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by HNthrow22 4y ago
this take is so pretentious that it reads like tech bro satire. Ah yes, customizing my email footer settings will showcase my refined taste and advanced aesthetic sense.
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by HNthrow22 6y ago
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by HNthrow22 6y ago
'California voters absolutely own voting for proposition 22' To be fair they set a new record for money spent on supporting a ballot measure in state history ($225m) and it still only passed with 58%. If you divide the $225m spent
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by HNthrow22 6y ago
RIP. I'd love to know why is this allowed but Kobe threads were all removed?
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by HNthrow22 6y ago
> The media has fallen into the well-known trap of optimizing the wrong KPI. You want to maximize trust with the public, not engagement KPI for whose benefit? Shareholders or the 'public good'? Why would a for-profit entity opt
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by HNthrow22 6y ago
This story is so wild, imagine being this couple and trying to tell the police ebay execs are harassing me because I wrote mean things about them on the internet. This is a widespread thing that's going on in our culture right now, org
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
agreed man, have fond memories of tweaking themes for daily drivers like irc client, winamp foobar2000, compared to like spotify or discord now feels so neutered and limited in terms of customizing appearance.
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
a dark pattern because while it's not actually required it might as well be, their 'account locked' email conveniently leaves out that you can simply email them and have them re-enable the account without a phone number. that
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
One contract that was handed to me from an established company even included a clause that any IP created by even up to 5 (FIVE!) years AFTER you're no longer employed belongs to the company. Vaguely defined as anythikng related to the
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
FIFA (The governing body for soccer) issues similar fines and bans for any political messages. ie fined they recently fined English/Scotish FA's 100k for players wearing poppies (a flower) which symbolize fallen soldiers from WW1*
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
Worth noting cloudflare leadership has been fighting this war for years and this is just a small battle. Can you tell us when @Cloudflare will be holding its next "How to Protect Nazi Extremists" workshop? You guys seem to be the
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
it's ridiculous it's given this much attention when there's far more nefarious activity and problems caused by big tech that are to date totally under the radar outside of a few researchers and journalists, and they go far be
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
what I found interesting was how quickly Hn jumped to action (contacting investors, pension funds) relating to NGO on a completely unsubstantiated report. "May have been" was the quote from that article. I can't recall the la
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
This is fantastic, thanks for writing it and for your testimony! my favorite bits "The emergence of this tech oligopoly reflects a profound shift in our society, the migration of every area of commercial, social, and personal life into
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
FB is the sacrificial lamb, popular scapegoat and effective distraction in this new era of SV policies shaping public opinion, ideas and as a result global politics. It seems misplaced, the amount of vitriol and negative press directed at f
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
> They're definitely taking an approach of culling anything that advertisers might not like. This could not be further from reality, see https://old.reddit.com/r/AgainstHateSubreddits/comments/a3q6...
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
> Reddit is another example a company that has recently scrubbed itself of most controversial content, I agree with you on most points however reddit takes no action against extremists and fringe groups proliferating on their platform un
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
to offer a counter opinion I found wordfence highly obtrusive, annoying and full of dark patterns in an attempt to upsell you to premium. They present in their dashboard ALL attacks within their entire network as if those were attacks on yo
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
I'm far from courageous, in fact I'm scared because these groups regularly DoX those who draw attention to this pressing issue: https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2018/07/17/the-daily-callers-...
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
archive.is is a very important tool in online extremism research and you've taken money from far-right extremists, your explanation for why it's inaccessible seems incomplete. This is probably where I get banned from Hn but it has
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
I understand the appeal of that for developers but it comes at the cost of users agency and control of their own system, I've been very annoyed with even simple UI changes in firefox updates as I simply didn't ask or want any such
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
I have all of the privacy options unchecked including studies but Normandy (which I've just found out about via this issue) is still enabled.
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
except at the moment we're dealing with highly organized paid misinformation campaigns and widespread propaganda under the guise of free speech. This will not be popular on Hn but in my opinion holding users and platforms responsible f
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
"The extraordinary step reflects growing global concern, particularly among governments, about the capacity of American-owned networks to spin up violence." "Officials blocked the platforms, he said, out of fear that misinfor
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
Why are discussions surrounding Chinese Politics permitted but no other political discussions? Seems like a double standard. Just quickly looking at the removals here's a 4 hour old Mueller report thread instantly removed - https:&#x2
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
poor phrasing on my part and I think we're in agreement about this, of course companies should have control what goes on their platform, they're not public services - the issue today is they have the power but none of the conseque
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
How is it dangerous? How are you able to equate "I was unfairly harsh in my judgement of X" with "X wasn't bad"? That doesn't follow, it's simply a comparison. Gates and MS anti-trust violations are now st
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
"Supporters said it’s led to a 41 per cent reduction in bed sores, a 30 per cent reduction in falls and patients being discharged from hospital an average 1.8 days sooner." Those are some wild numbers if that can be backed up with
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
This comment thread is both celebratory and hateful, truly disgusting from Hn. Celebrating space mission failures for any reason is a terrible look. This is a cultural difference, try to take a step back from your own preconceived cultura
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by HNthrow22 7y ago
nvm

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