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by clnq 3y ago
Which country has an anti-complaining bias? I’m guessing it would be somewhere people are empowered to solve their problems. High purchasing power countries? The US and UK used to both be kinda stiff upper lip countries in the 90s but now a
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by clnq 3y ago
> It's also worth noting you only admitted you were not an expert once your initial post was debunked No, that was in the original comment. I added only the paragraph prefixed with EDIT. My friend, you are just picking a fight on th
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by clnq 3y ago
I clearly stated “I’m not an expert on this” and publicly corrected my mistake to not mislead readers. Don’t fulminate, my brother, see comment guidelines on HN for more info. There’s need to act like this and your comment doesn’t contribut
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by clnq 3y ago
I think selling hard drugs being criminal is OK. But the US should actually do something with the severe addicts rather than just tossing them in prison, or creating laws against that and leaving them on the streets. Mandatory rehabilitatio
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by clnq 3y ago
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-modern-heart/202...
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by clnq 3y ago
Ah, thanks for the additional knowledge. I’ll edit my comment for clarification. Epic Games v Google is going to appellate now, though, isn’t it?
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by clnq 3y ago
Yes, ultimately our morals, culture, and sense of justice gets enshrined in law. But I did feel a big difference between living in a common law country and a civil law one. There was a sense in business circles in the latter that what is no
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by clnq 3y ago
Well, it’s common law, not civil law. So lawyers, juries, judges and so on all heavily influenced the Epic Games v Apple outcome, as they did in Epic Games v Google. The next time someone sues Apple for this, there will be precedent. But th
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by clnq 3y ago
Why one or the other?
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by clnq 3y ago
There are moral principles, and legal principles. Legally, you are right. But the moral perception of piracy is shifting, and broadly speaking, this entire debate is in the moral/philosophical realm. Legal systems ultimately enshrine t
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by clnq 3y ago
Games are always pirated if they are even a little bit popular. I work in the games industry, and games I worked on are always pirated, but the more popular they are, the more copies will be sold legitimately. People make two choices when t
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by clnq 3y ago
I don't think the three points you made are a consequence of speed limits or making cars inconvenient. They are a consequence of city planning and making public transit and bicycle transit convenient. I think cars are in quite inelasti
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by clnq 3y ago
The jailbreak patches are for the walled garden, too. Security is not a concern for those who use jailbreaks. They want to get their devices in the insecure state and go to lengths to do it. It's similar to how OpenAI uses "safety
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by clnq 3y ago
I was not mislead by that comment. It was clear that most people have their messages accessible to Apple, which is what the article also talks about - how privacy of "blue bubble" messages is at the center of this. There are ways
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by clnq 3y ago
Wouldn’t this cause more pollution? Lower fuel efficiency, increased congestion, more half-clutch inching, more stopping, more time spent by each vehicle on each road… …At least assuming the number and routes of travels stay constant. I use
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by clnq 3y ago
Why do US banks do that? I’ve never had a UK or EU bank call me to verify a transaction. Do you have the IdentityCheck/SecureCode/3-D Secure stuff (2FA for online transactions and at certain terminals)? Are these calls for transac
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by clnq 3y ago
My Samsung “HDR” TV can only approach what an HDR image looks like on a studio display if a bunch of these settings are on and balanced just right. It feels as if Samsung deliberately lowers contrast, for example, until their dynamic contra
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by clnq 3y ago
“In some respects” is such a weakening qualifying statement, that it could be made about anything. In some respects, this comment is like Pulitzer-winning writing. (Pulitzer writing is in English, too) In some respects, I am as good as Geor
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by clnq 3y ago
You’re responding to a statement you straw-manned. The comment you’re responding implies a slippery slope, not an equivalence between DIY safety and letting kids be outside.
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by clnq 3y ago
I also wonder what that means. What target would this software be compiled for? Apple Silicon or x86? If x86, then some feasible but difficult approaches exist, such as a translation layer or providing own reverse-engineered APIs. It would
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by clnq 3y ago
> There was also a time when the iPhone looked like this - https://i.imgur.com/wwH2UoF.jpg Yes, but you are straw-manning the argument. This is skankphone UI - a UI used by the technical team building back-end services a
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by clnq 3y ago
I think it's at least five elements: 1. Hacker-tinkerer culture, where you want to build new things that haven't been built on new hardware for fundamentally non-commercial reasons. This could be called Carmack-style hacker cultur
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by clnq 3y ago
An interesting read on grit that was popular on LessWrong, despite not being posted to their platform - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CyHvCwWh_BwukwNE-y61oBCj...
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by clnq 3y ago
Some people think it's not a big deal. I don't know why.
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by clnq 3y ago
Isn’t it almost always much better in acquisitions that the acquired company owns all of their code? I have been told so many times. Apparently the valuation is significantly impacted if they do not.
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by clnq 3y ago
This often happens ingenuously, not out of calculated ill intent. Coders will keep code snippets and thoughts in personal knowledge tools like Notion, and then reuse them in different companies. Or contractors will straight up copy and past
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by clnq 3y ago
Generally, not good. Many SWEs in games want to leave for cheaper countries or countries with better pay (US). Our salaries are low, but we don’t have a good social safety net to show for it (i.e. our public healthcare is practically inacce
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by clnq 3y ago
> OpenAI is in fact not open This meme was already dead before the recent events. Whatever the company was doing, you could say it wasn’t open enough. > a real disruptor must be brewing somewhere unnoticed, for now Why pretend OpenAI
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by clnq 3y ago
A lot of people in tech say that executives are excessively diplomatic and do not speak their truth. But this is what happens when they do too much, too ardently, too often. This is why diplomacy and tact is so important in these roles. Thi
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by clnq 3y ago
The quality of ads also differentiates YouTube from other platforms (like proper TV) and even burned in sponsored messages. Ad reads in popular podcasts are miles ahead in terms of quality. The average ad on YouTube is scraping the bottom o

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