ajhurliman

We have a ban on gambling for minors, so if you see social media as more harmful than gambling (personally, I do) it probably makes sense.

Yes, this is a tech thing in particular. You don't see VC being raised for a plumbing company, they'll get an SBA loan or bootstrap. They don't need to grow 10x every year, if the owners can pay their bills and send their kids to college they're happy.

And plumbing is such a constitutionally important thing: having hot, running water and not having feces in your house is so much important than seeing what that guy from high school is up to.

I think the issue lays with how high-variance tech is due to the scale: either it is marginally profitable at a massive scale and is worth billions of dollars, or you have something that is unprofitable at any scale and is worthless. It's like there's all of the sudden (in the last 15 years) become an appetite for throwing fortunes onto a roulette table (which may be giving better odds than a lot of VCs).

I've got 5 on it, DM for Venmo when you get your shirt or 10 weeks have elapsed since purchase.

That’s a pretty good sign that we have too many bureaucrats if they have the time to care about this (pun intended)

Okay I'll elaborate, it's better for community building and answering questions for nascent companies or organizations. A lot of the time there's a big disconnect between a community and how a product is intended to be used.

I built a paper trading app for stocks and options and Discord was the primary place where the users talked. The subreddit was almost completely empty, nobody responded to tweets, the Instagram was thriving but there was no sense of community because you couldn't tell if anyone commenting actually used the product or a meme just showed up in their feed.

Did I have to repeat myself a bunch? Yes, but that's fine, especially because the answer sometimes changed (rapidly), like "No we don't support multiple trading accounts per user" > "Yeah I implemented that last week, it's in the release notes, to add a second account..."

For a mature product that's not changing as much and more or less has all its features built out, it makes sense to branch out into more structured forums that are easily searchable, especially as you progress through different versions and users are looking for answers to past versions.

So your argument is "other countries don't care about free speech, America should be more like other countries? This is a bizarre take, I was with you up until the last word.

Disagree. Yes, forums with nested comment structure and voting are better for preserving and indexing data, but synchronous communication (like Discord) is better for having actual conversations and building community. Back and forth volleys of messages let people completely explore threads of thinking, rather than waiting days (or months) for a single response that misunderstands the question.

There’s a reason people prefer it: it’s better.

If you’ve never been to a comedy show, they’re not usually during working hours.

Hot take: it’s not actually important, and dwelling on our differences decreases human well-being

Yes, that’s the point, everyone has these expectations of Tesla to make it impossible to circumvent safety features, but the same standard isn’t applied to other car manufacturers; HN just loves to bash on anything related to Elon.

Yeah, they’ll even let you drive if you don’t have your seatbelt on, how dare they allow the owner to have any control at all /s

Ah, a bunch of city dwellers telling making decisions about land they’ve never even been to, cool.

I think it specifies in the article that the interval is longer because Teslas don’t need oil

Can’t tell if this is satirical or not, but if it is: lol, good one

You could call the b-cell strategy CAR-T B (sorry for the terrible pun)

I don’t understand how tech companies aren’t being sued for reneging on their promises, it seems like an announcement like “unlimited storage forever” is a unilateral contract that has been broken.

If someone puts up a reward sign for a lost dog and a stranger finds and returns your dog, you can’t just say “actually the terms have changed”.

It seems like seeds and nuts were better

I looked it up, it turns out you’re right, Apple didn’t invent it, there was just a lot of stuff with “pod” in the name in that era.

Either way, common usage of the term “podcast” has changed. Language is defined by how it’s used.

Does it matter? I know you won’t prove “physical note taking is objectively better in every scenario” but you can still answer the question “which is better for humans who live and work today”.

Yes, the word has become a generic term for "long format audio, usually between a few minutes and a few hours, sometimes accompanied with video depending on the platform".

Like Saran Wrap, the company failed to enforce the usage of the term and it became generic. Common usage of language appropriated the privately held term and you're over here indignant that the world has moved on, I truly can't understand why anyone would choose this hill to die on though.

What a bullshit article, they don’t even link to the tweets. Let me decide the severity of the misstep, don’t just tell me that it’s very dangerous, you couldn’t possibly handle seeing it.

This is a welcomed addition of nuance, but I think it thematically fits with the general narrative. If your current situation is not optimal, and we pose a dichotomy of choosing to take control of your situation or self pity, then taking control is better.

I guess it’s some combination of feeling like a victim with a fatalist attitude that’s the real issue.

False dichotomy

All of these self-proclaimed “platforms” need to be regulated: no participation in your own platform (Amazon Basics), or at least no self-preferential treatment, caps on platform usage fees closer to 3-5%, neutral and open source search algorithms, limits on advertising.

I’m a capitalist at heart but this is anti-competitive, it’s closer to feudalism than capitalism.

Which part is dystopian?

Parking without paying the meter is illegal, but not criminal.

I think you’re using the word “illegal” in place of the word “criminal”

That bakery complaining about the gay wedding cake would make the same complaint: “This is forced labor!”

Somehow they never seem to have 500 years of payroll though

This feels closer to a tarot reading than mathematics, and I’m here for it