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by slg 1y ago
The percentage of the US population that voted for Trump went up roughly half a percentage point from 2020 to 2024 and most of American society has responded as if that makes him a permanent dictator. And it isn’t just his supporters, most
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by slg 1y ago
It posts like the worst type of HN commenter.
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I’m sorry but I don’t see much logic in an argument that boils down to “A lot of people use it and that means it would also be useful to the people who don’t use it”. Maybe the people who don’t use it have an actual reason not to use it.
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by slg 1y ago
>100M growth in two months suggests literally every single human being on Earth would benefit from using this all the time In what way does it suggest that? What level of growth is evidence that a product is universally useful?
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Although we should remember that “old age” is long. Someone can die at 72 from heart disease and people might just call that dying of old age when that person could have easily lived another decade or two if they made different lifestyle c
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by slg 1y ago
>This read to me like a poorly-chosen phrase from a non-native speaker. I had no impression OP intended to communicate hostility, just rejection of the corporate practice. This is also incredibly weird to me. There is nothing in that po
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by slg 1y ago
Some of these responses really confuse me. “Hostile” was OP’s own word not mine.
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> I have been a food service worker and actually know what I'm talking about. Same here. > A customer expressing a preference has never bothered me if they weren't rude about it. A lot of people are seemingly skipping over O
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by slg 1y ago
The original comment talked about intentionally creating a “hostile atmosphere”. Doing that for no other reason than making yourself feel better is rude and cruel to the people who have to deal with your hostility.
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Like I said in my other comment, this is missing the point. This approach won’t be effective. Nothing is actually being communicated to the people making decisions. The difficulty in finding another more effective approach doesn’t change th
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by slg 1y ago
These questions are missing the point. The person you're talking to has no control over the policy so any response directly to them is not going to impact that policy which means the objectionable nature of the policy and your desire
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by slg 1y ago
Trust me, no communication is happening in either situation. Your complaint is not being run up the corporate ladder. All you're doing is making someone's day a bit worse in order to get some fleeting feeling of self-satisfactio
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by slg 1y ago
This is such a weird mindset. How much interaction do you think the person hearing your response has with the person in corporate that made them all ask that question? Being rude or hostile to service people, even just mildly, because of c
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>It's brand advertising itself... It's interesting that this is the label you give for that behavior. A more optimistic take is this is just journalistic ethics. I guess it all depends on how much you trust NPR, but like you
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That remains to be seen. Typically, the userbase is the product for a social media company, not their customers. Which means without a sizable enough userbase, there is nothing to actually sell to their customers. Bluesky has claimed to
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>Fun fact, my comment said nothing against DEI and you assuming I did more or less summarizes modern political discourse Fun fact, my comment said nothing in support of DEI and you assuming I did more or less summarizes modern political
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Gaming being a relatively cheap hobby doesn't change the fact that Nintendo is using its market position to raise prices in a coldly capitalistic way that obviously saps some of the "delight" their customers would normally ex
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by slg 1y ago
It always comes back to the userbase. I don't know how many times technologists need to learn the lesson that normal people simply don't care about ideological technical principles like decentralization and often actually prefer t
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It is so bizarre the way some people act like all DEI policies were introduced between January 2021 and January 2025. I can understand being against the policies, but people are just straight lying about how, why, and when those policies c
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>Which is all to say, you HAVE to factor delight into your product. And yet I can't think of a single large corporation that actually has this mindset anymore. The current mindset of management is that any delight your customers ta
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>Perhaps this is my own bias, but something could be incredibly technically proficient or realistic and I could find it utterly uninteresting. This is because the interesting part is in what is unique about the perspective of the people
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>Books, comic strips, movies, they're all just telling a story with a different amount of it left up to the viewer's imagination. Lowering the barrier to entry for this type of stuff is so cool. This response just never feels t
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by slg 1y ago
It isn't ironic, that is the whole point of a Market for Lemons, the inability to distinguish a good product from bad before purchase due to asymmetric information. That is why I think the author makes a mistake saying that it has no
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A minute of research has led me to conclude the discussed limit which comes from the 1997 Balanced Budget Act[1] was, like most of these sorts of efforts, passed by a Republican controlled Congress with weak opposition from Democrats. Repu
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I think this is more a function of the internet than purely the legality. Legal gambling wouldn't be nearly as damaging if it was limited to sportsbooks that only allowed gambling on-site similar to how some places have handled gambli
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>Iranian IPs are blocked here, due to your decision to arm Russia with drones so that they can indiscriminately massacre civilians. The "your decision" in that response is really off-putting. I know the law is what it is with
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The rate the Trump administration is losing plausible deniability has been accelerating over recent months/weeks/days. The MAGA diehards flying Trump flags aren't going to change their ways because they are true believers in
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In fact, the reverse is actually quite common. The big corporation part often removes too much of the humanity from people. Too many people are comfortable making incredibly callous decisions at work because, hey, it's not their faul
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I'll admit I was being somewhat simplistic blaming exclusively first past the post voting. The real problem is the combination of FPTP and our presidential system. That is what makes the US converge to a two party system, not the ope
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It is funny that you skipped over my criticism of you to agree with my criticism of the US government as if I didn't make a clear connection between those two. If you "know that it doesn't have to be two parties who have to

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