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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, It may be as simple as the length. There's a vastly higher frequency of samples when every video is twenty seconds long. It's also clearly designed around a different experience, a constant consume-or-scroll feed as populariz
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah OK, I didn't follow because I strongly disagree that that's a low quality comment, even if it turned out to be wrong.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I think you may be misunderstanding the parent comment. In current usage, the term "living wage" doesn't have any connection to employee wages or what quality of life they buy. It's just a shibboleth reaffirming one&#x27
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Marijuana testing is an arbitrary bar, but a fairly well-known one, so you do actually improve the distribution of your candidate pool by using it for low-skilled jobs with a large, undifferentiated labor pool. Specifically, if it's kn
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm genuinely confused by this comment. Can you explain why you think speculation about the hardware costs of Waymo robotaxi is at all related to a complaint about silly jokes on HN?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> a drug is a drug, my dear friend I don't think even you believe this, unless you're willing to bite the bullet of alcohol and coffee prohibition? They're the most central, widely-used psychoactive drugs in the world, and
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Alright, thanks for clarifying!
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Could you clarify which part of the comment qualifies as a "flamewar", so I can avoid doing so in the future? Is it simply the editorializing about being "revolting and dehumanizing", or is there an issue with the semant
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Surely you see the problem here? If still not, then replace "Women" with an ethnicity or race in that statement. This doesn't make any sense. The comment is talking about how society treats women (and implicitly, men), n
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> On privacy, it's impossible to pretend that Apple is anywhere near as intentionally terrible as Google is. The parent comment of the thread said "Apple doesn't care about consumer privacy", in response to the articl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's quite an extraordinary market-dogmatist view of the world to claim that putting the user's interests first is the sole and exclusive input to the success of a business. In fact, I'd daresay the opinion you've expres
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> The value of the searches doesn’t come from the abilities google has with them I don't follow you here. Is the claim that Google's tracking of users is not for the purposes of increasing revenue? Why else would they be doing
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Seriously. I hate to be a dick, but I don't get how it's often possible to believe something that stupid (despite the fact that many, many people do, especially on HN). This model of corporations' decision as incapable of be
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
To narrowly answer the question "why": Anything that made tracking meaningfully worse would reduce the aggregate value of Google searches on Safari, which would reduce the expected amount Google would be willing to pay them to be
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Funny, I have roughly the exact opposite view of Jobs. To me, he was a groundbreaking figure in creating massive amounts of consumer surplus while having extremely anti-user values.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I think they'd have had a more powerful statement if they dropped the whole parenthetical. I don't think you're the target audience. I gather that stuffing as many buzzwords as possible into a sentence is lot more meani
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
You seem to be saying that the left, by definition, can't be in support of censorship et al. I don't see how this follows: in fact, I feel the exact same way about _liberals_. Individual negative rights are definitionally liberal
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
That's a good point. Though it is an importantly different point: it's trivial to avoid this feature, to the point that I've never once used it. (Though I gather that there have started to be exceptions, as with dating apps.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Unfortunately, this isn't just a question of how much governments should interfere, but the manner in which they should. Some analogue to eviction rights is a fantastic idea. But the political winds are trending sharply in the other di
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Or, spare yourself the histrionics and work for one of the hundreds of SV companies that don't build megascale ad-supported services?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I share your general concern here, but this is not how email-based service logins work. Excluding account creation and password resets, third-party services don't require you to access your email every time you log into them. For the m
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> A measure which actually has some relevance on country scale is population weighted density. I thought your comment was going to be about the fact that urban density didn't end up being that useful a predictor of spread, except to
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Determinants of pandemic performance has proven to be very multi-factorial, but from day one, urban density has not that been significant a factor, especially in richer countries. The initial wave just looked urban because the virus reache
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
what an incredibly bizarre comment. "I don't know how anyone can see Ramsay as abusive. He's a super nice guy who only abuses idiots who deserve it". What definition of abusiveness _doesn't_ include targeting only &
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I fully agree. I hate to say it, but I don't even have a model of the type of person who enjoys shows like those.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Right, it's the second part of the fourth bullet that I was asking about. Basically, that it sounds like it isn't feasible for Google to avoid POST requests if they're being submitted from JS.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah interesting, so you're saying that GMail is not likely to be avoiding the POST requests if they're in the JS code? I have a passing, non-professional familiarity with Web practices, so this isn't something I have a great
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ideally they wouldn't be following redirects _if they're POST requests_, right?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Ah, thanks for the details. Though I still don't see how the parent comment's theory holds: I suspect that the PR backlash would be far smaller/nonexistent for this feature than for the CSAM one, as we already accept that the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Have a look at the front page of Voat. I’m not even gonna check it myself because I’ve seen enough. Voat shut down last year (I actually wasn't aware until reading this thread and trying to check the frontpage)

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