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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> So they are lying, again? What are normal people suppose to do without expertise on any subject. This is unfortunately just how the world is. Epistemology is hard, and there are a ton of people out there who make it harder (Three guess
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I had the same reaction, but from context, I think what he meant was "cases where the conflict is due to the stupidity of the parent instead of the stupidity of the kid". The base case is that kids are stupid, because kids are su
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Google has literally billions of users. There are people who are worse at using computers than anyone you've ever met. I'm as irritated as anyone when something doesn't cater to "power users". But if we're tryi
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I agree that it won't obsolete actors as GP says, but it will absolutely be cheaper and easier. The expense of acting doesn't come from the craft being expensive or rare. It comes from the market power that results when the strong
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Well sure, describing downvote patterns as weird doesn't mean that the majority of downvotes are bizarre. The bulk are completely comprehensible. But I can't think of anywhere else where I see as many completely reasonable comment
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This dynamic is true of places like Reddit too, or any forum with a global audience. But I can't think of any subreddit I've ever observed such weird downvote patterns on.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
HN has by far the most bizarre downvote patterns I've ever seen. Not really worth wondering about.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Oddly enough, I've found that weightlifting is completely contrary to my weight loss goals. Lifting makes me ravenous, often in unpredictable ways, which makes it much easier to overeat. I'm trying to lose a little weight, so afte
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This happens on personal, non-managed Windows as well. In college, my friend dropped out in the middle of a LAN Starcraft game because of it. Windows simply isn't a good choice for anything but a toy system or a specialized one to be u
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Can we? Everything I understand about the public tells me otherwise.
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Would it really be an issue to run LibreOffice in a VM on a modern machine? Back in the bad old days of ten years ago, I used to run a Windows 7 VM on my Ubuntu laptop of RAM to watch Netflix. It was pretty tight with 2GB of RAM, but it wor
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Piracy is illegal not because it is unethica I'm not making this claim. I'm saying that in the context of this thread, saying "I wouldn't be pirating in that case, I'd be using YT with adblock" isn't
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah I was speaking ethically, not legally. Of course, adblocking isn't illegal and piracy nominally is. As mentioned in the sibling comment, this argument-by-example is trivially extensible to piracy. "It's not unethical to wa
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Adblock is not much different than getting up from the couch to make a sandwich or whatever when a commercial comes on TV. Sure, but this type of argument-by-example is an easy way to hide both t holes in one's argument[1] and the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> for every ten recent top films watched illegally, four fewer films are consumed legally" Wow, that is pretty substantial.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Is adblock meaningfully different from piracy? I'm familiar with the defenses of adblocking and think they have some merit, but they seem trivially extensible to piracy as well. The more salient comparison is between piracy and spotify
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Turns out it didn't work well. GM learned the hard way the founder was the best CEO of Cruise. There's a lot they do not understand about how startups and Silicon Valley work. I'd be hesitant to generalize this lesson. A
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Your prior on a claim that something supports white supremacy should be damn near zero in 2022.
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In my opinion, it's not going to be as simple as someone outcompeting them at the existing game. It's that someone will beat them at the next iteration of the game, at a new paradigm of information discovery and distribution. The
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
How does the first sentence follow from the second? The possibility that a company does good "in the grand arc of time" is no excuse for not holding them to the law. Now if you're saying "negative effects", then com
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Does the airbnb app or website even serve third party ads?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The only person to have used the phrase “new dark pattern”, by the way, is you. From the comment I responded to: "Add this to the list of dark patterns". (You don't _add_ existing instances of a category to a list enumer
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Lol, calm down buddy, drink a glass of water. I dislike Microsoft quite a bit, despise ads, and pay or block to minimize my exposure to them. But believe it or not, not everyone is simple-minded enough to think that it's impossible to
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> It's a choice, that is not a choice How? I laid out precisely what the choice is in my comment, but I'll lay it out here again: smaller, inline ads vs larger, out-of-mailbox ads. There are positives and negatives to both. T
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Thanks for your perspective. I guess my dispute is with the claim that this is "objectively worse for most users". Just as some people may prefer a higher volume of untargeted ads to targeting, while others may prefer the opposi
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Is this a dark pattern? "see inline ads, or see bigger ads" seems like a pretty straightforwardly-presented choice. Its like other ad servers' "use your data for targeted ads or see more ads, which will be untargeted&quo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Let alone weird, this isn't even novel. Five years ago, one of FB/Google/Twitter framed the advertising data option as "we use your data to show you ads" vs "see more ads, which will also be less relevant to yo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What's confusing about this? It's asking whether you want bigger ads or in-mailbox ads, which have their own negatives.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You can write code in any language that fails at runtime depending on the day. What's notable about this is that its _syntactical correctness_ depends on the day, which is not possible to achieve in many languages. What's being no
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> And so stayed up several nights and wrote tight C++ code to line up the data and raced the private team over the finish line. I don't understand. Why would the university team have to finish it before the private team? If the priv

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