wyattpeak

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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Foreign nations and companies dictating laws to a country has historically led to much the same things. Many people in the countries Britain colonised lived under autocracies without even a veneer of freedom. How many of those countries tod
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm not going to speak for Nigerians. If you want Nigerian opinions, ask Nigerians. I am going to say that I don't see how laws imposed by an unelected foreign company are better than laws imposed by an unelected local government.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Self-determination. Always.
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Why on Earth would this be a good thing? I'm all for freedom of information, but I'm even more for foreign companies not ignoring the laws set by the government I elected. Things get murkier when governments don't come to pow
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Given that I wasn't responding to your question, but to a follow up comment you made, I don't see why you would have expected me to be answering your original question. Nevertheless, the organisation tasked with protecting the env
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I've bought cups of coffee that were bad enough to throw away for $4. Not often, but it's happened. It doesn't stop me from buying coffees from new cafes. I reckon trying to solve this as though it's rationally thought-o
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
The distinction you're applying seem to be arbitrary. What makes Chinese efforts nascent but American efforts (where species also continue to go extinct) developed? Most efforts to preserve animals come after the damage is done. That&#
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Fair enough, I'm sorry to have implied otherwise. I agree with you about the frontline rep, that's not the person I have a problem with. I don't expect a low-level customer support rep to be able to approve such a thing. I ex
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think it's an extremely generous assumption towards Amazon that all they did was fail to refund "in the first customer support call". I don't know about you, but I've never filed a police report because someone ma
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> At the end of the day most big companies have found its a better strategy to trust/not dispute customers in these situations. The article we're responding to, not to mention the comments, is evidence that that is at minimum a
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
> Arguably this part of GDPR failed miserably. I'd definitely argue against that. For a hot minute they were truly terrible, with occasionally hundreds of tickboxes (Looking at you Techcrunch). Now 80% of sites I go to seem to use t
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Huh, I didn't know that, I'd wondered why so many sites defaulted them all to unchecked. Fastly's one seems a pretty dark-patterned in general, throwing up a primary-styled "allow all" button (and simultaneously pus
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Why? I want politicians to post on whatever people are using to get information. Almost nobody I know my age is regularly watching the news on TV, or checking the local paper's website. They might have other channels, but they certainl
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
What specifically are you waiting on? It's not hard to find information on the recyclability on PV cells (e.g. [1]). They're eminently recyclable, although they're mostly made of glass which isn't exactly high-value. Par
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
No, perhaps you're right. I was originally responding specifically to the argument that politicians shouldn't be treated differently from other people, but I've let my point drift. I don't know whether the rule is necess
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
So long as it's not criminal, yes. I'm not saying I like the idea, but it's vastly better to me than to have the Overton window chosen by the platform provider. If you can propose a way to stop bad-faith candidates from abusi
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
To be honest, I like this rule. I'm glad that social media platforms remove people violating community guidelines, whatever they are. I don't want people here on HN who do nothing but post flamebait, and I don't want people o
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Yes, though it throws up a "sign up to read more" notice if I have JS turned on. You can read it here: https://archive.is/6PfeI
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From a social good perspective, if they're all good your product shouldn't stand out. The argument here isn't that ads aren't good for the business doing the advertising, it's that they're bad for the community
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think what's gained is a visceral appreciation for such events which prompts further action. There's a reason why, when spruiking for donations, organisations like UNICEF like to show pictures of suffering children, and read fir
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
On the contrary, I don't find it entertaining at all. In fact I generally can't bring myself to watch LiveLeak videos, those text descriptions are my limit. But I do think my understanding of such situations is poorer for not doin
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I think the very fact that reading those descriptions is confronting, if it is to you as it is to me, is evidence that you do need exposure to understand that horrible things happen in the world. I understand it academically, but every time
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
I'm a bit late, but I suspect the poster is referring to a theoretical city type called a charter city[1], much pushed by the economist Paul Romer. None have been built, although both Madagascar and Honduras briefly considered the idea
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
You'd have to be doing something extremely small to make a $5 Linode more expensive. AWS might be cheaper for a static site, but as soon as you involve a database you're probably paying more. AWS is not cheap. A lot of people seem
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Is that really the problem? When in history did people get their news and information from a large and diverse set of sources? For as long as there's been national news, it's been dominated by a few headline sources. Before that t
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I was vegetarian for a while, and stopped because it turned out I wasn't willing to go without meat. Had really good meat substitutes existed at the time, things might very well have panned out differently, and I'd still be a vege
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The ISS has run many hundreds[1] of experiments, and more are sent up with every launch. It's an invaluable resource, because it's the only (relatively) cheap resource we have for running microgravity experiments which require hum
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by wyattpeak 5y ago
Having to write 40k submissions to find one with 6 8s more than qualifies as rare to my mind. Automatically incrementing a string might satisfy the requirements, but for an artistic project it's not what I'd base the metrics on, a
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This is one case though where that lack of understanding leads to the right conclusion. The average user is giving up nothing by losing the right to run arbitrary code, because they never were running arbitrary code.
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I don't think we are particularly individualistic, at least in the cities. Moreso as you head out into the bush, but that's true everywhere. I suspect it's a hangover from our earlier days, which were recent enough they still

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