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by reb 4y ago
Apple’s been earning my money for a long time, but I will say: some of my favorite things about their products have seemed less reliable in recent years. I used to love how painless Handoff was, and how easy it was to switch AirPods from on
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by reb 4y ago
How do you figure? “Unchecked” means uncontrolled, not uncontrollable (an important distinction). In a functional social system, different powers constrain one another, which is a kind of loop I guess, but a stabilizing one.
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by reb 4y ago
Why is that more important?
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by reb 4y ago
> Oh apart from destroying Twitter as a platform for live events, protests, OSINT etc. Ding ding ding.
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by reb 4y ago
I'm pretty cynical, but let's be real: power doesn't have to work this way, and I don't think we do ourselves any favors acting like it does. A functional society finds ways to hold unchecked power accountable for pett
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by reb 4y ago
Does this really seem like something that will cost him with the audience he's been courting in recent years? At this point I feel pretty confident they enjoy watching idols squash their "enemies" as much as they enjoy watchi
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by reb 4y ago
Strongly agree. Firms exist to separate users from their money, time, attention, etc. It follows that digital product organizations at nearly all levels are incentivized to thread dark patterns into their experiences, and healthy skeptici
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by reb 4y ago
Meta: I'm familiar with "an historic", but I've never seen "an hypothesis" before. Is "an before h-" a broader grammatical pattern than I realized?
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by reb 4y ago
Yep, turns out people of all sorts can be assholes, even to folks who are making a good faith effort to navigate a changing world. That said, I think your Orwellian concerns might reflect your personal media consumption more than the state
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by reb 4y ago
I don't think it's off-base to suggest individuals gravitate toward belief systems that address their anxieties, and that might be particularly true for reactionary extremism. Completely agree on your second point though, the ampl
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by reb 4y ago
The times we live in are absolutely brutal for people who struggle with diversity of belief (wherever they are on the sociopolitical spectrum). Never before has an individual had so many perspectives to contend with at once. It breaks a lot
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by reb 4y ago
And deprive the world of instant classics like "valley girl accent considered harmful"? Do you hate joy?
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by reb 4y ago
That's fair. I think, despite the normalization, there is still a general feeling the surveillance is non-consensual, and that basic skepticism might actually be more valuable than a meager payout for now-consensual surveillance. At
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by reb 4y ago
Speculation: they might be questioning the implication that a paid surveillance program pushes data privacy/ownership values forward. Paying folks to be surveilled might be better than surveilling them without consent or reward, but it
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by reb 4y ago
Daily check-ins don't demand linear progress, do they? I like having frequent checkpoints for brief discussion and visibility, even if they usually pass without a lot of action.
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by reb 4y ago
I agree there are a lot of problems with the intersection of food and capitalism, and there's plenty of room for solutions to those problems to just... create new or different problems. That said, I don't think the key issue is &q
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by reb 4y ago
I eat meat, but I think it's fair to say bringing living/feeling/thinking things into existence for the express purpose of being killed and consumed is grim. This feels particularly true if the circumstances they're rais
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by reb 4y ago
What mainstream political views are you seeing cast as alt-right by the chronically online?
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by reb 4y ago
> This is the culture of the moralist left, of the blue cities, of the Coast, of Progressivism as the only moral ideology > In the US, at least, if you engage with conservative culture, with Christians, with rural people, with the peo
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by reb 4y ago
Bingo. Artists have a new creative tool with new constraints, tricks, and prerequisite skills. I think the idea it'll destroy other forms of art (and art-derived commerce) is an unlikely one since it can be used to fuel many of the cre
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by reb 4y ago
Donald Trump's claim that he won the 2020 election.
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by reb 4y ago
Either we’re all living in your dream (not terribly likely from my perspective) or you’ve stumbled upon one of life’s great joys: the so-called “delusion of reference”, a fun trick our minds like to play on us sometimes. Congrats on your un
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by reb 4y ago
Already so many good recommendations here, so just a few I enjoyed but haven't seen mentioned: — This excellent 2013 re-working of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle (not a proper doc, but if you like Adam Curtis, you'll p
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by reb 4y ago
Worry not, HN: there are plenty of upstarts building interesting tools and platforms drenched in personality. UI centrism will continue to refine itself forever, but that still leaves plenty of room for fun apps to shine. An example I bumpe
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by reb 4y ago
Congrats on the launch! This is an awesome concept, I don't think I've been on a single team that wouldn't have benefitted from having a tool like this.
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by reb 4y ago
I do think FlyCode will be most impactful at companies with the least effective marketing arms. Liberating Engineering/Product from time-consuming marketing maintenance means they're free to work on problems that might otherwise b
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by reb 4y ago
It's definitely possible to get concrete representation out of DALL•E, although it takes some experimentation to achieve realism within the constraints of the tech today. Still, we're not far off at all from indistinguishable synt
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by reb 4y ago
Virtualizing consumption may be the aspect of mixed reality I’m most excited about. There are plenty of goods that have to be physical, but many don’t.
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by reb 4y ago
First time hearing about this! Not a big AC fan, but this is more than enough reason to snag it; is that a platform-specific mode?
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by reb 4y ago
I dunno, I can't imagine industrializing our domestic supply of infants would do anything but accelerate that particular arms race.

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