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by jasmer 3y ago
Allende came to power with only 1/3 of the vote, and during the ensuing congressional negotiations over 'who would take power' - a military general supporting the notion of non-intervention in politics to tilt favour was &#x2
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by jasmer 3y ago
For heaven's sake is 2023 how are people still living in this Chomsky Khmer-Rouge Genocidal denying state of mind. Why do all of the worst totalitarian ruthless killers have so much lingering support on the Left? Allende (fyi backed by
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by jasmer 3y ago
Yes totally but I don't think D-K is necessarily it but you've tapped into a big source. Not only do most users 'not care' about stuff, it actually is not that important ... until it is. Twitter is actually 'good e
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by jasmer 3y ago
Agency people are usually 'creative' - that's not what makes good marketing. Rules of brand are: clarity, consistency, authenticity. While branding is only one part of it 'clarity' can be applied everywhere. I'
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Yes, you are right, and I should have qualified that because I'm aware it's optimized, but it's effectively a grey pattern at best: a UI that is sub-optimal in terms of presentation of information, but optimized for click-thr
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by jasmer 3y ago
Amazon is bad UI though. The information they present is inconsistent, the descriptions barely make sense, it's hard to compare products. It's byzantine.
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So that's the genesis of it, but it's much worse: lazy, unprofessional marketing parrots. 80% of people in Marketing have no idea how to Market. They just know how to 'do marketing things'. This took me years to figure o
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by jasmer 3y ago
I think the issue is partly technical, but mostly product, in that neither Mastodon nor it's servers are very obvious in usage, and finally its 'too decentralized'. We don't need 'ultra decentralization' aka a
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by jasmer 3y ago
Adobe uses the word 'save' instead of 'purchase'. I don't see how that is legal.
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We need more regs about this, it's ridiculous. It's so bad that I'm completely afraid to get out my credit card for whatever reason. Thanks for putting this together but interfering with scrolling, although maybe less impactf
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by jasmer 3y ago
The overhead of adding a decently designed and broadly used age verification mechanism is almost nil. It won't show up even as an operating expense.
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by jasmer 3y ago
"there's no way to do so ephemerally, " - there are ways people can be issued anonymous tokens, 3rd party verifications, regs against recording the data with strong regulatory authority. Frankly, it's not even that hard
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by jasmer 3y ago
"Paternalistic attitudes infantilize society" It's not 'paternalistic' to require people to pass a driving exam, or gasp, do a safety test to buy a gun. This pseudo-liberatrian crap is the most toxic part of HN, and
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by jasmer 3y ago
Well 'modern science' aka 'scientific materialism'. Tons of the greatest scientists were religious and therefore not materialists. It's pretty easy to just brush it all aside, but I don't think we should. Also
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The science is valid and they are a good aggregator of the various polls, it's perfectly legit and moderately beneficial. Especially in a world of liars.
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Yes, this is a big point.
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It's an ugly pile of concrete, I think the term is 'brutalist'. During the mid 20th century there was a lot of that going on. Most 'modern' designs are rubbish, but at least what they make today is much more interes
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by jasmer 3y ago
You have it a bit upside down. The 'Bay Area' doesn't get good students because of the Valley, it's the other way around. The Valley was made by good students from Stanford and Berkley. Unis have always been a bit out of
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by jasmer 3y ago
There's a difference between new information clarifying history vs. ideology. Perspective is always a thing, but lies are lies.
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What is truly astonishing is that there are not many other competitors that are consistently as good.
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I see masses of bots and dregs in support of authoritarian states.
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by jasmer 4y ago
It's a bad first example admittedly because it seems very aesthetic, frankly, the borders may theoretically make good UI. Most workers today don't remember the old Windows forms: they were good UI. Just ugly. In fact, those '
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by jasmer 4y ago
This is Design not UX also you can actually get quite far by following those 'rules' you still want to have the meta issues sorted out first before getting to the tweaks. But yes, the notion of practice over art actually does appl
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by jasmer 4y ago
Healthcare.gov (Obamacare) was a $1B, and it didn't work. Some Google Engineers came in to save it. In Canada, the 'Gun Registry' cost $700M and it could be literally an access database not even mySQL. Literally probably coul
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I'm saying they are 5x more expensive than they need to be. So most of the money that goes to the agencies is de facto corruption, even if it goes to the workers who are working, but ouputting not much.
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by jasmer 4y ago
I wonder why monogamy is not mentioned here? Given a very primal mammalian impusle towards power-structed polygamy, social conditioning around monogamy has to be pretty profoundly integrated into culture. Or you are going to have some very
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by jasmer 4y ago
E&Y and McKinsey are not remotely in the same business. E&T are accountants who double check that your financials are what they say they are. McKinsey are management consultants who generally do strategic projects, and/or facil
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It's a form of corruption. In China, they take 10% of the top, in Africa the money dissapears, in the West, consultants take 80% and it's all legal.
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by jasmer 4y ago
There is press about 'illegal AirBnBs' but not attacking Chesky like they attack Travis. I'm not saying it's the 'same situation' at all, but rather, they have a different public brand/image despite a lot
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AirBnB and Uber were the same company breaking similar local rules. AirBnB is illegally operating in tons of areas. Knowingly. Systemically. And yet where is all the negative press? Don't believe press narratives and try to put everyth

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