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by bzb6 6y ago
You could’ve made the same point in a post 1/10 the length.
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by bzb6 6y ago
> I think it’s one of the bigger reasons why some maintain a generally negative view of Hacker News. Twitter already exists, we don’t need another place online to spend all day spreading false positivity.
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by bzb6 6y ago
It’s the exact political opposite of Reddit. Which makes sense, I guess.
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by bzb6 6y ago
Isn’t that technically impossible?
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by bzb6 6y ago
What’s outdated about sexism or racism? Has the scientifically proven difference between races or sexes changed fundamentally lately and I haven’t heard of it?
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by bzb6 6y ago
This blog is unreadable in mobile Safari.
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by bzb6 6y ago
You can keep using mobiles even after stop receiving updates. They don’t get remotely disabled or anything.
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by bzb6 6y ago
Cleartype is an acquired taste :P
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by bzb6 6y ago
What do you call the west? Here in Spain we are mandated by law to wear them, there’s no arguing (or freedom)
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by bzb6 6y ago
rubs hands
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by bzb6 6y ago
The cleaner look is because most designers use macOS which renders most fonts in a way that makes them all look good (let’s not get into technical details). On Windows the same fonts might look like shit (for example some parts of a charact
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by bzb6 6y ago
Comparing Colombia to the Netherlands is not appropriate. The results will be completely different.
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by bzb6 6y ago
What makes you think the APIs could be changed to comply? Maybe there’s no way to implement what they used to do legally.
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by bzb6 6y ago
> You. can. make. own. browsers. Even Microsoft failed and had to fork chrome
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by bzb6 6y ago
It worked even finer for those who paid someone else to do the test for them.
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by bzb6 6y ago
I don’t see these conversations about Windows anywhere, and Windows has lots of logs if you know where to look (the Event Viewer is a great start)
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by bzb6 6y ago
He probably means the global bitching about the way nvidia develops their drivers.
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by bzb6 6y ago
Same on Windows. I find desktop notifications to be extremely annoying. On Windows applications can highlight themselves on the taskbar; that is more than enough to call my attention.
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by bzb6 6y ago
The media is controlled by those who want to make nazism a bigger issue despite the fact it killed many, many less.
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by bzb6 6y ago
Brick and mortar stores and especially small stores fucking suck. Amazon is not perfect but it sucks less.
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by bzb6 6y ago
People used to hire the best qualified candidates only. Nobody hired blacks. I’m not saying the two are related, but the latter was seen as a problem and these forced diversity quotas were instituted.
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by bzb6 6y ago
I am talking from my experience from living in the south of Spain. I know your argument, I know the kind of people who support it, and I know what it is and what it means. You mentioned a common argument, I told you what I think of it.
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by bzb6 6y ago
Pay people enough so they give a shit
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by bzb6 6y ago
And? This sounds like the usual socialist argument of “tear it all down”—they’d rather all the money went to China than to wealthy locals which, let’s not forget, employ thousands.
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by bzb6 6y ago
It is, because they would be unable to sell it in the first world.
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by bzb6 6y ago
The licence being the fundamental part to protect the livelihoods of those who live in the region producing these valued products. But I guess we should outsource the production of this cheese to China instead, right?
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by bzb6 6y ago
You can only call it that if you make it there and have a licence.
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by bzb6 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18350234
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Brazil being Brazil.
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by bzb6 6y ago
I’m not saying that, I’m saying Google manipulates those exact queries on purpose. We are not talking algorithms here, but manual manipulation. If Alexa doesn’t manipulate queries, then it’s normal they are getting those results from it.

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