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by thordenmark 4y ago
Child safety advocates have praised Elon for his quick action in removing inappropiate child photos from Twitter, as well as dealing with the hashtags traffickers use. Something people have been asking for years for and little was being don
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A better analogy is Twitter is a sick and dying patient and drastic measures are needed to be taken to save it. Whether or not you agree with those measures, well you don't have $44b on the line. Of all of Elon's businesses, this
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by thordenmark 4y ago
A man has to be full of great melancholies to accomplish what he has. This clearly has positive and negative sides. Judging from the accomplishments of great people throughout history you cannot have one without the other. In the case of Tw
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That is certainly a hot take. When a company is losing $4 million a day drastic measures are in order to save the company so the remaining employees still have a job. Having worked in tech for over 20 years and being on both sides of layoff
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by thordenmark 4y ago
Twitter has been unprofitable for years, it has just become even more profitable. Elon has to focus on making it a better product before he can expect anyone to pay money to use it. Right now it is a truly horrible piece of software. As for
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Napster distributed whole songs. If it sampled 1000's of songs then created original compositions that sounded kind of like the 'style' of those songs what would the legalities be? That is a huge difference. I'm a profes
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We would need next to no punctuation if we could all write as well as Cormac McCarthy. But few can, so I'll keep using Oxford commas.
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by thordenmark 5y ago
The 90's while in college, pulling late nights working on homework listening to Art Bell was like an old friend telling you crazy stories and bringing in guests to tell even crazier stories. And every once in a while you'd think r
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by thordenmark 5y ago
Afghanistan showed that a people with the will and some handguns and rifles can face the greatest superpower the world has ever known, and win. The argument of private ownership of guns as protection from the government is a perfectly valid
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Someone else's icloud photos got into mine once, just random sunsets from some place I'd never been. It was weird. How can we trust this?
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Adobe could learn a lot from Blender about making 3d user friendly. The 3d tools in Adobe products are -terrible-.
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One of the worst data losses of photos I had was when apple switched from iPhoto (which I'd organized meticulously) to Photos. It wasn't until a few hard drive crashes later did I realize how poorly Photos imported the pictures.
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In 1991, as a starving college student paying my own way I had to do something drastic. Get a roommate. Horrible, I know.
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If an adult with kids is only making minimum wage, they have a lot more problems than rent.
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Berkeley Typewriter is one of the most fascinating shops I've been to. They have a great collection of typewriters from late 1800's to the end of the typewriter era. They are also experts at repairing. https://berkeleyt
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by thordenmark 5y ago
meh. PNG's are the way to go. All the advantages, none of the draw backs. And it has Alpha.
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Google Docs, from a user's point of view, is an incredible bit of software engineering. It has revolutionized my work flow and collaboration with partners. So whatever you engineers did to make it happen: KUDOS! The only thing that wor
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Everyone can paint. Not necessarily well.
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by thordenmark 6y ago
Ultimately these plant-based alternatives will be enhanced or replaced with insects, once people have been largely weaned off of meat. Most people won't notice or care. We aren't squeamish about blue food dye after all, we're
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by thordenmark 6y ago
>And all their profits come from selling carbon credits to competitors, This is merely a current strategy so more can be funneled into R&D, and growing the infrastructure.
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by thordenmark 6y ago
I teach a composition class at an art college and one of the common assignments is to find bad art and fix it utilizing the basic rules of composition. The Museum of Bad Art is an excellent resource for that assignment.
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It is well worth reading, or at least browsing through. ie. This phrase perfectly describes my sleeping habits: "Yesterday at evening, I was to bed so late that I may not rising me soon that morning." Get your own copy here: http
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by thordenmark 6y ago
Due to Twitter's impact on society, not just the US but the world, they are de facto the public square. Not unlike the Gutenberg Press - and when you read about the impact that had at first on society the parallels are remarkable. The
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You can watch the episode of JRE to see the contempt Jack Conte has for creators. For example banning people because just because he disagrees with them, not because they violated any terms of service on the platform. Also, Patreon is sorel
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by thordenmark 6y ago
Gumroad should have been Patreon. Sahil Lavingia is so much more respectful of creators than Jack Conte.
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"Why anyone treats PDF as anything but a write-once format is beyond me." Some of use work in print publishing and being able to edit PDF's is critical.
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If you are using Google drive will you lose the data on your local as well? I have a huge amount of work, it would be devastating to lose access to it. I do have backups on storage disks, but still...
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Have you never had a relative (usually your mom) install malware because they didn't know any better? Most people are not so tech savvy as those of us who frequent Hacker News.
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What? My 2004 Toyota Tundra remained the best vehicle for me, until my Tesla. I also miss my 1974 Datsun 240z. What a cool car that was.
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True. Practical hands on beats book learning by orders of magnitude. Apprenticeships need to become the norm again. It is ridiculous to get deep in college debt that will take a major portion of your wage earning years to pay back.

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