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by cwhiz 6y ago
It took less than 20 years for Google to go from "Don't Be Evil" to dominating the market in a similar way that Microsoft did. I think this speaks more to the fundamental problems of market pressure than anything else. Once
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Finally! Break Google up until no single company has more than 30% of the search, mobile OS, maps, or browser market. Dozens of pieces, if necessary.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
The “well rounded” education stops at college for me. It’s too expensive. If you want to take those courses, you go ahead and take them. But they aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be required.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Just wear a mask, eh? Tell that to the entire cinema industry. Tell that to the 89% of the hospitality industry in NYC that can’t pay rent. Mask mandates are actually the least authoritarian and least enforced thing the US has done. We’re l
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Common sense, coordinated, and effective. And what if I don’t want to do what your common sense suggestions say I should? Or I disagree with you in regard to what is common sense. Now we are at the fundamental issue.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
> Enforcing restrictions for closed spaces or making people wear a mask is not corrosion of democracy. You’re really understating what has happened and what is going on. > Corrosion of democracy is when these rules are used selectivel
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by cwhiz 6y ago
No. Public internet will still exist. You can write your blog, you just can’t have a public comment section. Most of the internet would still exists. Public centralized forums, such as HN, would go away. But there is nothing that would stop
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by cwhiz 6y ago
In this forum, right here on HN, people routinely espouse desire for more authoritarian restrictions. People gleefully discuss Sweden and almost openly hope that their lockdown-free plan fails. The article makes it sound as if the erosion o
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Distributed and decentralized networks and databases. Communities can form and police themselves, but no central servers or authorities will be involved. It wouldn’t be the end of internet communities but it would be the end of centralized,
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You just have missed the I. There were several.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I’m with you. I think we would all be better off without forums for people to anonymously yell at each other. If Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit all disappeared tomorrow it would be an enormous win for American citizens. The path to unificati
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I genuinely don’t mind if the internet is fundamentally reset. I am completely unconvinced that Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and other such services are net benefit for humanity. Being able to yell at each other in giant anonymous forums is n
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Yes for all the people who didn't know about Tesla or Elon Musk. Now they know, and maybe they'll buy a Model S.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I’d say Elon Musk has been acting more and more erratically as time has gone on. Just this week he changed the price of the Model S to a meme, $69,420. Seriously.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I think the suggestions are insidious and lead to binge viewing by design. However, adults are adults, and they can make their own decisions. I am okay with suggestions in general but maybe they should be completely removed for news or po
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I won't accidentally end up on some outrage tabloid news site if I start at AP News and start clicking articles. There is nothing wrong with outrage tabloid news existing, but it shouldn't be something that I accidentally happen
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by cwhiz 6y ago
The YouTube suggestion algorithm is the problem! Create a new account, watch any political video, and then click through the suggestions. Keep clicking through the suggestions and in hour you will be on some extremist nonsense. YouTube is
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I doubt this. More likely is that everyone is financing their iPhone at 0% over 24-30 months. The number of people who can afford to pay cash for an iPhone is a tiny fraction of the people who can afford the monthly payments. The absolut
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It is more annoying than misleading. The pricing is clearly "From $699." You choose your model, choose your color, and then choose your carrier. The price is listed next to each carrier with an orange "Special Offers Avail
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>Why can't you just enjoy a one or two well done seasons? Not OP, but I share the opinion. For my viewing there are basically two types of shows. The first is relatively mindless entertainment. I enjoy an episode here or there bu
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by cwhiz 6y ago
That will be up to Spotify. I switched from Spotify to Apple Music because Spotify won’t support cellular streaming. I would have switched back to Spotify but after the Apple One announcement, it’s too late. They lost me.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You replied to the wrong person. I didn’t say we should, or could, do an NBA lockdown. >I am not sure why you think it's more realistic to lock down three million people totally than have most people take moderate precautions. Reali
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It provisions EC2 for you, and scaled up or down. To really simply, it’s the basic equivalent to having an infrastructure admin turning EC2 instances on and off as load goes up or down.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
With that definition, wouldn’t something like beanstalk qualify? I think that definition is overly broad. However, you’re right in that it does make me wonder where the definition should start or end.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This isn’t rocket science. You quarantine, test frequently, keep skeleton crews, contact trace, etc. Like I said, it isn’t going to be perfect. It can’t be perfect. You do the best you can. You don’t shut down the entire US economy because
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No one has answered this? Come now. It's not hard to solve. Nursing homes remain closed to visitors. Staff and residents only. Staff are tested daily for covid. Nursing home residents do not leave the nursing home. Staff and resi
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It's fair to wonder what is truly motivating Microsoft executives, but you can follow the money fairly easily. In their quarterly earnings reports you can see that about 1/3 of their revenue is from "more personal computing.&
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I am tired of exclusively at home. I would ideally like to go into the office once or twice per week, just to see people. It gets lonely and boring being at home this much.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It’s not the business of the federal government to dictate to each state what their minimum wage should be. States are free to make their own decisions on minimum wage. Citizens within those states can vote to change it, and if they don’t l
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by cwhiz 6y ago
That sub is full of extraordinarily risky (stupid) trades. It’s one of the most entertaining places for a toilet read.

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