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by uniqueid 6y ago
The nature of the question strikes me as a bit odd. If you don't have any enthusiasm for music history, I don't see what's to be gained by forcing yourself to learn about it. If it's not for fun, other subjects would hav
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I value one anecdote from a proper journalist more than a thousand Reddit posts. It might be the case that half of Reddit's users are actually truthful, but since half are pathological liars, I consider the site entirely worthless for
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> So yes, Covid-19 sounds kind of like that bad flu. It is bad, but 2 years ago we would just call it "a bad flu". Well, there's another side to that coin: "The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in
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by uniqueid 6y ago
To expect a majority of journalists to recognize this sort of hype is unreasonable. Most people here on HN (not I, to pat myself on the back) were equally, perhaps more, credulous about self-driving cars. If a tech forum like HN called it w
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Okay, I can't go all the way, and describe it as grossly misleading, but " actively promote" uses too strong an adverb. So, I'll concede that, strictly speaking, the headline is misleading. On the other hand, if a r
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by uniqueid 6y ago
How much holocaust denial content should one expect to find? The internet has increasingly normalized nonsense. I'll bet plenty of people, post- the advent of social media, would think 25%, for example, would be perfectly reasonable.
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A Flight on the Hindenburg: One Passenger’s Account(airships.net)
3 points by uniqueid 6y ago|0 comments
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https://jakubmarian.com/advice-or-advices-singular-or-plural
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by uniqueid 6y ago
A good contrast is "1-click" shopping. That's what a feature looks like when these companies actually want users to use it. https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/amazons-1-click-...
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I despise touch UI everywhere (at least in its present incarnation). The only things it's good for is saving space on a small device, or simulating the experience of having no nerve-endings in your hands. The industry could sell anot
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> quick way to report a Tweet or FB post that spreads disinformation would already help a lot. That point is what always goes through my head when a Dorsey or a Zuckerberg or a Wojkiki gives another "more work to be done&q
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by uniqueid 6y ago
"Pirates of Silicon Valley" is the only Apple docu-drama that actually cared about the docu- part. https://youtu.be/L4zE7WGfnuw
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Considering the topic is 'writing advice', the prominent spelling error in the title is unfortunate.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'll miss browsing street view for fun . I doubt I use it more than six times a year, though. For actual turn-by-turn navigation, I never used a Google or Apple product. I use an offline iPhone app (Navigon).
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Ever spent three minutes opening useless links from Google's Search results, only to realize they dropped the keyword you searched? That seems quite common now, especially with programming keywords, which are often obscure. Remember Go
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I prefer Google circa 2005, but DDG and Bing work better for me now. I've never wanted anything fancy: - don't show me paid search results - show me a blank page if there are no results - make it easy to 'AND' terms (+in
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> a shitty search engine to the point of > deserving being blocked is not one of them. Google's search quality isn't why I blocked Google. I've wanted to block Google for over half a decade, but the exc
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Last week I blocked every * .google.* domain on my network except "youtube-ui.l.google.com". Google Search: (1) ask a natural language question (since actual search is hobbled) (2) get unrelated garbage and ads back (3) blame y
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Consumer software is so bad now, that business software is competing with it.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
4chan, I'll bet.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> They gave poor Ezra a lobotomy Pound had a lobotomy? Well, I've never heard that one before. > too far off the approved plantation. I'm not sure I'd word it "straying off the approved plantat
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I probably crossed the HN rules line on posting political content. Fair enough if it gets flagged.
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QAnon and the Return of Magic(youtu.be)
1 points by uniqueid 6y ago|3 comments
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If critical theorists want to "take over American universities", they'll have to start generating waaay more dollars.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
No disagreement there. Likewise, a "Caution: Falling Rocks" sign typically indicates that rocks have been making an impact, more so than that rocks have uncovered scandalous state secrets :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I know I shouldn't be this curt here, but a child could dismantle that argument with a puff from one nostril.
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Not any measure that makes sense to me, and I've lived through a few decades now. I don't even think America represented such a menagerie of viewpoints in the late '60s.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> YouTube is crowdsourced. Youtube is one of the world's primary outlets to the consciousness of humanity. If you set out to influence public opinion, it's one of the very first services you want to exploit. Half its
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I think the problem, if we have to pick just one, really is the diet of crazy propaganda Youtube relentlessly pumped to the screens of two billion users for a half decade. Granted, the awesome scale is difficult to comprehend.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Thanks to the EarthEngine team, but only that team. Youtube is an Alphabet (Google) company. Youtube contributed to the rise of authoritarians like Trump and Bolsonaro who scoff at environmentalists. Youtube merrily signal-boosted anti-en

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