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by gotostatement 4y ago
> Everybody has different preferences of how they want a search engine to look and feel. I will never ever ever ever spend time going into the settings of a search engine to customize my search experience. Not when Google does a good eno
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by gotostatement 4y ago
okay this is amazing. but wtf is this sentence? "No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which many union leaders regard as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it to
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by gotostatement 4y ago
could google interfere w/ the API's that are used to make this work?
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by gotostatement 5y ago
blah
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by gotostatement 5y ago
Hilarious article. "Why I changed my mind about advertising: I decided I wanted to make money off ads"
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by gotostatement 5y ago
blood on tesla's hands when they market the feature as full self-driving, then in the fine print say "but not really." now they're going to put the full blame on this taxi driver who was basically using the feature the w
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I see your point, especially about tone
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by gotostatement 5y ago
if you don't want that type of comment on HN, feel free to remove it - it's not a big deal to me. But it's not a shallow critique - this article makes grand claims about how the brain works that are not backed up by any exper
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by gotostatement 5y ago
- no engagement with existing literature or work on this topic - no experimental tests of theories - massive reductionism of the complex emotional & cognitive phenomenon of music into low-level game theoretical optimizations sorry, I do
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I think it's a really cool idea but you have a network effect issue. I would expect it to be hard to get enough of my friends on it for it to be useful. Integrations with existing message apps and environments would be ideal, though I&
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I agree but relax with the antichrist stuff, we don't want the justifiable hatred of him to turn into antisemitism like it already is in the conspiracy circles
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by gotostatement 5y ago
the picture for "responsible innovation" is so funny... they're like "we're approved by this disapproving black woman!"
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by gotostatement 5y ago
wtf is chinese algebra
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by gotostatement 5y ago
propaganda
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by gotostatement 5y ago
The cigarette lobbyist is making a specious argument comparing cigarettes to lettuce in order to exonerate cigarettes, despite that noone smokes lettuce, lettuce is not addictive, and it's just totally different altogether. Similarly,
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by gotostatement 5y ago
This has the same energy as the cigarette lobbyist in congress who talked about how smoking lettuce has the same health effects as smoking tobacco
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by gotostatement 5y ago
so now academic papers are titled like clickbait? xD
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by gotostatement 5y ago
> made the world better (in someone’s point of view) for Homo sapiens The capitalist ideological trick is: "are you happy houses were built? Do you enjoy the convenience of modern living? Then don't get mad at us for the tradeo
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I cant speak to the economics on your side, but from a consumer point of view, the main issue I'm having is: how do I know this thing will even work? I don't want to shell out $10 and wait for processing time only to find out it d
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by gotostatement 5y ago
the problem with this analogy is that when you lose a lot of users, you lose the network effect. so even if a user is low-value in terms of their actual engagement, they bring value by luring others in
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I could see that there are some users who would want an ongoing subscription, such as a security office who looked through security videos on a regular basis to investigate thefts. But I have to think that in a lot of cases there will be pe
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I don't own a smart TV because every smart TV I've used has been in an airbnb and they are generally sluggish to the point of being unusable. Even my plug-in Roku has gotten to this point. I don't understand what it could be.
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by gotostatement 5y ago
I can see how in the short term it's a positive service - they can now keep their lights on, their water running, etc. But as a long-term proposition, a permanent adjustment to the status quo, it just feeds into an exploitative system
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by gotostatement 5y ago
> Users pay a small fixed charge per withdrawal, regardless of the amount. Really disappointed to read this. Wages are so low that working people can't pay their bills, so your solution is to lower their wages even more? There was a
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by gotostatement 5y ago
its not too hard to find people explaining that they do, and why they do (just google "representation matters" and im sure you'll find a lot). sounds like youre not open to learning about other peoples experience, or you simp
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by gotostatement 5y ago
this is a really cool idea!! It would definitely help organizing knowledge for upkeep, even for myself let alone for others. I may or may not use it because I'm just renting, but I'll keep this in mind and may pick it up. It'
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by gotostatement 5y ago
> I have a sad realisation that "engagement" is more likely "enragement." Humans are activated best by anger. Joy? That is a big deactivator... This is interesting. Because if you have joy, you might be like "may
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by gotostatement 5y ago
Their own website lists one of their areas of expertise as "advising on union awareness and avoidance" https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/solutions/labor-and-employment Under "Executive and Workforce Tra
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by gotostatement 5y ago
right, and you're a great example - you need to be treated like a child and guided to learn to respect and not stereotype adults who are given less money than you by our economic system. thats what you mean, right?
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by gotostatement 5y ago
props on what you've built, it looks great!

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