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by naravara 6y ago
I think most wordpress blogs with commentariats just use Disqus now. It's buggy and unreliable, but the commenting capability is still there generally.
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by naravara 6y ago
>What do you do in the next internet to try to avoid the spam and SEO problems on this internet? Ads blocked by default on all browsers. The original sin with a lot of these comes from the fact that incentives drive towards maximizing cl
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by naravara 6y ago
>I would argue that the public internet has lowered in quality, and the lowering quality of search results simply reflects that the information you're looking for often isn't out there. Isn't think kind of a feedback loop
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by naravara 6y ago
I think Reddit getting big also killed a lot of the old forums. The frictionlessness of joining a community made it hard to compete. And the general lack of personality to user profiles in Reddit avoided the "cool kid's clique&quo
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by naravara 6y ago
>In the end, restauranteurs who are good at this business will thrive and those who are not good at it will falter. If the differentiating factor between success or failure is SEO rather than location, quality of food, or service I have
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by naravara 6y ago
>I don't think the average restaurant owner who may not be very digitally savvy realizes how these companies piggyback on top of their brand. I predict that soon there will be a large class action lawsuit with thousands of restauran
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by naravara 6y ago
They prioritized showing up on searches over really precisely tuned results. If you search for an animated gif on any image search GIPHY hits are the main ones. It's all about that SEO. And then they manage to make it hard to actually
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by naravara 6y ago
In the US, "discrimination" only applies to protected classes. This includes sex. race, religion, nationality, skin color, age, or disability status. Unless one's stance on accepting cookies is enshrined in a widely acknowled
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by naravara 6y ago
The virtues and vices of any large group of people sort of coalesce into a big gestalt "culture." Companies hire for very specific virtues, related to competence and effectiveness, that they then amplify or dampen with metrics and
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by naravara 7y ago
It is very hard to make people understand that scale matters when deciding how sensitive data is. They only ever care about it in whatever narrowly defined use case they're worried about. The idea that someone can take an element of no
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by naravara 7y ago
Insecticide. It's mainly to kill mosquitos. IIRC they introduced it when Zika and Chikungunya were spreading.
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by naravara 7y ago
>It’s a very strange idea that somehow mothers loved their children any less in times past. It doesn't mean they loved their children less. It means they had a different bar before they considered them full-fledged "children.&q
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by naravara 7y ago
Pretty incontrovertial. Most of our surviving writings “by Aristotle” are actually lecture notes from his students rewritten later. So it’s got a lot of the hallmarks of being written by committee and coming across as being very dry. Compar
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by naravara 7y ago
>It's worth noting that Geekbench is a pure microbenchmark. The iPhone will not sustain performance as long as the others. The point is that Apple could solve this when moving to bigger devices. Is that inherent to the architecture
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by naravara 7y ago
>And yet, had he been accused of supporting, say, Mussolini, or had he a lifelong fondness for rightist nationalism, he would have been milkshake-ducked into irrelevance today. Heidegger would like a word
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by naravara 7y ago
That's a very facile take on a complex thinker: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/17/eric-hobsbawm-...
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by naravara 7y ago
If your use case is gaming, does Linux support matter much? If anything I would think this would be for someone who has a Linux setup but wants to access games that aren't available.
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by naravara 7y ago
You realize you can have a lot more enjoyable driving experiences if you enable all the people who only drive for instrumental reasons to get off the roads right? Nobody is "anti-car." People are anti-city-planning-that-requires-y
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by naravara 7y ago
The rumor mill suggests the next generation of flagship phones are going to have flat sides. So I'm guessing it's a way to differentiate and present flat edges as denoting "premium." The iPad Pro has flat sides too.
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by naravara 7y ago
>>[2136 book idea]....a world in which 80 percent of the population has been wiped out by climate change, but also a world where characters time-travel to create an alternate past in which Clinton won the election. If I was time-trave
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by naravara 7y ago
I think this was done as much for gameplay flow as anything else. The main criticism of the older model was that you had to manage combat in 3 separate, and only mildly overlapping, planes which made combat a time-consuming pain to track. L
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by naravara 7y ago
Maybe. But there's a lot of doubt as to whether China is cut out to exercise broad hegemonic influence the way the US has. They might not have the cultural cachet or a compelling enough ideological framework for international cooperati
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by naravara 7y ago
>Over the same time, the industry has gotten much more sophistication in measuring return on ad spend. All while growing by leaps and bounds. The trick is, the ad industry people are the ones who design all the KPIs that determine the ef
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by naravara 7y ago
>If you can figure out how to turn off the part of people’s brains that wants to avoid them being part of the 5 to be sacrificed, you will have created world peace. Most cultures have very strong social mores that sanction against hoardi
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by naravara 7y ago
Lots of writing in international relations circles right now about how the slapshod global response to this crisis, in contrast to previous pandemics like ebola and H1N1, is evidence that the era of US hegemony is over. Without a hegemonic
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by naravara 7y ago
I find that pretty far fetched. I'd need to see some actual data on that that isn't explained by the commodity parts getting cheaper to be convinced.
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by naravara 7y ago
I kind of wish I had a better idea about the finances for a lot of these applications. Back in the "fun" days part of the reason they were fun was because they didn't need to worry about making money. As they started to try a
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by naravara 7y ago
>Maybe I'm spoiled by Apple et al., but my Switch feels quite the opposite of premium in the hand. The Switch also has an MSRP of $300. The iPod Touch is about $200, but for a much less complicated piece of hardware that gets to dra
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by naravara 7y ago
I don't know if I would hold it against any company for not being on par with Microsoft for rolling out a massive cloud service. Microsoft has been designing for massive, globally distributed services for enterprises forever, even befo
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by naravara 7y ago
>releasing a system with PS4 / Xbox One level power in a portable form factor The reason the Switch doesn't hit PS4/XBox One levels of power is because it's hard to hit that mark while staying within weight considerat

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