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by unimpressive 8y ago
Anyone have access to the full text? What's the quality of the analysis look like?
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by unimpressive 8y ago
On the one hand yes, on the other hand there will always be a critical mass of people who will take 'free' if it's offered as a price point. It's just too compelling for that not to be true.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I nearly clicked away because the authors sheer paranoia made me lose faith in their point, so I'll paste the punchline here: "But why not do the math for me? A quick calculation shows that the top bottle comes out to about 30 cen
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Reddit's ad platform provides standard metrics on clickthrough rate and the like. I'd be surprised if the TripleByte guys didn't have the impact of it modeled.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I think you underestimate the extent to which people think their PM's aren't a big deal, until they get released and a torrent of sexting, gossip, illicit relationships, bullying, and public scandal washes over society as fallout.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I'm mostly parsing this as external pressure forcing him to change, rather than a comment on the value of the behavior one way or the other. I suspect on net this is going to be seen as martyrdom, with a vocal minority of people who wi
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Add support for exporting your saved stories to the API. Right now I have to use a home made utility for it: https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON/
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I wrote a utility to do this: https://github.com/JD-P/HackerNewsToJSON/
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Previous submissions: 2 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17651825 2 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13187316
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by unimpressive 8y ago
People use software, the value add Mastodon has over GnuSocial is that it's software that advertises itself to users on its own merits. (Well that and a moderation policy that's stricter than Twitter's, supposedly.)
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by unimpressive 8y ago
For Windows I always use Hexchat, which seems to be the only decent open source client for Windows. If anyone would like to jump in and point out others I don't know about, by all means. (Heck, it's what I use on Linux too)
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Laws reflect attitudes, supporting unjust laws with your opinion sustains them. So yes, my issue is with your attitude. EDIT: Since you've edited your comment to elaborate I'll respond in kind: If by default I have the legal right
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by unimpressive 8y ago
This attitude is how you get silliness like the idea that I can be prevented from reverse engineering software by an impersonal EULA. It's blanket permission to erode the rights of people who are in practice forced to comply with toxic
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Excerpt for people who use the comments as a preview since it's kind of long: "My view of the main problem was this: fighting against the userbase to stamp out bullying was a waste of time. The problem was the userbase itself. We
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How to Change the Culture of a Subreddit: Looking Back at the Cringe Subs (2016)(reddit.com)
1 points by unimpressive 8y ago|1 comments
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by unimpressive 8y ago
>It was hell on earth trying to sort it out, and the sale almost fell through because of it. The real kicker was that our lawyer basically told me he wished I hadn't noticed it because the sale would have just gone through and nobod
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Not necessarily. YC isn't exactly a non-profit, and having the opportunity to take stronger opportunities to market is probably pretty exciting for them.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Looks like it attracts larger numbers of aliens to attack you: https://wiki.factorio.com/Pollution This seems...not quite the right message to send people. (Though it's not exactly wrong when you take into account cl
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I've recently noticed a lot less enthusiasm for Netflix than I used to see. I suspect that they've run into the problem where it's possible to subtly degrade your product without immediate consequences. People stop being devo
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Buying decent pens with your own money will in fact get you to keep them safe until they run out of ink. I probably end up running out of ink and trashing a pen more often than I lose it.
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by unimpressive 8y ago
I've run a small PAC before and am only replying so other people can see social proof that these are org-types that normal people at least occasionally use.
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Institutional Memory and Reverse Smuggling (2011)(wiki.quanticle.net)
2 points by unimpressive 8y ago|0 comments
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by unimpressive 8y ago
No, I think they do have that expectation. 'Everything but porn' is a pretty widely accepted free for all category on the web. But yes, 'incites violence' is an actively illegal category; I suspect the only reason it&#x2
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by unimpressive 8y ago
It's because of the violation of expectations. The expectation has been set that these platforms are a 'free-for-all' of sorts. Once you start adding new categories of people to ban, people get antsy and start wondering where
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by unimpressive 8y ago
There was a recent interview with Senator Ron Wyden where he lamented that tech companies are unwilling to use their legal freedom to police their platforms: """Let’s go all the way back to 1996 and talk about Section 230. I
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by unimpressive 8y ago
You want https://hypothes.is You're going to get a lot of dismissal here because the idea is old and has been tried many times. I wouldn't let that stop you, annotation is very useful. The thing I am skeptical of howev
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by unimpressive 8y ago
22 - How to write an Android app
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Unikernel? http://unikernel.org/
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by unimpressive 8y ago
Video of someone loading BASIC with a teletype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv5b1Xowxdk
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by unimpressive 8y ago
>The companies taking on the most risk in terms of debt are for the most part not traditional tech. Think Chevron, GE, and other industrial and energy companies. You mean, precisely what would be considered 'traditional tech' i

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