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by dictum 8y ago
Without knowing anything about the implementation, I'd guess this is not a case of using CPU/GPU a lot and causing a subsequent slowdown, but a case of a misplaced/misconfigured debounce function.
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by dictum 9y ago
An instance of "ignorance is bliss": people would rather see transfers of resources from themselves to billionaires through corporate welfare (often advocating for it in hopes of a better local economy) and special interest lobbyi
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by dictum 9y ago
My idealistic younger self would like to believe many people have done so on different issues, but what I've been noticing on the sidelines is that it seems to be working the opposite way: people are reinforcing beliefs and acquiring b
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by dictum 9y ago
Maybe the audience for this was always smaller, but the niche of "find people who share interests with you" is under explored. FB cornered the social network market, but it was always deliberately the opposite of this: you only ad
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by dictum 9y ago
> Funnily enough I met my current partner on OkCupid, which seems like antiquated by modern dating app standards. There's a bit of demographic selection here (people who are likely to use OkCupid may be more of your type), but OkCup
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by dictum 9y ago
If you're going to get fingerprinted anyway, might as well save the bandwidth.
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by dictum 9y ago
> it's free For non-basic usage, that's a con, not a pro.
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by dictum 9y ago
Maybe it's a consequence of people naturally caring more about their surroundings, but sometimes it seems HN only sees Canada, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania as minor oddities. All comparisons and debates center around the US
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by dictum 9y ago
Tone is a big factor, but the frustration with centrist politics has led some people to actively pursue aggressive tones - "tone policing" is a seen as a diversion tactic - so you're unlikely to see views opposing to yours pr
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How Maotai Became the World’s Only Socialist Luxury Brand (2012)(newsweek.com)
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by dictum 9y ago
I don't think there are sources that are simultaneously privy to details of an issue and unbiased. (It's the same reason why regulatory capture and other crony clubs can happen entirely organically.) Edit: The closest thing you ca
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by dictum 9y ago
Having way more fun. * * * I got my first computer right at the end of the dotcom bubble era but before the social network era. As I remember it, search engines (including Google) returned way more semi-random results, and seemed to give le
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by dictum 9y ago
> don’t be tempted by the buzzwords and shiny tech > the Big Format Gaming Display (BFGD) The only way this would be more delightful is if it were styled "BigFormat Gaming Display".
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by dictum 9y ago
It's disappointing how this kind of commentary, disparaging a whole nation/language instead of a government/chief of state, is seeping into mass media. Another recent example is the mock-Cyrillic in the Silicon Valley intro.
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by dictum 9y ago
> Frankly, we don’t want to know what you do on the Internet—it’s none of our business In the DNS resolver space, what is their business?
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by dictum 9y ago
McDonald's is now applying some of this grandiose language, at least internally. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/05/04/404166605...
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by dictum 9y ago
Fortune cookie: Forgive and forget. Someone must do it and everyone else will not. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/faceb...
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by dictum 9y ago
There's a difference between saying "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us." and "[highly controversial statement]. We know company X will not censor us because the people at company X ar
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by dictum 9y ago
I begrudgingly use it when I'm focused on losing weight. As soon as I reach my goal, I'm out. It's too frustrating to use it multiple times a day, everyday. I should use it for bulking too, but I'd rather live with the i
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by dictum 9y ago
The world of niche publications is quite wild. I once saw a magazine dedicated to a single hairstyle. (It was already at its 3rd edition and I later learned of new editions)
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by dictum 9y ago
There's no shortage of nonsense ideologies for teenagers to choose.
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by dictum 9y ago
Ultimately, every American company is a collection tool for three-letter agencies, and through allies, most non-American corporations too. I like to think FB is how they check the accuracy of their other data sets.
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by dictum 9y ago
He still wants all public-facing identities tied to a real identity he can track and analyze. That encourages even greater abandon of one's privacy, as you worry less about tying your real name to still-monetizable private thoughts.
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by dictum 9y ago
Remember when influential people and institutions encouraged (or outright required ) the use of a platform made by the man who said the age of privacy is over?
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by dictum 9y ago
The reasons commonly reported by heterosexual men to not use condoms are not much different to the reasons reported by homosexual men, so I think there's something other than burden-passing at play here.
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by dictum 9y ago
Thanks. It confirms my empirical experience that most users (of all backgrounds) don't read, those who read don't fully comprehend the information, and those who comprehend it are thrown off by cute illustrations or the urgency of
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by dictum 9y ago
> their very obvious consent form I haven't used FB in a long time and I never used their mobile app, so here's a genuine request: do you have a screenshot or some example of how they gather consent for this?
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by dictum 9y ago
Part of the problem is how the TOS is deliberately obscure long form text while the UI (which does not make the data sharing explicit) is nice, polished and A/B tested for maximum engagement [0]. Were the same information design effort
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by dictum 9y ago
Would they even get to a 100B, let alone a half trillion, market cap by always doing the right thing? (Because this is ripe to be picked by the "wow, look at the HN dudebros" crowd: this is not an apology of their practices, it&#x
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by dictum 9y ago
When did Facebook, Equifax et al start hiring random schmoes , or more charitably, people who don't know what they're doing?

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