madacoo

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by madacoo 6y ago
This would seem to be contingent on paying businesses that don't rely on ad-based revenue models. Rather than paying a company on top of their ad-based revenue. Afterall, it might be the case that non ad-based revenue is only viable
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by madacoo 6y ago
Which arguably makes the NRA look reasonable in comparison.
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by madacoo 6y ago
Providing tech support by responding to customers is a different beast entirely to content moderation, however. It may be the case that human oversight of algorithmic moderation is also unreasonable, but I find this fairly unlikely. I would
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by madacoo 6y ago
That takes an odd tangent into sex/race issues. Surely privacy violations apply to all individuals and the questions of whether or not software can a) have dicriminatory bias and b) be purged of them are entirely orthoganol to the init
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by madacoo 6y ago
It's refreshing to see an assumption of incompetence rather than malice, since I seem to have come across the idea that Google is questionably motivated by ideology rather a lot recently. One thing I don't understand is why Google
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by madacoo 6y ago
The aspect I believe you're missing is that any Chinese company with over 50 employees is not a legitimate private company because the CCP essentially claims ownership over them. This means ByteDance is essentially state run and makes
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by madacoo 6y ago
Are there any non-shitty people? I think not because lacking any quality that others would consider shitty would suggest they are far too perfect not to be considered shitty. By whose standards do we decide who is or isn't shitty? And
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by madacoo 6y ago
Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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by madacoo 6y ago
I'm the same. I think because I'm more concerned about the surrounding lighting and making sure the brightness of my monitor is appropriate for that. Once that's done, light mode has greater readability for me than dark mode.
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Ask HN: Open Source Zoom Alternatives?
3 points by madacoo 6y ago|2 comments
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by madacoo 6y ago
It's interesting that there are such diverse experiences of DDG vs Google. I'm also in the camp of finding DDG to be better at finding what I'm looking for. I wonder if the difference has to do with variations in search strat
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by madacoo 6y ago
So you're saying vote with your wallet but also publicise the fact you are so doing on social media? Isn't that exactly what the user you replied to did? How else could you have replied to them?
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by madacoo 6y ago
I'm curious what your silly thoughts are. How do you know that I will share your judgement of what a silly thought is? What is a silly thought to you after writing something down might be of interest to a random internet user. Is it no
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by madacoo 6y ago
I'd be worried if my wife expected me to call more frequently than that because it would imply our relationship wasn't as solid as I thought it was. Also British. To me a strong relationship is one that lasts across time and physi
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by madacoo 6y ago
Hello James, Please could you take a look at an amateur logo and offer some advice and/or maybe even fix it up a bit?
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by madacoo 7y ago
Location: Norfolk, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Anywhere inside UK Technologies: Python (Flask), MySQL, SQLite3, JavaScript, HTML/CSS (Bulma/Bootstrap) Résumé/CV: https://github.com/matthewdcooper/
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by madacoo 7y ago
It's difficult to accept this assertion at face value. After all for any given proposition p, regardless of the domain under which it ought to be considered, we can always choose not to immediately accept it without sufficient reason f
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by madacoo 7y ago
Is there a non-Facebook source for this information?
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by madacoo 7y ago
I suspect HN users are likely to be either a) willing to pay or b) able to circumnavigate paywalls by using private windows, blocking cookies, disabling javascript, or whatever else works. I wonder how long before paywalls aren't so ea
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by madacoo 7y ago
There is a big difference between opting out as an individual and suggesting that this is a reasonable solution for others.
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by madacoo 7y ago
I can't speak for the experience of Windows 10 because I stopped using Windows altogther some time around 7. But I entirely sympathise with OP's habit. Maybe not as fequently, but at least once or twice per year, I reformatted my
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No Really, I do care.(noreallyidocare.com)
3 points by madacoo 7y ago|0 comments
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by madacoo 7y ago
# August 6, 1945 In the Enola Gay five minutes before impact he whistles a dry tune Later he will say that the whole blooming sky went up like an apricot ice. Later he will laugh and tremble at such a surrender, for the
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by madacoo 7y ago
I tend not to buy new phones until my current one is done for. But if the Librem 5 pans out and is well received by the first buyers, there is a high likelihood this will be my next phone.
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by madacoo 7y ago
I would expect the strength of the effect is only one of many differences between the two.
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by madacoo 7y ago
I think you've conflated online downvoting behaviours with real life social conformity pressures, each of which probably have quite different effects on the propogation/extinction of certain beliefs.
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by madacoo 7y ago
Why four weeks? Surely you could have reached a similar conclusion in a day, or less? Or did you learn anything in that time that couldn't have been learnt in a short burst of unprotected internet activity?
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by madacoo 7y ago
Which apparently yields a boiled egg with not too tough whites that has a relatively easy shell to peel.
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by madacoo 7y ago
It's definitely an interesting question as to whether goal-choice itself can be a rational activity. Of course, it is necessary for a rational agent to begin with axioms and from there make choices. It seems perfectly coherent to me th
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by madacoo 7y ago
Let's start by assuming that a rational agent might choose as a goal the complete cessation of a particular belief. In that case I'd argue that downvoting patterns, as previously described, are not rational because, rather than ha

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