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by pvg 1y ago
https://www.vice.com/en/article/why-are-travel-agents-still-... Has some stats. It seems pretty clear the interests of travel agents did not count for much in the face of technological change.
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by pvg 1y ago
This 'only one can exist' is something you brought in, though. Neither the article nor I am saying that.
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by pvg 1y ago
https://xcancel.com/measure_plan/status/1929900748235550912 for the tweetless
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by pvg 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169314
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by pvg 1y ago
I don't think the article says that. People still write games for the NES in assembly but that's effectively unrelated to current software development practice.
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by pvg 1y ago
Right but just like most people were looking for a cheap shirt, pot or chair, most people are looking for 'cheaper way to make computers do what I want'. These changes didn't happen because people hated art or failed to inqui
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by pvg 1y ago
You don't need to talk to furniture makers to know that mass produced furniture has replaced cabinetmakery almost completely. Most of us are sitting on the evidence.
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by pvg 1y ago
We don’t need further evidence of generalities to determine that there was a distinct negative impact Seems like we would, given that the moderator comment above says the opposite - there's evidence of positive impact.
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by pvg 1y ago
Is it more likely that a person that didn’t make the first bot also has a second that they didn’t make, or less likely? It's hard to tell without assuming some sort of malicious or disruptive intent of which there isn't any evid
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by pvg 1y ago
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44155474
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by pvg 1y ago
Thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44153053
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by pvg 1y ago
They likely have other bots that remain undetected. Why is this 'likely'?
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by pvg 1y ago
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by pvg 1y ago
Ongoing doomthread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44148179
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by pvg 1y ago
what HN does. the actual matter at hand. That is, Linus calling out Kees That kind of 'matter' is not really what 'HN does' so it's not really 'at hand'. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRan
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by pvg 1y ago
The purpose of HN is not really 'alerts'.
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by pvg 1y ago
You don't want the xenomorph picking an immortal zombie automounter process as its host.
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by pvg 1y ago
Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44144420
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by pvg 1y ago
I think that's worse and is exactly the problem with these - it's one thing for Linus to be yelling at someone in on a mailing list (is he right? is he just mad? who knows? I imagine they'll sort it out!) and something comple
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by pvg 1y ago
It's usually just better to wait till the drama has some sort of external reporting because piping raw drama into HN makes for lousy HN threads. Then the title problem is someone else's problem. A shortcut version that works all t
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by pvg 1y ago
Spam detection is turned up higher for brand new accounts and has more false positives.
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by pvg 1y ago
Recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031917
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by pvg 1y ago
You can post this in the upcoming threads for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43676697
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by pvg 1y ago
You can't downvote articles, you can't downvote replies to your own comments, you can't downvote comments that are a day or so old and older, etc. So make sure you're looking at a thing that's actually downvotable (
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by pvg 1y ago
You're better off not loading the question like "Do you simply consider it someone else's job to worry about risks like that?". Who would want to talk to you when it sounds you're not asking but looking to berate?
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by pvg 1y ago
You could post this as a Show HN if it's available for others to poke at - https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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by pvg 1y ago
No, you can't get it to say anything you want it to say and be taken seriously. It's one of the things that makes Yarvin so unserious.
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by pvg 1y ago
I do not believe that I even came close to breaking any rules or that I even went slightly off topic. I'm afraid you're simply mistaken about that. It's not an ambiguous thing, it's repeated a bunch of times over and t
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by pvg 1y ago
Why? Because it's shitty and tedious? It's so shitty and so tedious there there are forum (beside basic human) conventions against it. They're right in the links above. Your comment is flagged dead. What further explanatio
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by pvg 1y ago
HN's criteria aren't really "relevant to know", though, it's very nearly the opposite.

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