samhw

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by samhw 5y ago
Even if true, "have access to" is doing a lot of work here. If I had a Borges-style Library of Babel with all the possible books in the world, all configurations of the letters of the alphabet, I would technically "have acces
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by samhw 5y ago
> they must spin off subsidiaries Eh? Subsidiaries aren't usually what people mean when they speak of breaking up companies. Subsidiaries are aligned with the parent company in terms of incentives, so it doesn't really change t
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by samhw 5y ago
Other symptoms include: a remarkable tendency of people to say "oh, that's OK, they're just coming for the conservatives".
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by samhw 5y ago
It won't be popular [/be used against you] unless you provide evidence you're a real person? I think that's a slightly Freudian slip right there.
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by samhw 5y ago
To be fair, shadow banning has a legit use besides just taking people's money. It prevents genuine malicious actors from simply creating new accounts whenever they get banned. However, it becomes way more ethically complex when the ser
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by samhw 5y ago
Soon to become a very popular reason ;)
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by samhw 5y ago
Do you mean because those 'small Internet service providers' would be included in his 'larger than $MARKET_SHARE' group, or because it would mean no one was kicked out of the incumbent services and therefore there would
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by samhw 5y ago
> It’s an intercept piece, so there’s always the drama and eye roll associated with them. Given they managed to betray a source's identity through a photocopied document , I'm not terribly surprised that they aren't big f
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by samhw 5y ago
Ah, perhaps I misread the argument actually. I agree, that's definitely an important counterpoint. Sorry about that! Sadly I can no longer edit my original comment, since it's >=2hrs old, but hopefully this can stand as a self-
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm running one. It seems totally fine, and I'd really strongly recommend doing it. Remember you have to leave a tab open for it to work . The website doesn't emphasise this enough, in my view. If you simply pin the tab, it&
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by samhw 5y ago
I don't think the claim relies on siblings' environments being the exact same. The point is just that the degree of intra-family similarity is almost always far greater than the degree of average inter-family similarity. To a re
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by samhw 5y ago
This is incredibly cool. What's the application (if it's possible to obscure whatever details you don't want to divulge)?
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by samhw 5y ago
Have you heard of Scuttlebutt ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Scuttlebutt )? The entire protocol revolves around 'pulling' other people's feeds - unlike most all modern social media, it's a pul
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by samhw 5y ago
Thanks for the kind reply, I appreciate it. I do think that's the kind of mindset that adblockers are inculcating in people - they don't quite realise the extent of all the costs that are borne by everyone else. Perhaps especially
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by samhw 5y ago
Sorry, I was posing that question semi-sarcastically. I agree it's blindingly obvious to any sensible person that money would help immensely. However, sadly, there are apparently plenty of people who are just about sensible enough to b
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by samhw 5y ago
That's the question that such an effort would have to solve. I think you're assuming a model where software is directly used by an individual consumer, though, which is not always the case. For commercial applications where your s
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by samhw 5y ago
Absolutely. My dad's a psychoanalyst, and he's always emphasised to all of us that - if you see a therapist - you're not evaluating them as a person or as a professional, you're evaluating the 'spark' betwee
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by samhw 5y ago
> To be safe online we go to sites we trust. I'm fairly confident in saying that nobody, but nobody, only goes to sites they trust. Come on. You're on HN: do you mean to tell me that you never click to open a link from a post u
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by samhw 5y ago
> the only thing that's missing is website software that also works like an RSS reader. In the most basic sense you only have to read XML with your program This is a fascinating idea. I often think that Twitter's success, unlik
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by samhw 5y ago
I've often thought about this. People nowadays build their websites predominantly on React component kits which resemble more sophisticated HTML elements. If HTML were extended to include that more sophisticated functionality -- and co
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by samhw 5y ago
> I'm not a bit worried we'd go without capable search engines, without ads. Very likely there'd be donation-supported ones that are at least as good, and maybe better for some purposes (IMO Google's utility peaked ar
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by samhw 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the pointer! I was aware of Gopher, but not Gemini. It seems to address what would be one of my main concerns about any proposed alternative, which is - for the beginning at least - interoperability with the web. I&#
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by samhw 5y ago
> Without competition from free-but-funded-with-$billions ad-supported services, most of the valuable stuff would probably be replaced by volunteer and non-profit efforts. It wouldn't just be 'non profit', it would be &#x2
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by samhw 5y ago
> And maybe also ads generally. This is all well and good, but then we need a serious alternative funding model for websites. Right now, a lot of people with adblockers are benefiting from a situation fausse where they free-ride on the
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by samhw 5y ago
Interesting point! What would you say the full realisation of RSS would look like? Also, the weapons metaphor was mostly just responding in the frame of the original language about 'pushing back on big tech', 'shattered by bi
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by samhw 5y ago
> Oh, and RSS is not dead. Not at all (thanks WordPress, for putting a feed on every instance). RSS is the only workable way to make the web social again. What we need, IMO, is more experimental protocols to enrich the web, which maveric
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by samhw 5y ago
> Letting ads run arbitrary JS is the policy, right? I mean, anything on the Web can run arbitrary JS. The entire point is that it's a sandbox environment where arbitrary JS can't do any harm (excluding cases where vulnerabilit
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by samhw 5y ago
> talking with a lot of people lets them see patterns an individual can't This is a really nice distillation of the value of talking to a therapist. I really appreciate this comment.
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by samhw 5y ago
> There are some true open source projects where the development model is some company "throwing code over the wall". Often they don't make it easy or even possible for anyone outside the company to contribute[...] Google
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by samhw 5y ago
This comment isn't even consistent with itself. First you say: > Who should get the blame then, the users? Duh, no. And then you say: > I don't use the code, so why in the world should I be expected to fix the code? Do you u

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