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by oska 5y ago
I just vouched your comment. In return (not really), wondering if you could give me a little more detail on F-Droid 'flipping'. Because this is news to me.
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by oska 5y ago
Media has an impact in the world we live in even without our participation
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by oska 5y ago
Not commenting on the particular issue that the GP used to illustrate their point about free speech but because Elon has definitely raised concerns about censorship on twitter before their comment is relevant. A sizeable stake in the co
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by oska 5y ago
This was a really good answer but I also don't think it invalidates the GP's point. There was a particular set-up at a particular time that meant that pop music was going to go very big and that explains more of The Beatles phen
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by oska 5y ago
I'm aware that the BBC and the ABC tout themselves as 'public' broadcasters but it's a self-serving fiction. The ABC is the one I am most familiar with so I will speak to that example. It is completely state funded and i
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by oska 5y ago
This is so pathetic and disappointing. RT produces some very good journalism. CrossTalk [1] is an excellent show. Going Underground & Worlds Apart [2,3] also good. Yes, there is some propaganda and bias on RT but the same is also
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by oska 5y ago
When it's mass produced food like these sandwiches are (basically an industrialised process) then yes, it is a valid criticism.
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by oska 5y ago
> An easy, cheap meal. They're not; combini sandwiches are junk food. So this is a shallow, faddish paean to junk food and deserves to be shot down. Just because Japanese people also eat junk food doesn't mean it should be cele
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by oska 5y ago
Yes. Japan has a lot of good food but like any other industrialised country it also has highly processed bad food. This includes ramen, all the usual crisps/chips type snack foods, and from the sounds of it, these combini sandwiches to
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The Marquis de Sade of the Puzzle World(newyorker.com)
2 points by oska 5y ago|0 comments
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by oska 5y ago
> what's the hacker news angle here? I appreciate your question here is genuine, rather than critical. But just a reminder of the guidelines [1]: > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more
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by oska 5y ago
Tedious tomfoolery from immature 'hacktivists'
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Australian magpies help each other to remove tracking devices(theconversation.com)
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Nothing is more dangerous than a well-read dictator(unherd.com)
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by oska 5y ago
I don't think you can say the paper is 'suspect'. It's primarily factual findings of a pollen analysis. But a criticism you certainly can make is that it's just one study from one geographic location. And that'
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by oska 5y ago
I'm aware of this 'colonising strategy' of FB in developing markets and I find it really sad that many people's first experience of the net and the web will have been FB.
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by oska 5y ago
> kind of an essential for anyone working in tech Don't mean to be rude but you appear to have a quite limited concept of what 'working in tech' can entail.
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by oska 5y ago
I'd actually argue that HN is one of the better forums in terms of percentage of commenters who have read the linked article
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by oska 5y ago
But the web isn't "single interest" and, as you yourself referenced, there are open standard ways (RSS) to compile information from across it. This may have evolved more without FB so heavily dominating the scene.
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by oska 5y ago
I'm certainly no expert on the Great Plains but for a decent understanding of its vegetation history I wouldn't turn to wikipedia but instead look to see if there have been any decent pollen analyses done. After a short search I f
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by oska 5y ago
> The best aspect is seeing pics of people's kids. You can't fault that. I can. I think it's unfair of parents to post their children's images on the web, which are then being stockpiled by FB in perpetuity.
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by oska 5y ago
I don't mean to sound like a smartarse here but there would be if more ppl stopped using FB (which seems to be the trend anyway).
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by oska 5y ago
I think you're overconfident in your understanding here. It's a very complex subject. Removal of trees from an area of land will result in greater dryness. Trees, in a substantial way, create their own climate and can increase pre
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by oska 5y ago
Excellent comment
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by oska 5y ago
The creator gives some of their reasons on why they made this choice in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/WebGames/comments/qwmnmt/wordle_a_d...
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by oska 5y ago
Direct link listing her books on librivox: https://librivox.org/reader/103?primary_key=103&search_categ...
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by oska 5y ago
> the more interesting question No, going back to your original premise the only thing 'interesting' for me about Facebook is how dismally awful the company is and how nakedly sociopathic Zuckerberg is.
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by oska 5y ago
I appreciate your considered and nuanced reply to my fairly stark comment. My position on Facebook is that it is so awful an entity that it is not moral to work in any position in the company. And I don't buy the excuse of working for
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by oska 5y ago
Elon Musk got mocked when he talked about robots moving so fast you'd need a strobe light to see them but typically for Musk he was just a bit too early in his timeline. Definitely the way things are going; why wouldn't they?
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by oska 5y ago
I don't want to sound like I'm boasting of having a large vocabulary but those words don't strike me as out of the ordinary for the reading level that The Economist targets (generally university/college educated).

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