wordupmaking

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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I think that it's more about politics and investors/advertisers not really clicking. The rest I just don't see, we already opened the flood gates to stuff like discussing "another trivial update of this piece of software
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
You're downvoted because you're exactly right. People on here generally can't handle inconvenient truths that include themselves. Never trust a person who can't rend their garments. > This generation No. Resoundingl
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Yeah, but when you stand up to snoops and crooks, you don't have to contort yourself in ways that are a.) undignified and b.) futile anyways, and c.) waste your own resources of which you have fewer than the server rooms of megacorps,
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> Is it so difficult for you guys to just have a facebook account that you don't check in on? Yes. Is that so difficult for you to accept? Tough shit.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Allow people to tag their posts, and have friends who tag their posts. Then have an option to not see posts of type X (link, photo, text, video, audio) tagged with Y by contact Z. Have further options to display little icons with some info
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Yes, I absolutely agree that plenty of commonly practiced or even accepted things are malicious, too, at least with the way they're hand waved away ("to improve our service" and worse).
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Also see "to have or to be".
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
This is not so much a matter of debate as of reading up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware > Some malware is used to generate money by click fraud, making it appear that the computer user has clicked an advertis
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> Overall i find your reply very negative and zero value. You didn't pass yandex test, right? :) That cuts both ways - you don't see a problem with the needy practices of pretty much all major and many minor tech players, right
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
In kindergarten I asked a friend why "Hitler didn't like Jews". He said his grandmother was Jewish and he didn't like her, which made sense to us. When I was 9, my Jewish best friend and I had friendship armbands in neon
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say. -- Hannah Arendt Read
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I want to build and refine and improve and make useful and a lot of things, but not add credibility to such practices. And I want people to know what an URL is and how copy and paste works. Everything I write is secretly about wanting peopl
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
What's "fully dependent"? If A going away makes B go away, I'd say that's pretty dependent. Shifting goal posts from that to "major difference" is silly, you could argue for anything that way, there are ma
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> In the same way that I'm okay with abortion, I'm okay with this - your dependence on someone or something else is a defining factor of your rights as an individual. Is there a magical exception for disabled or sick people? An
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
True. I kind of settled at seeing it rather like art. What happened and all traces of it might be gone ultimately, but it still happened. It's purely subjective why anyone would prefer one thing over another happening, or care at all,
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I wasn't at that school anymore when that happened, but a classmate killed himself when he was 18. He stabbed himself in the heart, and he fucking succeeded. He was a very kind and gentle person. Good looking and well built, even. Very
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Awesome, thanks!
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> would require so many people to agree You don't always have to remove something, you just need to introduce doubt. It only took x% industry shills to make any evidence for climate change effectively disappear for a lot of people.
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
What's the copyright? Would it be legal to unzip those and serve them directly, so archive.org or anyone else can make them more inviting for access? I know you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth but there's not even an
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Not that I don't get what you're saying, not that I never want revenge, but still, since I also tell this myself: can you imagine someone hurting a child who has not been damaged in some way? I'm not claiming to be perfectly
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
But that doesn't "prevent spambots etc.", that merely prevents people from easily and instantly figuring out whether their bots are detected yet. It doesn't stop them from spamming votes, or from making their bots more
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
How about, here and on reddit, being able to mark threads you're interested in, and having a page where you can see those sorted by last reply. On HN, make that page refresh every 15 or 60 minutes or whatever. Heck, once every 24 hours
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
I can't believe that apparently some people see "Tumblr" but not the "researcher employed by NATO". It's just text and images and video, the "place" where it's at matters only for the people havi
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
> I can't claim it's wrong because I'm not a good ethicist. Even the best ethics expert in the world would just be one who knows how to describe a bunch of ethical systems and ideas that exist currently and historically. O
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
My takeaway from reading into these things was that at certain temperature breakpoints, lifetime decreases a LOT, way too much to want to get close to that. So I tried to find the rough limits and wrote down idle/load temperatures for
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Average users don't care about encryption either, yet we still have the padlocks for those who do. More importantly, average users are not creating browsers, and the people who know better can't hide behind them. The average smoke
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Both, since browser these days don't even show the number of connections and download speed for a loading page, much less an indicator for high CPU usage. I'm not saying displaying this stuff would be enough by itself, but hiding
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
Why not switch to developing in Firefox, like, now? As long as the debug tools are usable, why throw out the baby with the bath water for getting a tiny bit more a tiny bit sooner? Let's have some love for our future selves..
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
When you're trying that hard to please every trivial whim of anyone, regardless of the cost to yourself: what are you compensating? Who hurt you? Who lied to you? I mean, there's gotta be something that made you rate the appro
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by wordupmaking 9y ago
"Did Chad ask you with a big fat grin on his face to put everything that matters to you in this awesome garage which he built solely for the purpose of 'helping' people show off and connect without having to know how to bui

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