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> What you did, thought, said.. last year is much less valuable and useful than what you are doing today.

This isn't true for biodata or medical related data.

Most chromium hit pieces come across as evangelical and this one is no exception.

From my personal perspective, Firefox gets the job done but Chromium is undoubtedly the better browser. On desktop and mobile, the difference is felt even more on mobile.

Every time I found an obvious bug or got an unpolished experience on Firefox, I hated it even more.

Whatever data the author thinks they are hiding away from Google, they are (un)knowingly giving it to Mozilla. Even worse if they are using Google to search.

It has always been possible to open YouTube links on VLC. If you want to do so with even less clicks from your browser, there's a open with mpv extension. Can't link it now as am on mobile.

Not too long ago I was constantly facing this kernel bug [0] that would kill audio whenever system memory would be under moderately high load. It's fixed now but it's kind of insane that the kernel would mess around with components as critical as sound for desktop users. [0]https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/22...

Probably conjecture since the first incidents of the disease, at least in UK, was transmitted sexually among gay males.

Major studios give creative concessions to foreign markets like China in order to be allowed into their film market. It was incredibly naive of Netflix to think they were too big that they could ignore feedback and input from strong audience bases. You can't build a mass market product based on servicing the needs of a woke minority in a functional market. The market will quickly remind you of this mistake when you don't have any more investors pumping funds into the business.

They need more than an ad-supported tier to come out of this. In the midst of a shaky market and lowest ever subscription numbers, they have no choice but to cater to all walks of audiences if they are to survive.

And spend less on shows, I was seeing crazy budgets to the tune of $30M per episode[0] on the new upcoming season of Stranger Things. That's now bad for the bottom line.

[0] https://decider.com/2022/04/21/stranger-things-season-4-30-m...

Am curious. How do you make calls now? Did you resort to using Whatsapp for calling your contacts? How do you call your grandma back in the village?

> >China is soon going to overtake the US as the world hegemony.

>I don't think this is guaranteed

This is very much assured. Only a matter of when. It may take 2-3 decades to realize but it's gonna happen if China's growth rate [0] continues as US GDP [1] steadily declines. Though with the current geopolitics around the Russia/Ukraine war, maybe China may threaten to invade Taiwan and speed up this process of dethroning US as the top super power.

[0]https://www.statista.com/statistics/263616/gross-domestic-pr...

[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/188165/annual-gdp-growth...

I concur with everything the author says here. If you want to visualize this for yourself, just take yourself back to the whole science/anti-vaxx debate we've had the past 2 years. That was a pretty accurate picture of the biblical tower of babel. Social media as a tool keeps sowing more division than ever because that's the growth incentive and we are too afraid to kill the golden goose. Once the metaverse becomes a thing, we will have better bricks to build the tower even higher.

China is soon going to overtake the US as the world hegemony. This disruption will have devastating effects. The accelerated move to the 4th Industrial Revolution will be even more disruptive, unlike anything we as humans have ever known. We keep on ignoring the global warming threat because we think our survival will be under threat if we go cold turkey on fossil energy and the creature comforts necessary to forestall the climate disaster. The covid pandemic gave us all a unique opportunity to recalibrate our collective lives. Today, we go about our daily lives as if the past 3 years was just a bad dream. I very much doubt we can make it through another global pandemic on a scale as or bigger than covid was in the near future.

6. My favorite prediction. Twitter continues to ignore any of Musk's offers. Musk sells his 9% stake. Price goes down. Continues to go down since Twitter('s mgt) is full of shit. Elon gets in an offer when price is languishing at low $30's. Twitter has no choice but to take Elon's offer.

I hold my ground and there is an obvious reason why none of the promising anti-inflammatory drugs which have been used in the past to deal with flu haven't seen the light of day. IMO Covid infection was only considered a death sentence because at first we did not have any patient care focused on treatment of known symptoms through the stages of the sickness & foolishly ignored any potential alternatives or rather the scientific community was co-opted into praising mRNA and look nowhere else. Remdesivir is one of the hush hush alternatives proven to have some success with covid treatment but it never comes up. Anywhere. Nevermind that the FDA approved its use for mild-cases treatment. The scientific community let us down a big one on this. Look at masks now. They backtracked on the effectiveness of that.

Covid will remain an endemic crisis always looming as you rightly point out with the events in Shanghai. Vaccines and multiple boosters won't stop infections and hospitalizations. At this point, if you are alive we have to assume you have developed some immune response to some variant of COVID. Am more disturbed about the overwhelming lack of research on natural immunity and other possible treatments. Vaccine over-reliance is akin to taking a shot in the dark.

A life isn't really that simple to define but yes. There are many "sins" external to the creation of life that warrant consideration of carrying a pregnancy to term. Some of them include inbreeding. At that point am okay with letting the society or the creators decide on the baby but am a bit more liberal on life created as a result of violence or psychological manipulation.

> death of a newborn isn't significantly different from the death of a fetus

Sounds like you are trying to quantify (the value of) life. What about mentally handicapped people, are they deemed not valuable humans in your eyes because they are not intelligent?

Am pro-abortion in extreme cases involving rape or abuse. But am also anti-abortion and pro-life. Not sure if there's a category for people who hold this idea.

Strange observation indeed. Must be difficult to live in a world where everything is black or white to you.

Is body autonomy absolute when you have a living organism inside of you? Is the "hate for women" justified for the sake of saving life? Is life even that important to us if we can allow a pregnant woman to arbitrarily take it? If so, what is our definition of life then?

Excuse my little tirade. I love the age-old abortion debate:)

It may be too late to have the kind of conversations you are envisioning with young people raised in this generation. They have conjured up big words and terms that don't even mean anything in the practical sense and will easily take offense with anything or anyone about whatever values they strongly identify with.

This is the generation that needs (and sometimes demands that) their spaces online be protected from any ideas that are divergent to those they subscribe to.

Sure. But what if those two data points are the only things I need to tag and target you.

Sure, the more recent data will always have a higher value if you are looking at massive datasets.

But I think if you look at this problem from an individual perspective. Key data that is unique to them doesn't change most of the time. Say a target person has dental issues and you have their phone number. There is a high chance that in 5 years from now, they still may require dental services and their phone number hasn't changed. They may have moved jobs, neighborhoods etc. in between but their need for dental service has remained constant and probably will into the future.

Let me give you another example. Say you want to run for public office, and in your young adult life some of your social media pages had questionable posts/media. Is this data any less valuable to your competition running for the same office?

I may be taking a different approach with this but a lot of nuances get lost in the numbers.

My point is once the data is out there on the internet, it can be hard to control it and/or assign value to it.

You are just wrong. Some of your data such as health data stays constant throughout your life. Especially for guys living with chronic conditions. Your key identifiers stay the same too. E.g your phone number etc. These are then used to re-establish your advertising identity. This theory that old data declines in value couldn't be more wrong given that the "old" data is never deleted. Just waiting to find its original purpose.

All the so-called "docker killers" are essentially unfinished products. They don't compare 1:1 to docker in feature set and even if they run as rootless, they still are vulnerable to namespace exploits in the Linux kernel. Though docker runs as root, it's still well protected out-of-the-box for the average user and is a very mature technology.

Truecaller is massively popular in my country as well.

Before I knew any better, I was ignorant of the permissions and saw it as a worthy trade-off since my contact(s) will somehow end up there, if they weren't already. As all it takes is for someone else who has saved my number to download the app and give it permission.

Didn't give them much thought until I started seeing them buy advertisement spots in some of the local daily newspapers. They were getting greedy for more data. From that moment, I deleted my account and created a new account signed in only with a random Microsoft login and the app now lives in the work profile where there are no contacts.

The app will refuse to work until you grant it permission to make calls (read your IMEI pre-Android 10) and obviously read contacts permission. It is also quite intrusive. Coincidentally, the other app I found employing such dirty tactics by refusing to launch at all before being granted sensitive permissions is Whatsapp.

It gets better. Seems like Wayland is finally getting closer to delivering on its promise for a silky [0]smooth desktop experience (on Gnome at least).

[0]. https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/1441

Yeah I don't think the sanctions have moved him one single bit. A lot of EU countries are still dependent on natural gas from Russia, including Germany. I remind you, the war is still days old.

If NATO isn't the reason why Putin is invading Ukraine, then tell us the real reason according to your perspective.

Unless you are in Ukraine, you cannot do anything to influence the outcome of this war.

> send aid, supplies, and troops immediately to Ukraine, regardless of the geopolitics involved.

How? When Ukraine's borders are surrounded by Russian armies and Pro-Russian separatists now.

If you are talking about having done that pro-actively, then that's a failure on your part. One that may have a profound effect on Ukraine's defense.

There isn't much the world can do now.

Calling Putin's bluff on invading Ukraine was the biggest mistake the West made. NATO should have seeked to recruit new member countries from other regions. They forced Putin into action.

If you are calling for an assault on Russia in the hopes of making Putin bow out of this war, you would be effectively starting WWIII. Putin has just recently called bluff on readying the nuclear warheads, I don't think any leader wants to antagonize the situation any further.

The most reasonable course of action IMO (with the least amount of casualties) is to let Putin have his way for now, and let him deal with the consequences later on.

Ironic that this may be the only somewhat reasonable set of sanctions to come from the corpo side yet.

> They're creating immense value, of which, they are taking a small commission. If they were not creating immense value, the advertisers would have no need to use them.

I will just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623858

You fail to prove why my logic is wrong and answer your own questions instead, then on top of that make sure to sprinkle vague insults at me! I won't bother providing rebuttals to the rest of your arguments. You make sure you have a good day, moron!

> Why would they let you disable ads on their ad-supported platform?

Because they stand to gain (immensely) from building my trust about their model of advertising if I choose to participate in it. Or maybe am being too optimistic and everyone would disable ads 100% of the time given such an option? Would be an awesome experiment for Google :)

The problem with these platforms you call ad-supported, is even when you pay a subscription for premium the content creators are allowed to slot in sponsored segments which isn't exactly my definition of an ad-free experience.

> By using ad blockers, you are merely taking away from everyone else using the platform. I wish these companies did more to stop ad blockers.

Taking away what exactly? If you could be a bit more specific. Also, you are free to dream in your utopia where ad blockers don't serve a need, just don't expect everyone to follow you there.

> That's because from what you wrote, you don't seem to understand how these ad platforms work

Would be happy if you could explain where I got it wrong.

If ad brokers (the Googles of this digital world) ever wanted me to pay attention to them (and their ads), they would give me a toggle to switch ads on and off as I please. As long as a simple choice like this isn't made available to me, then it's uBlock all the way. Or zero interaction from my end with the ad broker's platforms.

I recon from an individual perspective, ads are not a game changer to consumer behavior. They only burden the individual with more decisions to make when choosing a product to buy. Infact, in today's standards they only serve as a way to guess-timate person X bought toothpaste B because of ad campaign Z. Therefore, give us (ad broker Y) some of that kickback. When I still would have bought the toothpaste anyway.