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by mvdtnz 1y ago
If you don't think there's active censorship of certain topics from HN leadership you're naive beyond belief. There's a reason that most of the topics that get auto-flagged also happen to be a threat to the financial int
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Ah yes, what could be more stylish and cool than a company assigned work device.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Book critic does not belong with architect and accountant, jfc. Come on. Get real.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> Apple is stylish and cool by default, with occasional stumbles. Even among tech people, they have good will Good grief. Sometimes it's good to get a reminder that there are still people who think this way.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
That's not a valid scale, "terrifying" and "interesting" are orthogonal. Some of the most interesting things are the most terrifying. This comment is around 8 on both scales for me.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> If it gives the same thing verbatim, it's very unlikely to be hallucinated Why do you believe this?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
No, it's not a guarantee of anything. They're asking for the truth from a lie generating machine. These guys are digital water diviners.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It's not pro-porn and anti-porn. It's pro-porn and people who just don't think this is that important an issue. The latter massively, MASSIVELY outweighs you guys.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Are you serious? Of course there are reasons to believe they won't generalise.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
VERY important to note that Paul Graham is a dumb guy.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Alternative stores on Android have been possible since day one - there are several of them. That's not what the Epic case is about.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It wasn't asked to generate nudes. Weird hill to die on.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Oh stop this fake incredulity. You're shilling for Apple and did such a bad job of it that you were found out while your account is still green. Take it on the chin instead of lashing out. Better luck with your next shill account.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
They never answer this one.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> and the moment a crack appears in the walled garden Meta will say "go install the FB/Instagram app from our app store with no privacy policy reviews" People keep saying this, but how do you explain the years and years of
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Which has absolutely zero bearing on what he said.
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> does it really make that much of an improvement over what we already had with search engines, online documentation and online Q&A sites? This can't be a serious question? 5 minutes of testing will prove to you that it's n
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It's only constant if you constantly administer it
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
I choose the things that bring me joy.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
It's really sad when you hear about people living this way. Life isn't about profit maximisation.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Then explain the one picture that every single DEI advocate shares at the start of their intro sessions. You know the exact one that I'm talking about. https://interactioninstitute.org/illustrating-equality-vs-eq...
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
One of the oddest things about cancel culture to me was the absolute insistence from one side of the political spectrum that this thing we can all see in plain sight just doesn't exist. Just bizarre.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
What on earth is this response
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> Shouldn't this power be gated behind a user-controllable permission? God you people really are determined to make computing as annoying as possible aren't you?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Did you read a single one of the examples? No human would be influenced by these.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
> The carbon emissions of writing and illustrating are lower for AI than for humans Great so all we have to do to save the world is cull illustrators, writers and anyone else who can be replaced by AI.
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
What?
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
There are very serious drawbacks to e2e encryption that can't be ignored for all use cases. Searching and indexing, reporting, analytics and performance are aspects of a program which become difficult or impossible if all of your data
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
Well I'm not American but I feel like all I have read for the last 8 months has been American organisations and American people criticising Trump, the US government and Israel. I am not aware of penalties for these orgs or people, do y
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by mvdtnz 1y ago
How do you "tilt" in inches? A tilt is a rotation. I won't read an article with a headline that not only measures a tilt in the wrong type of unit but also opts for a medieval variant of a distance measure.

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