moolcool

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by moolcool 4y ago
Some of the brightest minds in the world work tirelessly to develop impossibly advanced algorithms which exploit our monkey-brains' attention mechanisms. It's scary to me that there's people working in the tech industry who w
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by moolcool 4y ago
I don't doubt that this is the case to some extent, but I also think that good products (and apps are no exception), once they become popular, inevitably get ground into dust by the unending desire for unlimited growth at any cost.
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by moolcool 4y ago
I'd prefer that facebook just fade into obscurity, and also hopefully face some kind of consequence for the incalculable harm they caused the world along the way.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Apple had a blank slate for a new naming scheme and already botched it
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by moolcool 4y ago
> We're enhancing Chess No you're not
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by moolcool 4y ago
Maybe misplacing your starting position is a powerup you can buy
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by moolcool 4y ago
Thanks, I hate it
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by moolcool 4y ago
I bet you could rig a water cooling pump to run off a 12v power tool battery, and completely remove the need for dangerous wall AC power from the equation.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Hasn't value been created by the fact someone got a service in exchange for money? Like I don't see how 1Password doesn't create value just because free spreadsheet tools exist. Similarly, with your example, if you compose a
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by moolcool 4y ago
People work hard to develop and maintain all of those applications, and other people find more utility in them compared to the free alternatives. What's the problem?
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by moolcool 4y ago
I agree, but this is a hot take among a lot of free software purists.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Richard Mille's whole deal is technically interesting but very ugly watches
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by moolcool 4y ago
Well it _is_ a Richard Mille
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by moolcool 4y ago
Technical purists disparage flash, all with valid reasons, but ignore all the respects in which it was extremely good. It allowed developers (young amateur/learning developers especially) to easily make extremely high quality games and
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by moolcool 4y ago
I would say that in an age of social media, and in the context of the US, the _perception_ of a tyrannical government is far more dangerous than an actual tyrannical government. There's no shortage of Americans who somehow consider Bid
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by moolcool 4y ago
I don't mean to be snarky, but I can't tell if this comment is sarcastic or not.
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Every developed country in the world has access to mass media built in the image of the American networks (not to mention the American networks themselves). Mass shootings don't happen very often in any of those places though. Just Ame
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by moolcool 4y ago
"For more than 200 years, the federal courts have unanimously determined that the Second Amendment concerns only the arming of the people in service to an organized state militia; it does not guarantee immediate access to guns for priv
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by moolcool 4y ago
> The problem is that the game industry is constantly doing bait and switch, at least for the last decade I don't understand this complaint. Just don't preorder games, and don't buy games before reviews drop.
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by moolcool 4y ago
iTunes and WMP were okay, but nothing ever has topped Foobar 2000 IMO.
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by moolcool 4y ago
Spotify's UI is the absolute worst. The craziest thing to me is that it's never improved either, it's always been down bad. - Managing music offline is _terrible_. The first iPod did it well in 2001, but Spotify still can&#
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by moolcool 4y ago
> The driver is refusing to allow it to work, sure, but it doesn't damage the chip itself in any way That's kind of immaterial, isn't it? Like most end users won't know how to roll back a driver in the device manager,
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by moolcool 4y ago
> Like many other 'smart' appliances, it creates it's own AP so allow you to set it up. So anyone within range could attach it to their network, and then do whatever they like with it. Considering the security risk of smar
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by moolcool 4y ago
So typical of the Canadian UX for so many things :(
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> I mean, there's a fairly strong Darwinistic argument for the validity of certain religions I always find it ironic when the "Facts and Reason" branch of atheism pretends that we would all be driving flying cars in a peac
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by moolcool 4y ago
> The problem I have with religion is the focus on "removing the doubt", which I strongly disagree with This isn't the case as often as you might think. Consider religions like Unitarianism, for example. You can also make
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by moolcool 4y ago
> Universal login You can have universal login with MetaMask, sure, but that functionality isn't reliant on a blockchain. It's decades-old public key cryptography. > Ownership in communities.... The difference is that existi
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by moolcool 4y ago
> You’re missing the forest for the trees No, I'm saying that trees do not exist exclusively in forests. A protocol does not have to be federated in order to be decentralized.
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I don't think that's right. Using decentralized protocols doesn't necessarily imply decentralized authority or use of those protocols. Skype used to be P2P, and the mothership would still push updates to end users to ensure e
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> For example, someone who chooses 120 hour weeks and stress and a heart attack at 50 will probably have an order of magnitude more money than someone who chooses a lifestyle job. I really don't think that's true.

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