thinkingemote

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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Im trying to pinpoint when it started going wrong. I think it was when they changed the third party API usages etc which lead to solutions by others being cut off - they had to do everything themselves. But I also think it was the move towa
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   I've heard from some ex council workers that they are not doing it correctly. You have to cut around the hole, then fill in this wider hole. Basically the bits around a pot hole are weak, so they have to go also. If you just fill in th
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Just an anecdote. I had a day set aside to purging my Facebook entries a year or two back. I manually deleted comments and posts. Of course there was too many to do and it was very boring so I only spent a couple of hours at it. But that&#x
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Google Reader wasn't just an RSS client, it was social. you could subscribe to your friends feeds, see what they were interested in etc. Google Reader was a social network around RSS (I also think there was in platform commenting too?)
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Are you ready? Hold onto your seats folks! This is an article whose aim is to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Kubernetes is an open source system for managing containerized applications across multiple hosts, providing basic mechanisms for deployment, maintenance, and scaling of applications
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   The same police were doing the same things when Labour was in government. Also, Labour this time around want more money for the police, and we wouldn't really call Labour anti authoritarian, would we? "The government always wins t
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   Interestingly this has been flagged, but there's only a couple of replies that I can see that are grey, and only a couple that's critical of the article and subject. But I can't see any flames at all, just the usual HN courte
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   by thinkingemote 9y ago

   I'm guessing here, but here's a go: Symbolically would mean that it represents something to do with the human condition. In the case, I would imagine, he means that the design of cathedrals and great music both tap into some kind
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    I think he learnt how to speak from a few decades of teaching, and in his teaching technique (as opposed to speech giving, debating). I've noticed most teachers and lecturers I've met as being good confident speakers. Not all acad
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    600+ Million records: "Name, Address, Email, Carrier, Line Type, Secondary Phone, Age, Gender, Household Income, Marital Status, Presence of Children, Home Owner Status, Home Market Value, Length of Residence, High Net Worth, Occupatio
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    I'm guessing here... I think ad companies would be happy but it's their clients which are reacting to consumer lobbying. I also think YT and Reddit are also reacting based on this pressure. For a similar effect see StopFundingHate
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    What happened with digg and MySpace? They were too big to fail too but what happened was that more attractive places occurred and people went to them. I'm proposing that an exodus of non toxic people from place A to place B makes place
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Yes, I am saying that gun enthusiasts, the millions of normal Americans and people around the world who like guns, or even craft beer, or historical re-enactment, also like to tell jokes. They do not go to reddit to only talk about guns, b
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    redditors belong to many subreddits. by banning some subreddits, reddit doesn't just affect those subreddits, they affect the users who post in many other subreddits also. If they move to Voat, they will straighten out the site, they w
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    The lesson in Fahrenheit 451 (the famous book about book burning) is that the laws were initially changed to burn pornography, obscenity and disgusting books, the whole country, everyone, approved these laws, and then the scope widened.....
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    "Reddit and Youtube are shooting themselves in the foot!" some would say. "I'm moving to this other site!" those directly affected say. And the rest of the users and the sites say "bye! Good riddance!", th
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Yahoo Labs was innovative and inspiring. They seemed to make stuff that was useful, wasn't killed immediately and had an independent life. I don't think today's tech behemoths can approach where they were. Maybe it was just
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    I think both reactions are for psychological comfort. It is that it's comforting if someone else is in charge, in control in the face of chaos, and it's comforting to place trust in those above you and thus happily mock conspiracy
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    How do you think Hacker News (this site) would react to such a letter, and what do you imagine a likely response would be? Would all a users comments be classed as personal data? Would just pointing at the website be enough to satisfy the r
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    You are not the only one. The thing seemingly appeared out of thin air sometime between the Brexit vote and Trump running for the Whitehouse. That the news organisations are talking about it more and more is tragic. At least Trump twists th
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Worth saying that advertisers are working on the basis of their clients. I think it's the clients that are pushing this change. And I think it's a vocal group who are shouting at those companies saying that their group is unhappy.
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Maybe monkeys or apes on the ground have thicker eyelids to block out the light? And do they sleep differently in general? http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150415-apes-reveal-sleep-se... might shed some light (!)
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    >It works like google "quick event" text box Google has removed this feature in Calendar, sadly.
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14720614 I've tried a little bit of streaming my coding on Twitch. I had no viewers during that time, and I was worried quite a lot to hide sensitive things - m
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    "a specific, short term negative is brought up." The GP was explicitly requesting a specific negative. I wouldn't find that odd. Gray's article doesn't give any detailed statistics in response but questions it broad
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    From https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/02/unenlight... which mainly refutes Pinker's defence of The Enlightenment, also: "Are the millions incarcerated in the vast American priso
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    Newstatesman in the UK for a left wing weekly, politics centred periodical with minimal arts section and the book reviews are essentially ideological articles. the Spectator is more popular and a Tory/ right wing weekly with almost hal
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    I've heard the hum in a city in the UK quite frequently. I hear it more on monday bank holiday mornings, oddly. So a weekday but less people at work. I actually think it's the sound of traffic.
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    by thinkingemote 9y ago

    the article does address this topic. I think the implication is that these effects are lower in the Scandinavian countries, where children are given less bias as their societies are more equal. The article suggests that these effects are ve