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fknorangesite··on Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
> I'm often flexible in my beliefs ... but it can be dangerous if you don't place some principled boundaries on your self

As the saying goes: have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.

fknorangesite··on How Airbnb Scaled by Moving Away from a Rails Monolith
Shopify is probably the most obvious example.
fknorangesite··on X confuses the masses by removing all details from links
GSV The Banality of Gravitas
fknorangesite··on 'Couple,' 'Few,' and 'Several'
> if you've gotten to five, you're pushing it.

I agree; five is right out.

fknorangesite··on Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
> ban posting that sort of information before a conviction.

A society that does not make arrest information public is one where it is very easy for someone to "disappear." That's the whole point.

fknorangesite··on Canadians have a ‘right to be forgotten’ on Google, Federal Court rules
> Search engines also curate ~~nowadays~~ and always have.

It's impossible not to. Even merely putting one specific search result above another because it's "more relevant" is the very act of curation, because you are inherently defining "relevance."

fknorangesite··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
Grandparent [comment].
fknorangesite··on Working remotely can more than halve an office employee’s carbon footprint
Yes, that's what they're saying: that the Jetsons completely missed this prediction.
fknorangesite··on Unity's actions are unacceptable, I cannot keep endorsing this
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344
fknorangesite··on It’s way past time to stop police ‘testilying’
Look further down in that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_warning#The_warnings

> anything you say can and will be used against you

which is a version that is much more common in fiction, and also what vintermann referenced.

fknorangesite··on Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern
> Slack is harming itself more by being stagnant.

For better or for worse, Slack has a huge UI overhaul right around the corner: https://slack.com/blog/productivity/a-redesigned-slack-built...

fknorangesite··on [dead]
Ah, so we're submitting hateful transphobic screeds to HN, now?
fknorangesite··on Hacker News Guidelines
Alice shows her project to Bob. Bob comes up with some mostly-unnecessary criticism of it as a way to shoehorn in a mention of his own project.
fknorangesite··on ELI5: Why are 11 and 12 called eleven and twelve and not oneteen and twoteen?
Do you feel all of linguistics is vapid? Is language not worth studying?
fknorangesite··on Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’
> yet every company I've worked at in the USA offered 15-20 days.

Then you've been very fortunate. This is not representative of many people - ask anyone working in a restaurant or retail how much paid vacation they get.

Unlike many countries, in the USA the legal minimum is zero.

fknorangesite··on Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing
I think you got confused about who you were replying to.
fknorangesite··on We Ruined Status LEDs; Here’s Why That Needs to Change
Right? I should at least have to say

> Computer. Lights.

fknorangesite··on Sinead O’Connor has died
And similarly in Canada as we are finding the unmarked graves of children at the former sites of the Residential "School" system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_sc...

O'Connor was right.

fknorangesite··on Sinead O’Connor has died
I mostly like the moderation on this site, but I think you're missing the mark on this one.

The man - and the institution - facilitated and covered up the abuse and rape of countless children. Calling him a bastard seems pretty small potatoes for you to start clutching your pearls over.

fknorangesite··on Why did it take psychedelics so long to become popular?
> Why is this being downvoted?

Because there aren't only downsides.

> every “acid enthusiast” I met is heavily dysfunctional in some way.

This is just the Toupée Fallacy, though: if you met a perfectly functional "acid enthusiast", how would you even know?

fknorangesite··on The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”
It's not a new leak.
fknorangesite··on The burden of Long Covid “so large as to be unfathomable”
> zero risk?

That wasn't the question. The question was whether it's more risky than COVID.

fknorangesite··on Man found guilty of child porn because he ran a Tor exit node
> This sounds far more like a roommate situation than a semi-nuclear family.

Think again.

If there's someone in the house who downloads CP, do you think that person's kids don't know who it would be?

fknorangesite··on Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands
This YouTube video is linked from the README: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPLdltN7wgE
fknorangesite··on Birds Build Nests from Anti-Bird Spikes
Because it is interesting.
fknorangesite··on System Shock remake
> Just leave the originals alone.

They did. It still exists for you. They haven't Ruined Your Childhood™.

Get a grip.

fknorangesite··on Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach
> It has taken almost a month to eliminate actual soft pornography from my timeline by reporting it. But still my timeline is full of sexually suggestive and offensive material.

Are you reporting it? Why? Just because you don't want to see it doesn't mean that no one does.

What you should be doing is a) not engaging; b) marking it as "not interested".

fknorangesite··on Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach
> quasi-pornographic Reels

Meh you're just telling on yourself, here. Mark them as not-interested. My feed is all scale models and noodle recipes.

fknorangesite··on Instagram Threads: The problem with the “everything for everyone” approach
But then turn around and ban actual, non-porn sex ed accounts.
fknorangesite··on Space After Periods (1993)
Good first estimate! The next step is introspection:

> Why don't I know the answer to this already, even within an order of magnitude?

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