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by burnto 6mo ago
Yes it’s not technically a scam because it’s legal. But it has scam smells: layering, misdirection, lock-in, very fine print, gamification, adjacent complex social media apparatuses. I’d place it near MLMs, loot boxes, timeshares, robux, li
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by burnto 7mo ago
Yeah a bunch of negativity about the business case instead of just appreciating someone sharing their work.
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by burnto 7mo ago
Yes my kids also hate it. They keep it muted and just watch for the visual indicator that the next section is available. It’s worse than the annual corporate compliance training that many adults have to suffer through. One thing to be optim
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by burnto 7mo ago
Yeah I agree. It’s an acute problem on social media platforms where there’s a market force incentivizing it. If you’re mostly engaging in specific niche interactions with known communities or people, it’s not nearly so prevalent. The inter
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by burnto 8mo ago
Surely this will end well. There are dozens of us who prefer to patronize corporations that aren’t actively evil.
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by burnto 8mo ago
That’s a thought-provoking suggestion. Most services would go out of business, and there would be a cascade of change. I wonder what would remain?
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by burnto 8mo ago
Is it great? No. Is it usually good enough? Yes. CI shouldn’t be a main quest for most engineers. Just get it rolling early and adjust as needed.
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by burnto 9mo ago
“Plainclothes forces raid homes across country, put detainees in secret lockups” Huh.
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by burnto 9mo ago
Fair, but it’s an exaggerated statement that’s supposed to clue us into the tone of the piece with a chuckle. Maybe even a snicker or giggle! It’s not worth dissecting for accuracy.
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Minnesota State Patrol uses long range acoustic device to disperse protesters(cbsnews.com)
8 points by burnto 9mo ago|3 comments
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by burnto 9mo ago
My recent hunch is a lot of the hyperbole in AI inherits from crypto. There’s more utility here, but the grandiosity is still absurd. These guys win biggest if we all believe their narrative.
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by burnto 9mo ago
Yep, I also have been a bit alarmed how this is pattern matching to early phases of the many revolutions covered in the Revolutions podcast. A U.S. revolution is a frightening proposition, even if it’ll seem warranted at some future point.
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by burnto 9mo ago
> Fair enough, but is still a Subaru. So it doesn’t make sense to compare its value to a Tesla just because of auto steer. Funny, I totally read this intro the opposite way of what you went on to argue.
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by burnto 9mo ago
It’s fast food content. Convenient, cheap, fast, tasty, but also monotonous, unsophisticated, unhealthy, habit-forming. People consume more and more of it until they get sick, and even then won’t stop.
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by burnto 9mo ago
> Motivation is a hired trait. The only place where managers motivate people is in management books Initial motivation is the hired trait. It’s very easy to demotivate people. The trick is to not do that.
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by burnto 9mo ago
Turns out taste and judgement still matter. Weird.
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by burnto 10mo ago
I appreciate that the author looks specifically at what elements of a given viewpoint are idealistic vs cynical. Idealism about one’s own behavior vs idealism about others’ behavior is an interesting tension to explore further.
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by burnto 10mo ago
I was pretty young at the time, but I think it started as basically a BBS. With an Internet backbone so a bunch of local numbers could all access the same server. They added Internet access later, and initially only via their own browser.
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by burnto 10mo ago
Groups of people don’t act with the same ethics as individuals. Yes, companies are made of people, but behave differently than people.
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by burnto 10mo ago
Author works in payments industry which issues and accepts gift cards, benefits from the lack of consumer protections, and incidentally doesn’t make any revenue on cash payments.
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by burnto 10mo ago
Yes the whole essay was premised on this dumb little sleight of hand. It’s disingenuous. AARP isn’t telling fibs. It’s giving sound advice. The only legit use of a gift card is when you’re redeeming that gift card directly with the issuer.
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by burnto 10mo ago
They are unfocused. Need to stop with the mba playbook moves like this and just make the model worth paying for.
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by burnto 10mo ago
Enjoyed this a lot. I, too, spent many years involved in print layout. In my case it was a lot of QuarkXPress. My friend aptly described it as a “very cross program” but it was quite efficient once I learned it.
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by burnto 10mo ago
Quicksilver was a revelation. I use Raycast now and Alfred is great too. I don’t use spaces or Mission Control or tiling. But I’ve been using macs since the late 80s and most of that stuff just seems superfluous. The fast global extensible
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by burnto 10mo ago
The 1220s horse bubble was a wild time. People walked everywhere all slow and then BAM guys on horses shooting arrows at you. AI is like that, but instead with dudes in slim fitting vests blogging about alignment
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by burnto 10mo ago
Cassettes and their cases had a really nice size and shape, fit right in the hand. And it was cool that you could see it moving, unlike (most) cd players. Also the recording paradigm was pretty easy to grasp, just 1:1. And they kinda degr
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by burnto 11mo ago
The 90s films mentioned in this post are works of art and the actors and creators were artists. Compensation sustains the art, but it’s not the primary purpose. Netflix is a business. The content on Netflix is largely designed or purchased
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by burnto 11mo ago
Beautiful essay. So much of the tech we use today originates from quiet humble builders and creators like Mr TIFF.
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by burnto 1y ago
We are a continuous learning organization, and selecting this bike shed’s color is an opportunity to leverage everything we’ve learned since the last bike shed project. It’s a fast moving space, and we’re a different team at a different poi
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by burnto 1y ago
I know it’s not the stated reason for the flag, but maybe it’s ok to see a little bias towards atheism here and there.

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