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by csilverman 5y ago
As far as I can tell, they only just figured out that a lot of people ingest THC by smoking it. Horror of horrors, this changes everything. So fine, then. Why don’t we just make cigarettes illegal as well? As in, serious intent-to-distribut
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by csilverman 5y ago
I’d love to hear more about this story if you’re willing to talk about it, although I can imagine it’s something you might not want to revisit. I’m very curious about how in the world the guy thought he could covertly steal a $7m product.
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by csilverman 5y ago
Unsurprised. It was just a matter of what scummy behavior the new owners were going to demand, and how egregious they were going to be about it. It’s simple, at least for me: block the garbage if I can, forgo the site entirely if I can’t. A
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by csilverman 5y ago
Reminds me of the story Andy Hertzfeld wrote about how his frustration with his boring job title led to a number of folks at Apple opting for more interesting titles. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&a
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by csilverman 5y ago
Hamas is already doing this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2021/05/14/hamas-... I'm only surprised we're not seeing more of this from domestic terrorist groups. Anyone with mi
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by csilverman 5y ago
Damn, this is a good one. I wish I'd thought of it. Not sure if anybody smart has officially defined "ragestyle" as a term for products where the primary selling point is fury, but I think this category is going to be huge, a
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by csilverman 5y ago
I think it's a bit early to be claiming that iOS impression loss has "stabilized". I'm the first one most of my friends come to for tech questions, and I make a point of explaining privacy issues to them and helping them
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by csilverman 5y ago
Or these ad companies could come up with ways of making money that people don't want to block. I despise ads, and generally approve of anything that makes ad companies sweat, but it didn't have to be that way. We are where we ar
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by csilverman 5y ago
Agreed. And I have to wonder if online extremism would be less of a problem if sites like Facebook switched to a payment model. State-sponsored troll farms might be willing to pay for access, but most regular-Joe crazies/griefers proba
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by csilverman 5y ago
I agree. My guess is that Apple suspects it can't be 100% effective at preventing apps from tracking, so they're trying to set expectations accordingly in case someone figures out how to track users anyway. But yeah, my preference
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by csilverman 5y ago
Also Facebook, silently: "Please, please don't ask us how 'personalized ads' actually work."
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by csilverman 5y ago
...and then, when finally prevented from doing so, they issued a quavery-voiced lament about how not being able to secretly film people without their consent will "hurt my ability to run my camsite efficiently and effectively."
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by csilverman 5y ago
If people opt out of what you're doing to them as soon as they're made aware you're doing it, then perhaps that's a sign that you shouldn't have been doing it in the first place. I don't even believe that 25% o
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by csilverman 5y ago
Reading through these stories, every one of which is fascinating, I’ve never been more glad that my job does not involve doing anything where the consequences could be summed up as “Tokyo stopped working.”
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by csilverman 5y ago
This is pretty mindblowing, especially for something he wrote as a high school kid. The UI alone is pretty amazing, given the time and platform.
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by csilverman 5y ago
If I'd thought that's what they meant, I would have reacted differently. Perhaps I misinterpreted it—I'd agree 100% that most employers are not nearly as understanding or generous as they should be regarding disability leave.
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by csilverman 5y ago
I deal with depression. If I could choose between a four-month vacation and not being depressed, I would take not being depressed. I wouldn't even have to think about it. It's like looking at someone who's sick with a debilit
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Acrylic Pouring Techniques(youtube.com)
3 points by csilverman 6y ago|0 comments
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Japan has appointed a Minister of Loneliness(insider.com)
63 points by csilverman 6y ago|18 comments
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Vatican ATM displays instructions in Latin(twitter.com)
22 points by csilverman 6y ago|15 comments
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The unlabeled red button placed by Houston's Buffalo Bayou(atlasobscura.com)
1 points by csilverman 6y ago|0 comments
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by csilverman 6y ago
Oh my god, this is funny. I'd never even heard of the game before this, but the animation/music is hilarious just on its own.
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by csilverman 6y ago
This is disgusting. I’d record every one of these sessions, take them to the school, and make it clear that either the problem is addressed or they’ll be defending that teaching philosophy to the press. My dad is a college professor. Two of
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by csilverman 6y ago
Yeah, that stood out to me: that this is not the “production” branch, and the circumstances under which it would be administered sounded distinctly ominous. (Although this, of course, is Donald Trump; pretty easy for me to imagine that he
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by csilverman 6y ago
Yeah, I get on a technical level why this stuff gets flagged—it’s not tech-world enough, and I think a lot of us are here to escape Twitter—but it’s still pretty weird to see these significant issues dismissed as off-topic. I dunno, maybe t
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by csilverman 6y ago
I remember when the Essential Phone was being hyped as an “iPhone killer”. There have been many other devices dubbed similar things, and those I don’t even remember now. I don’t doubt they’re working on something interesting, but if I was d
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by csilverman 6y ago
That was my initial take, especially given Gruber’s consistently pro-Apple stance, but I think it’s intended as the exact opposite. That post was preceded by one where he was expressing disgust at the inept management of the App Store—in th
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by csilverman 6y ago
I believe the point is to illustrate how hideous dysfunctional people can avoid consequences for whatever they’ve done by issuing a glib, polished apology and moving on. Doesn’t work all the time, but it seems to work enough of the time.
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by csilverman 6y ago
This looks pretty useful. Thank you. And yeah, pretty much every such email I've received was from companies who seemed to pride themselves on their interpersonal services or abilities. Given that they managed to irritate me in under t
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by csilverman 6y ago
Good riddance. Anecdotal, but I noticed a definite change in the tone of sales emails I was getting after I turned off images in Gmail. When they could tell I was reading their garbage but not responding, there was a lot of "tell me wh

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