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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah you're right of course - and that's the strongest argument in favor of them, but given how modern society operates today where people use skin tone as a (the main?) racial differentiator, the emoji's imply more than that
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by fossuser 5y ago
One big difference is in the US the companies are not required to manipulate content to serve USG interests. TikTok may downrank or censor HongKong videos because the government forces them to - the same does not happen at American compan
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by fossuser 5y ago
I'm not dogmatic about it and obviously my position is a lost cause, but I don't think inserting race into everything is better. Race is socially constructed, lines between 'races' dissolve and change over time. Reinforc
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by fossuser 5y ago
That doesn’t make the two equivalent. Also, hopefully soon you will: https://urbit.org/
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by fossuser 5y ago
Whataboutism style arguments (which are always the knee-jerk reactions that show up) are wrong. I wrote about this at length here: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/06/13/zoom-in-china.html and won’t reha
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m not talking about personal use? I do use the neutral colors, I just think inserting identity into something is a worse outcome. Generality would be better. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27049269
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “ If you're arguing for getting back to simple outlines of random colors, I'm with you.” Yes that is what I want. I basically agree with everything you said - I just wish we chose generality over specificity.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Make the color blue then if yellow isn’t neutral enough (like iMessage tapbacks, or Facebook thumbs up). Make the people more abstract. I’d argue the direction should be towards generality not identity specificity. I’m not dogmatic and obvi
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - even then it’s not perfect because people in real life may have a cosmetic interest in skin tone matching bandages. It’s not about inserting race, it’s about blending the bandage so it looks nice. With emoji, it’s different - it’s ex
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’m curious what the middle finger emoji origin story she mentions is, I couldn’t find anything interesting searching around for it.
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by fossuser 5y ago
That’s pretty bad. I think TikTok’s risks are higher than people think. It’s better to avoid it. https://stratechery.com/2020/the-tiktok-war/ Any company running out of mainland China is going to have serious priv
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think skin tone color band aids are different, people have different skin tones and the old default only blended well on people with light skin so the new ones are nice for people. With emoji people took a neutral non-racial thing and ins
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by fossuser 5y ago
Everyone isn’t stupid - today I work with wonderful, very smart people I can learn from. HN and a lot of places online have wonderful people too. The average American public school teacher? They’re not that bright and they can be petty. I u
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “ We are free to use any ideas, concepts, techniques, know-how in your Communications for any purpose, including, but not limited to, the development and use of products and services based on the Communications.” https://www
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by fossuser 5y ago
They forced us in high school to use a service called “TurnItIn” which I really disliked because they took ownership of your writing and added it to their database to diff against all future submissions. It’s supposed to prevent plagiarism,
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by fossuser 5y ago
At least with that one whatsapp's original idea switched from statuses to messaging because they saw the users using their ability to set statuses to message each other. That paired with awful SMS in most of the world let them dominate
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by fossuser 5y ago
I’d argue it was - maybe not obvious, but I knew it was a big deal. The nomad and other players at the time sucked (I wanted to get one for my dad). Plastic, poor build quality, software would often freeze up and crash. The nomad looked lik
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah, you’re right - that one is my absolute favorite. Even includes a PG cameo. And getting a 53 on the Putnam at 14 is wild. I wonder how that happens, what leads to that (in addition to obvious high ability). Good parents? Early access t
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by fossuser 5y ago
For “greatest comment” I was thinking of cmdrtaco’s comment about the iPod, but I guess that was slashdot. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i... HN is famous for knee-jerk
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by fossuser 5y ago
This kind of thing really bothers me - it's like a symbol for how little they care about existing users. I feel like there should be some specific name for this kind of thing - design patterns that target new users and suck for existin
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by fossuser 5y ago
Pixar’s WALL-E was similar, also The Machine Stops (which is oddly prescient given how old it is and what this year was like): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops
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by fossuser 5y ago
Not really. If you work in software people think it’s cool. It maybe was low status 20 years ago, but since 2010 or so it’s changed. Even in NYC the finance people prefer to talk about their app ideas rather than admit they work at a bank.
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by fossuser 5y ago
> “ and would therefore be far better compensated when the danger of being a trucker is taken in to account.” This strikes me as just making up reasons why examples that disprove the status/pay point aren’t really disproving it. I
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Sure and that's why they do it, but it's feels like cutting off your nose to spite your face. I think the future will mostly be the best writers being directly supported by people interested in their beat. I'm not sure how ge
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by fossuser 5y ago
Plumbing and electrician are the first two that come to mind. Construction would probably be another. Basically “blue collar” jobs that require a lot of expertise. I’d guess some variation and small business risk, but I think many do well.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I doubt it. Both because Amazon pay is decent, but more so because it’s more about class expectations than it is about pay. Lots of jobs make a lot of money, but are still not considered high status.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I liked that part of his essay too, I also just generally liked his writing. There’s something satisfying in this kind of work with clear explicit goals and getting through the list everyday. I think a lot of society issues seem to s
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by fossuser 5y ago
Agreed - these kinds of things are a decent example of the dumber parts of religion. It’s also odd to me that violating the spirit of the rules via technicalities is considered morally acceptable in that context (and yes, like any religion
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - agreed. If I was a creator I’d use YouTube, but also have backed up local copies of videos. Preferably hosted elsewhere in case the channel gets in trouble too. You have to be where the users are and YouTube is by far the best video
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by fossuser 5y ago
France isn’t planning to invade Taiwan.

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