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by idrios 5y ago
Facebook created React to get notifications to show up in real time so you no longer needed to refresh the page. There's a place for discussion on the impact of realtime notifications on mental health, and a place for discussion on the
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by idrios 5y ago
Their proposed solution (as I understood it) is to reform Section 230 to make platforms liable for illegal content that gets promoted/amplified -- and that doing this would make the algorithmic news feed too much of a legal liability.
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by idrios 5y ago
Yes, but the difference is that a Ponzi scheme never created value in the first place and was always zero sum. If Joe's Farm sells corn and Jane's Lumberyard sells wood, you could invest in either, which they would use to expand,
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by idrios 5y ago
Ironically, HN's great moderation caused it to become very popular, which has made the task of moderating it all much more difficult, which is having a noticeable effect on discussions and which articles make it to the front page.
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by idrios 5y ago
> But it sounds like you're trying to put moderation and misinformation campaigns in the same category? Moderation is necessary and great for a healthy online community. Abuse of moderation is a tool used by misinformation campaigns
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by idrios 5y ago
The job application process varies immensely by position and profession. For a junior developer there are hundreds of new listing each day but hundreds of qualified people applying, so the company has all the power and your comment would be
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by idrios 5y ago
I think the birth of the influencer muddied the signal to noise ratio of people who do hobbies for creativity/fulfillment and people who do hobbies for status. It's probably true that some people who would have done these things f
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by idrios 5y ago
My own current situation is that I work with an electrician who found a hard-but-solved problem and wanted his own solution to it. He is now the only person who understands the wiring he did, and if he ever leaves the company we'll als
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by idrios 5y ago
They sound like a great hire to me. If you needed an electrician to wire your house, would you rather hire someone who likes to get inspired and find creative ways to do electrical wiring, or someone who just wants to do the best and most d
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by idrios 5y ago
A few years ago, any comment that didn't add new insight to a topic would get downvoted. I remember once reading a comment where the response was a quip, and someone replied "this response was funny but we don't want this sit
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by idrios 5y ago
I'm surprised this perspective is not made more often. It's now much easier to work past 5 or 6pm or whenever you would normally end. Needing to return home to your family is no longer an excuse to stop working because you can be
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by idrios 5y ago
Brazil really is a great depiction of our current dystopia. The fly in the machine leading to Archibald Buttle's wrongful execution is a great analogy for the people whose lives are thrown sideways when the Google algorithm bans their
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by idrios 5y ago
Of all the comments in this very sensitive thread, this is the one I hope people see. I've noticed there are a number of divides like this.. minorities vs racists, women vs misogynists, foreigners vs xenophobes, millennials vs boomers,
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by idrios 5y ago
I've never worked for one, but why not? Is it because you don't work on a project long enough to understand the consequences of design decisions?
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by idrios 5y ago
I've grown very cynical of the source/intention of any news I encounter. Ad revenue or shifting political opinion in their favor would be the reason to stir the pot. Not every new institution created by the govt gets posted on Hac
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by idrios 5y ago
As someone who has cut themselves off from most news outside of HN, is this article actual news or is this just a website trying to stir the pot for clicks
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by idrios 5y ago
I'd speculate that without a CEO at all, it would become Lord of the Flies for any of the other executives and the effects of this would ripple into the rest of the company culture, making the company an incredibly toxic place to work.
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by idrios 5y ago
I'd call it a monopoly by the same standards I'd call Facebook one. It's the only general-purpose encyclopedia on the internet that any person has heard of. It found a need and met it so perfectly that nobody would ever bothe
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by idrios 5y ago
This whole thread has brought back so much nostolgia. I remember joining a guild this way. It really was such an organic way to meet people and make friends.
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by idrios 5y ago
Would Wikipedia be an exception to this? To my understanding Wikipedia is extremely well off financially on just the backs of donations, it's inherently a monopoly, but it is not tending towards evil despite having solid MRR.
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by idrios 5y ago
I rememeber doing that too, leaving to get dinner, coming back and being still in flight. But still, if I compare that to hearthing to some location, hopping into a portal, flying to some objective, landing at the marker on my minimap to pi
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by idrios 5y ago
So true about WoW. Dungeon Finder and Raid Finder made it so you didn't need to find people or be in a guild to do these things. They also took the sense of enormity out of the world because you don't have to physically go places
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by idrios 5y ago
On desktop is much easier to do what OP is asking, a la network tricks mentioned in a sibling comment, editing your computer's hosts file, or other measures.
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by idrios 5y ago
One of the steps for overcoming alcoholism is getting the alcohol out of your house. Phone addiction is the same way, it definitely takes hard work and discipline on the part of the user, but there needs to be a way to get rid of your phone
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by idrios 5y ago
That's putting a lot of trust in YouTube that they'll find every claim you make to be valid. Someone could make a dozen accounts with a dozen duplicate/similar versions of your song, you dispute all of them, are found in the
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by idrios 5y ago
Too easy for bad actors to create multiple accounts or game this system. I think this would end up hurting genuine claimants of actual pirated works more that it would help the wrongly accused.
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by idrios 5y ago
You could have made this same point without being antagonistic about it. The parent's comment was valid and not in disagreement with yours
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by idrios 6y ago
By talking to each other.
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by idrios 6y ago
The reason I was told was that if you give a raise to a current employee, you'll be expected to give raises to all employees and that's expensive, especially when people are looking for, say, 20% raises. On getting a new hire, the
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by idrios 6y ago
I don't place any judgement on the author at all. Programming since he was 12, started a company, self taught developer & data scientist. He's been extremely busy, is clearly motivated, and on paper should be extremely hireabl

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