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That is true. I didn't realize it was six years old

It would be nice if there were a link to purchase the right jumper. I'd rather spend 50 cents, and permanently enable write access, than mess around with the screwdriver.

    the music barely at all.

I suspect the reason that excerpt sounds so bad is because the music has several instruments playing at once. One doesn't generally design a vocoder to deal with more than one voice. As that except plays, you can hear that the most prominent instruments (eg: the bass at several moments) sound pleasing, albeit speech-like.

It would probably different from the original music, but pleasant, if one processed each track separately.

I'll just reuse my 3 hour old comment from that Youtube post:

    "There is more work to do" is the understatement of the year.

"There’s more work to be done" is the understatement of the year.

    Why would it be a problem that he has 
    a personality disorder?

On reflection, it wasn't constructive for me to sound off about his mental health. It's none of my business. If my original comment were still editable, I'd delete it.

Cheers. I just feel vicariously embarrassed for him (in regard to his writing here, at least). I can see how one might mistakenly read more into what I wrote than that, but that's all I intended to say.

    why do you find it cringe worthy?

It's cringe-worthy the way someone who barks "do you not know who I am?" at a McDonalds employee is cringe-worthy. It's the grandiosity and lack of self-awareness.

    he's aware of it.

He comes off like someone who suffered abuse and mockery as a child. Was he aware he sounded like that? I doubt it.

That said, a behavior can be both cringe-worthy, and also productive. I can think of certain comedians, talk-show hosts, etc, who manage both.

If you know the symptoms of NPD, this stuff is cringe-worthy...

    I'm a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people 
    can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I'm 
    a nice guy, and the fact is that I'm a scheming, conniving 
    bastard who doesn't care for ...

On the surface, the message is "Isn't it impressive how dominant I am?" but the unintended message is "I have a personality disorder!"

The internet, as a whole, doesn't learn lessons easily. Edgelords grow up, younger edgelords come online and replace them. It's always September.

At any rate, as far as distribution by private companies goes, that's my view. Before someone jumps on me, I don't think government should outlaw documentation of atrocities, etc.

That anyone feels the public has some "right" to watch other people die turns my stomach. I didn't grow up on 4chan, or watching far-right propaganda on Youtube, so I still see sadism as a character flaw, not a virtue.

    to prevent people watching or reading 
    or thinking or smelling things we do not like

If a person ever finds himself supporting the distribution of a snuff film, that person might do some introspection and ask how he got to that point. Because that view is straight out of A Clockwork Orange.

Maybe that will be a rallying cry during the next civil war: "We're entitled to watch snuff films on Facebook!"

    Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg reportedly spoke 
    with President Trump earlier Tuesday, 
    urging him not to ground the jet.

Great priorities there, Dennis! /s

Fair enough. I ought to have omitted the "(and therefore more liberal)" since it's a bit inflammatory. Either way, in comparison to other communities, HN users tend to be more academic, etc.

    Ask HN: What do you think about internet echo chambers?

This makes me sound like a knee-jerk contrarian, but I think the majority opinion is wrong. Echo chambers are good! When you have too wide a chasm between points of view, you spend all your time bickering about surface issues. But if you speak to people who already agree with you on first principles, you can have a deeper discussion.

For example, a doctor and homeopath are less likely to have a productive discussion about health issues, than two doctors, or two homeopaths. A doctor and homeopath are just going to argue over whose profession is the worthless one.

    is HN an internet echo chamber

Sure, moreso than most other sites, in that people on HN are better educated (and therefore more liberal) than the average social network. But I'd prefer it if the opinions were still less diverse.

    and how do you tell?

Since I seldom see users threaten each other with physical violence here, I assume it's more of an echo chamber than most other websites.

There's no point continuing this.

    Who defines the terms "Nazis" and "terrorists"

By your logic, Youtube would have to host child pornography, because "how do you define child pornography?"

These terms are whatever the moderator says they are. If their definition does not match up with mine, I complain. If it does match, I don't.

I'm not Youtube, so it's not my call, but if they had any sense of responsibility, they should certainly ban Nazis and terrorists.

Whatever they don't want on their platform beyond that is their business. If they don't like videos of baby sea lions, well, I'd have to find my baby sea lion videos elsewhere.

That was never five minutes just now.

And condolences to our selves in parallel timelines where this experiment was never conducted.

If consumers love "big tech", they love it the same way that meth addicts love meth.

I'll give them points for mentioning of Sundar Pichai. As usual, no mention of Susan Wojcicki. Great article, though.

What Youtube has done to the world is a problem that is only going to get worse as more of Youtube's viewership reaches adulthood.

Well, we have different takes on this. On Twitter I see as many condolences for "pewdiepie" as I do for the victims. He doesn't strike me as a particularly responsible person, considering his audience seems to be throngs of elementary school children, and tweens.

I don't think it does a society much good to have Mr Heated-gaming-moment as a role model for half a million ten year olds. The world has seen plenty of unrest lately, but things can become so much worse, as kids for whom this is the "new normal" grow up.

    Doing nothing doesn't seem right, but it may 
    very well be the best choice from an ethical 
    perspective

I'm not a lawyer, but I don't see a good argument for holding your tongue. If your competitor is illegally taking credit for someone else's work, that's their own fault. I would at least notify the original authors.

I'm not a huge Paul Krugman fan. That said, Paul Krugman is a Nobel-prize winning economist, whereas Daniel Ivandjiiski is a convicted financial criminal.

I probably should have written "smart-phone era." While Apple has been pushing "services" lately, I didn't intend to imply that Apple was behind the trend to store data in the cloud. It's more the fault of Google and other companies whose bread and butter are websites (which they subsequently shoehorn into phone apps).

That would be the sane thing to do, but not the post-iPhone thing to do. "Your performance is worse, and you can't use our product when your internet is down, and you don't have decent privacy, and you need to remember a login... but, hey, no need to carry a usb drive!"