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by fleddr 4y ago
Needless to say, people are pretty happy with smartphone photography. Which is optically pure shit, but clever software fixes that quite well. And not just that, it's idiot-proof. Those are two monumental achievements. But only the beg
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by fleddr 4y ago
People are digressing into all kinds of matters unrelated to the article and issue. The heart of the matter is not control of the device, it's about the Apple tax, and how it makes no sense in particular scenarios, such as subscription
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep, and I think we can apply the accounting logic to the original article. A team that regularly saves costs for other business units is a promise of cost savings. Dropping the entire time is an immediate and factual cost saving. Short-sig
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by fleddr 4y ago
Seeing this up close with my mother-in-law. Her husband passed away 2 years ago and she's still in the same broken state as the day he died. After 50 years together, the triggers are unavoidable. The town, every place in it, every rout
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by fleddr 4y ago
Absolutely not suggesting that adult bullies do not exist, so agreed.
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by fleddr 4y ago
In the Netherlands there used to be a TV show where victims would explain how being bullied dramatically affected them far into adulthood. At the end of the episode, they'd meet their bully. The consistent pattern across episodes is in
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by fleddr 4y ago
I don't think anybody really blames the victims and people understand the bullies are the problem. The issue is, what are you going to do about it? Teachers can't be fully responsible for fixing them, and clearly the parents (ofte
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep. I got my ass kicked in the playground by a much larger kid. Completely unprovoked. I came home crying, my dad told me to return to the playground and hit him back. I insisted that I couldn't, he's much larger and stronger. &q
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's accounting bias/culture. Say you have a 100 developers and you reason each should get a second monitor worth 300$, because this increases productivity by 20%. According to an accountant, you just added 30K in costs to the boo
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by fleddr 4y ago
The dynamic would be that the tolerance level you refer to would be as low as found on Twitter: people perpetually offended at the smallest of disagreements and aggressively silencing, blocking, canceling the supposed offender. An example I
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by fleddr 4y ago
"I think it's the opposite - without an "Algorithm" (instead just the simple algorithm of sorting posts by time) there's no natural way to find other interesting people to follow!" Sure there is, it's call
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by fleddr 4y ago
The parent comment implied that a particular political faction engages in silencing and perhaps its extremer form: cancellations. The reaction to the statement is to soft-silence that remark. This means it hit a nerve, presumably for the ex
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by fleddr 4y ago
TLDR: Ask people questions, genuine deep ones. People like questions. It allows them to talk about their favorite topic: themselves. Don't read that as selfish, it isn't. It's just the realization that any interest beyond the
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm under no illusion that such feature will ever be removed, but I stand by the concept/idea that social media should be about people sharing their own thoughts and ideas, rather than this lazy and mindlessly redistribution.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Instance blocking will ultimately create the exact same dynamic as found at Twitter. Aggressive online activism, regardless of your political direction, is here to stay. So it can and will be used to pressure other instances into blocking y
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by fleddr 4y ago
If one was to be a purist, you'd remove the boost option. With a boost you want to increase the visibility of a post by somebody else. Probably because you agree with it. Something has to happen with that boost signal, otherwise boosti
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by fleddr 4y ago
As they erased themselves, all their tweets deleted since somewhere in October :)
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by fleddr 4y ago
"If it were that easy to cull out the overhead it'd be done by now in the existing 5-day week." This is a misunderstanding of the dynamic. Collaboration and overhead inflates to whatever the capacity is. There's no stron
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by fleddr 4y ago
Think Differently...and we will erase you.
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by fleddr 4y ago
All the examples are a case of unfortunate timing: asynchronous things doing late UI replacement that happen to conflict with the time window in which you click. That's amateur stuff. Our car does this intentionally. As your finger is
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by fleddr 4y ago
Two very simple answers, which I won't bother to back up with any science. 1) Many office workers spent some 50-80% of their work hours on overhead (meetings, email), leaving very little time for actual focused tasks, things that actua
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by fleddr 4y ago
Not being lonely used to be automatic as society forced you to interact and meet with lots of people just to function. Religion might force you to church where you meet most of the community regularly. It goes far beyond just the purpose of
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by fleddr 4y ago
Try volunteer work, for example at an animal shelter. Where meeting new people is hard and you may feel that you're intruding, the opposite is true for volunteer work. By design they need you, accept you and embrace you. Don't ove
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by fleddr 4y ago
It's about the ads on the SEO trash pages. Those pages are typically loaded with ads which increases the likelihood you click on them.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yep, and then when you finally have your sights on a product, there will always be that one review: "Cable didn't work, instead it shortcircuited my TV".
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by fleddr 4y ago
Found the problem: you design and build greenfield systems/applications, usually single handedly .
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Poetry from simpler times, which I'm glad I experienced.
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by fleddr 4y ago
It isn't cherry-picking. Twitter has a very long runway where > 90% of its existence it was making a loss. Where competing social networks have exponentially grown in size (FB, Insta, Tiktok, even Reddit), Twitter has stagnated. Twi
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by fleddr 4y ago
1. This moral panic is either overblown or wildly inconsistent. As the issue at heart is young people's screen time, the article did nothing to demonstrate that it is not overblown. Old people watch TV is not a comeback that negates
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by fleddr 4y ago
Even then, typical TV content is still very middle of the road compared to online content.

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