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by brimble 5y ago
I think it's too late for anything to save them now, but integrating a social overlay on the entire Web, built directly into the browser, is one play that I think might have kept them relevant if they'd started at least a decade a
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by brimble 5y ago
Ah, cool. I think of a file storage service more like a bank safe deposit box: you have rules, and there are laws, someone breaks them and you find out (or the cops do) that's on them. No-one expects you to carefully search every box (
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm saying that I don't think "file storage service for locals" is even in the same product category as what Facebook does, even putting scale aside. They're an ad-supported publisher with extremely lax standards.
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by brimble 5y ago
If you were also publishing those files to the entire world, changing the formatting to suit your site's needs & branding, algorithmically selecting the pieces of media that draw "engagement" and preferentially putting th
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by brimble 5y ago
> it’s just that you think getting rid of FB et all will remove the need for content moderation, Nooooo. I mean, yes, content moderation in the modern sense of "trying to mitigate the insanity that is randos posting a firehose of cr
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by brimble 5y ago
Yeah. Been a roller coaster in the fake Internet points like no other post I've ever made. I dunno, one day (years ago, now?) I was yet again reading a post like "well it's a shame these workers suffer horribly and maybe we
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by brimble 5y ago
I think what's twisting people up is that I'm advocating a position that might ( maybe ) threaten this site if it became more popular, but I'm not advocating that position because I don't like using HN . I'm not ev
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by brimble 5y ago
> If you go on the internet to criticize a company, be intellectually honest and acknowledge the fact that you're doing something that's a little hypocritical. It's not, though? Else we are all constantly hypocrites in thi
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by brimble 5y ago
Why? You may also be surprised to find out I'd prefer much more bike- and walking-friendly city planning, even to the point of making it harder to drive places, while in fact I drive almost everywhere. Dealing with the current reality
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by brimble 5y ago
It is not possible to use popular forms of communication to criticize popular forms of communication, in good faith. Message received loud and clear. It's not a good message, to put it about as nicely as I possibly can, but I've r
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by brimble 5y ago
If someone wrote an op-ed saying they thought newspapers should be abolished, including some amount of explanation for why, sent it to the NYT, and the NYT published it, would you think that's slam-dunk proof that the author of the op
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by brimble 5y ago
> The reason that the "yet you participate in society" argument works in the original comic you're quoting is that the peasant with sticks on his back is saying "we should improve society somewhat" and the peasan
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by brimble 5y ago
Three times with: "Yet you participate in society. Curious!" in the thread! I wasn't even trying to get those kinds of responses. Amazing.
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by brimble 5y ago
> Smartphones are unapologetically devices for consumption. In this regard they differ critically from PCs, because PCs are equal devices in the sense that the same device is used for creation and consumption. This means that anyone with
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by brimble 5y ago
Twice in one thread! I'll just recycle this from my other post: "Yet you participate in society. Curious!"
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by brimble 5y ago
> I'm still not sure exactly what you are proposing. Facebook gives me a way to communicate with my friends. It sounds like you want to take that away. I want us to stop allowing that business models that rely on harming workers mu
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by brimble 5y ago
> Any kind of large scale communications platform that allows file/photo sharing will need to do something like this. In fact the requirement to do it is about to get stronger if the UK has it's way. Possibly, accepting submiss
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by brimble 5y ago
No-one's making anyone else default to publishing any ol' thing people send them. That's what's new and, I think, not obviously a reasonable thing to do. If there'd been a magazine publisher in the '80s tha
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by brimble 5y ago
I don't think it's anywhere near being a stretch that having an entire job that consists of psychologically harmful activity would fall under current or non-radical future workplace safety laws. At which point doing it just becaus
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by brimble 5y ago
Send messages directly to people you know, or become a publisher (on your own website). If social media as we know it dropped off the face of the Earth tomorrow, it'd still be easier than ever before in history to get one's messag
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by brimble 5y ago
You're missing the point. Yes, if you let randos upload publicly-visible media to your site you'll need to check it for illegal material (or, if you're a bigco, pay hundreds or thousands of other people to do it, because god
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by brimble 5y ago
> but they do need to be done. They do not need to be done. Facebook needs them to be done for its business model to work. You may have meant (surely did mean?) the latter, but I think the distinction is important. None of these people
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by brimble 5y ago
It was fine for me but today or yesterday it reset everyone's "hard mode" setting in my group, and today it was glitching like crazy on my wife's phone. Amazing how quickly they managed to make it worse.
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by brimble 5y ago
Lord of the Flies is plainly allegorical, at least in part. As I (and another poster) noted elsewhere on here, it's made very clear at the end. If you're not going to ask those questions, you may as well not read it. > After re
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by brimble 5y ago
Several posters seem to have read weird things into the phrase "on purpose". I don't mean that every single word in a book has some grand meaning, but that the author choses to affix some words to the blank page and not other
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by brimble 5y ago
There's a major character named "Piggy". Lord of the Flies, however overanalyzed (or, more often, just poorly analyzed) it may be in high school classes, is not a great place to start making the case that going past the bares
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by brimble 5y ago
> This is high school level analysis. These are straightforward reasons. Yes. The hang up here seemed to be at exactly that level, though. At the very least it's useful to keep those things in mind and look out for them. That does
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by brimble 5y ago
Sure, but I think stopping all the way back at "they killed a pig because they were hungry" in Lord of the Flies is... well, going to limit one's literacy level. There's flights of fancy, and then there's not being
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> Good writing is not the same as "making high school analysis easy by making everything for straightforward reasons". Where'd I write anything like that? > Plenty of times, things are there, because it experiment or a
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by brimble 5y ago
Mid-tier genre mags still pay. The pay may suck, but they do pay. Even some fairly low-tier ones pay. Mid-tier literary journals generally don't, and their editors often act insulted if the topic is raised, so the issue doesn't se

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