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by jjulius 3y ago
>So now the reason is "the algorithm" and not ubiquitous Friends reruns? I don't really think that the aesthetic described here matches the aesthetic of the Friends coffee shop, no? Or am I crazy?
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by jjulius 3y ago
I would acquiesce that the tone of the last three sentences in my most recent response can possibly be off-putting, but I don't think it really changes or negates the overall point I clearly made in a non-sarcastic tone during the rest
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by jjulius 3y ago
You came into this thread and said that you threw your hands up and walked away from the article when someone that they interviewed mentioned "whiteness". It was then pointed out to you that that was the only time in the article t
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by jjulius 3y ago
It's unfortunate that you stopped reading in the one paragraph that touched on whiteness when there's so much of the article left to be read after that. Had you continued, you'd see that they don't stay on that subject.
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by jjulius 3y ago
Is "hipsterism" still even a thing anymore? It feels like that kind of morphed into the whole holistic/burner culture trend that seems to be growing rapidly these days.
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by jjulius 3y ago
I'm as "Fuck FOX" as many people are, but I'm struggling to find what is wrong about this specific article. I'd be curious to hear what it is about this piece that you take issue with.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Learn not to trust EVs. This is a specific issue with the charging station these people were trying to charge at. The article makes very clear that the cars were towed to a functional charging station. Edit: As pointed out by someone el
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by jjulius 3y ago
So, about how they don't have that many heat waves[0]: >Increased heat wave intensity and frequency, increased humidity, degraded air quality, and reduced water quality will increase public health risks. >More than 20 million peo
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by jjulius 3y ago
>A new study has run the numbers and found that by the end of the century, almost half of the nearly 30,000 cities in the US will face some sort of population decline, losing between 12 to 23 percent of their resident population. I am ge
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by jjulius 3y ago
I'd grant you that point if this was someone like Musk that we're talking about, but Zuck just doesn't seem like he's at that level of vindictive/petty to go to all of this trouble[1] just out of spite. [1] https:&
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by jjulius 3y ago
>So why wouldn’t a company with the developer resources and monetization potential of Meta or Amazon create their own app store? Because that is an incredibly excessive alternative. Instead of just duplicating their app to a third-party
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by jjulius 3y ago
A whole lot of people taking this hypothetical seriously but nobody bothering to ask the real question... Why do you think you will be unable to download FB, IG & WA from the App Store?
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by jjulius 3y ago
Not everything needs to exist to serve a huge user base. If you bother looking at the archive.org capture linked elsewhere in this thread, you'd notice that this looks like a small little "fun" project hosted either by someon
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by jjulius 3y ago
I'm not necessarily onboard with what OP was proposing, but as a counterpoint to your hypothetical, what is stopping those losing businesses from simply closing rather than just bleeding out until death? The way this is phrased makes i
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by jjulius 3y ago
A cursory Google suggests that it is not an uncommon occurrence.
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by jjulius 3y ago
This is a lot more fascinating than the Flappie thing. I love this.
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by jjulius 3y ago
This just feels... excessive.
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by jjulius 3y ago
I'm an Android user and have never owned an iPhone, but that sounds to me like you're talking about a push notification setting that is completely separate from an Alexa response setting. I could be wrong, but my guess is that tha
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by jjulius 3y ago
But (and I say this as a huge Watterson fan and someone who kinda agrees with your crux) Watterson never animated anything. The single-strip format is far more fitting for a one-man shop than an animated film, at least at this point in time
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by jjulius 3y ago
>The reality here is that no one will trust a pinky promise. Especially not from Microsoft. I'll just chime in to say that, while I appreciate the sentiment the user is conveying, I certainly don't trust a Microsoft pinky promi
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by jjulius 3y ago
>... but I never understood what many on HN have been so cynical about Bitcoin. Eh, I think you actually might! Hell, you said it yourself - the mob always wins in the end. It doesn't matter what Satoshi made, the mob took it and ma
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Yeah, but for almost everyone on this forum who makes enough to even file taxes... That number is $12,950, FWIW.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>Who is going to admit to that? To a news organisation? Stranger things have been admitted to news organizations.
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38942790
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by jjulius 3y ago
For what it's worth, The Intercept has not been able to verify what this group is claiming. >A SMALL GROUP of volunteers from Israel’s tech sector is working tirelessly to remove content it says doesn’t belong on platforms like Face
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by jjulius 3y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38915163
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by jjulius 3y ago
[Dupe] Don't you usually like to pepper some of your "dupe" comments with a snarky, "C'mon"? I feel like that's warranted here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38909961 https:&#x2F
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by jjulius 3y ago
>... and being a social media company those staff will probably be big social media users with quite a lot of influence. Genuinely curious to hear why you think this is the case. It's my anecdotal experience that the average social
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by jjulius 3y ago
This is tangential, but I would highly recommend watching a show called The Rehearsal, if you haven't already. It's basically exactly what you just wrote, and wholly unsettling yet brilliant.
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by jjulius 3y ago
>I’ve heard this argument repeated a lot, but it doesn’t really make sense. What legal responsibilities is Google avoiding that aren’t handled by the contracting company? But that's precisely how it's supposed to work - there a

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