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by farias0 5y ago
That's absolutely true. Remember that there's a bias for the kind of headline that reaches you: They tend to be the most sensationalist ones, simply because that's how us humans are wired. Everyone wants to talk about nuclear
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by farias0 5y ago
But this are not the only info. OS language, dark mode preferences, fonts installed, all this stuff goes a long way in helping pinpointing you.
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by farias0 5y ago
Yep, this site should tell you if your fingerprint is unique among all the other visitors, like other fingerprint sites do. I know a positive would only be meaningful if the website gets popular, but a negative would say a lot regardless.
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by farias0 5y ago
In my experience with enterprise software one of the things that cause most trouble is premature modularization (sibling to the famous premature optimization). Just like I can't understand how people can come up with the right tests be
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by farias0 5y ago
I'd always had a feeling Clicker Games work as a satire of the worst side of video games, the one that prays on your dopamine system without offering anything artistically, intellectually, creatively or mechanically interesting, like a
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by farias0 5y ago
Yes! I'm against this decision, but dislikes are so unreliable as indicators of propaganda that they might as well not be there. All they indicate is how the video was received by its audience (duh), and decent propaganda is designed t
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by farias0 5y ago
Sure, this is something you can do with smartphones, but people used Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, etc. before this was a thing. In other words, the fact that they can show their memes around the table isn't the reason they use this apps.
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by farias0 5y ago
The same was said about "classic" social networks (like Facebook and Instagram) when they first appeared. What happened is that they didn't replace IRL interactions -- instead, they invented new ways of interacting, new socia
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by farias0 5y ago
That's more or less what I'm saying, yes. Have you seen the Tyler the Creator cyberbulling tweet? That's how most people actually feel deep down.
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by farias0 5y ago
Who goes along with Facebook? Most tech-enthusiasts I know make a point about not using anything Facebook (Whatsapp notwithstanding). It's just that most people don't care that much about tech-related ideologies, the same way most
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by farias0 5y ago
The problem with US politicians is that they are sold out to the private sector. This is a problem that would obviously not exist if there was no private sector, or if it was weaker, which is the "what if" of the discussion. Sure,
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by farias0 5y ago
Well, sure, this is trying to fix capitalism, which is something I'm all for. But one way or another, I think it's vital to have the shortcomings of a capitalist system understood. It's one thing to believe capitalism is the
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by farias0 5y ago
I mean, probably? If we had elected good officials at least. I'm not defending socialism at all, but if you accept the fact that this kind of thing happens because there's no monetary incentive for the industry to avoid it, then t
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by farias0 5y ago
I don't know, reading books to me is very easy, but I find hard to focus on work. I conditioned myself to instinctively alt-tab from my IDE every time a problem gets frustrating to the point I often do this without realizing, meanwhile
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by farias0 5y ago
Although I don't fundamentally disagree with your point, I don't think you're framing the issue fairly. It's not a matter of most people being enemies of free speech, it's just that this is an inherently difficult p
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by farias0 5y ago
It's not supporting "the tiny fraction of people who can do repairs". It's supporting everyone who might choose to take it to a third party instead of Apple when it breaks -- be it for better price, better service, or ev
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by farias0 5y ago
Did he, though? He was famous for being an incredible hacker, and then he conflated this profile with his furry persona and used it to talk about LGBT stuff. It saddens me so much that things have to be this way, that people can't put
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by farias0 5y ago
I have a feeling moderating online speech is a losing game. There will always be platforms such as 4chan and KF willing to provide a space to any kind of speech. Maybe I've become too cynical, but I've come to accept that the only
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by farias0 5y ago
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-y...
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by farias0 5y ago
You fell into the trap most nerds do -- you focused only on intellectual interests, and neglected other aspects of life. The good news is that you're very young, and have so much time ahead of you still. You just have to have to from n
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by farias0 5y ago
Those "thief words" are part of a dialect, yes. A word being "forced" or "natural", whatever that means, has no bearing on this discussion, and neither your personal choice of using them or not.
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by farias0 5y ago
I absolutely agree it's wrong to publicly shame someone to use this pronoun, but I don't agree with how you're framing the rest of the situation. Why is it that they're "indoctrinating" and not "teaching&q
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by farias0 6y ago
I'm sorry but why are you so sure they're trying to avoid work? From my experience most women would love to have careers and be financially independent and successful. But babies indeed make it a lot harder -- both from a time&#x2
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by farias0 6y ago
And who is the judge of what is and isn't true? You seem to imply social network consensus is a safe ruler for what kind of speech should be allowed but to me it sounds absurd.
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by farias0 6y ago
Maybe the problem is that you spent it watching TV?
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by farias0 6y ago
I for one think changing human nature is harder than creating an appetite suppressing drug, and indeed it seems we arrived on the latter earlier. So if it works it works, right?
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by farias0 6y ago
For people who are really sports fans (which might be a little out of the Hacker News audience, I know) not having your friends and family talking during the game might be a pro, not a con.
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by farias0 6y ago
Do you have a source to the "ushered into the buildings" thing? Like, are you saying they didn't intend into storming the Capitol but were guided/leaded there by the security staff? Also I think you're being unfair
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by farias0 6y ago
I disagree. I loved Cameron's evolution, she really matured. And from season 2 onwards (maybe even after the first half of S01) they seemed to have a better grasp on who the characters were and what stories to tell. Cameron and Donna&#
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by farias0 6y ago
I read somewhere that the network was trying to create a new Mad Men, which fits a lot with the way Joe McMillian is portrayed. Thank god they went the other way: The drama was much better with the more relatable characters (the two female

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