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by dogleash 2y ago
> Apple, who is known for being pro-privacy You're using weasel language. Are they known for it, or do they exhibit it? >I'm happily using a MacBook nevertheless and I bet a lot of people browsing HN also do. Yeah, of cours
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There are good clients. Whatsapp, Grindr, Kik, League of Legends, Fortnight, Eve Online. They have something in common though: not letting users communicate outside their own ecosystems.
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> Is there some analysis why the polls didn't correctly predict the result? The people in a swing state choosing to spend time responding to polls are insufficiently representative. They're drowning in advertisements, calls, t
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I see what you're saying, but I put that on Hilary. How much dirt must she have had on everyone else such that that the party establishment treated her candidacy as Manifest Destiny and the best democrat unafraid to run against her wa
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That is how populism has been branded as bad, to you. By your definition the most populist parties are the republicans and democrats ("denies known truths in favour of superficially popular positions").
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>Do you think less of yourself for living in the country you’re living in because there are people who do illegal or immoral things? No. But I do feel worse for the things management does. I think that's pretty normal. That'
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>It just sounds like ragebait designed to get laypeople to hate the tech industry Why? The sentiment of "you're on your own, go talk to a wall and figure yourself out" is about par for the course regarding society's c
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> a shit manager This isn't about a singular individual, it's about a group of professionals. You have to deploy systems thinking. If you give a cohort a tool that allows and incentives them to do worse at their job, the aver
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Incremental progress gonna increment. We're on a perpetual upgrade treadmill. Even if the latest increment means an uncharacteristically good performance or longevity improvements... I can't bring myself to care.
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Valve has/continues to do way more to make Linux a viable gaming platform than Apple will likely ever do for mac I get it, you want to leave windows by way of mac. But your options are to either bite the bullet and expend a tiny bit o
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> I'm continually surprised by the amount of negativity that accompanies these sort of statements. I'm excited about the possibilities and I still recoil at the refined marketer prose.
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Abstract is so imprecise as to mean nothing to me. Not gonna pay $10 to probably see them fail to adequately define and quantify "hostility".
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> we could never rely on having a calculator when we need it most—obviously there's irony associated with having 'calculators' in our pockets 24/7 now That was just a simple quip to shut down student bellyaching. Even
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ITT: Hacker News reinvents taxonomy from first principles.
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> that's never written software at scale. Is this like a never version of that insult where people would say someone's opinion doesn't matter because they worked on a project that never shipped (regardless of how much or h
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Science and Math started as part of Philosophy. They just split out and became large specializations of their own. Schools for Math and Science still graduate Doctors of Philosophy for a reason. Even the Juris Doctor is a branch of philoso
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> I'm not sure I see the big deal. Tumblr is loginwalled now, so I can't find the good version of this, but I'll try and rip it: Philosophical questions like "what is knowledge" are hard precisely because everyon
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If people are withdrawing from writing secondary documentation, why wouldn't they also withdraw from writing official documentation? And don't say they wouldn't, we've already watched business decisions be made to pull b
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> The more comments I read, the more tb_technical's idea sounds good. Yeah, they're just doing a bit. A fairly tame bit for that matter. There's an expression "giving someone enough rope to hang themselves" that
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> But I’m trying to have a productive conversation on what would be a realistic response that Mozilla could have plausibly sent that would show true remorse and constitute a proper apology. For a though experiment lets take those suggest
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Everyone already does. They just define lying such that the shielding and misrepresentation they do don't count. Nobody brings their "whole selves" to work, let alone their "selves." I had a lot of blue collar jobs
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> A beautiful interface with a suboptimal implementation can be easily cleaned up when time is allotted. That won't happen. Why toy around with your ticket database like that? Just close it to WONTFIX.
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Everyone who uses the web visually scans pages to hone in directly on where they think the content is. The question isn't whether or not whoever added that disclaimer meant for it to be visually ignored (they did), the question is whe
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>AI was not tested to see if it is like a lawyer’s level of work. Why would anyone have to do this kind of study? The service it purported to offer is licensed. We could sit around and talk shit about the threshold to be licensed, the b
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>salivating at the thought of squeezing ""value"" out of what remains of it I'm amused at their assumption that they can squeeze tighter than the currently existing notoriously abusive segment of the market. Also
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>It is difficult to imagine a time when satirical, irreverent humor was not common across media I hate the word "irreverent." It's in every article about comedy written by people who don't seem to understand the diff
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> help keep a strong ecosystem of quality content To the extent quality content does exist online: what isn't either already behind a paywall, or created by someone other than who will be compensated under such a scheme?
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>Training yourself to work a solid 8 hours at the office without distraction should allow you to leap over others who've gotten lazy sitting at home. What in the corporate HR flyer is this? "We think you need a hallmonitor to a
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> intentionally hostile reading of the content. Why? I specifically mentioned Hollywood to try avoid the rose colored glasses and just skip to the matter of fact stage. If it's just churning out content then it's just churning
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Is product fetishism really better than light entertainment? The MKBHD slop is just branded with that same vibe of the products he likes to cover, namely the self-satisfactions of luxury goods that people mistake for high quality. That giv

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