PavlovsCat

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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> If people could understand what computing was about, the iPhone would not be a bad thing. But because people don’t understand what computing is about, they think they have it in the iPhone, and that illusion is as bad as the illusion t
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> yet they want better and cheaper products - even free if possible. I want good things, I have them, and now I want greedy, needy people to stop pushing their mediocre, poorly understood imitations to drown out the really good things we
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> It seems that search engines now are always trying to guess your intent, and always think they know better. I complained about this from day one, and not once did I get anything but patronizing handwaving in response. If I want to buy
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Anyone remember Opera Mini, and how it could squeeze just about any site into just about any viewport width? I never used it on a smartphone, but I enjoyed playing with it on the desktop, it was like magic. Not always pretty, but very funct
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Wikipedia could use something like this, too.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I would say the opposite is true, sanity and integrity can't prosper much without one another. Everybody dies, at some point, and to give up oneself to live in infinitely short amount longer (compared to eternity) is shitty a consolati
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Why do we travel? Among other things so we meet people who don't think they know us once and for all; so we may again experience what is possible in this life. -- Max Frisch > Warum reisen wir? Auch dies, damit wir Menschen
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
It's hard to impossible to figure out the "suitability" of a person for something until they actually did that thing, in this case become a parent. Just like dating and marriage can be very different. Hindsight is 20/20.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
That is the reason the world is burning. Instead of running from where you don't see it, run to attack where you do see it. It's better to fail as a good person than to succeed as a charlatan, and a bit of money can't plaster
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> If every Chinese topic turns into the same "China vs. the rest of the world" discussion—or to put it more generally, if every thread gets sucked into whatever generic black hole happens to be nearby—then it becomes impossible
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> the bottom floor is 0, not the ground floor In the elevator sure, though just as often it's abbreviated EG for Erdgeschoss, which does mean ground floor. We call the floor above that "erstes Geschoss" or "erstes Obe
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/18/life-as-a-dron... > The aim of the missions was to track, and when the conditions were deemed right, kill suspected insurgents. That’s not how they put it
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Chomsky's talk titled "Corporate Attack on Education" held at St. Philip's Church, Harlem on March 16, 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbMP-cy1INA > I think the university should tolerate a larg
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> [..] intellectual freedom is a deep-rooted tradition without which our characteristic western culture could only doubtfully exist. From that tradition many of our intellectuals are visibly turning away. They have accepted the principle
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Nasdaq runs algorithms to look for market abuse and manipulation in real time. That's how you write honestly for the target audience. > Nasdaq runs more than 40 different algorithms, using about 35,000 parameters, to look for m
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
That's probably because it's an actually working and fun game, not some project where people spent more time giving talks or writing blog posts about it than all the people who can be bothered spent on playing it combined, and whi
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> for ideological and nationalistic battle Weasel words are like your little lucky charm, aren't they? What "ideology" would that be? Resisting the ideology you peddle isn't an ideology. Not being a Nazi isn't a
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
Oh, I know what you mean. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17763554 > people aren't actually interested in the plight of the Uighurs. Rather, it's convenient ammunition for justifying pre-existing politica
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> You realize that we are talking about Google, right? The context is "disagreeing with unions", which wasn't further qualified. edit: and certainly not restricted to Google. Just re-read chrisseaton's comment -- down
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The problem is that you want to look the other way. What could ever justify that?
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> So if a person from Europe starts to lecture you on guns in the USA, you're going to get a little defensive at their incorrect assumptions, even if you agree with their stance in general. That is very much unlike, say, " defe
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
The fact that you can talk about that, while criticism of China gets shuffled off the front page EVEN on an American site, speaks volumes. https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dx8rn0/absolutely...
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
"cognitive empathy" (as it's called in this article) isn't all there is to empathy: http://www.danielgoleman.info/three-kinds-of-empathy-cogniti...
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
"Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/16/world/asia/ch... / https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
And HN makes it dissappear. That's fucking disgusting, once again.
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
By what principle could one blame them for one thing and not the other?
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
I automatically replace that with "the best place to work (for me) I know of". Someone who isn't into software or hardware but loves dancing might be very bored at Google, someone who loves animals might be happier as a vet,
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
> Can people actually do that? We're doing it right now, the top level parent comment was dead before I made my first reply to you. > Maybe the moderators could tell you why you can't vote if you emailed them? HN could also
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
You are equating "telling a person to shut up and leave the discussion while allowing other people to keep attacking them in some way" with physically and forcefully removing them from the discussion, when it rather refers to a so
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by PavlovsCat 7y ago
What is the risk of talking about this? Why is this article pushed to page 2? 32. How we built Uber Engineering's highest query-per-second service using Go (2016) (162 points, 11 hours ago, 102 comments) 33. Google whistleb

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