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by clusterfish 5y ago
Get off your high horse. I use the dislike button to inform other users that the video (usually tutorials) is poorly made and is not worth watching. I get huge value by other users doing the same. That's not trolling and that's no
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by clusterfish 5y ago
No, that perfectly illustrates what happens when you censor free expression by only putting an upvote button on a post, and no downvote button.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yep. Running into issues all the time in YouTube, Gmail, gdrive. Lasts for months at a time. In my case almost all related to blocking third party cookies and such, not Firefox per se. Just makes me use Google services less.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
It's basically a bribe for customers to use credit cards, forcing businesses to pay huge transaction fees. So the businesses have to raise their prices to cover those fees, which acts like a tax on both the business and consumers, espe
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by clusterfish 5y ago
The real answer is probably the most boring: it's both. I wish this wasn't such a controversial topic and research could be done freely on this, but researching biological differences between genders / races / etc. is qu
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by clusterfish 5y ago
These are either non-individual laws/policies, or personal beliefs/biases, but not both "individual level" and "policies" at the same time.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Is there any study to back his claim? Just assuming your conclusion doesn't cut it.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Even without getting hung up on the "biological" qualifier, that's groundbreaking news to some people, you know. The people who insist that not having 50% females in any occupation is them being underrepresented because they&
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by clusterfish 5y ago
True, in the US. In quite a few countries most people use national debit cards with transaction processing fees in the 1 cent range, and in EU credit card interchange fees are capped by law to something like 0.3%. such low fees also elimina
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Yes, sometimes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
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by clusterfish 5y ago
What are these old comments supposed to show? That it has been happening for a long time? I'm not disputing that. I was reading HN in 2009, but I don't remember how it was back then. I do remember how it was a few years ago, and
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by clusterfish 5y ago
I didn't say that HN is collapsing , just that the signal to noise ratio is noticeably (to me) going down over time. Slowly, but with huge inertia. If there's truly some illusion going on, I'm not sure what the mechanism wou
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by clusterfish 5y ago
It is already a lot more like Reddit than it used to be just a few years ago. For example, the comments on some submissions are full of stupid jokes now, gradually drowning out actually interesting discussion. IMO HN was better when it was
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by clusterfish 5y ago
HN is an YC platform where YC companies and founders have special perks by design. It is nice to have it on ycombinator.com subdomain for clarity.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
> no way to narrow it down to meaning the operator My google insider tells me you can add the word "operator" to your query to do that. Or any other similar word like "keyword" that anyone else thought to call it on s
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Of course it is. It's descriptive and searchable. Because * / - + is the common ground that essentially everyone is familiar with. And that's about as much math notation as makes sense in general purpose programming languages
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Although PageRank isn't obvious, it was inevitable . Without taking away from its usefulness, it's the kind of thing that would have been invented very soon anyway. It was basically invented as soon as the internet had enough inf
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Could have just used a "JSON" keyword instead. Symbolic names are needlessly obscure and unfriendly. Hard to infer meaning, hard to pronounce, hard to search online, etc.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
It may also be just random failure of some components that were simply costed to be less than bulletproof on their "low to midrange" model. Or a software issue as suggested by another poster. No evidence of any sabotage was presen
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Accidental failures are one thing, deliberately user hostile design is another.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You can't uninvent Bitcoin but you can certainly make it illegal, making it all but useless for drug trade or money laundering. Nobody needs a currency that you can't exchange for, you know, real currency that you can buy real thi
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You're right, it's not predictive of the future because modern reactors are much safer than 1970s designs and are even less likely to kill anyone.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Of course. A single company holding 40% of the market is hugely powerful. But it's often hard to define what a "market" is - that is usually decided during litigation, I don't know if definingt that proactively is scalab
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by clusterfish 5y ago
You also need to buy Apple hardware to develop iOS apps, and keep regularly updating it so that it supports latest versions of xcode and iOS, which is at least another $100/year.
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Users get a say in which apps they purchase. I've no idea what people are whining about saying cancelling app subscriptions is hard. Never ran into this, and if I ever do, worst case credit card chargeback would put the unscrupulous ve
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by clusterfish 5y ago
If you think that, fine them and burn 90% of the money instead of giving it to the plaintiff, to remove perverse incentives for employees to excessively litigate. Or whatever other method accomplishes the same goal. You can't just choo
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by clusterfish 5y ago
And then inevitably get sued for $137M by some of the people they fired or some of the people whose complaints weren't responded to satisfactorily because whatever system they come up with, will occasionally fail. Punishments that are
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by clusterfish 5y ago
Most of Europe is actually rather backwards in terms of smoking prevalence and culture, compared to other western countries like US / Canada / Australia / NZ. I don't know if it's improving but the current state is
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by clusterfish 5y ago
> They continue to think Netflix as a physical product ( As they often like to compare Physical Software distribution before App Store ) Framing the relationship this way gives Apple more power and control, so that's what they'
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by clusterfish 5y ago
The "whatever reason" is a built-in HN mechanism to limit daft subthresds like this one.

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