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by mcphage 1y ago
> I would encourage you to consider whether your opinion is more informed from social media and news than meeting actual people I wonder where all of these Trump voters get their opinion informed from. Are Trump voters known for meeting
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by mcphage 1y ago
> that wouldn’t get many clicks nor be on the first page of HN. It probably would. Knowing the small number of vehicles involved makes the bill seem more capricious and stupid, not less.
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by mcphage 1y ago
The thing that lasted 4 days and had less than 100 people killed?
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by mcphage 1y ago
There but for the grace of god…
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by mcphage 1y ago
The time line for these sorts of things seems to be: they’ll slowly make YouTube worse and worse, but just not bad enough to kill it. And then something else will come along, and people will be so dissatisfied with the quality of YouTube t
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by mcphage 1y ago
That’s not an agreement, that’s just YouTube doing whatever they want. Which they can—but then—I can just do whatever I want, too. You don’t need to imagine some sort of covenant being involved. > Or you can steal from them, that’s what
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by mcphage 1y ago
How are you making an agreement? You can’t say “I’ll watch this video in exchange for X minutes of ads” because YouTube will never tell you how many minutes they’re going to show you, and because they have zero interest in committing to so
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by mcphage 1y ago
If so, is there anything preventing them from enshitification like has happened to search engines? Or five years from now will we be swimming through dregs again as spammers, scammers, and advertisers turn the results to sludge?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> It seems that business owners' ability to "know their customers" is rather limited Movie production companies compared VCR sales to a serial killer. These were the leaders of large, successful companies, and they didn’t
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by mcphage 1y ago
> and American culture in which the apathy and disgust towards government and politicians is so toxic that people literally cannot see a difference between any one politician and any other. This was also pushed over decades by both a maj
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by mcphage 1y ago
> could it be that democracy doesn't actually work? Clearly it doesn’t work all of the time, but… uh… what does?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I’m not sure the logic that “he was elected democratically, therefore everything he does is fine and is what people wanted” is sound. I’m not sure why you do.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Think of it like Unicode. The Unicode Consortium’s job isn’t to create character encodings. Instead, it’s to unify encoding that already in common usage. If the encoding that is In standard usage for a language is missing something, or the
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by mcphage 1y ago
Philosophy has the same problem, as a field. Many fields of study have grown out of philosophy, but as soon as something is identified, people say “well that’s not Philosophy, that’s $X” … and then people act like philosophy is useless and
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by mcphage 1y ago
> see enough to destroy my children at the game That really is the joy of Mario Kart. You think you’re going to beat me, kid? You’re 12 and I’ve been playing Mario Kart for 30 years. (And then they do… oof)
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by mcphage 1y ago
lol, that’s fair :-)
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by mcphage 1y ago
My assumption is that it would be several orders of magnitude more than that, but, maybe we’ll find out.
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by mcphage 1y ago
What does “clickbait headline” mean to you?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I think it would be very difficult—he does a lot with color mixing, and having multiple colors on a brush, that software painting solutions don’t support. And all of the color blending on the canvas that his wet-on-wet technique is based ar
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by mcphage 1y ago
What, The Price Is right not good enough for you?!
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yeah. He’s being rediscovered, but at his death, he’d already spent 20 years being discovered in the first place.
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by mcphage 1y ago
How many drones would it take to do that? We’re talking potentially thousands of square miles. The resources required to scan all those areas—and scan them often enough to catch all the drones slowly working their way through—would be monu
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Not unless it sits still for a week in a sunny spot. Isn’t that the answer to your question, then?
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by mcphage 1y ago
> Maybe the No Kings Killer thought he had to kill elected representatives to preserve democracy? Maybe he isn’t interested in preserving democracy at all.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Hey, don’t forget Kent State, too, if we’re listing all of the best moments of the National Guard.
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by mcphage 1y ago
> It is not about the particular poem. The particular poem itself is also quite nice.
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by mcphage 1y ago
This works a lot better than the archive link—they have the same text, but the archive link loses all of the JS, and so the page doesn’t make a lot of sense. Here you see it interactive, and—it’s a fun way to read a poem :-)
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by mcphage 1y ago
> why does an os need to hit the internet AT ALL to work? Does it actually need to hit these to work?
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by mcphage 1y ago
I dunno, I have trouble keeping up with celebrity relationships.
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by mcphage 1y ago
Yeah, this would have been a much better shakedown a few weeks ago.

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