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by nukeop 8y ago
Will Apple sue the researchers for trademark infringement?
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by nukeop 8y ago
Go developers are busy making fancy (or rather, pretty generic and bland) logos and thinking about "brand identities", while developers who use other languages do actual work. Does a programming language really need a logo, a cart
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by nukeop 8y ago
It's all a short internet search away: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5850/intelligen... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
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Yes, the IQ is a great if not the best predictor of broadly understood intelligence and achievement. It's also correlated with reproductive failure. However, the article is extremely politically charged and filled with identity politic
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Smartphones/tablets are now being used as pacifiers for older children, you give them a brainless game to play in a cafe or a restaurant so they shut up and you can stop paying attention to them so you can play with your smartphone at
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by nukeop 8y ago
That's why I'm asking why shouldn't it just be regulated like normal gambling and made inaccessible to kids.
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by nukeop 8y ago
I don't think living completely without artificial lights and screens is possible for a vast majority of HN users. Remember to completely shut your bedroom out at night though, it has to be completely, 100% pitch black. It improves the
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by nukeop 8y ago
Mobile app stores are shovelware galore. Admission standards are in the toilet and they're flooded with thousands upon thousands of reskinned garbage "games" that frequently rely on superficial similarities to smash hit games
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by nukeop 8y ago
Why not simply regulate it like gambling, instead of outright banning? Are cosmetic item lootboxes affected too, and if so, why, if they're completely optional and offer no advantage? Are "lootboxes" that can be purchased wit
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by nukeop 8y ago
Here's an article on one such underground site: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18291 The tunnels themselves were not that long or linked up, but apparently all those that were found under Europe add up to h
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Neanderthals had advanced jewelry drills, could make their own clay dishes, could treat diseases with herbs and simple surgeries, and they even had some knowledge of dentistry. They were able to construct furnaces, had advanced (at the time
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by nukeop 8y ago
The point is that you don't shift to coal power plants, you're supposed to get your energy from clean sources, such as nuclear, geothermal, and solar. You are presenting a false dichotomy, and engaging in whataboutism to create a
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by nukeop 8y ago
Can anyone really keep up with Youtube's policies anymore? Especially when they're partially created and enforced by automated scripts? I keep hoping that the worse this situation becomes the better incentives people will have to
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by nukeop 8y ago
People's allegiances are tribal, and this kind of juvenile gatekeeping is probably only prevalent among teenagers and young college students. I've never identified with a particular technology so strongly as to feel attacked when
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by nukeop 8y ago
People keep paying because there's no other choice on certain routes, short of driving or taking a bus. This isn't an upgrade or anything, people who wanted to pay to reserve seats could already do so. You could have also not paid
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by nukeop 8y ago
This is because you used to be able to sit wherever you liked once you boarded the plane, and only premium passengers could get a reserved place. Now they are reserving you a bad place beforehand, so you can't just sit wherever you lik
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by nukeop 8y ago
This sort of teenage gatekeeping is why nobody will take your advice seriously.
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You're also extremely protected from ever making any profits, I'm glad people like you stay out of crypto out of fear.
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by nukeop 8y ago
This sums up this stance accurately: https://i.imgur.com/Rgvqkln.jpg
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And the end result are tyrannical power structures that de facto exert totalitarian control. There is very little difference between government-enforced restrictions and those created by global capitalism and its monopolies. It doesn't
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by nukeop 8y ago
There is no alternative to Google, Amazon, Youtube, etc. You have tiny, inferior competitors that don't even come close to 10% of the monopolist's market share. Google works very hard to trap you in their ecosystem. Once you'
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by nukeop 8y ago
Google uses their AI systems for profiling where the sex of the people being profiled is a crucial piece of information and acts as a predictor for interests which is then further used in targeting ads. As long as it makes Google money, it&
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The problem is that cryptominers are not an alternative to ads, they're used in parallel with ads.
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by nukeop 8y ago
That HN Bingo is a great idea for a browser plugin that adds a board to the HN page and fills it automatically as you browse
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by nukeop 8y ago
>Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That's a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy. I don't know if paraphrasing Joseph Stalin is the right way to go around this
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by nukeop 9y ago
There was a science fiction story about a society where privacy was completely impossible because air everywhere was permeated by nanoscale cameras that recorded everything everywhere from all perspectives at all times. Looks like we are ap
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There would be no privacy issues if the users did not give up that private data willingly in the first place. A-ok with random company on the internet having access to it, but suddenly other random parties exploiting it are "creepy&quo
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Who are you?
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I never get it why people who discover secrets like these make extra sure nobody else can ever enjoy them again. Just use the undocumented feature and don't make a big thing out of it. This way it's ruined for everybody, and they
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by nukeop 9y ago
So now we have three pairs of terms that apparently mean exactly the same thing. I'm sure that whatever "minorities in tech" are more interested in not being needlessly confused, than not seeing the word "slave". Wh

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