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by ub99 5y ago
Pretty sure they used fake ads, but it’s a good precedent anyway. Edit: and yes the album is available on Spotify in full.
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by ub99 5y ago
This makes me wonder… would Spotify allow ads in music? Can I upload a music track that has an ad in the middle? Hmm…
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by ub99 5y ago
These long ads are actually separate tracks, so you can just skip to the end. The pain in the ass aspect comes mostly from the fact that not everyone has the app open in front of them.
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by ub99 5y ago
I am surprised you are getting downvoted. Very long ad breaks on paid accounts are unacceptable and the reason I refuse to listen to this podcast.
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by ub99 5y ago
Oh I see. My ad blocker seems to block all those video ads pretty effectively! Even then, why would they not just run video ads in that spot? What is the point of trying to distract the user from the content of the article? Just feels weird
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by ub99 5y ago
The auto playing videos that are not related to the content of the article are, perhaps, the most baffling thing for me. I open an article and watch a video for a minute trying to understand the point - to only then realize that the video i
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by ub99 5y ago
That’s not directly comparable. Antivaxx concern is not rooted in science or statistics. It’s rooted in conspiracy theories and anti-science. In a similar way you could argue that questioning the last election is the same as worrying about
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by ub99 5y ago
So, for example, all federal funds should be withheld from Florida until they introduce and enforce statewide vaccination? And we are going to do that with booster shots as well? This sounds like tyranny to me.
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by ub99 5y ago
Well, I was responding to the comment about fat people in general, not obese Covid patients. I don’t think the obesity factor should be taken into account at all. Re your response: ICUs are overwhelmed because of Covid patients, not becaus
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by ub99 5y ago
OK, let’s explore that. At what level do you think this would be enforced? Federal? Completely unenforceable unless you want to involve the military domestically. State level? Obviously half of the States are not going to do that. City leve
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by ub99 5y ago
Are hospitals overwhelmed because of fat people in ICUs?
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by ub99 5y ago
What do you expect to happen? 20% of the population will not get vaccinated and will wait for Covid to go away? This is also highly unlikely. Keeping the country closed and divided is adding a lot of stress to the stress we are already unde
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by ub99 5y ago
I do believe there is away to send a more complete and nuanced message. We can reopen and keep communicating the fact that the disease is still here, people should be careful. I am not sure we really have an alternative. Covid might stay wi
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by ub99 5y ago
Sorry do you live in the US? Do you really think a vaccine mandate is possible here? People will literally fight that with assault rifles. This situation is already tearing our society apart, there is no way any large scale mandatory vaccin
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by ub99 5y ago
That sounds like a good start. I hope more hospitals will follow this example. In general, I think it’s very unhealthy to attempt to take away people’s agency and treat them as children. Don’t want to get vaccinated? Your choice. But there
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by ub99 5y ago
That’s what I meant in my last sentence. Unvaccinated Covid patients should have a lower priority. I haven’t heard of any hospitals trying that.
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by ub99 5y ago
Speaking for myself (as I am pretty healthy). My concern is not about dying as much as it is about developing long Covid and other not fully confirmed potential complications. Saying that, I think at this point in the US we should completel
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by ub99 5y ago
Looks cut off in portrait mode but fits fine in landscape (iPhone X).
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by ub99 5y ago
People are free to partake or not partake… no one is forcing people to get vaccinated, there is always an alternative. A restaurant is requiring patrons to be vaccinated? Don’t go there if you are not. Your job is requiring prove of vaccina
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by ub99 5y ago
Sure, I agree that obesity is not a great indicator. I just used it to illustrate that an unhealthy population can be very large. Another example: 6.5% of Americans are morbidly obese, which I would guess can have an effect on the severity
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by ub99 5y ago
Why is the contract creator’s intent mystical to you? It’s very clear both from the content of the contract and from the explicit (known) description of the feature. In this sense, if my Python code has a bug, does it make the intent of it
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by ub99 5y ago
What’s the difference between a bug in a smart contract and a bug in an online banking application? The fact that the contract’s code is public, immutable, distributed doesn’t make it ok to hack it and steal money.
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by ub99 5y ago
“Unhealthy people” is a very large group. For example, obesity is considered an unhealthy state. 42.5% of the US population is obese.
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by ub99 5y ago
This hate for smart contracts on HN is puzzling to me. The hacker didn’t buy a chocolate bar for $0.50, he deliberately exploited a bug and took money that does not belong to him. Yes, someone actually deployed buggy code, what an absolute
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by ub99 5y ago
I don’t think this is the right question to ask. Browsers can push any number of malware or tracking and then exclaim “can’t you just turn it off?”. I understand that some users find this feature useful, I just completely disagree with how
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by ub99 5y ago
Do you think the author had an unreasonable expectation that a browser won’t suddenly start analyzing his buying habits and offer alternatives?
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by ub99 5y ago
At best this “feature” should be opt in.
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by ub99 5y ago
That’s not a strong value proposition though. There are many specialized devices for disabled people - doesn’t mean that they offer great value to the able-bodied. Eg a special watch for the blind is a great idea… but not something that wo
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by ub99 5y ago
A bit off-topic: is there a law requiring that sex toys must be blurred out? Even the ones that just look like a bent piece of silicon (not dildo-like)…
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by ub99 5y ago
Seems like the person you are responding to understood your point and labeled it (quite correctly) whataboutism.

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