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by rhizome 5y ago
Because that's what people do.
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by rhizome 5y ago
> I think that when we read 10 comments, of which nine are negative, we think "90% of people must dislike this" I don't. When I see something like that with such a small sample size, I think that the downvoters just got t
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by rhizome 5y ago
Same. It's not about making friends with the right people...except for the part where he had already done so. It's a tremendous blind spot, where "the right people" are defined as people his friend would have to pay for
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by rhizome 5y ago
I dunno, that page looks like 110% received wisdom. It's "clean," "inviting," "streamlining," and so on. All positives, sounds like every change listed is awesome! "Good design is invisible. So if th
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by rhizome 5y ago
I think the ire comes from the lack of general stability as a concept among internet sites and apps, as even a desirable concern. If Mozilla isn't saying "ha ha tabs are buttons now!", Google is scrambling the colors and&#x2F
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by rhizome 5y ago
> Instead of thinking "9/10 people dislike this UI", it's probably closer to "9 people out of all Firefox users dislike this UI". Yeah, even with your Bayes mention I'm gonna go ahead and get a second
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by rhizome 5y ago
Lotta weasel words in there, maybe describe how you acquired these loosely held "beliefs?" Someone's gotta be last, but is it actually bad there, or is the problem academic and significant only because someone (you, in this c
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by rhizome 5y ago
Tower logs, sure. I'm definitely drifting toward no-GPS dumbphone territory, but there may also be reasons to give up.
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by rhizome 5y ago
They've changed the sidebar algo/design in the past six months or so and I tell ya, I used to actually use it, but not anymore at all. It's basically been remodeled into the same "front page" business case as Soundc
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by rhizome 5y ago
I mean "maybe," right? It just seems like a sample-size problem rather than indicating any bias one way or another. And of course, as far as these things go, you only find out the quality after you watch some or all of it.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Howto videos have a wide range of qualities and the up/down ratio is indispensible so you aren't sitting through 18min of someone practicing their English or another rattling off a cocaine bender about washing cars.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Presumably you are the only person with the password to your phone unless you use biometrics, with which you can be forced to unlock it. The car's black box, on the other hand, can be dumped by warrant (at the most).
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by rhizome 5y ago
Oracle is backed by the CIA and other spook orgs, they'll always be fine.
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by rhizome 5y ago
They will have costs from going to the doctor to get diagnosed with "proof."
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by rhizome 5y ago
All you have to do is send a request letter of no more than three hundred words to [address] by December 1, 2021. Envelopes must be #11 and the requestor's address must be centered on the back over the seam of the flap in a typeface no
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by rhizome 5y ago
You're indulging in the fallacy of relative privation and trying to change the subject for some reason.
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by rhizome 5y ago
What never seems to come up is that as far as ads are concerned and with the amount and kinds of data that these companies are and have been collecting, your name is worth zilch. "Anonymized" is a red herring.
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by rhizome 5y ago
CVS and Subversion still exist!
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by rhizome 5y ago
> probably due to Google generally not being good in UX You misspelled "product lifecycle management." Google's lack of accomplishments in this department is a testament to their research, innovation, and committment to t
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by rhizome 5y ago
> There is plenty of purported evidence The name for this is "allegations," specifically "unconfirmed allegations," AKA "random BS."
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by rhizome 5y ago
Google Search and Android are worse than they were before Alphabet.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Whatever anybody thinks "metaverse" means now, what it really means, Facebook is going to change it permanently or go out of business. They have to be able to define away every negative aspect of their new metaphorical identity
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by rhizome 5y ago
class BroadcastChannel return `system('ircd')` end Only three lines! :D
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by rhizome 5y ago
Not if people who know the details are cryptic and vague about the validity of that basis.
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by rhizome 5y ago
Have you gone through the process of buying real money with it?
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by rhizome 5y ago
Because it's a pyramid scheme that is powered by hype. It just so happens that the exponential requirements for the number of participants has grown to the point where you'll start to see ppl talking about it more and more and in
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by rhizome 5y ago
> people who want to do useful work that isn't sexy Ah, you crystallized something for me. Thanks!
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by rhizome 5y ago
If you want to program, use a programming language.
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by rhizome 5y ago
What do you mean, "not sure?!" "If you can't change the product, change the packaging."
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by rhizome 5y ago
You made the claim. Put up or shut up.

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