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madacoo

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    Comment #24226472

    This would seem to be contingent on paying businesses that don't rely on ad-based revenue models. Rather than paying a company on top of their ad-based revenue. Afterall, it might …

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    Comment #24196153

    Which arguably makes the NRA look reasonable in comparison.

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    Comment #24135055

    Providing tech support by responding to customers is a different beast entirely to content moderation, however. It may be the case that human oversight of algorithmic moderation is…

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    Comment #24134744

    That takes an odd tangent into sex/race issues. Surely privacy violations apply to all individuals and the questions of whether or not software can a) have dicriminatory bias and b…

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    Comment #24134654

    It's refreshing to see an assumption of incompetence rather than malice, since I seem to have come across the idea that Google is questionably motivated by ideology rather a lot re…

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    Comment #24118116

    The aspect I believe you're missing is that any Chinese company with over 50 employees is not a legitimate private company because the CCP essentially claims ownership over them. T…

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    Comment #24107906

    Are there any non-shitty people? I think not because lacking any quality that others would consider shitty would suggest they are far too perfect not to be considered shitty. By wh…

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    Comment #24018544

    Could you elaborate on what you mean by this?

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    Comment #23496448

    I'm the same. I think because I'm more concerned about the surrounding lighting and making sure the brightness of my monitor is appropriate for that. Once that's done, light mode h…

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    Ask HN: Open Source Zoom Alternatives?

    Has anyone tried any open source Zoom alternatives? Any you would recommend? If not, what was lacking?

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    Comment #23327945

    It's interesting that there are such diverse experiences of DDG vs Google. I'm also in the camp of finding DDG to be better at finding what I'm looking for. I wonder if the differe…

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    Comment #23286017

    So you're saying vote with your wallet but also publicise the fact you are so doing on social media? Isn't that exactly what the user you replied to did? How else could you have re…

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    Comment #23207727

    I'm curious what your silly thoughts are. How do you know that I will share your judgement of what a silly thought is? What is a silly thought to you after writing something down m…

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    Comment #23135769

    I'd be worried if my wife expected me to call more frequently than that because it would imply our relationship wasn't as solid as I thought it was. Also British. To me a strong re…

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    Comment #22885616

    Hello James, Please could you take a look at an amateur logo and offer some advice and/or maybe even fix it up a bit?

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    Comment #22233652

    Location: Norfolk, UK Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Anywhere inside UK Technologies: Python (Flask), MySQL, SQLite3, JavaScript, HTML/CSS (Bulma/Bootstrap) Résumé/CV: https://gi…

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    Comment #21662993

    It's difficult to accept this assertion at face value. After all for any given proposition p, regardless of the domain under which it ought to be considered, we can always choose n…

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    Comment #21531373

    Is there a non-Facebook source for this information?

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    Comment #21511018

    I suspect HN users are likely to be either a) willing to pay or b) able to circumnavigate paywalls by using private windows, blocking cookies, disabling javascript, or whatever els…

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    Comment #21460557

    There is a big difference between opting out as an individual and suggesting that this is a reasonable solution for others.

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    Comment #21332025

    I can't speak for the experience of Windows 10 because I stopped using Windows altogther some time around 7. But I entirely sympathise with OP's habit. Maybe not as fequently, but …

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    Comment #21291796

    # August 6, 1945 In the Enola Gay five minutes before impact he whistles a dry tune Later he will say that the whole blooming sky went up like an apricot ice. Later he will laugh a…

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    Comment #21070005

    I tend not to buy new phones until my current one is done for. But if the Librem 5 pans out and is well received by the first buyers, there is a high likelihood this will be my nex…