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541.
by nollidge 14y ago
> This is going to end badly for them. I doubt it. They'll continue to thrive because enough people will jump through their hoops. and they'll give up juuuuust enough ground to keep people agreeable.
542.
by nollidge 14y ago
Facebook does have groups. But yes, what Facebook did was a bait-and-switch: there were likes, which were just biographical information, but then those turned into subscriptions.
543.
by nollidge 14y ago
I don't see how allowing things I've "liked" to send me messages was ever enticing to the user. Originally a "like" was just a thing your friends could see, it didn't mean "subscribe me to this marketing channel".
544.
by nollidge 14y ago
> There is no chance in hell Facebook will allow every "Liked" product, service and company to spam the users' newsfeed as much as they want Except that's exactly what they've done for years now. The real problem is that Facebook didn't
545.
by nollidge 14y ago
My logic was that because they're unobtrustive, they're way less likely to get clicked on, and so sketchy Android devs don't really bother with it.
546.
by nollidge 14y ago
I wonder if it's a UX difference. I don't use iOS, but looking at those notifications, they seem obtrusive and demanding of your attention. Whereas in Android, the notifications just accumulate in the tray at the top without really getting
547.
by nollidge 14y ago
You may already be aware of this, but the word "soccer" in fact comes from shortening the word "association": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_association_football
548.
by nollidge 14y ago
> It might just come down to culture. And/or historical accident. Maybe it's like the appendix - not the result of any modern circumstance, but it's here to stay for the foreseeable future.
549.
by nollidge 14y ago
As an American, this: > there are currently ten parties represented in parliament, four to six of which are major contenders. makes me insane with jealousy. What is it that enables this number of parties to remain viable? My first guess
550.
by nollidge 14y ago
I think the point is that if there were only two teams in the league it also wouldn't work in sports.
551.
by nollidge 14y ago
> since that's a signal from the community that my contribution isn't wanted It's a signal from one single person, not "the community".
552.
by nollidge 14y ago
> HN is heavily biased against Apple This is absurd. HN is not a monolith. Every time Apple has a new product there's plenty of people fawning over it, plenty deriding it, and most people somewhere in between who don't care enough to co
553.
by nollidge 14y ago
I should also mention that the big-L Libertarians, as instantiated in the U.S., are not the fiscally-conservative socially-liberal party that centrists would even entertain. They're far too radical to be at all politically viable (abolish
554.
by nollidge 14y ago
Or wizard, if we're in the Harry Potter universe.
555.
by nollidge 14y ago
> attention from women Ha, well, that's got to be annoying for him: he's gay.
556.
by nollidge 14y ago
As a liberal American, my thesis is that the Republican party is extremely fractured between fiscal conservatives (who are largely centrist or even liberal on social issues) and the straight-up social conservatives. Which means that finding
557.
by nollidge 14y ago
So instead of exploring 3D models in the browser, I have to print off a QR code and awkwardly pan around it with my underpowered smartphone?
558.
by nollidge 14y ago
Who is this person and why do I care? Is there some context here that I'm missing?
559.
by nollidge 14y ago
Health reform and the economy are not orthogonal. The less you have to worry about the paying for potential catastrophic health care events, the more freedom you have to make other financial and employment decisions. > so let's call it
560.
by nollidge 14y ago
I definitely agree with your broader point, but when was pelting cats with rocks ever a form of entertainment, much less the height of it?
561.
by nollidge 14y ago
Because they could knit sweaters instead and it would have about the same impact on their bottom line.
562.
by nollidge 14y ago
aashay is hardly the first person to decide the distinction is meaningful: https://www.google.com/search?q=shyness+vs.+introversion
563.
by nollidge 14y ago
Tweeting != broadcasting your life publicly. At least, not necessarily.
564.
by nollidge 14y ago
There's no such thing. "Guys", plural, is sometimes non-gendered, but I have never heard the singular refer to a female person.
565.
by nollidge 14y ago
Agree with everything except e-mail. I see no reason to believe that's going away anytime in the next millennium.
566.
by nollidge 14y ago
There's plenty of popular science books that are written by respected scientists - Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, Stephen Hawking - as well as books that are effective summaries of accepted information by laypeople, such as The Immortal L
567.
by nollidge 14y ago
No, that happens to me all the time. Gmail used to have a "new messages have been added to the conversation" popup when that occurred, but now that doesn't always happen.
568.
by nollidge 14y ago
Overloading is a feature of natural language though, and therefore completely unavoidable in writing a spec.
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by nollidge 14y ago
Why weren't any psychics sued?
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by nollidge 14y ago
It doesn't change that distinction, but it does render it pretty meaningless.

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