runawaybottle

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by runawaybottle 5y ago
inefficiency.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Sir (Madame?), I ask you one simple question: Was Twitch built in 10 years, or over just a few? Steam was built since I was in FUCKING high school. Im old now, well over 30. Apples, and blueberries. Bluebarry, Drewbarry, tomato, ToMaHtoH. F
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
It’s just luck. I mean, if I was a storyteller, what story would I have to tell if there was no story. They hit. It’s sort of like we all hold Golden dice, so we marveled, by our own eyes, at the gold. Dealer: You rolling those? Us: no, it’
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
I’ll grant you immature , nothing else.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
I’m so misread, Twitch is a lot of luck, so is all of these companies. Show me the the source code for luck. I don’t give a fuck if you leaked a video streaming crud app code lol.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Does it take a genius to figure out how to build twitch? It’s a modern crud app with video streaming.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
What the hell do we do in this industry if that’s not the case?
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Every book can be digitally taken out.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Actually he was promoted to C-Level, CII, Chief Imperial Intern ‘For Life’. It’s a great accomplishment to be be fair, comes with a lifetime weekly stipend and access to whatever Frontend books/courses you need to be a great web develo
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
It’s because that blockchain someone made is being used as national currency somewhere (and contributing needlessly to global energy consumption), and because that photo sharing site is causing body image issues, and that ad-tracker is buil
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
It’s hard to find the proper analogy since the phenomenon is so new. On a legal basis, it was actually hard to build a case against the Mafia until racketeering laws were passed. It was difficult to prove that it was ‘organized’ crime befor
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
We were explicitly dividing the union legislatively due to slavery. This was an existential threat to the whole concept of America. I can promise you the vast majority of Americans in the 1800s didn’t give a shit about the morality of slave
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
To add to your point, there’s not a soul in tech that ever went ‘I wonder if the results of this A/B test are ethical?’. Our industry is just not built with this sensibility, the same way Finance is not self-aware of greed . If it mak
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
She’ll get a book deal, it’ll be okay. I’m certain she thought this through and has political connections that she made deals with. Remember, attacking social media is the same as when politicians sit around and debate Abortion. It’s mostly
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
What do you expect from an industry that will sell any bullshit composite metric to indicate YoY growth?
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
To be honest, in certain enterprises (probably many startups as well) there’s just no need for UI other than tables. We get an api, mangle the result into some grouping, and then dump it into a table, over and over again. Sometimes we let t
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
We almost went down the ‘this is a subterfuge to delete whistleblower evidence’ rabbit hole.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
It was interesting to visit the subreddits of random countries (eg /r/Mongolia) and see the top posts all asking if fb/Insta/WhatsApp being down was local or global. I got the impression this morning that it was only aff
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
I think the mods throttled logged in users to discourage over-discussion and thread creation. There’s no rhyme or reason for read-only to be snappy and logged-in to be crawling.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
And how simple it actually was, just turn off the sites. Like a giant global, societal parental control setting. Here I thought that this snake had wrapped itself entirely around all of us, but it really didn’t. All we have to do is ‘flick’
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Yes people said the same thing about television and by and large most people think Television had some pretty bad side effects. A dumber society, all kinds of depression began manifesting in people who were sold an image of ‘reality’ via ad
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
The main issue with WhatsApp as the primary platform of communication is that it’s exclusive. You can’t actually switch to Signal and continue with business because you’d need everyone to switch with you. Tech has yet to go through it’s ‘in
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/3/3/mapping-internet...
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Apparently HN is a giant Facebook groups page with a custom theme.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
‘He was then subsequently attacked by “OverTheCounterIvermectin” for his tweets on transgender bathrooms from several months ago’.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Slashdot is still very good. The UI is horrendous, but I’m sure there are apps that clean it up.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
HN basically forces you to build a modest amount of karma capital if you typically post controversial comments (eg your comments have net 0 karma, +5, -5). My karma hasn’t budged in ages because everything I post has a bunch of people agree
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
That’s extremely sadistic. I fear those who can take part in something like that more so than explicit acts. Just rob the place, but don’t do demented stuff like that.
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Melatonin works well for me, possibly due to it actually working, or that I’ve created a trigger behavior that my body acts on (pop melatonin == time to sleep).
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by runawaybottle 5y ago
Often the security services routinely surreptitiously break into your house and rearrange shit in your fridge That sounds like horrifying gaslighting. Any evidence of this? It just feels like now days you need a camera in your private roo

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