nske

8 ms·

31.
by nske 6y ago
Perhaps that troubles some people more than others, it's just that for me a purchase is a simple, binary choice -I either agree with what they're asking for, based on the best information that I have about it, or not and I don&#x2
32.
by nske 6y ago
From the perspective of user, it's not as simple, at least for some. a) At a personal level, it forces the user to make choices. Making choices is exhausting. Should I donate $1, $10, or $100? Should I donate based on my perception of
33.
by nske 6y ago
I was using Signal before Keybase for exactly the same volume of chats and the difference in performance (search, input lag, displaying lag) was huge. Once Skype was rewritten as an Electron app, I noticed the same performance issues. MS Te
34.
by nske 6y ago
Ok, I suppose we all have our priorities and biases. I can see how being able to feed for one's family can feel more urgent than being able to exercise their freedoms. Perhaps the (late) CCP deserves credit for improving economy, infra
35.
by nske 6y ago
Why should this progress in economic development be enough to make it legitimate? I mean, even if we assumed that the end justifies the means and that all that matters is economic prosperity, they didn't even have to do a lot of things
36.
by nske 6y ago
It does (or at least did, when I was using it). It only requires it for registration, so you could even use a disposable phone number, but regardless it is a nonsensical choice for something that could aspire to be a general-purpose chat ap
37.
by nske 6y ago
I used Signal for more than a year. Unfortunately compared to Keybase's chat, it is buggy, slow and lackluster in functionality.
38.
by nske 6y ago
> The more I study, the more I realize that the western view of CCP is... not exactly wrong, but very very problematic What's problematic to me is that a government censors information that could change people's minds. How ca
39.
by nske 6y ago
I know, that's why I was surprised it managed to somehow not suffer from the same performance and functionality problems that I observe on the rest I mentioned. I didn't say that all electron apps have to suffer, at the same time
40.
by nske 6y ago
Very unfortunate. Besides its main purpose, Keybase has been my chat app of choice for quite a while, after I decided I could no longer put up with Signal's general crappiness. Keybase has been one of the very few performant and usable
41.
by nske 6y ago
There hasn't been enough time since the noise about Zoom's security, for a company to inspect the goods, audit the books, negotiate, draft paperwork, share cocktails and all other stuff that come before announcing an acquisition.
42.
by nske 6y ago
Well, in reality there wouldn't be one optimal product, there would be many, for the reason that you said -and for human reasons. However they would still be able to borrow good bits from each other and gain insight on how things could
43.
by nske 7y ago
Agreed, but then they should give the users a way of overriding that. Google in particular knows what users want because they force you to answer it when you create your account. I've set every single location setting to UK, and yet wh
44.
by nske 7y ago
Sorry it just occurred to me that I was using a more specific word to refer to the family of edibles that I meant, the correct one would be "legumes" -I'd never leave things like beans or chickpeas out on purpose!
45.
by nske 7y ago
The reality I've seen is that most doctors can only help with small/very specific issues of this kind if it's something they happened to had encountered before. Otherwise they will send you on a trip for multiple exams and in
46.
by nske 7y ago
I've used Gousto on and off for years, great variety of recipes and never disappointed -it actually works out not very expensive per meal if you order the 4-people package, though you need some organizing to cook/freeze the extra
47.
by nske 7y ago
And lentils with bread -most people look down on them for some reason, unless it's a side of some sort, but I find them just beautiful as proper dinner!
48.
by nske 7y ago
None of our business.
49.
by nske 7y ago
I hope manufacturers start adopting Android One widely. It will both take the burden of maintenance off them and make the problem of timely system updates go away for their users.
50.
by nske 7y ago
If that was the case they could have just passed some handling fees to the indie artists -that would still be much more reasonable than the fees that the artists would have to pay to a publisher. I think the record companies -still in the p
51.
by nske 7y ago
We don't know what exactly happened. They can work their problems out between them or in a court room. Reading allegations and passing judgement on people that we don't know should be reserved for tabloid readers.
52.
by nske 7y ago
"Sex ring"? What does that even mean? A company exec liked sex, was likely unfaithful towards his wife and was also likely violating company policy by having sex with subordinates. Why should this matter to anyone beyond his wife
53.
by nske 7y ago
https://www.revolut.com/legal/privacy/#what-are-my-rights Send a ‘data subject access request’ to dpo@revolut.com, they should handle that properly.
54.
by nske 7y ago
Wow! Relying on FAX sounds so ridiculous, especially coming from a company that was supposed to have designed API for every internal operation -even for some that didn't make sense, long before APIs where even a thing.
55.
by nske 8y ago
>as I age, I increasingly see the degree to which phenomena are interconnected, and the knock-on implications regarding complexity and unanticipated consequences I think the same reasons that we have to thank for that we also have to bla
56.
by nske 8y ago
> The Greek government allowed this To understand the tax mentality of Greeks, it's worth pointing that not a single Greek government existed in modern history that didn't have multiple corruption scandals and blatant misspendi
57.
by nske 8y ago
Requiring you to get a gambling license is a bit different than just requiring your games to be classed as adult-only. For starters there are limits to how many gambling licenses are available from the government each year and companies hav
58.
by nske 8y ago
I'd find it fair for these games to be classified only for adults. As for adults however, my philosophy is that we should stop treating them as kids that need to be told what they are and aren't allowed to do. Loot boxes are addic
59.
by nske 9y ago
I want them to. This puts more pressure for locks to improve and makes it less likely that I trust my current lock.
60.
by nske 9y ago
You are right, however I think the amount of users that use cloud server instances because they really need that dynamic scalability is much smaller than the amount of users that use it just because

More ›