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by uniqueid 5y ago
The dev posted this some weeks back, but I found it too off-the-wall to believe. I wish I could go back and append a mea culpa to my old comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500301 )
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Of the four, I've only ever heard of SeaMonkey before. I'll definitely check them out though.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I'm currently using Brave to reply to this comment because it was already on my drive. I don't like Brave's philosophy and I don't like its proximity to Google. I'm using it as a stop gap till I find something bette
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by uniqueid 5y ago
When I was still a Firefox user, I just ended up blocking any domain owned by mozilla. And by 'when I was still a Firefox user' I mean 'until approximately 12 hours ago.' What priorities and values Mozilla has left I don
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I'm out! I don't care how few users Firefox has. I do care that the product has become a pile of garbage. I already tolerate the dumb tab bar, the update nag screen that interrupts my work, the telemetry setting that doesn't
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Humans can only focus on one thing at a time. So why are we spending money to display multiple things simultaneously? Would the author use that logic to argue that no monitor should have more than a single pixel? While there might b
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by uniqueid 5y ago
'Google' is not the most common query on Google, just the most common search result.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
The shift in company culture that I am thinking about is about how strongly people react to react to social justice issues, not really the issues themselves. I think, deep down, Coinbase wants a tough, driven, mercenary workforce. If that&#
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I predicted Coinbase would enter a vicious cycle in which the work culture increasingly promotes ass-covering and discourages conscientiousness. Sometimes people who don't work for, or work with, a company with bad ethics never know be
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Almost! The author is actually a self-described "anarcho-capitalist". He also dresses like Tweedledee for some reason.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Well, that seems perfectly reasonable to me. Just to clarify, I don't think I'm particularly prone to romanticize societies that Europeans colonized. What changed my view about the world is thinking about the economics. Take the U
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That way of looking at things is mostly wrong, but it is a belief that suited the winners, so it is a wide-spread belief. I'm not keen to rebut it at much length because my previous comment already leaves the wrong impression: my point
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I sometimes consider the notion that, socially, Western modernity was just reified feudalism: everybody's a lord now! I figure historians of the future will view it like this: there were people in Europe who practiced feu
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Either that or we have changed enough that we are now capable of being creative, in terms of both art and theorizing about prehistory. Personally I think it's the latter. If we were capable of appreciating art 200,000 years ago, we als
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Yes. I wrote 'probably' but there are too many unknowns to have much certainty about anything a century from now. For all I know, we'll start lobbing nukes around until the planet is a wasteland.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I personally eat meat, but I suspect very few people will a century from now - not meat from a slaughterhouse anyways. No, we'll grow meat cheaply in labs, and the companies who produce it won't have much trouble blackening the re
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by uniqueid 5y ago
If you're too young to know what OMNI Magazine was, you should do an image search for their covers. They had a similarly futuristic look, albeit more grandiose.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Every major iOS update adds more functionality that consumes more CPU cycles even in the background. The very best OS updates also revise or replace existing code to run better (more reliably, more securely, more quickly, etc).
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Apple continues to support OS updates on the iPhone 6s, a device released almost 6 years ago If that benefited customers, Apple wouldn't prohibit downgrades. Allowing software that runs painfully slowly on old devices primarily
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by uniqueid 5y ago
The Monacelli guy comes across pretty badly If it were a contest for 'making a bad impression', the guy who spoke after him literally went on a five minute rant advocating nazism.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
There are sites like this one that attempt to categorize stories according to left/right bias (of course, there's no way to label the bias of a story that isn't itself biased) https://www.improvethenews.org
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That is true, but someone could probably persuade me it's also for the greater good.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
> Duolingo's mission [...] to maximize the time spent on the platform doing pointless tasks >> What makes you say that? A clear example is the design of Duolingo's word palette. Anyone who wanted to optimize qu
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Orson Welles talks about Citizen Kane (1960)(youtube.com)
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by uniqueid 5y ago
Your comment merits a more thoughtful reply than this, but I discussed the same issue here some months ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26876186 ) and it's hard to work up enthusiasm now.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
That is not, in any way whatsoever, what I meant. I'm apparently inarticulate, but I like to think I'm not an asshole.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I revised the comment to correct the misquotation.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I'll settle at more than your 'major metros' and fewer than my 'most college towns' — although now that I think those two numbers over, it's probably not that large a delta to begin with ;)
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I don't have any statistics, but there may well be fewer brick-and-mortar gay hang-outs today, precisely because the internet has given people other ways to meet.
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by uniqueid 5y ago
I'm 'yes, but...' on both those points. (1) is true, but I was thinking more about the persecution aspect than the community aspect. If being gay made life unbearable in a particular town, it was at least physically possible

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