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by uses 7y ago
> we're now happy to blame some algorithm for our shortcomings and take no personal responsibility for our actions Seems like a bit of a strawman? > Shouldn't I be accountable for my own actions Certainly, and those using al
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by uses 7y ago
I feel like a large part of where we are in the world now is because in 2015 or so, YouTube mindlessly and singlehandedly funneled millions of apolitical young male gamers into gamergate extremism. It took forever for YouTube to stop giving
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by uses 7y ago
This is a really basic appeal to worse problems fallacy. You also assume that the same resources used for this somehow take away from addressing climate change.
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by uses 7y ago
Can anyone comment how this compares / contrasts with these projects? https://stellarium.org/ https://celestia.space/
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by uses 7y ago
I'd imagine most HNers are aware that MS owns the world's social code platform as well as the hottest general purpose editor. That mind share counts for an awful lot compared to like, 3 years ago.
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by uses 7y ago
What a quaint time when the oddball outsider candidate was a mentally stable human being calmly explaining ideas in a way anybody could understand.
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by uses 7y ago
ITT: "but the real fake news is the lying MSM!", etc.
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by uses 7y ago
As a web developer, what on earth does this mean? > desktop sites are now the default in Safari Surely it's not some kind of meddling with the device width to make responsive web design even more confusing. That would be very odd. M
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by uses 8y ago
> Is Sans Serif Fonts the department where the US government can really make a difference Isn't this a pretty basic "appeal to worse problems" fallacy?
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by uses 8y ago
Probably worth noting that WP is planning on requiring PHP 7 by the end of 2019 https://make.wordpress.org/core/2018/12/08/updating-the-mini...
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by uses 8y ago
Just leaving aside for a second what a crime against humanity this surveillance is... It never ceases to amaze me how many of these massive data leaks are simply "mongodb in default configuration". I just don't understand how
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by uses 8y ago
I don't know why this surprises me but this just feels weird. I felt like Inbox was the product that I was supposed to get on board with. It really is true that you just can't love google products. They make it freaking impossible
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by uses 8y ago
Another MongoDB misconfiguration, wow. How is it still so easy to configure mongo with no creds and an open port? Feels like these alone cause a large % of data leaks. If I was running a cloud platform of such a massive scale I'd proba
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by uses 8y ago
Where did this new anti-NN talking point come from about how, if we're going to have net neutrality then we also need to allow people to be terrible on social media without taking responsibility for it? I swear I've seen this so m
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by uses 9y ago
> Note how many of the senators who voted to expand surveillance programs and the NSA became suddenly very concerned for privacy Ok but even from their perspective, and I'm trying to not give too much credit here, but there is a dif
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by uses 9y ago
"Make the most important thing stand out" I'd be careful with this one and be sure you understand what you are doing on a case-by-case basis. I have noticed a thing which I'm not sure there's a name for, but I call
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by uses 9y ago
The ability to use the responsive flexbox classes has been game changing for me. I can do large portions of a fully responsive flexbox layout with css classes like d-md-flex and flex-md-row, etc. This drastically cuts down on the amount of
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by uses 9y ago
Just when I was getting a really firm grip on Flexbox... now Grid is becoming usable everywhere. I shouldn't be complaining, this fast pace of adopting useful tools is a paradise compared to the stagnation we had 5-15 years ago.
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by uses 9y ago
It feels like we're pretty far past the point where there could be a "Spotify of movies" or TV. Instead we have streaming companies getting into media and media companies getting into streaming. Multiple platforms each with t
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by uses 9y ago
It's funny how almost without fail on HN, I can go to the comments, and the #1-5 comments is someone who quickly dismisses the main premise of the linked article. It's ridiculous how common this is. I've been reading HN over
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by uses 9y ago
This info would look really nice as stacked bar charts. And the average sleep / wake times would look great as parallel timelines to show start / end times of sleep.
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by uses 9y ago
Thanks, that's actually pretty helpful. I think the term McMansions has a bit of a marketing problem now that I understand the purpose of the movement a bit better.
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by uses 9y ago
I totally understand the whole "McMansions are bad architecture" thing... However, something about it really bothers me. There was an episode of 99% Invisible where the guest was talking about their McMansions blog and how it make
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by uses 9y ago
There will be comments about how some information from actual news organizations contains opinions or incorrect facts...and therefore it's in the same universe with fake news. This is like, the definition of throwing the baby out with
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by uses 10y ago
Sometimes when I click Replay, it autofails me and moves to the next question.
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by uses 10y ago
I've found bolt to be completely awesome. I've made 5 or 6 sites with it, made a couple utility extensions, and used the local extension system to do stuff like custom search, a basic shopping cart, and a custom data export featur
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by uses 10y ago
We use the Rackspace Cloud Sites PAAS. They recently released a PHP 7 beta. For our sites running Bolt - a PHP CMS which makes heavy use of autoloaded classes - we saw a performance improvement between 45 and 55 percent. For Wordpress, it w
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by uses 10y ago
Wow, that's a really accurate description of what it was like in China as well, specifically in Beijing. The large intersections were some kind of organically flowing chaos of differing modes of transportation. And the honk was used as
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by uses 10y ago
This page slows my browser to a crawl. I had to close the page to type this comment. Same if I open it in incognito with no extensions. Chrome Version 53.0.2785.116 m, Windows 10
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by uses 10y ago
The thing about Krav Maga, Kung fu, or similar stuff that uses "deadly techniques", is that their efficacy is (conveniently?) unprovable. Meanwhile, submission grappling (such as jiu jitsu) and striking techniques (such as boxing

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