hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
I just moved all my email accounts to China.
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hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Intel CEO resigns after relationship with employee
Politics. People use whatever they can to take each other down at that level. Which is why they get paid so much. For their mindless ambition and to put up with each others mindless ambition.
hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
Ya right. I have wasted many years of my life dealing with Debian/Ubuntu audio packaging.
Here's the 20 step process for the layman if audio doesn't work - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProced...
God help you if you are building enterprise software that requires that audio stack across a hundred different sound cards. Never had any such problem on Windows.
hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Anthony Bourdain has died
I guess Bourdain didn't have anyone around him who could say 'how are you' right?
hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Can Facebook Be Cut Down to Size?
So you think the like counts don't have negative effects on people's beliefs and behaviours? Please read Nudge by Richard Thaler to understand how easily misguided the herd is when following the wrong signals.
hux_ | 7 years ago | on: Surviving Your 40s
Adults in my book are those you automatically/instinctively turn to when life throws you in the deep sea. It's not really about age but what they have gone through in life.
They are the folk who have not just survived the deep sea, but come out the other side with minimum damage. These people exist just like people who have summited mountains exist. You can't fake that shit. And you'll automatically know them when you see them.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: If Fortnite Were a Website, It Would Rival Reddit and Amazon
You haven't heard of the game called religion?
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: 'Anti-authority' tech rebels take on ISPs, connect NYC with cheap Wi-Fi
Once upon a time the network, storage and data center guys thought Facebook/YouTubes one to many broadcasting of content would never scale too.
Now they fall over themselves to work there.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Sergey Brin warns of AI threats through a 'technology renaissance'
His point is we know how to keep a large part of the global population constantly touching their devices like well programmed guinea pigs the whole day, negatively effecting themselves and society in uncountable ways yet postively effecting our share price. Please protect us to exit the loop or we get lynched one way of the other by customers or shareholders!
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram
There the govt builds the controls. Here Twitter, YouTube and Facebook do. No big difference in my book. In terms of outcomes, only clowns get propped up either way.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: India’s Central Bank Bans Regulated Entities From Dealing In Virtual Currencies
> don't make any sense unless they're decentralized
Things that make sense decentralised to service freedom have a track record of becoming centralised to service convenience. Source: The Master Switch by Tim Wu.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online
You are talking about people with mental illness. I think the platforms produce mental illness. If you influence and produce a certain kind of behaviour through appropriate reward mechanisms and then after a few years of conditioning reduce/remove the reward what do you think happens? Mental illness.
YouTube has conditioned a generation of people to chant "subscribe like and share" like a robots. The day the "subscribe like and share" model stops being viable the robots will break down.
For those who care about doing something here is a starting point - humanetech.com
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: We need a nationalised alternative to Facebook
Well ever since social media converted the US into the United States of Meme Generators & Consumers, it is not really possible to go back without mass lobotomies.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Facebook denies it collects call and SMS data from phones without permission
Yup. Everything has been reduced to generating memes/outrage and reacting to them.
Only exit from the trap is turn off the internet.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Zuckerberg Has No Way Out of Facebook's Quagmire
He should resign. Or this bullshit will keep repeating. As it already has too many times.
Tech/Engineering folk are totally unfit to run social companies of the scale of YouTube/twitter/facebook etc. They don't have the skills or the experience or the sense in handling this stuff.
They know how to scale things and that's where their expertise ends and contribution should end.
They should be run by elected politicians with an advisory board filled with people who understand sociology, psychology, religion, culture, law and security. Those are the people who keep society running not the fucking plumbers.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Facebook failing, Zuckerberg and Sandberg absent: commentary
The amount of global bullshit they have enabled in so many spheres of social life is going to take generations to repair.
Can't wait for heads to roll at Facebook/Twitter/YouTube. And they will. It's high time.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
Can't wait for Sheryl Sandberg to write a new book now on garden soil or something.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What has HN given you?
HN used to be a daily source of nourishment.
But today it is a source of "informed bewilderment" like everything else on the web. Google the term. Understand it's consequences on you and the people around you.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine
A sociologist would point you at social stratification theory.
hux_ | 8 years ago | on: China’s tech industry is catching up with Silicon Valley
Hardly matters what groundbreaking research the US does if it's happening neck deep in a celeb worshiping, engagement metric obsessed culture. Unless you are an Elon Musk type P.T. Barnum character good luck getting any attention. All I forsee happening is NASA, National Science Foundation etc being run by YouTube stars soon.
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