Europe, India, etc. Social media is happening all over the world. > A certain group of highly educated urban liberals is shocked by Trump. 3 million more people voted for Hilla
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by bosswipe 6y ago
If I was Biden I wouldn't talk to any Murdoch owned property either.
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I think a big part of the backlash is because of 4chan culture going mainstream. 4chan's idea of finding weaknesses in society and attacking them "for the lulz" has been adopted by right wing youth culture. The culture war ha
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by bosswipe 6y ago
But this is how it's always been, before the web people got their news from a different set of media companies NBC/ABC/CBS. 20th century media conglomerates didn't have the problem of having to censor viral user generate
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by bosswipe 6y ago
It is important to remember in these censorship discussions that it has never in human history been so easy and cheap to create content seen by millions of people than it is right now. Before the web if you wanted to spread medical misinfor
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by bosswipe 6y ago
There's a difference between framing events vs fabricating them from whole cloth. The only way democracy can work is if voters are making decisions based on real world information. Injecting completely false information into the public
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by bosswipe 6y ago
I don't believe the source because they're known liars. I definitely don't believe the story that a laptop with Ukrainian emails was left in a DC repair shop and then given to Trump's personal propagandist lawyer Rudy Gu
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by bosswipe 6y ago
What happens if the party that is attacking our democracy by spreading disinformation in the last few weeks of the election gets into power?
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I think it is bigger news that Trump operatives are trying to inject misinformation into the last few weeks of the election. They have no respect for democracy.
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Nope, it's because they added caller ID spoofing capabilities that nobody asked for, and regulators didn't stop them because Republicans installed telecom lobbyists to be the regulators.
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Just because things worked out in the past doesn't mean they will always work out in the future.
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That would be too human. Better to keep them isolated and trapped trying to communicate through opaque dark patterns.
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The only reason that Spotify is a "convenience" is because of the laws that the record companies bought for themselves.
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The most autonomy I've experienced at a big company, and the best work I've done, is when a small cross-functional team is told "go build this" and then left alone. The small team is allowed to come up with their own pro

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