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by jmyeet 9mo ago
What I find most interesting about this is that US tech companies are doing what people accuse China of doing. In fact, theoretical Chinese informed was the entire (performative) justification for the Tiktok ban. The reality of course was t
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The author is wrong. IMHO he's operating under a false premise that the labor market just kind of "happens" or even that the labor market itself is "efficient". At no point have worker rights and conditions advanced
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There are certain people who believe that average citizens can be held responsible for the actions of their government, to the point that they are valid military targets. Well, if that's true then employees of the companies that build
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It's almost like you could describe the physical store as the means of production so what we're talking about is the worker's relationship to the means of production . You might say: but what abou the owners? Many such sma
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I found a simpler explanation for what's going on [1]. To summarize, malicious Markdown files with custom schemes in URLs can trick users into executing arbitrary code. I honestly didn't know this was a "feature" of Note
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I agree that the UX on Tiktok is cleaner and, like you say, in part part that's due to it being only short-form. It's worth noting that "short form" here means up to ~10 minutes long at this point, includes live videos a
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
I don't think I ever look at my feed on Youtube and I'm honestly not even sure why. This might just be a byproduct of when I started using it. I don't think I even logged in for the longest time. Even today, I don't subs
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In this category I always think of Twitter acquiring then shutting down Vine. Now look where we are with short-form video, particularly Tiktok.
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The Youtube acquisition and growth strategy was interesting (I left another comment about this). IG was also quite interesting. Many here will be familiar with how the founders of these tech companies basically keep control over their compa
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The story of this is actually pretty interesting. Everyone had been tryign to do video-on-demand and failing, basically. Including Google. Google had a product called Google Video that failed pretty spectacularly. Youtube came along and was
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
According to the ACLU, they are not [1]. So Google voluntarily handed over user information. It requires a court order to enforce it and that requires a judge to sign off on it. This is somewhat analogous to ICE's use of administrati
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Capitalism. The problem is capitalism. The endless quest for ever-increasing profits just expands wealth inequality. Millennials went through this when the job pipeline died in 2008 (ie entry level positions disappeared). We now have a huge
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
US law enforcement kill over 1000 people every year, way more than any comparable country [1]. The raw data of incidents on Wikipedia has to be broken down by month [2]. And here's a chart showing the number has been going up basically
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
I'm old enough to remember Waco and there was widespread criticism of Janet Reno's handling of Waco. This idea that the Dems "cheered it on" is ahistorical post facto justification for a position you likely already held.
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I read a quote once that went something like (paraphrased): every organizational app has to compete with email and every form of social media has to compete with group texts. And I think that's accurate. If you pick random people they&
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
The future is solar. This has been clear for years. Solar simply has too many advantages. Plummetting prices, no moving parts, the only form of direct power generation, it can be done anywhere including otherwise unusable land and flexible
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The popularity of a genre is deeply tied to the historical context of what's going on in the real world. In the 1950s and 1960s you obviously had the Space Race, which itself was a product of the Cold War. Some commments view this as
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
I have a long history with the Civ series. I spent a massive amount of time playing Civ1. My next most played was Civ4 and most of that wasn't the base game. It was a mod that had a very loyal fan base: Fall From Heaven 2 [1]. I have t
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
> Meanwhile I suspect they wouldn't do a damn thing if it turns out that some immigration billionaire outright lied on their paperwork. We don't have to guess this. We have evidence. Elon Musk is worked illegally in the US [1]
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Like the author, I have a lot of personal experience with this. Going through it basically forces you to become an expert in things don't really want to know anything about. What stuck out to me is that despite obviously being a smart
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A lot of the so-called "charity" by wealthy individuals is anything but. It's placing assets in a tax-advantaged positions where some of the proceeds gets used for "charity" (whatever that means) but they still main
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I started using Chrome at version 2 I think. It still had the 3D logo. It was such a breath of fresh air and the big innovation was running one process per tab. Firefox existed but the entire browser could (and did) hang. And IE was... well
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"People are responsible for their governments" is what I like to call the "Osama bin Laden defense". Put another way, if people are responsible for their governments, that makes any civilian a valid military target. Take
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To dismiss the impact of economic sanctions is at best intellectually dishonest. Economic sanctions aren't a natural disaster. Somebody is imposing them. Who, exactly? And why? Also, US allies (ie Israel) can kill hundreds of thousands
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Some people seem to think the previous space race was about technology. That was all incidental. The Space Race was entirely geopolitical. It was a conflict proxy, an artifact of the Cold War. Any technology was entirely incidental. The U
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by jmyeet 9mo ago
I went looking through your comments. 75% of them (and probably 90% in the lasst 2 years) were Elon related. Tesla, SpaceX, Grok, Twitter, DOGE, etc. Quite a lot of comments for 101 karma if I'm being real. Why do you feel this kneejer
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I want to talk about Chevron deference. Trust me, I'm going somewhere with this. For those that don't know, Chevron deference was a legal doctrine established by the Supreme Court in the US in the 1980s that basically said that th
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There are a class of people who may seem smart until they start talking about a subject you know about. Hank Green is a great example of this. For many on HN, Elon buying Twitter was a wake up call because he suddenly started talking about
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When does the market realize this is all just a shell game and the emperor really has no clothes? We saw this on a much smalelr scale a decade ago when one of Elon's companies (Tesla) acquired a second one of Elon's companies (Sol
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IMHO Europe has one choice, and it may already be too late, and that is to adopt the China model or to descend into fascism and neoliberal economic collapse. Europe needs to be responsible for its own security and needs its own versions of

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