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by dx87 6y ago
> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That destroys the curiosity this site exists for. Unless Apple products are being made in the concentration camps, it's not even close to tangential to the top
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by dx87 6y ago
Because this post is about discussing the environmental impact of Apple's products. If someone wants to talk about the concentration camps, they can do it on any of the other billion posts that are specifically discussing it.
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by dx87 6y ago
It doesn't sound like they changed their mind based on new data. In June, Fauci said that they knew masks would help, but deliberately downplayed their usefulness because they anticipated a shortage for medical workers. Telling people
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by dx87 6y ago
Yep, my grandfather has a pension from working as an electrician his whole life, and now he works in the hardware section. He's getting too old and frail to do the activities he used to do, so working in the hardware section lets him f
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by dx87 6y ago
They aren't always working there because they need the money. My grandfather is in his mid 70s and works at Walmart so he has something to do.
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by dx87 6y ago
It's entirely relevant to the parent comment who was specifically talking about kids dying from being sent back to school. > Strong statement: dumb kids are better than dead kids.
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by dx87 6y ago
I think profits are still involved, but the virtue signaling would be about preventing loss of profits. For example, reddit making its logo black, or Activision adding a splash screen in CoD saying they support black people. They don't
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by dx87 6y ago
> dealing with them deserves less priority unless and until they structurally hold that power and receive the benefits. I don't know if it's your intention, but the way you phrased it makes it sound like you don't think we
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by dx87 6y ago
I think virtue signaling would be saying something to stave off public criticism with no direct monetary benefit, and marketing would be like companies that support gay rights because it means they can sell a bunch of rainbow colored mercha
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by dx87 6y ago
If they control the recommendation algorithm, they don't need to make their own posts, they can just recommend existing content that fits the message they want to promote.
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by dx87 6y ago
If it's anything like what Russia was doing on reddit in 2016, most of the activity is actually anti-Trump. They don't really care who wins, they just want the country to be divided and weak.
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by dx87 6y ago
In the screenshots of the admin panel, it looks like they have blacklists of things that shouldn't show up in searches or on trending. It's not clear if it's accounts, or some other criteria that's blacklisted though.
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by dx87 6y ago
Sounds like an exploit. The article says that some of the accounts were confirmed to have multi-factor authentication enabled.
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by dx87 6y ago
I think it's people feel safer driving faster than they normally would, along with less police presence. Especially when the lockdowns first started, /r/maryland would joke about I-75 doubling as a speed limit (normally it&#x
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by dx87 6y ago
No, because someone claiming they hear a noise doesn't affect anyone except them, and the people they directly interact with. An equivalent example would be someone claiming they hear a noise, and demanding that everyone in the world a
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by dx87 6y ago
It wasn't even DRM, it was anti-cheat that only ran when you launched the game, and it's not like it was a secret that it was added in an update. Your comment is pure FUD.
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by dx87 6y ago
Cruise control just maintains speed, not direction. It'll happily plow you into an obstacle without human intervention.
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by dx87 6y ago
If you don't have anything to add to the conversation besides "but what about what the rest of the world is doing", then why bother to comment? I don't know why any post mentioning China makes you people come out of the
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by dx87 6y ago
I think that if people really want to change the terminology, master/minion would be a good alternative.
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by dx87 6y ago
I think the difference is that even if there were unreasonable people, they usually weren't the majority because their reach was severely restricted outside their local area. Now the unreasonable people aren't limited to their geo
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by dx87 6y ago
It doesn't sound like they walked it back, but clarified their statement. They still think the goal should be to get kids physically in schools, they just emphasized that it shouldn't be done based only on political reasons.
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by dx87 6y ago
That's highly dependent on the parents. A lot of homeschooled kids end up normal, but the stereotype of homeshooled kids not knowing how to behave in a social setting exists for a reason. It'll be even worse in the current situati
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by dx87 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...
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by dx87 6y ago
It's a little different on HN since a comment that gets enough downvotes is made invisible to other people.
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by dx87 6y ago
What he posted was on an internal message board specifically for employees to discuss controversial subjects. It was only public because another google employee got upset and made it public.
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by dx87 6y ago
No, it's worse at flat management companies like Valve. Since you don't have anyone in charge, and everybody works on what they want, there is no objective measure of whether or not you're doing well. Everything comes down t
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by dx87 6y ago
Probably because they're just posting something that is already in the article, and adding nothing to the discussion.
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by dx87 6y ago
I'm pretty sure their comment is a parody of the parent comment that makes a lot of outrageous claims with no evidence, followed by a slogan you can chant at protests.
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by dx87 6y ago
> the entire African American community Claiming that every single black person in America thinks that ever single police office in America is bad discredits whatever point you're trying to make. You must spend your entire life in a
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by dx87 6y ago
The college I go to uses a loophole to allow military veterans to get the full monetary benefits of attending an in person class, while doing everything online. They don't have attendance requirements, all the material taught in class

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