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by scubbo 10mo ago
Because it assumes (in bad faith) that intrusive advertizing is the only way for motivated consumers to acquire information.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/no-bitch-dats-a-whole-new-x-w...
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by scubbo 10mo ago
I truly don't care. I would much rather miss out on hearing about a few genuinely-desirable products due to poor discoverability, if the payoff is that I don't have to suffer the deluge of imposed advertizing I never asked for.
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by scubbo 10mo ago
...I'm not familiar with the reference.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
Maybe I'm just extremely dumb, but I can't find how to edit files? Neither `vi` nor `nano` are installed, I don't have internet access to `apt-get update`, and I'm not about to learn `emacs` for this... EDIT: Ah, ok, `vi
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by scubbo 11mo ago
> Additionally, YesNotice will provide an estimated availability timeline for the question, so you can have some information about when to expect the change. How is that trivial in the general case?
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by scubbo 11mo ago
+1, have had 10/10 experience with my Qotom - in fact I had to look up the brand to be sure that was what I had. Forgettability (due to reliability) is exactly what you want in router hardware.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
I'd say that significant mental injury is _far_ more likely than physical.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
> If veracity matters, use authorative sources So having a good heuristic for identifying a broad category of non-authoritative sources would be useful, then?
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by scubbo 11mo ago
I didn't see any indication in the article, or a glance at the spec, that indentation is significant.
131.
by scubbo 11mo ago
So you are not, in fact, in England?
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by scubbo 11mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkCBhKs4faI
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by scubbo 11mo ago
...what?
134.
by scubbo 11mo ago
Correct.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
GNU Terry Pratchett.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
> Corporate personhood mostly just means that for some purposes, the same laws apply to corporations as to people. In my experience, almost no-one is truly upset about the "corporations are people" idea in isolation. The upset
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by scubbo 11mo ago
Ah, nice, thanks!
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by scubbo 11mo ago
A pun? I don't get it, could you explain?
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by scubbo 11mo ago
It's just another CE-bro spouting the same "_success is inevitable if you keep trying, failure is forgiven and survivable_" survivorship bias propaganda. You're not missing much.
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by scubbo 11mo ago
I wouldn't usually have responded, but "treating a question as an attack or criticism" is a particular bugbear of mine. We can't grow, learn, or understand one another if questions are by-default treated with hostility o
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by scubbo 11mo ago
> Can someone offer an explanation...? I don't mean this in a crass way [...] What's the upside? They weren't saying that it wasn't OK - they were just asking for an explanation from someone for whom it _was_ built
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by scubbo 1y ago
> ends abruptly because the money ran out It is a literal cop-out.
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by scubbo 1y ago
Makes sense - thank you for explaining!
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by scubbo 1y ago
Why is onshoring manufacturing "protecting our citizens"? As I think Matt Levine put it, if we can push computer buttons for a few hours a day and in exchange someone else in another country will do back-breaking labour to make re
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by scubbo 1y ago
Earnest question (i.e. not implying that I'm arguing for the opposite) - why?
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by scubbo 1y ago
Synecdoche
147.
by scubbo 1y ago
There were plenty of kinder ways to let someone know that they had missed a reference - https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by scubbo 1y ago
I imagine "defer"
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by scubbo 1y ago
Everything you just said is true. And yet. HNers are still often guilty of Performative Erudition. It's not _just_ the use of technical jargon.
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by scubbo 1y ago
> We are taking your ffmpeg suggestion seriously for the long video pipeline That was a different user[0]; but to be fair that _is_ a human-like mistake to make (especially given HN's UI), so that is - weirdly - endearing :P But yea

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