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by hsod 10y ago
In case anyone was wondering, from https://help.hulu.com/articles/52427902#list "In response to feedback from our viewers, we started offering a commercial free experience on Hulu. For a small number of shows, how
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Live events, for me. Primarily NFL/NBA/MLB games, but also things like live news coverage.
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> People don't go and check whether the fact iself, uncontextualized, is true This used to be exactly what I went to Snopes for. There's a million places online where people interpret facts and tell you whether or not they shou
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The moral calculus is complex, I'm not drawing a bright line. I'm simply challenging the assertion that, because of the technical architecture of the internet, a person's interaction with a content provider is not subject to
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I think this is a red herring. Yes, there are a million absurd examples of "implicit agreements" that one can think of. There are also many legitimate examples-- for instance, you shouldn't go into a bookstore and take pictur
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I'm sure you make a lot of good points here, but I'm more interested in the ethical calculus of the individual ad block user than the market forces at play.
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I'm solely challenging your assertion that you have zero ethical obligation to a content provider because of the mechanism by which they provided you content. I don't think your digression into meta-ethics is very interesting, so
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This assumes that there is no implicit or explicit agreement between you and the content host. What if the site's TOS made you explicitly agree not to block ads (not in a hidden legalese way but with clear UX)? Would that change your c
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> For example, I have never used the expression "crybullies," and if I did, it would probably be to describe the kind of white male who gets on a place like HN and cries that his freedom to be a raging asshole in somebody else&
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I don't get why everyone wants Twitter to be not-Twitter. The fact that anyone in the world can read and reply to your tweets (and vice versa) is fundamental to Twitter. It seems like what people want is an entirely different service,
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> Your sore knee analogy... probably really did end in wholesale unnecessary amputation and death Really? It doesn't seem likely to me that even a primitive medical person would amputate a leg because someone's knee hurts
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Shouldn't they get to determine the nature of the compensation? They did not decline to exercise the right, they exercised it in a way that was not convenient for you so you chose to ignore their right to be compensated. Doesn't
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> 2. They're pushing hard on a narrative of "chip transactions are slow, so slow, you have to wait so long because it's so slow, wouldn't you rather just swipe your card quickly than deal with the slow slowness of the
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> It's not really equivalent since you taking one diminishes the number left for other paying customers. This is why I said a "giant barrel", because serving web pages does have marginal cost to the server owner, and fro
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> 1) They don't ask for my consent, I'm not going to worry about theirs. What's your take on this thought experiment: Imagine a giant barrel of apples on the side of the road with a coffee can next to it. There's a si
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Hard to judge this without knowing specifically what was said, but it doesn't seem great. I don't believe that government forces should enter peoples homes and imprison them for expressing their opposition to immigration, which co
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> The gig economy is when you have to spend more time scrounging up odd jobs than actually working to get paid. The gig economy is having to work multiple part-time jobs since companies won't hire full-time workers—except each of th
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by hsod 10y ago
To be clear, you took the relo package, waited the minimum number of days, then jumped ship?
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There have been three: http://timelines.latimes.com/deadliest-shooting-rampages/
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these sites include medical dispensaries (there are still a ton) and delivery services so are somewhat misleading. I live and work in two different large mixed-use (residential/retail) neighborhoods and there isn't a rec shop with
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I assume you're being glib, but if anyone was wondering this is very untrue. Restrictive zoning laws mean there are many large neighborhoods in Seattle with zero. Most of the shops are concentrated in a few non-residential neighborhood
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not quite what you're talking about since it's centrally managed, but check out the Gresham Dollar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441696
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It doesn't bother me at all. I have all my common apps on my home screen and use swipe-down Spotlight search for everything else.
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> a famous person makes racist comments in it (the Hogan tape!) This seems to be Denton's major defense of the newsworthiness of the tape (although even he argues it half-heartedly). I don't buy it. The racist comments on one p
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by hsod 10y ago
I think it's useful to talk about a real concrete example, so thank you for this comment. Ideally, people wouldn't send death threats/hate speech. This seems practically unenforceable from Twitter's side. So what if Twit
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And then on the flip side you have Imzy, for people who believe Reddit is insufficiently strict and politically correct. Options are a good thing, I think.
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I know it's not actually true, but I choose to believe that "su" stands for superuser and "sudo" is a witty pun which means both "superuser do" and "pseudo" because you're pretending to be a
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Mobile. They recently released an official app and the Imgur experience is terrible. Gifs (~%50% of the front page) take multiple clicks to play and are not pre-cached. By hosting their own images they can take control of the user experienc
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On iOS, they override the swipe-from-left-to-go-back gesture and instead use it to cycle you through new images.
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I agree it's a bit confusing but I think they mean "pay TV" in the sense that Netflix costs money. So these movies won't be available on HBO or Showtime or any other cable networks.

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