undreren | 5 years ago | on: The Platform Is the Enemy
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undreren | 5 years ago | on: The Platform Is the Enemy
It depends on what you mean by “stops working”.
When social media becomes the primary driver of misinformation and anti-democratic sentiment, then it has arguably “stopped working”. While users might not be sick in the flesh, their minds will surely start to rot.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage
That might depend on your country of residence, but in Europe we have the right to all non-confidential data associated with us from any company that isn't "prohibitively expensive" to obtain, such as "all video footage with me in it from 2010 to today".
In this case though, it shouldn't be prohibitively expensive to obtain, as it forms the foundation for tracking the use of your data plan. If it was prohibitively expensive to obtain, they wouldn't be able to tell you, when you hit your data cap.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
DHH of Basecamp had a long twitter thread about this. Their competitors bought “basecamp” as a keyword for google ads, effectively forcing basecamp to pay to stay #1 on searches for basecamp.
Google has/had no policies restricting this, unless of course, you guessed it, the keyword you are squatting is “google”.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend
Maybe this is due to chinese and indian click farms running through VPN’s?
Click farms click on everything in order to dodge fraud detection, as far as I know.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Four-day week means 'I don't waste holidays on chores'
Technically, if they work 20% less with the same output, productivity has increased by 25%, not 20%. They are underpaid by 25%.
It's weird that owners are paid proportional to aggregate productivity (units produced and sold), but those delivering the results are most often paid proportional to costs (hours worked).
I get why the system is this way, but it's not a "good" system in my opinion.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Johnny.Decimal
Yeah, downvotes are weird in that way. Comment sections that marks posts and comments with more downvotes than upvotes as "low quality" also seem to encourage "pile-on" behavior.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Johnny.Decimal
>> My guess is the cynics are the ones who usually comment while people who are more positive will probably be more likely to just upvote?
> It irks me to see this comment pattern regularly being called out as "HN specific"
I've heard this general rule vocalized on social media as "Fans like, haters comment".
If you get loads of upvotes for an idea and a lot of flack, those pushing back is not your audience and can safely be ignored. You are not doing anyone any favors by trying to appease everyone.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Human Clock
What is that site supposed to do? The embedded video says it's private.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Fuck You Sunday
Few companies live longer than 15 years, even fewer employees and managers. In my experience, people rarely cares about consequences, they won't suffer from.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
Thanks for the detailed answer. I guess the word “communication” threw me off.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
What does it mean to communicate without information? That genuinely sounds like an oxymoron.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Physicists found a new quantum paradox that casts doubt on a pillar of reality
Wouldn’t that imply FTL travel, at least for information?
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
Well, in Denmark, government officials are part of the board of directors, so it's not independent either way.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Cities sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, claim they owe cable “franchise fees”
I just wanted it to be financed through taxes as it used to be.
It was completely ridiculous; after switching to a licensing model, DR’s costs for raking in money went up by about 15 million DKK just in fees to lawyers, if memory serves correctly.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
No one claimed the opposite.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
> So you suggest that they should dump nearly 2 decades of work because there is something else which seems to be a potential energy source?
OP said nothing of the sort. They said that they didn't understand the prioritization of funding given an alternative that they found personally much much more valuable.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: The code I’m still ashamed of (2016)
It's fraud. Accepting money for delivering nothing yet pretending that you give them something is fraud.
undreren | 5 years ago | on: Why we won’t be supporting Sign in with Apple
> If I need an email to verify I'm not a bot, that's fine. But if a trusted 3rd party can verify I'm not a bot, then the only reason you would want my email is to do something unethical with it: namely, use my data in a way that I never intended gave you permission to use it.
This was addressed in the article. If the service provider does not have your email address, they are severely hampered with regards to customer support.
undreren | 6 years ago | on: Exceptions should be Exceptional (2016)
Sum types in general are really cool
Are blocked sewer is a people problem; it’s either poorly designed, poorly constructed, poorly maintained or a combination of causes. But in the end, the problem is caused by people.