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by jjulius 3y ago
>... when large companies DO lose your data... At the risk of getting off-topic and/or being pedantic, is it really "losing" data? Usually the data remains on their servers and is duplicated to another location rather than
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by jjulius 3y ago
>No iPhones, no Android, no Google Search. You know what? That actually sounds pretty cool. Edit: I'm hardly one to care about karma, but it's funny that I'm getting downvoted just for thinking that that idea is neat. Diff
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by jjulius 3y ago
Their account appears to be shadowbanned (eg, posts are marked "dead" on arrival), but I could be wrong.
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by jjulius 3y ago
The criteria that your Forbes piece judges UHC on don't seem to be the things that people are complaining about. Seems that the Forbes piece is more of a surface-level judgement than anything.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>... they're not doing it as a valid part of discussion. As I highlighted in another comment, you're not helping things by simply attacking a generic body of HN users rather than coming in here and calmly trying to explain thin
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by jjulius 3y ago
Care to embody the spirit of what HN tries to put forth by expanding on those points in a constructive, educational manner that may actually help us to better understand, or do you just want to flippantly say that everyone's stupid and
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by jjulius 3y ago
YouTube designs itself to keep users (a word often used for addicts) glued (read, "engaged") to the platform. It is built to draw people in and keep them there, thereby encouraging addictive behaviors. It is absolutely a problem
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by jjulius 3y ago
The opening reads more like factual statements to me, I don't really see anything that I would consider "nonsense billionaire-worship propaganda" (and I say this as someone who is generally pretty "eat the rich"). W
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by jjulius 3y ago
Genuinely curious - aside from, say, 2FA, what do you need your phone for for those services that you can't do via the web on a laptop or desktop? I'm not trying to be confrontational, I'm just thinking through how I use bank
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Avoiding [addictive thing] is easy, you just... That is not a true statement for an addict. What's easy to you may be complicated for an addict. Addiction is not necessarily straightforward.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>An addition [sic] to information... That's not what they are addicted to.
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by jjulius 3y ago
Right. The entire steak ages and changes, not just the exterior. Even so, some places, like Flannery Beef, will blend some of the ends into their "adventurous" burger blend.
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by jjulius 3y ago
Discussion already active in previous thread, this breaks discussion apart. Source link could go in comments.
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458272
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39452084 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39440739 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39454501 https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2F
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Most of the time no mistake. For what it's worth, I just found at least three more from you in the past ~9 days.
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39329741
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340497
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39363542
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by jjulius 3y ago
I dunno how else to say that not having negative effects doesn't mean one isn't addicted to something. It simply isn't a requirement.
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by jjulius 3y ago
Wikipedia isn't really an authority on words, specifically, though. If one goes to Merriam-Webster, an actual dictionary, one sees: > a: exhibiting a compulsive, chronic, physiological or psychological need for a habit-forming subst
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by jjulius 3y ago
The point was that your very comment was a dupe - the very "problem" you take issue with. And that's definitely not your first time (with both submissions and comments). Nobody's perfect, right? Not you, or the people yo
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39404813
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by jjulius 3y ago
Are you asking about this with regards to it being used socially? Depends on the environment and the people obviously, but in the places I'm exposed to it (underground electronic music events) I know many people who are still able to f
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by jjulius 3y ago
Huh? Careful with those absolutes. I've been sober for seven years now and don't find this statement to be the case for me. I enjoy hanging around both sober and non-sober folk alike. Hell, I regularly have a blast on packed dance
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by jjulius 3y ago
>But since copyright is evil (when it's not mine) and content creators aren't worth their salt (if they're not me) so it's okay to do that. This is a disingenuous generalization.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Written by idiots, for idiots. The absolute irony, when you look at your own writing: >All I had to was to prompt... >soft ware >you tube >That's how these news sound like.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>This is not even remotely true. It's a subjective opinion, therefore entirely true to OP and not even remotely true to you.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Alzheimer's is a side effect of a sugar rich diet. Careful with those absolutes. That linked article overall discusses obesity as a likely risk factor for it. On the sugar point, "sucrose" only appears once in the piece a
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by jjulius 3y ago
There's "a serial con man getting justice" (nods head) and "a serial con man getting justice" (shakes head). Now, had this been about someone being conned out of a shitload of money, sure, maybe I can begin to und

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