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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> HP soon decreased the quality of their printers to increase faults I often hear such claims of planned obsolescence and while I won't put it past companies to do it, they feel a bit too conspiratorial to me. Are there any document
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
And literally 90%+ of your twitter feed (www.twitter.com/ocdtrekkie, this is not doxxing, the user mentions their twitter handle in their HN profile) is full of posts against Google and big-tech in general, including several retweets o
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> (Section 230) https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
European cafes won't even give you tap water (even if you have bought other stuff) for free, let alone free wifi.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
1000 people working on the same code base is human complexity too.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
At one end, who but a competitor will be in a better position to explain why their competition sucks. At the other end, who but a competitor will be in a more biased position to explain why their competition sucks. Most of these company blo
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Are you familiar with the story of the prodigal son from the Bible? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+15%3A11-32... Background: a man has two sons. He gives half of his wealth to each. The older son is
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I want the ability to convert some of my hours into money by working. I don't expect 4 hours of work a week to convert into a happy life for a family of four.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Flexibility will definitely at the stake though. For example, if I want to drive only a few hours every week, I just won't be worth it for Uber to put on its payroll. "At will" is irrelevant because I won't have the job
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Prop 22 is not a problem created by Uber, it's a response to the problem created by the legislature through AB5. They passed a bill that would effectively hamstring rideshare companies and other independent contractors while providing
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Google makes ads generic: "Google is so dumb it doesn't even know my language" Google infers your language and other information about you and serves specific ads: "omg Google is so creepy."
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
What's to deflect? Duh that Alphabet benefits as well, it is not running a charity, nor are the content creators who spend countless hours and thousands of dollars creating content. They are doing it because they can profit from it. It
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Do you also agree that FB was unfairly raked through the coals in the Cambridge Analytica (CA) case and that they (FB) weren't actually at fault? I do, but at least I am consistent. If the what happened in the CA incident is wrong, th
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Yes, it is objectionable, and ordinarily people here would agree it is objectionable. The wrongness doesn't change just because in this particular case the framing is "poor researcher vs evil Facebook"
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Not sure why people are angry at Facebook for this. Cambridge Analytica was very similar—it was a third-party using an API for its intended purpose (with the user's consent) and then doing questionable things with the data, yet that di
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that DDG has even a percent of a percent of Google's brand recognition. The fact that we are even discussing this shows what sort of a bubble we are in. The vast vast majority of users in t
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
If it doesn't matter that it's 'just the default' why is the DoJ so upset about Google paying to be the default? You can't simultaneously argue that being the default is irrelevant and that it's bad to pay to b
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> The real underlying problem is that we've been papering over our underemployment crisis with these low-skill, low wage jobs. You can't turn them into viable careers by legislative fiat. It's worse. We have been papering
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> Uber very publicly threatened to shut down in CA if they did not get their way with respect to AB5 and the suit alleges that they continue to threaten layoffs. If that isn't an attempt to coerce drivers to vote a certain way by th
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
When it hurts others (in this case McD, by filling their system with garbage orders and metrics), it is not 'just a prank, bro'.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Because it's a meaningless number. If he is actually placing an order for that amount every minute, it would be a useful number (and he would be an asshole for making so many fake orders and filling their system with garbage metrics).
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am not comfortable with Apple getting any control over the web. Thankfully, so far the web is mostly free from Apple's clutches and they can run their fiefdom only in the App universe. I shudder to think of a future where websites wi
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
I am still waiting for them to move to USB-C
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> I think this was true before both started pushing algorithmic feeds over chronological ones. While it's true that algorithmic feeds fundamentally give the platform control over what you see, this is not the type of slam dunk argum
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
People are really vocal about being perfectly ok with paying for ad-free products and not pirating, until the exact moment they actually have to fork out money.
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
If they had launched an app, we would have people here complaining about how no one wants to install an app for a tiny functionality, and then when Google would have inevitably canceled the app in a few years because of lack of installs, we
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
> No emphasis on analytical skills or any focus on music, theater, art or sports. Hell, 90% of schools don't have basic facilities like a playground. Which part of implementing this in American schools needs them to be the hell-hole
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Teens are horrible across the world, but some cultures manage school life a bit better (of course, probably with some other trade-offs). Indians (and Chinese too I think) for example, generally have some amount of implicit respect for &#x27
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
1. School times are way too early for most teens. I am sure that just not having to get up that soon is doing a lot for their overall wellbeing. 2. American high-schools are some of the most toxic environments you could ever be in, and woul
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by kinkrtyavimoodh 6y ago
Could you elaborate?

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