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by harkinian 3y ago
Right, so usually the modification of TFT is that you forgive one or two missteps. We're well past that point with China trade.
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by harkinian 3y ago
The first two don't say much. The third one about JFNA's letter to Congress is key. Didn't cite the primary source for some reason, but it matches: https://cdn.fedweb.org/fed-1/1/Jewish%2520Federatio
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by harkinian 3y ago
The YouTube and Facebook short-video recommendations I got when those features launched were mostly young women wearing very little and doing something that I'm guessing is not the main point of the video. YouTube knows I like music, s
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by harkinian 3y ago
This is the only part that makes me sorta in favor of the ban.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Does the US Constitution care about the rights of a foreign entity?
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by harkinian 3y ago
That and we have strong lobbying groups within the US representing Israel, a foreign nation.
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by harkinian 3y ago
The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Vox claim censorship. Is there something more credible, maybe AIPAC themselves publicly backing the TikTok ban, or some strong correlation between AIPAC contributions and House votes on the bill?
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by harkinian 3y ago
I think if you turn it off entirely, it'll ask you once for each OS update if you want to sign in, which isn't too bad. When it really screams is if you log into iCloud then forget your password and it keeps asking you to input it
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by harkinian 3y ago
Probably just a more visible "install" button would eliminate the need for half of native apps. I've tried doing a PWA before, and despite iPhones having all the right capabilities for it (they even support push now), users w
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by harkinian 3y ago
Oh, they own npm, I forgot. Just when I thought I'd gotten rid of MSFT.
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by harkinian 3y ago
For a smartphone, I can pick between 2-3 (depending how you count) major OSes, tons of different hardware vendors for the non-Apple ones, one app store if it's Apple or any source if it's not, whichever cloud any third-party app u
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by harkinian 3y ago
I don't think the smartphone market is that consequential either way. It's a mature and played out end-user product already, not comparable to the early AT&T. If Apple could somehow be forced to properly support third-party ap
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by harkinian 3y ago
I highly doubt those 80% were working on ideological stuff. It's common in big tech companies to have too many cooks in the kitchen, and because the design process and tech stack tends to mimic an org chart, stuff gets semi-permanently
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by harkinian 3y ago
That part was a trick. Was... at this point, people assume even worse things but by-and-large don't seem to care. But the above comment was about user-submitted feedback used for improving Google Maps, which doesn't seem like a tr
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by harkinian 3y ago
The community thing seems fine. If you don't like how a community is run, you can go to a different one.
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by harkinian 3y ago
These two things are not mutually exclusive. You can help someone via Reddit and Reddit also profits. But you aren't gonna get paid for it.
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by harkinian 3y ago
The interesting part of cryptocurrency is that it's a trustless database. Not easy and comes with big costs.
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by harkinian 3y ago
They're happening, but it's not as clear cut as Microsoft ignoring the license. GPL doesn't say anything about AI explicitly. Personally I think Microsoft is in the wrong anyway.
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by harkinian 3y ago
I was around then. Never knew anyone who used Google Reader, though. Megaupload going down, now that was a big event.
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by harkinian 3y ago
Regardless of whether you consider it a scam, it's not worthy of the "web 3.0" title. Like, why did npm allow Ethereum to have the "web3" name instead of simply "ethereum"? It's so annoying.
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by harkinian 3y ago
It's possible to be popular and also profited from at the same time.
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by harkinian 3y ago
To answer your question, no it hasn't panned out. Reddit users aren't generally paid for their posts, nor was there any promise that they would be, even from Altman. Is the implication that some people got their hopes up from one
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by harkinian 3y ago
Seems Microsoft got away with training Copilot on a lot of GPL'd code, though.
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by harkinian 3y ago
I was thinking, someone must've tried this before. Didn't know Google Reader was that someone.
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by harkinian 3y ago
"Reddit has always been a for-profit business so arguably people should have known" is what I would say. Some people don't mind if their time is being profited from. I understand if some people do mind, but then they shouldn&
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by harkinian 3y ago
Wasn't it this way from the start, though?
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by harkinian 3y ago
Make a website where each user has an RSS feed and posts/reposts stuff to that, mainly links to things they've found interesting. "Following" someone means subscribing to their RSS feed. That'd be federated out of t
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by harkinian 3y ago
Nothing. I don't expect something in return for my HN posts, and I don't care what someone does with them. It's not a job.
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by harkinian 3y ago
"None of the people that spent hours of their lives lovingly contributing to Subreddits, or performing the vital-but-thankless role of moderation, will make a profit off of Reddit's public listing" So? It's not a paid jo
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by harkinian 3y ago
Yeah, I don't know if screening was the best solution and don't think the post-9/11 rules make sense, but there was clearly a problem in the past that got solved by screening. Also, nowadays we gotta make sure well-intended p

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