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by naravara 5y ago
> and engagement was never correlated with quality anyway. Well it's a different style of engagement and a different standard for "quality" from what we colloquially think of those terms to mean. Traditional media needed y
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by naravara 5y ago
> Higgins correctly highlights the immense pressure Apple will get from governments and other actors to bend the technology and use it for something else than csam. It will happen, people are probably already thinking how to apply such p
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by naravara 5y ago
> These Nvidia/AMD cards are unprecedented overkill for most gamers. People are begging for cards that can run games at 1080p, Nvidia went straight to 4K, even showing off 8K gaming on the 3090, and now they can't even deliver
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by naravara 5y ago
No it’s ferment. It can also be used to describe something that’s intensely active or roiling. Sort of like how juice or malt starts to bubble and foam as yeast works on it.
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by naravara 5y ago
Devs have enough UX dark patterns in their toolkits to funnel the vast majority of their non-technically savvy userbases into the their favored payment systems and away from Apple's. It is way easier to enforce a blanket ban than tryin
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by naravara 5y ago
I’d say this is a more nuanced and sophisticated explanation of the same dynamic the person you’re responding to is getting at. Yes there is no “cabal” as in a smoke-filled room where shadowy figures make the decision. But, in practice, the
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by naravara 5y ago
Even in SC2, click-speed is not a significant determinant of winning or losing for anyone below Diamond. It's simply not an issue for the vast majority of the player base (75% of players are Platinum league or below) so I don't kn
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by naravara 5y ago
Blizzard recently ended development on Starcraft 2. This prompted a lot of hand-wringing. There’s also a few new studios cropped up that have announced intention to produce new, competitive RTS games in the Blizzard tradition (in contrast t
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by naravara 5y ago
> I don't feel like that at all because on all of my devices, notifications are opt-in. I get notifications for services I use (mostly IM). They aren't granular though, you either opt in to all or you get none. This is particul
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by naravara 5y ago
> using a PWA means their desktop site should be their mobile app There's tons of mobile apps that never needed to be anything other than desktop sites honestly. Facebook, actually, is a perfect example.
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by naravara 5y ago
> The industry is a perfect example of the rampant "consultant effect", where people create massively complicated stacks that often don't accomplish anything that their forebears couldn't manage, and then get paid blo
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by naravara 5y ago
> They want a "market of ideas", and only standardize the ideas that win out. In practice this means Chrome implements an idea and the idea "wins out" because Chrome does it, until Chrome does a new idea.
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by naravara 5y ago
> You're missing the point. Even a relatively computer-illiterate person can easily save a PDF to my hard drive, and it's significantly more difficult with HTML. At a minimum you're probably going to get an HTML file with
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by naravara 5y ago
Cyberpunk is an explicitly dystopian genre setting so I'm not sure "nostalgic longing" is how I would characterize it so much as searching for a kind of catharsis or fictionalized escape from the things about it people feel p
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by naravara 5y ago
I'd actually have to imagine the bug count wouldn't be that much worse than a typical city, replete with flies and mosquitoes from the abundance of humans and human food waste to feed on. If anything the bug problem might be sligh
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by naravara 5y ago
> As soon as ad supported free services start shutting down because of ad blocking and lowered clickthrough rates on ads because of targeting being blocked, most people will probably start changing their minds. Or they'll just go ou
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by naravara 5y ago
China’s economic development (and East Asia’s more broadly) has been one of the most thoroughly studied topics in development economics.
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by naravara 5y ago
While wrenching on a car is indeed manual labor I feel like it can take similar levels of mental effort, background knowledge, and training as junior dev work. So the parallel isn’t entirely off base. I believe the OP’s argument is that the
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by naravara 5y ago
> DIDs are fundamentally antithetical to privacy and will only enable a deeper and more obscure level of tracking to all applications that use them. They were originally inspired for mapping public blockchain use-cases, but IMO personal
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by naravara 5y ago
If I were them I would spin off the adult stuff into a sub-brand. It can be the same technology, administration, ops, everything. Seems easier than strangling the goose that lays golden eggs.
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by naravara 5y ago
In Noah Bradley's case, a lot of people just disliked him because of a reputation that he was a self-important jerk who jumped on every opportunity he could to self-promote and had some annoyingly devoted fanboys (a similar dynamic fol
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by naravara 5y ago
I suspect there is a general 'content ecosystem' where these different 'organisms' each contribute their part to the ecology. From my--not particularly expert--view teenagers aren't specifically the ones who blow th
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by naravara 5y ago
Thanks! I'll check it out.
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by naravara 5y ago
I'm trying to look this up but the only hit for "Roger Scruton Risk De-aggregation" is this comment. Any recommendations on where I can read more about this? I've found other Scruton articles that talk about swing sets a
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by naravara 5y ago
> The more you have a small amount of centralised points you can target, the lower the costs to implement sweeping measures against all traffic and the higher the technical possibility. I don't buy it. The points are already pretty
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by naravara 5y ago
What stops governments from just passing this legislation now if they're so inclined? It's not like China hasn't already pioneered the technology. They're even happy to sell it. It's not even particularly hard, just
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by naravara 5y ago
Also the ability to disseminate posts to like-minded people creates a sense of false-consensus. Like if you mouth off in a town square the people hearing it and reacting are a fairly representative cross section of the population. If you mo
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by naravara 5y ago
Honestly, with Twitter and Facebook actually being more noxious than anonymous forums like Reddit or HN, I'm not so sure that anonymity is the driver.
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by naravara 5y ago
> Driving is faster Maybe, depending on traffic. But parking sure as shit isn't.
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by naravara 5y ago
> I think something that's not readily apparent with the success so far of remote work during COVID, is that organizations are operating on the organizational 'shared context' that was created before remote work started. S

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