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> It’s unfalsifiable unmeasurable woo-woo. An hypothesis that cannot be falsified does not count as a scientific theory (according to Popper, not everyone agrees). That does not me…

> It was quality content and services, subsidized by investors You're joking about the "quality content" part, right?

> And there's nothing preventing Google from leveraging Youtube/Gmail/Search to push out other browsers which have tracking protection. Nothing except antitrust laws...

It's a shame they won't revert the idiotic decision to ban adult content. The sense of freedom of expression and unrestrained creativity gave Tumblr its edge. Without it, it's just…

> Uh huh. I'll remember that the next time a ton of bricks falls on my head when passing a construction site. Was it a common occurrence in the US, that construction workers would …

Yes, and a bunch of harder drugs that destroy lives and are much more dangerous than cannabis, but perfectly fine because some big corp is making billions selling it. No security i…

"Safety and insurance implications" are an infinite excuse for employers to abuse you unless you have a legal system to protect you from asymmetrical power relationships.

No, I am saying that the US isn't the land of the free because, in practice, you seem to live under immense scrutiny and oppression when compared to other western countries. No pri…

The land of the free: now with mandatory drugs testing at work.

> I think what precludes the final victory of open source is that the world itself changed for the better. Maybe we don't live in the same world??? > The mobile and web revolution …

I agree. Unfortunately, I have the impression it is already going in the downwards trajectory. The new redesign contains all the red flags. When "old.reddit.com" stops working, I s…

> I don't know what you mean by "suspicious." I mean that, maybe you should distrust your own judgement that "HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet".…

> Strict moderation is the reason HN is the only reasonable discussion forum remaining on the internet. Don't you find it a bit suspicious that the forum you happen to like is "the…

In theory, no. In practice, yes.

> No, you don't understand that the "you" that is the sum of your experience and history, and the "you" of a clone are different you's. In what sense are they different? Consider t…

> What's uploaded can maximally be a fork of your mind, not your actual mind >> Why? What makes you you? > My history until now. ? > that fork starts to diverge within that new env…

> What's uploaded can maximally be a fork of your mind, not your actual mind, or "you". Why? What makes you you? Maybe you are already being emulated, how would you know? > And tha…

Yes, our entire civilization is built on trust relationships. Trust relationships are easier to succeed when the interests of the two parts are aligned, or at least mostly aligned.…

> You can not have both smooth service and complete privacy if the data is restricted, as the system will not get to learn you. Sure you can, as long as you control the system. The…

> UIs are expected to reflow to devices with different screen sizes and dot pitches > Users expect their programs to give them up-to-the-minute information from the internet, with …

Not really. PageRank is a centrality measure for networks, not a sociological theory / hypothesis. It is very useful in finding the most popular nodes in a network, but it says not…