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gotostatement

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    Comment #30922398

    > Everybody has different preferences of how they want a search engine to look and feel. I will never ever ever ever spend time going into the settings of a search engine to custom…

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    Comment #30880637

    okay this is amazing. but wtf is this sentence? "No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which many union leaders regard as an existential thr…

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    Comment #30746776

    could google interfere w/ the API's that are used to make this work?

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    Comment #30287909

    Hilarious article. "Why I changed my mind about advertising: I decided I wanted to make money off ads"

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    Comment #29988286

    blood on tesla's hands when they market the feature as full self-driving, then in the fine print say "but not really." now they're going to put the full blame on this taxi driver w…

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    Comment #29386422

    I see your point, especially about tone

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    Comment #29386173

    if you don't want that type of comment on HN, feel free to remove it - it's not a big deal to me. But it's not a shallow critique - this article makes grand claims about how the br…

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    Comment #29384753

    - no engagement with existing literature or work on this topic - no experimental tests of theories - massive reductionism of the complex emotional & cognitive phenomenon of music i…

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    Comment #29278345

    I think it's a really cool idea but you have a network effect issue. I would expect it to be hard to get enough of my friends on it for it to be useful. Integrations with existing …

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    Comment #29030849

    I agree but relax with the antichrist stuff, we don't want the justifiable hatred of him to turn into antisemitism like it already is in the conspiracy circles

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    Comment #29029934

    the picture for "responsible innovation" is so funny... they're like "we're approved by this disapproving black woman!"

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    Comment #28935720

    wtf is chinese algebra

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    Comment #28844044

    propaganda

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    Comment #28786115

    The cigarette lobbyist is making a specious argument comparing cigarettes to lettuce in order to exonerate cigarettes, despite that noone smokes lettuce, lettuce is not addictive, …

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    Comment #28777896

    This has the same energy as the cigarette lobbyist in congress who talked about how smoking lettuce has the same health effects as smoking tobacco

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    Comment #28760333

    so now academic papers are titled like clickbait? xD

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    Comment #28710759

    > made the world better (in someone’s point of view) for Homo sapiens The capitalist ideological trick is: "are you happy houses were built? Do you enjoy the convenience of modern …

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    Comment #28556682

    I cant speak to the economics on your side, but from a consumer point of view, the main issue I'm having is: how do I know this thing will even work? I don't want to shell out $10 …

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    Comment #28544196

    the problem with this analogy is that when you lose a lot of users, you lose the network effect. so even if a user is low-value in terms of their actual engagement, they bring valu…

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    Comment #28531282

    I could see that there are some users who would want an ongoing subscription, such as a security office who looked through security videos on a regular basis to investigate thefts.…

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    Comment #28292231

    I don't own a smart TV because every smart TV I've used has been in an airbnb and they are generally sluggish to the point of being unusable. Even my plug-in Roku has gotten to thi…

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    Comment #28210426

    I can see how in the short term it's a positive service - they can now keep their lights on, their water running, etc. But as a long-term proposition, a permanent adjustment to the…

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    Comment #28209997

    > Users pay a small fixed charge per withdrawal, regardless of the amount. Really disappointed to read this. Wages are so low that working people can't pay their bills, so your sol…

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    Comment #28089096

    its not too hard to find people explaining that they do, and why they do (just google "representation matters" and im sure you'll find a lot). sounds like youre not open to learnin…