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by ceres 4y ago
Also when people use a mobile app frequently, it increases their chances of interacting with other services in your ecosystem more often, e.g. making purchases, viewing ads, etc. Banning TikTok reduces the need of taking out the phone freq
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by ceres 4y ago
Please let’s not start dictating how people should use a piece of software. It would be like ”regulating” Microsoft Word just because people might use it to duplicate copyrighted works.
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by ceres 4y ago
A Japanese company filled with mostly Japanese people in Japan - a country with 98% Japanese people. Who would've thunk it.
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by ceres 4y ago
> they end up an unremarkable partner at a law firm or something, not POTUS or Bezos or Musk This doesn’t make much sense because people inherit their parents’ wealth and businesses all the time. People also inherit their country’s polit
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by ceres 4y ago
There’s a comment I read on the other article where someone said > that dude is a wizard wielding c like a brain surgeon wields a scalpel. I’ve decided that’s the analogy I’ll be using for someone who’s really good at something
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by ceres 4y ago
>overproduced elite How many elite should there be?
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The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time(slate.com)
3 points by ceres 4y ago|2 comments
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by ceres 4y ago
What you and the parent are describing are two different things. The parent is talking about ethnic nepotism which isn’t just “network network network”.
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by ceres 4y ago
Pray tell what value has Sam Bankman Fried, who intends to spend a billion dollars [1] in 2024 elections, created for society? [1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/05...
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by ceres 4y ago
Because billionaires are already having undue influence over politics and are funding policies that don’t always have the support of the voters. Why not tax them more and let the representatives of the people make decisions independently fo
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by ceres 4y ago
Why should so few individuals have outsized social, political and economic power over the whole country? Why not tax them more and let elected officials representatives decide how best to spend the money?
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by ceres 4y ago
Wait why would they go specifically after gamers?
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by ceres 4y ago
Curious how you define terrible in this case. Doesn't the fact that you spent so much time in the browser that you had to look for alternatives mean that it was in fact too good?
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by ceres 5y ago
Because the BBC is a media company not a law firm or court of law. Maybe because he hasn't been charged ...yet. In any case you shouldn't decide the innocence or guilt of someone based on a news article.
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by ceres 5y ago
I used to think this too but if all the recipe websites start going straight to the recipe without the the personalization, then how would you rank them? Remember, there are thousands of these websites while there are only so many ways you
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by ceres 5y ago
Yeah I find it hard to believe that an incident that people will forget two seconds after it happens costs billions of dollars.
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by ceres 5y ago
>this isn't a username I expected to ever see again Mind if I ask what you mean by this?
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by ceres 5y ago
This is one of the explanations about USA involvement with Israel that is so bizarre to be believable but keeps getting repeated over and over on the Internet. Sure, there are a lot of evangelical Christians in America but they are not that
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by ceres 5y ago
... it's still possible today. I mean unless I'm mistaken, I think you can still create website with HTML and CSS if you wanted to.
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by ceres 5y ago
> The Ugandan Surely you mean Rwanda?
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by ceres 5y ago
It is worth noting that in 2012, Facebook conducted psychological experiments on its users. So they have that capability. And god knows who else. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tin
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by ceres 5y ago
What's a submarine article? Can't find the term on google.
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by ceres 5y ago
Exactly. A big part of the WordPress community are publishers, bloggers, affiliate marketers, etc who rely on ads to generate revenue. I'm not sure they'd be too thrilled with this proposal.
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by ceres 5y ago
You know it's possible for people to start YouTube channels as a hobby/side project/whatever. Not everyone with a YouTube channel is trying to scam you. Billionaires are people too. Justin Kan has a YouTube channel for exampl
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by ceres 6y ago
Maybe it's just me but I've noticed that free software (especially of the GPL kind) has been getting lots of hate lately. Is it because of the recent rms debacle? I never noticed it before.
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by ceres 6y ago
Not commenting on this guy in particular but sometimes when people use long-winded stories to explain themselves, it's usually to hide something. Like hiding the truth in between embellishments. I don't know anything about this gu
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by ceres 6y ago
>people often aren't carrying cellular phones In 1999 maybe; not in 2021
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by ceres 6y ago
He obviously didn't read the article.
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by ceres 6y ago
Did you read the article? Because he makes this point. >Because there is no academic writing as such, there is only writing within disciplines and communities. And barging into a community and trying to change what it’s doing without inv
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by ceres 6y ago
I would understand this kind of posturing on Facebook or Instagram, where at least you have pictures and videos to back up your flex on your followers. But why do it on an anonymous forum where no one knows you nor will remember your userna

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