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by homefree 1y ago
+1 I can understand people being annoyed by in video sponsorship if it’s done too much, but if you’re not paying for premium and you’re complaining about ads you’re not worth taking seriously. Being able to pay to remove ads is one of the b
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by homefree 1y ago
Well he should be, but I wouldn't expect an anti-capitalist to have very good judgement about who is worth listening to.
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by homefree 1y ago
Cultural failure - I thought Alex Karp's recent book was pretty good and worth reading. It makes the case that our culture has failed to articulate the things that make the west great (and worth defending) and as a result it's cre
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by homefree 1y ago
School beats agency out of students. It's particularly bad because agency seems relatively rare and if someone has the spark, the highest leverage thing that a society can do is to encourage it. By the time most kids get out they'
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by homefree 1y ago
The circle embarrassed by ignorant students screaming for intifada. Mao is a good example because it was similarly ignorant students that drove the cultural revolution and ended up killing millions. There's a line from these Harvard st
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah this is also my read, people are horrified by the university behavior and generally supportive of the administration on this stuff. The 'elite' schools are becoming a counter signal it'll be embarrassing to have attended
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by homefree 1y ago
Doesn't have to be lying - just dumb errors. They probably got the box and didn't know what it was and threw it out by accident. It's easy enough to do. Given the entire post is them making dumb errors and then blaming others
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by homefree 1y ago
Based on this post, I doubt Apple failed to send a trade in kit.
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by homefree 1y ago
A non-story about them failing to pay a bill, then writing a blog post complaining about it. There are few bills you can just ignore without consequence.
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by homefree 1y ago
I’ve been in many cars where they don’t stay pointed and where the moving mechanism plastic broke off from where it’s connected so it doesn’t move the vent fins at all.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah those suck - the vents often break, they’re ugly, they don’t work as well. The Tesla vents are great, the ui is good or can use voice. Other companies that attempt what Tesla does do it poorly with bad software.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah it’s a better design, particularly with the driver screen and it took me 10 minutes to get used to it. I also prefer no stalks.
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by homefree 1y ago
I don't have a strong opinion on what language - the bit you edited in what I was replying to changed the meaning of what they were saying. My reply is flagged dead now which is fine since it did create an unproductive thread, but it w
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by homefree 1y ago
I think the thing they got wrong is it’s not a grocery store. It’s a casino - you can have a good time there, but the house isn’t interested in what’s best for you, but what’s best for them. Even that’s imperfect because Zuck really was int
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by homefree 1y ago
They’re all fighting for the finite amount of attention - literally hours you are awake. That’s a very competitive arena and while you and I may be health conscious - they’re fighting a trench war, you and I don’t matter.
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by homefree 1y ago
This is the correct model. If you want your own home you can use something like Urbit. Generally in the web as it is, we are all serfs on other people’s computers.
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by homefree 1y ago
The annoying bit is similar to reels, shorts are good for engagement. It’s similar to why I don’t buy Oreos. I like Oreos, everyone likes Oreos - they’re engineered to be liked, but they’re bad for you. The best way to not eat them is to no
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by homefree 1y ago
> “But I can’t see what it is “the economy” has given us in return.” More wealth for more people faster than anything else in human history? Add in all the things that come along with that like reduced infant mortality, improved longevit
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by homefree 1y ago
Thank for the details and replying here! Don’t let the dickish replies get to you.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah imo they support backwards compatibility where it matters and their hardware is useful for longer as a result. They’re also not afraid to drop it when it’s important to do so.
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by homefree 1y ago
Yeah I’d argue this is so clearly the case and it’s one reason among many why the US has an enormous amount of successful tech companies and Europe has some amount that basically rounds to zero in comparison. The ability to hire and fire ea
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by homefree 1y ago
Bluesky is the worst of old Twitter concentrated into one place. It's some weird mixture of the hall monitors of Mastodon crossed with wannabe members of the weather underground. Like a leftwing Gab full of only Kara Swisher and Taylor
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by homefree 1y ago
Lex minus lex would be really great
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by homefree 2y ago
"Better sites" is probably the wrong phrase, you're right that most forums are worse. I do think most interesting conversation has moved from forums to group chats and podcasts for this reason though. Scott Alexander's b
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by homefree 2y ago
It's not that they need to be popular, it's that voting them down leads them to be dropped off from view (and makes it less likely dissenting views will be shared). Reddit is the extreme case of this where anything outside the maj
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by homefree 2y ago
Your comment being downvoted for suggesting dissenting opinions are not treated well on HN kinda makes your point. I agree in general and spend less time here because of it. HN is still not as bad as many alternatives, but I wouldn't s
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by homefree 2y ago
Ah I guess I almost never tip uber (unless something exceptional happens) - holdover from the Travis era.
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by homefree 2y ago
The wait times have gotten better, they're getting freeway approval shortly which will be nice, the price is still at a premium (but worth it imo). I only take Waymo in SF now. The only time I take Uber in the bay area is to the airpor
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by homefree 2y ago
I went vegetarian for similar animal welfare / cruelty reasons (though I'll have fish occasionally, but not octopus). We also buy the pasture raised eggs for this reason. I don't care that much about individual carbon footpri
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by homefree 2y ago
The problems you’re describing are largely because they don’t have vertical integration. They don’t have the ability (sometimes legally) to force suppliers to do things they want. Microsoft tried to prevent crapware from being installed by

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