gottam

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by gottam 7y ago
Pro free market is more of a libertarian thing not a conservative thing.
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by gottam 7y ago
The only thing is they integrate things like pocket and they're putting some other things in soon.
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by gottam 7y ago
And we've traded it for a sea of advertising and astroturfing.
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by gottam 8y ago
Almost none of those things you listed are extremist right wing. Politics are way too polarized and you're proof of that. I'm not even sure what you mean by anti-feminist but I'll guess "hate women and their rights"
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by gottam 8y ago
anything right of the center is now considered extreme right wing views
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by gottam 8y ago
They knew what they were doing. They most certainly reached a point where they realized they wouldn't deliver on the hype and speculation they were generating, so they had the option to either tell people before launch it to dial back
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by gottam 8y ago
I have it on my other monitor while I develop. I don't divert full attention to it, I'm just listening then periodically tune in when I'm in thought or need a small mental break.
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by gottam 8y ago
That paper I imagine terrifies Reddit. They depend upon their users to create and engage with content, if they're willing to leave to create and engage elsewhere they then become another Digg. This was done with small "hate"
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by gottam 8y ago
The comments here have this mentality of "there are people with different opinions from me, why don't these websites deal with these opinions". It's dangerous thinking that can be applied to your opinions. The internet a
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by gottam 9y ago
I never said it doesn't happen. You're the odd case and of course there's someone who had adblock installed for them. I just said "unlikely", because they went out of their way to install the adblocker.
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by gottam 9y ago
This is probably not an arms race ad companies want to play. Someone who has an adblocker installed is unlikely to be respective to ads, and by installing an adblocker they currently are opting out of from the ad vendors metrics. which is b
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by gottam 9y ago
Have you seen the left as of late? They have just as many bigots if not more. They're universally completely intolerant that the person they didn't vote for won the election. They also have rather interesting opinions on white peo
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by gottam 9y ago
pretty much this. its why there was a lot of h1b visa abuse. top 0.01% doesnt want to pay a lot for tech workers but the demand is high, so increase the supply of tech workers.
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by gottam 9y ago
You're the one who is making that connection, not me. I never implied it.
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by gottam 9y ago
I'm not going to berate the guy for doing what he thought was right, but reading this news doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy feeling. Just mixed feelings.
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by gottam 9y ago
Like I said, from a black and white legal standpoint it was the right move. But so much was lost from not simply uploading it somewhere from an internet cafe. It enters the same ethical flexibility as things like wikileaks in my opinion
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by gottam 9y ago
We could of had enthusiastic fans see the inner workings of such a beloved game and tons of articles around the technical details, but instead we protected the intellectual property rights of a billion dollar corporation. Strictly by law, i
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by gottam 10y ago
To fix this "problem" they've been spending money on human moderators to filter content, tags, and ban people. They're spending money on employees to remove discussions and eyes from the site, which counter intuitive if
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by gottam 10y ago
It probably is a good hack from their perspective. Just think of all the "back hacks" windows has.
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by gottam 10y ago
Disagreed. The name "altright" itself is now banned. You can no longer make a subreddit named that so effectively, the speech and beliefs are now banned under the guise of TOS violation. Usually when moderators misbehave they tend
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by gottam 10y ago
nothing, its just indirect political crap
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by gottam 10y ago
this makes me wonder how many of their hires actually add value rather than just consuming company resources
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by gottam 10y ago
Having worked with monolithic legacy codebases that they likely have, it has gone through hundreds of developers who dont work for the company anymore that created a bunch of spaghetti code means its a huge effort required to make sure that
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by gottam 10y ago
Can you blame them? Oculus & Facebook started acting like an abusive monopoly before they even had the monopoly.
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by gottam 10y ago
the problem that the article describes is that an incorrect email was entered at sign up, and the user gets invested in their account, all for it to get hijacked by original the email account owner down the road. Expiring an unconfirmed ema
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by gottam 10y ago
better idea: if user doesnt verify email within a few days, that email "expires" and is removed from the account. Add a message to nag the user to add a proper email to their account. this removes the edge case mentioned in the ar
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by gottam 10y ago
It reminds me of the music/movie industry in terms of how these adblock detectors mimic something like DRM. Anyway the problem is with the business model. People are installing adblockers in response to more aggressive advertising, and
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by gottam 10y ago
do you think the same about HN? your email isn't even asked for here.
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by gottam 10y ago
That's the kind of site they're running though. Make your own community with relatively lax rules and freedom of speech, even if the speech is low brow. Kind of like some of the *chans. If that's not what they want to have (a
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by gottam 10y ago
I dont think anything, it was a genuine question and I'm out of the loop. I don't go to reddit much so its the first I've heard of this.

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