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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Also, nowadays, when you think of newspapers, you think mostly of quality publications, writing considered, contextualised pieces. This is a very unique perspective. It's one I don't share, and neither do the majority of Ame
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Fwiw, this isn't my experience. My following list is remarkably stable, and I've only had to prune people "falling of the wagon" once or twice. It's also not much work: you see their tweet, remember that they'v
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The content on this page isn't written by tech people - it's written by policy experts and other civil servants whose expertise isn't exactly how URL's work... It doesn't just take a lack of expertise: it takes
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The article is worth skimming, or at least the abstract They didn't rely on the participants' subjective perception of time passing, but manipulated it through means that can't possibly be downstream of the subjects' blo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> based on highly biased information that they have obtained from others around them. There is little "cost-benefit" analysis being done when you aren't actually comparing the real costs and benefits, but rather an extreme
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There are many people who don't make their vaccination decisions out of a mystic adherence to the very concept of a vaccine, but based on what they perceive to be a cost-benefit analysis (with the level of rigor varying wildly, natural
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, I don't quite understand how the article's product is different from this. I also don't understand how anyone uses Github in a professional context without using the workflow you describe... EDIT: Ah, from comments furt
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Is the increase in child speech and reading problems _Is_ there such an increase? The GP comment says that use of speech pathologists increased, not that this was due to an increase in kids with these problems. My assumption was just t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I may have missed it, but I didn't see any explanation in that article of why anyone would depend on something like leftpad instead of just writing the single LoC directly into their application.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I find that making sure -v always runs is pretty helpful. The one or two times I've noticed what was being printed and immediately interrupted is well worth the cost of my console being polluted in other instances.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
What? This thread is about why Twitter has escaped (much) media criticism, not why Facebook has received it.
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> The reasons it escapes the kind of pitched battles waged by the media against Facebook is beyond me. Because thinking of Facebook as a boogeymen that turns people into monsters requires thinking of their users not only as monstrous, bu
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This can change dramatically based on the environment too. I have trouble with being dishonest, and prefer a straightforward style when giving and receiving both praise and critical feedback. I started my career at Google, where this worked
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, that's the sense I intended it in
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, and these pitfalls are so obvious and straightforward that I've been careening for the last decade towards the conclusion that most people who do this simply aren't capable of understanding the concept. It's beyond their
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> We're not in a post-truth world; people have always made stuff up. A post-truth world doesn't mean that lies now exist, but I suspect you know that. I'm referring to things like the dramatic declines in trust in journal
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Even before investigations revealed that the company’s products were destroying teens’ mental health This is tangential, but are we all just credulously swallowing this claim now? What's next, casual references to the obviously-s
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't think this is relevant to my comment at all. The first part of my comment ignores the existence of Brave Search, saying that it's not "hard to avoid" Google Search when all it takes to do so is changing your brow
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> They are pretty hard to avoid, being an effective monopoly. Im confused by this claim. Is it really that difficult to avoid Google search? It seems to me that it just requires going to bing.com, or changing the default search in your b
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This has nothing to do with the hedonic treadmill. The market already priced in a higher guess for iPhone sales growth, and is adjusting downwards to fit the actual numbers. If you want to fit it into the frame of hedonic expectations, the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I doubt Facebook's name change is driven by the last few weeks of bad PR. The relevant model seems Google's change to Alphabet, which wasn't driven at all by an attempt to flee the negative associations with their previous na
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Absolutely. Transparent governance is really hard, and it was quite nice to see an example of a conflict handled and resolved so well, right out in the open.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> From a legal and business perspective, neither German legislation nor the Fischer Verlag are at fault here. It's just the way it is (in Germany): Creators hold their intellectual property for life and can make sure, their heir pro
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I don't think I follow your point. Are you suggesting that the ACLU was also never classically liberal because the one of the dozen+ members of the founding committee was a socialist?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Was the ADL ever classically liberal? I don't mean that snarkily. I just don't recall much of a shift in their values in the way that's clearly visible for the ACLU and others.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Well yes, the point of this subthread is not that it's impossible to do this well, but that bars/restaurants don't seem to care whether they're excluding the occasional unlucky customer. I'm in New York City and not
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Not quite the same thing, but I had to head home early one night recently because my phone had died (which almost never happens to me) so I couldn't show vaccination-proof. I would guess that a person's phone dying while bar-hopp
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, that would be beyond egregious. Imagine a laptop you couldn't use on a plane? I don't know if Microsoft has any product people working on Windows, but surely somebody at the company would notice the constant, universal condem
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That makes sense, but it doesn't really affect my point _too_ much. It's still shocking to me that this isn't a widely-known workflow among non-techies, akin to installing an ad-blocker. The friend who dealt with the forcible
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Hm, my read of the quoted statement is the same as my read of your comment. If you get a new Windows laptop and don't have an Internet connection, you can't start using it. Is that correct?

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