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by georgebarnett 4y ago
I've been an Apple customer and a Facebook user for about the same duration. In that time, Apple has taken many measures to improve security and privacy. Facebook on the other hand has gone in the opposite direction, to the point of le
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Putting aside the gatekeeping aspect of this comment, I found the rest of the arguments made for keeping this model closed really shallow. I would have hoped for a much more reasoned and logically sound argument from a professional research
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Even with a charitable assumption that ads will stay limited to a free tier; this will still reduce Netflix program quality because stories need to have breaks to insert ads into without feeling weird. Remove the ads and you then have story
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Its certainly not ignorant or irresponsible and if you feel that way, I suggest its because that's the message the news dealers want you to feel. Dobelli sums it up best: https://www.gwern.net/docs/culture/201
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Once you realise that the "bad news" is not current events, but rather a poor experience driven by chasing clicks instead of quality, the reasonable response is to disengage from the machine and go elsewhere. A simple example is t
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
It's OK to not like the work somebody produces. It's not OK to be a dick about it and harass them. The author owes you nothing.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
> I have no doubt the backlash against him will only get worse as people actually play the game I’m reminded of a jingle I heard years ago.. It’s ok to not like things, but don’t be a dick about the things you don’t like.
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
> 10 years later some of those folks that did really well in the exams are not doing as well in their careers because real life requires innovation and deep understanding, not just rapid application of past solutions. I know many highly
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
The team who made the post were representing Google, therefor the company made the post. To propose otherwise implies that all similar actions/statements made in a similar way are not made by the company, which is both ludicrous and al
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by georgebarnett 4y ago
Many people are not yet skilled at giving feedback. Many will improve, with guidance. Those that don’t will blunder along, wondering why they can’t make it in the world.
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
A single email will waste anywhere between 3-30 seconds of my life. On aggregate, junk email, enabled by disrespecting marketers and ongoing minimisation such as your comment, will waste months.
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
I see this often and it is a ridiculous over simplification. This entire thread has stories of broken corporate culture causing people to leave the company and somehow you’re translating that as win for HR? In most cases, HR aren’t the ones
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
The software library in question wasn’t gifted. It was made open/available for re-use from a library. The person who chose to put it into _their_ code took ownership of its ongoing maintenance in their instance of its usage (presumably
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
Your response indicates two things: 1. You have no idea about teenagers. 2. You have no idea about the causes of the opioid crisis. Also, I did not conflate the two which you appear to think I have done.
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
Yes, it’s definitely not that older people with experience understand why this is a bad idea. The hubris of youth is useful for bringing change, but experience shows that often the effects of that change are poorly understood and often caus
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
HOT TAKE: I think parents should prevent their kids from smoking and tobacco companies bear no responsibility for their addictive product. The opioid crisis is also the fault of all those pesky addicts who chose to get themselves addicted a
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
On the other hand, depression has exploded in teenage girls since 2013. If this was business as usual, that wouldn’t have happened.
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
The device claims to have 97% of reading within 15% of the Freestyle Libre, which itself is then not as accurate as blood glucose. Put another way, it’s less accurate than a device that’s already less accurate than finger sticks. Given this
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by georgebarnett 5y ago
I was on the core team that built the platform underlying version of the cloud systems. Many of my peers had kids, as did many people who moved to Australia to work with us. I can’t speak to your circumstance, however in 13 years I’ve never
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
What I find most interesting is how people who love working from home can't seem to understand how their own circumstances don't translate for others. This bias seems especially present in a subset of the tech population. If you
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Recognising a song is not the same as recognising copyright.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Yeah, it’s a real gotcha. Not surprised the Borg don’t get it. Right now I have my uncle nearby and he knows at least how to use a computer. Things are going to get real fun when he leaves and my 75yr mom is on her own with the tech.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I can only imagine this will get worse as they go further down the AI rabbit hole. What really amazes me though is how they now treat changing recovery options as signal that the account is compromised. Google Accounts Team: Users must have
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
Adding my own email address as a recovery to my dead fathers Gmail account resulted in it being locked. Despite having access to the password, recovery account _and_ the telephone (when my mother is awake), I'm now locked out. Very fru
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PSA: Overseas? Don't try recover a dead relatives Gmail account(twitter.com)
16 points by georgebarnett 6y ago|5 comments
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I’ve yet to find anything that comes close to the sound profile of a pair of Homepods linked in stereo. On the upside, Given they’re on OS 14.4 and support airplay 2, I should get a decade more out of them.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
There is plenty of sand in the world, it’s just not cheap or hyper locally available. Pay money, problem goes away. Solutions will be found as the price goes up to make alternatives viable.
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I don't think it's troubling at all. On the contrary - the more politics removed from FB, the higher the net benefit to society of not having citizens continually "enraged at the other side".
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
You appear to be reading a sentiment into my comment thats not there. Facebook can do whatever they want (within the law) because it's their platform and thus their rules. I'm merely commenting that I'm reasonably convinced
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by georgebarnett 6y ago
I remain convinced that Facebook is incrementally scrubbing news and politics from their platform.

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