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by immibis 10mo ago
Can someone explain to me the advantage of writing class="bg-blue" instead of style="background-color: blue;" and why anyone ever thought they could make meaningful money from enabling the former?
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by immibis 10mo ago
There has never been any instance of a company passing on cost savings to its customers unless forced by market competition.
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by immibis 10mo ago
I was disappointed this wasn't about how money itself works - instead it's about various financial arrangements you can use to scam people. There's a lot of stuff to talk about with how money works! Like, when I use my Visa
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by immibis 10mo ago
There are algorithms at play across HN. There are more types of algorithms than ones that penalize comments with swear words in them. Some HN algorithms are run by HN servers, some are run by HN moderators, and some are run by third parties
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A post-American, enshittification-resistant Internet [Cory Doctorow, 39C3](youtube.com)
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by immibis 10mo ago
You can when buying a car though? Like, if this car sucks, buy a different car.
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by immibis 10mo ago
We seem to be living in some kind of general competence crisis. Do we have any theories to why this is?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Postel's law has turned out to be good for prototypes and experiments, but a horrible way to make anything with any degree of reliability.
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by immibis 10mo ago
What have they turned it into? Be specific. You say it turned into "what they accuse X of being" but I don't know what that is.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Because it's a completely different website now, even though it happens to have the same user database.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Vibe coding is not coding (unless by vibe-coding you meant buttplug.io)
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by immibis 10mo ago
There's no such thing.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Is he a communist?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Hasn't Xi lifted more people out of poverty than anyone else in the last century?
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by immibis 10mo ago
where is that popular, and what is a proletariat?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Or from a forklift driver.
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by immibis 10mo ago
When Batman corners the Joker it's good. When the Joker corners Batman it's bad.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Yes in the EU. Apple made the alternative browser requirements impossible to meet, and somehow got away with it.
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by immibis 10mo ago
They get paid per ad. Whether the product actually works is not their problem, unless they get a lawsuit. IIRC Facebook did lose a lawsuit over scam ads, but continued doing the process it was sued for, because it's so profitable, an
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by immibis 10mo ago
IME it's a real close button but the ad opens the thing when it closes, regardless of how it closes.
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by immibis 10mo ago
What about the ones that automatically open the Play Store to the app they're advertising after the ad? I would've thought it's against Play Store ToS to manipulate view count, but clearly Google has a conflict of interest.
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by immibis 10mo ago
I don't think YC startups need to sneak to promote their startups - they can just ask the moderators to give them a boost. Meanwhile if you say anything bad about capitalism the comment is removed.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Europeans are generally okay with bullying and harassment being illegal.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Same way you can create a startup to build a multibillion dollar data center presumably.
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by immibis 10mo ago
It's just hoarding like at the start of COVID. How much does toilet paper cost right now, and do stores have it?
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by immibis 10mo ago
Such a free speech absolutist that you can't even say he censored something without being auto-flagged. What a strange HN policy. Hi dang!
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by immibis 10mo ago
> and the room is not lit like an office and the site is really bright :) so turn the brightness down
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by immibis 10mo ago
Sometimes laws are bad - but people in Kohlberg stage 4 don't think so. There are many obvious historical counterexamples to laws being neutral, or good.
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by immibis 10mo ago
They went to the moon - that's not no results.
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by immibis 10mo ago
Like Cory says, the USA is now carrying out its threats regardless of what you do or don't do, so there's no need to care about them any more. There's nothing a country can do to influence whether the USA invades it or not, s

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