sellyme

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by sellyme 5y ago
> What is the value proposition exactly Having a career. It's very rare for someone to last decades as a performer in the entertainment industry, and online content moves faster than most. You don't want to suddenly have no aud
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by sellyme 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to get at with the word "scan" here, so hopefully this abstraction will be useful. Imagine you have a message written on a piece of paper. You intentionally show this message to two people
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by sellyme 5y ago
In both cases exactly the same entities read your email: you, the sender, and Gmail. I don't see how you could go "yeah, this is a privacy improvement" if your information is still visible to exactly the same entities, but on
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Someone needs to rent and service the servers, update the software, bandwidth costs money, etc.. Scientific papers use approximately zero bandwidth. As a point of reference, if I hosted such a website on my home internet connection I w
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by sellyme 5y ago
The scanning of email contents that Gmail does is, from a privacy standpoint, indistinguishable from them simply sending you the email. Their server has to know the contents of that email either way.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> You honestly believe that the NBA has never [...] I've never watched the NBA, so I'd have no idea. > You think no officials of any sport did or didn't make a call because of some bet somewhere? Just so you're awa
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by sellyme 5y ago
You literally said "100%".
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by sellyme 5y ago
> see content in chronological order without other bullshit This is called "Lists" and has been a free feature of Twitter since 2009.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I'm pretty confident anyone can become really good at anything, given enough motivation and time. And I'm pretty confident that some people can become really good at said thing faster , due to some form of innate talent. And
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by sellyme 5y ago
You've misread it. Here's those lines with a bit more context: > But if, instead, they followed the peak of the energy efficiency graph, the entire chip would consume just 8.5 watts [...] and operating at about 0.4 volts, Ditze
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by sellyme 5y ago
> The gifting button is only beside the upload button on mobile, and personally I've never hit it accidentally. To me it just seems like they've made it more prominent, I don't see any intent to trick people into mis-click
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I don't think tricking is the word for this. Tricking is 100% the right word for it. They are putting those Nitro buttons there with the clear intent that a user will click it by accident while attempting to access a different fea
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Every single Discord-related post here I see comments about the "bad ux". I'm a heavy Discord user and I have no complaints with the UX Since I started using Discord, they have on three separate occasions moved a button
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Who the hell installs a random app and then uses it to transfer millions of $$ in bitcoin?!? It's not like there's a huge wealth of stable reputable ecosystems that could have been used as an alternative. Look at any crypto f
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by sellyme 5y ago
Yep. Exclusivity deals are a great way to push me, someone who would ordinarily happy pay for content, into piracy. I already have software that can play MP3s. I like it. Stop trying to make me use someone else's.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Yes. See also: about half of the rap tracks on the platform, where every third line is product placement.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> They seem mad because they missed an opportunity to make 1.6M then. I think it's more that they're mad because someone managed to make and keep 7 figures profit from a crime that they were caught doing purely because the ju
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by sellyme 5y ago
Yes, generally speaking when I'm reading something I'd hope that my mind is doing some interpretation. It would be a rather difficult activity otherwise.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> and then in a few years be getting intermediate value for that same entry level rate. If you're expecting to pay someone an entry-level rate ~3 years into their career you're going to be getting exactly zero value out of them
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by sellyme 5y ago
You're still missing the point that people tell almost identical stories for just about every profession in existence. The user that replied to you wasn't even doubting you, they were just saying that it's not special.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> When was the last time you bought something because of ads? The last major purchase (>$100) I've made because of an advertisement was a ROG Phone 3 (two of them, actually) late last year. I had not ever heard of it before seein
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by sellyme 5y ago
Oh cool, I've used his Rush Hour solver before! Small world.
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by sellyme 5y ago
I think the more prevailing opinion is just that marketing follows Sturgeon's Law. McDonald's is a good example - their marketing (at least in my region) is excellent , and I'm consciously aware of the fact that it leads me
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by sellyme 5y ago
Here's the quote with a tiny bit more context: > Go read more bullshit. Immerse yourself in news of Russian plots [...] Seems pretty clear-cut to me. The original comment did muddy the waters a bit by taking the inverse of that stat
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by sellyme 5y ago
I don't think anyone is under the delusion that domestic terrorists in the US are being secretive any more. That ship somewhat sails after an attempted insurrection.
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by sellyme 5y ago
It depends on what you mean by "these behaviours". I'm suggesting that the author is claiming some great injustice but conveniently trying to avoid letting anyone judge for themselves, and in my experience the people doing th
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by sellyme 5y ago
I'm assuming it's a satire in response to the following line, which claims that banned Facebook pages are "the anti-bullshit universe": > One option, more popular each day, is to retreat to the anti-bullshit universe
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by sellyme 5y ago
I don't see why you think "I worked around a newsroom for 13 years" is a good rebuttal to the fairly trivial claim that most professionals chose said profession because they wanted to do it.
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by sellyme 5y ago
So you've established that there's some kind of hierarchy here, where the value of 1 pizza to a certain entity depends on their place in the hierarchy. The higher up on the hierarchy you are, the less 1 pizza matters to you. Furth
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by sellyme 5y ago
What does the person who wrote the post lose by having a small subset of people ordinarily unable to view their original public post get to see the contents nonetheless?

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