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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
It worked fine in the past when the mainstream platforms were also free speech platforms. Scale matters and those websites are only terrible because they're bastions for everybody else who also got banned.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Of course, why wouldn't they use the latest stuff? Farming technology is literally the reason you and your (relatively) recent ancestors aren't slaving away in the fields. Doesn't matter if that's combine harvesters or l
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
To be fair, I'll bet there's quite a lot of people who'd stay there as one of those AirBnB experiences.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I mean, if you were CEO, would you choose to reduce profit when you have investors on your back or want to grow staff quickly? Outside of VC driven cash cows or big tech, there's not that much money to go around at the bottom.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> In another 50 years it seems fair to assume that we will be able to create VR that fully immersive and impossible to distinguish from real life. Technology growth is always non-linear. it's also fair to assume we could stagnate fo
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Is there a credible reason why SARS and COVID both came from the same country? The right official response would've been to not start a cover up (and the rest of the world could've hopefully prepared better). Even the WHO was carr
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
People generally aren't antsy about targeted ads but data collection and tracking. This avoids that.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
That's a circular argument and easy to say with hindsight. Apple is where it is precisely because it invested in making it happen.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Netflix are accused every day of the exact opposite, i.e. "pushing social justice narratives". They're a media company caught up in some nonsense internet culture war, don't read too much into it.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
France and the UK aren't in political crisis? Did we forget about Brexit and COVID so quickly? Same deal with yellow vests in France.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Stallman and FSF predicted this decades ago, but they failed to foresee not many people really care about being able to control their computers as much as big expensive hardware purchases like vehicles. DRM and general lack of free-software
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Marketing is not why the iPhone took off, there is substance there even if you don't agree. A full UNIX kernel, capacitive touchscreen, low latency / high perf OS, 3rd party apps and a bunch of UX innovations. Yes everything exist
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
From watching his testimony I believe Cummings was disappointed that this 'data system' wasn't available before the pandemic, precisely because that few week delay putting one together meant everything.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
"Maximum weekly working hours - GOV.UK" https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours As far as I'm aware this came from the EU Working Time Directive so it's been law for a long time.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Unpopular opinion: Facebook is widely disliked by the loudest voices in the room (for good reason), but the vast majority of people still just treat it like a fancy forum. It's not going to stain your CV. Plus, Facebook-the-app is far
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
I imagine a multimodal platform like Facebook (with people using photos and text together in some way) would find a single model valuable.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
While I agree this isn't over, I disagree with your conclusion. We have little idea how early COVID exposure will affect us decades from now, but there's already signs of psychological strain in kids which could prove to be worse.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Yeah, I suspect this is where a lot of the 'debate' is coming from. My experience is that Google/FB/etc... have (a slight) majority preferring WFO for at least 3 days, and other companies are overwhelmingly WFH.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Microsoft definitely needs software engineers. Privacy and security of users is on the line, even if they literally aren't going to die, lives can easily be ruined by a data leak from the wrong company.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Something like Stadia or Steam's remote play maybe?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
There was a post here recently about how 87% of US teens are using iPhones. As somebody who was a "green bubble" in the past I can see how peer pressure inflated that number. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> Kurzgesagt videos just add animation + story_telling to concepts. They don't add any educational value. Animation and story are a great way to educate somebody in a broad way. For depth, even in something like mathematics, there&#
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Logseq is indie, not a corporation. The author has a profile on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tiensonqin . I don't blame them for their business model.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
People seem to prefer subscriptions to expensive one-time purchases... What's a developer to do?
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
It's perfectly okay to be pro-free-speech while acknowledging people like this exist. Plus the guy resigned, not hounded into quitting by a Twitter mob.
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
During the COVID lockdown I went through a traumatic experience (specifically lockdown and the death of a family member from COVID), and I started thinking exactly like GP and you are describing. I didn't seek therapy either as it was
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
StackDriver supports health checks: https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/uptime-checks
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Sorry, but this still sounds pretentious. The set of possible cofounders is a market like any other, and compensation is generally commensurate with value generated. Charisma and EQ are just as important, if not more, than generic technical
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
> I never received any further emails because the user probably never recharged his internet subscription. > This wasn’t even a spam email! I disagree, if it's not intended for you, then it's spam. Marking these emails as sp
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by iamstupidsimple 5y ago
Side projects are a big thing for me... Recognise that it's okay to play around with an idea (or many ideas) for a bit and abandon it when you're bored. It's not a second day job so try to avoid creating pressure for yourse

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