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by fossuser 6y ago
I mean they censored Winnie the Pooh because of light hearted comparisons between Pooh and Xi (that were arguably positive). [0][1] Once you're doing that, pretty much anything is going to clear that bar. [0]: https://en.wik
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by fossuser 6y ago
The results are better when the products are more common/famous (Nvidia card, instapot) since there will likely be reviews from The Verge or something that rank highly. It's less common stuff that tends to give you mostly crap.
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by fossuser 6y ago
When I search Google now I mostly get spam. “Product vs. Product” -> list of spam websites that just show them side by side with ads. “Product Review” -> same as above, spam. “Product referral code” -> sites with spam and no codes.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Not everyone who drives a car needs to be able to rebuild the engine. Not everyone who writes a video game needs to write the physics engine. Not everyone who needs to analyze a dataset needs to write SQL. Abstractions and tools exist at le
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - many tasks can be done with more accessible tools. It's why Excel is so popular. It's why modal editors suck for the majority of humanity. For most people and most applications, WYSIWYG is fine and allows people to use th
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah - I think there's lots of bad tooling, but a lot of it does come down to logic. Once people realize they're not doing something 'wrong' really and that it's just the tooling that's bad - they can start to
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by fossuser 6y ago
I don’t agree. You need to eat to not die before you need sex.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Many people have terrible social skills, and introspection. There’s also the issue that many people choose mates because they want to have sex with them, or because they were young, or gave them attention, or were just around (or some combi
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by fossuser 6y ago
And yet it’s still possible to eat ice cream even though such a thing would not be found on the savanna. Some people can’t control this and become wildly obese, but others eat ice cream, understand what it is, and get on with their life.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, that's my take. You see it often in other areas too - it's a lot easier to get thousands of followers as an attractive person (especially an attractive young woman, but it works for men too). The ability to more easily build
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by fossuser 6y ago
I used to be more worried about this, but one of the things Trump proved is you can have unquestionably authentic video evidence of lies and many people won’t care. The people that care about figuring out the truth and critical thinking wil
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by fossuser 6y ago
Agreed - I suspect Apple (and others) are doing this as fast as they can to de-risk. They can't blow up their existing relationships in the mean time, but they can blow them up once they have another option in place. At the very leas
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by fossuser 6y ago
I guess as a customer I don’t really care why they suck, I just know that they do. I also don’t care about small business if they provide bad service. From a policy standpoint as a citizen - I think it’s terrible the telecom monopolies took
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by fossuser 6y ago
The service is awesome. In Placerville California our service went from Calnet 10mbps down at 28ms latency to Starlink 160mbps down at 24ms latency. This is a really big deal and will disrupt a lot of these shitty ISPs that have done nothin
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by fossuser 6y ago
On the subject of ethics - proportionate response, narrow targeting, and trying not to kill civilians are good things. This topic is too political to have a nuanced internet discussion and quickly dissolved into weird anti-semitism most of
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by fossuser 6y ago
Reminds me in a weird way of this episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708414/ A culture has computer simulated war and “casualties” must report to euthanasia chambers. This was the end result agreed to to stop
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by fossuser 6y ago
I briefly looked at nano based on the OP’s comment expecting to see proof of stake, but it looks like something more interesting? https://docs.nano.org/what-is-nano/overview/#what-is-nano I don’t understand how it
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by fossuser 6y ago
I'd bet that Apple is killing the touch bar in the next hardware design revision. [0] They kept the same body while changing out the chip, I suspect the next update will bring the end of the Touchbar. The M1 is awesome though - it make
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by fossuser 6y ago
Sometimes it clarifies meaning, most of the time it adds nothing. "Sneakier than a fox" doesn't help. That quote is from Orwell's Politics and the English Language: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-or
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by fossuser 6y ago
I think most of the time it should be cut out, the times you leave it in should be intentional and rare. If you read stuff that's doing that kind of thing all of the time it makes it harder to read and the writing is often worse. It&#x
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by fossuser 6y ago
Sure - and there's some subjectivity to 'write simply'. The idea is good though, bias towards clarity and be aware of how complex your writing is. Don't use big words to try and seem smart or fancy because they obscure m
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by fossuser 6y ago
> "Most authors write in a "fancy" way to invoke a feeling in the reader. They don't add random words to "seem cool"." I'd bet money this is mostly wrong, and most authors are writing in a fancy
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by fossuser 6y ago
There’s a good moneystuff on this, the sale was also stopped by the SEC even though it wasn’t really illegal (mostly just in poor taste). Hertz’s job in bankruptcy is to try and pay creditors, if a bunch of dummies want to give you money ev
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by fossuser 6y ago
Prop13, NIMBYs, local political control and anti-housing politics. With RHNA (and state law attempts like SB50) this may be starting to change, but the people responsible for the economic success are not the ones with the political power to
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by fossuser 6y ago
This would be my guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party There's often wild voting in China related comment threads.
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by fossuser 6y ago
South Park's Band In China episode had this exactly right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_in_China Earlier last year when people were joking about Apple not showing iPhones getting broken in their shows on App
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, I’m not pretending HN is some super knowledgeable group that knows everything about everything. It’s more base level of education. I think it’s worth watching to see what I mean.
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by fossuser 6y ago
Yeah, but the argument is that in a unionized workforce people are incentivized to 'phone it in' because it's hard to fire them. Unions and collective bargaining at their best give the employees leverage for better pay and pr
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by fossuser 6y ago
The documentary that won the Oscar last year, "American Factory", is worth watching. The company in the movie brings in some consulting firm and requires employees to go to classes about why unions are bad during work hours. There
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by fossuser 6y ago
They don’t function as physical objects though, people just pretend they do - that’s the scam part.

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