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by lapcat 1y ago
I'm truly baffled by this reply. rahimnathwani submitted the article. I personally replied to rahimnathwani, the submitter, suggesting that the year (2021) be appended after it was posted. So, your so-called "fun fact" descri
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by lapcat 1y ago
> To be fair to apple, many billion dollar businesses have been built for and distributed by the app store. This sentence is missing something essential: Many billion dollar businesses have been built for iPhone and distributed by the
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Google’s monopoly is dangerous because they linked success in search to dominance in other areas That's precisely what's happening here: Cloudflare is leveraging its CDN dominance to become a kind of payment processor for the
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The only worrying part of the story is that google also makes browser and OS, which doesn't apply to Cloudflare. Well actually: https://blog.cloudflare.com/supporting-the-future-of-the-ope... > App devs publish
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by lapcat 1y ago
> So what? I should hate them for that? Where did I mention hate? I don't care what emotions you feel or don't feel. The problem is the concentration of power in one company. That has nothing to do with emotion. > Bing/
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by lapcat 1y ago
Nothing in Google's search monopoly challenges the underlying tech behind the internet. Anyone is free to complete... From the stats I've seen, Cloudflare has an 80% market share for reverse proxy services. 20% of all websites use
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by lapcat 1y ago
> As we think about our role at Cloudflare in this developing market, it's not about protecting the status quo but instead helping catalyze a better business model for the future of Internet content creation. That means creating a l
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by lapcat 1y ago
> a few comments above where the apathy and sarcasm start bleeding into grey. I wouldn't call the dead comments apathetic and sarcastic. They're typically vile and humorless.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The best comments are at the bottom. You clearly don't have the showdead option enabled. ;-)
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I care a lot more what smart people think about the articles than the articles themselves. Frankly, I'd say that the article authors are smarter on average than the article commenters and in any case are vastly more careful and in
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by lapcat 1y ago
> There's so many times where one of the first comments are something like "I work in the industry, and the base assumptions of this article are incorrect" There are so many times where the top comments are totally full of
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by lapcat 1y ago
> There were many large forums that hit a tipping point where low-effort posting and polarization drag everything down. How does HN resist the slide? It doesn't. Admittedly, HN discussion is generally of higher "quality" t
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Did they have traffic tailgating? No. If you continue to watch the video after the collision, it's clear that there was no traffic tailgating. They even slowed down and pulled over to the side of the road. No other cars.
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by lapcat 1y ago
This reply misses the point, because my reply was to rahimnathwani who said: > The year is useful in the title when the article provides out of date information. In other words, rahimnathwani was suggesting, incorrectly, that appending t
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by lapcat 1y ago
Notice however that their arguments are pragmatic rather than principled: "Democrats will use this against us when they come to power again," not "It's morally wrong to censor the speech of your political opponents.&quot
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by lapcat 1y ago
> History includes articles with out of date information. Yes, but a lot of out of date information is of no historical interest. That's the distinction I was getting at when I said that history is not the same as out-of-date-inform
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by lapcat 1y ago
> I did not say the submitted article was history. I did not say that you did say that. > I answered why someone would submit an article with out of date information. And I explained why history is not the same as out of date informat
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by lapcat 1y ago
'I never thought leopards would eat MY face'
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by lapcat 1y ago
History is not the same as out-of-date information. The submitted article is not an historical review. If there was an article written explaining how Disk Utility had a bug, but the bug is now fixed, that might be interesting. On the other
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by lapcat 1y ago
> The year is useful in the title when the article provides out of date information. No, that's not the reason for the HN convention. Why would someone even submit an article with out of date information? The reason for the conven
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by lapcat 1y ago
By HN convention, the submission title should still have (2021) appended.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> the average consumer accepts the current arrangement with very little complaint. Absolutely false. You just haven't been listening.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> So they made a change he doesn't like, and that means merging macOS with iOS? Non-sequitur. No. The change was made in iOS first, and then the same exact change was brought to macOS, as has happened many times now over the years.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> Vote 3rd party to break this cycle Will that break the cycle? Power corrupts, and attracts the corrupt. After a 3rd party attains power, it will become as corrupt as the other two. The reason that 3rd parties look better right now is p
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by lapcat 1y ago
See the documentary film "Tickling Giants" about Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef.
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by lapcat 1y ago
> you have to realize the world isn't optimizing make things more fun. Serious question: why not? IMO it should be. If "progress" is making us all more miserable, then what's the point? Shouldn't progress make
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by lapcat 1y ago
If you are good at code review, you will also be good at not using AI agents.
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by lapcat 1y ago
The problem here is that you're talking about the comments on the submission, whereas I was not. I'm talking about the upvotes on the submission. It's entirely expected and unsurprising that Apple's announcement of a maj
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by lapcat 1y ago
The Tahoe submission was new, relevant, and informative. It was posted on the day that Tahoe was released and includes a list of Tahoe features. It wasn't just a terse "me too" post. I also think that your analysis is reducti
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by lapcat 1y ago
> There is also an option to put your website behind a CDN front, such as Cloudflare or Github Pages, and let the CDN provider deal with renewals. The biggest cause of broken feeds for me is actually Cloudflare challenges on the feed URL

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