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Go developers are busy making fancy (or rather, pretty generic and bland) logos and thinking about "brand identities", while developers who use other languages do actual work. Does a programming language really need a logo, a cartoony mascot, an entire "brand guide" pamphlet and a "visual identity"? RMS was right when he said that software industry is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. We see this when developers pick their tools not according to their functionality, but to what is trendy and looks cool at the moment.

It's all a short internet search away:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5850/intelligen...

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

Yes, the IQ is a great if not the best predictor of broadly understood intelligence and achievement. It's also correlated with reproductive failure.

However, the article is extremely politically charged and filled with identity politics that should have no place on this website.

Smartphones/tablets are now being used as pacifiers for older children, you give them a brainless game to play in a cafe or a restaurant so they shut up and you can stop paying attention to them so you can play with your smartphone at peace.

That's why I'm asking why shouldn't it just be regulated like normal gambling and made inaccessible to kids.

I don't think living completely without artificial lights and screens is possible for a vast majority of HN users.

Remember to completely shut your bedroom out at night though, it has to be completely, 100% pitch black. It improves the sleep quality a lot.

Mobile app stores are shovelware galore. Admission standards are in the toilet and they're flooded with thousands upon thousands of reskinned garbage "games" that frequently rely on superficial similarities to smash hit games in order to confuse users so they buy them, or at least launch to view ads. Reskinning is a whole industry, with people capable of launching several "games" every single day.

Why not simply regulate it like gambling, instead of outright banning?

Are cosmetic item lootboxes affected too, and if so, why, if they're completely optional and offer no advantage? Are "lootboxes" that can be purchased with in-game resources affected as well, even when the game offers no option to purchase them for real money?

Here's an article on one such underground site: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18291

The tunnels themselves were not that long or linked up, but apparently all those that were found under Europe add up to hundreds of kilometers.

Neanderthals had advanced jewelry drills, could make their own clay dishes, could treat diseases with herbs and simple surgeries, and they even had some knowledge of dentistry. They were able to construct furnaces, had advanced (at the time) weapons, social structures, and created underground settlements and tunnels spanning hundreds of kilometers.

The popculture image of grunting, snorting primitive cavemen is more fitting for Homo Sapiens than Homo Neanderthalensis.

The point is that you don't shift to coal power plants, you're supposed to get your energy from clean sources, such as nuclear, geothermal, and solar. You are presenting a false dichotomy, and engaging in whataboutism to create a distraction.

Maybe the batteries aren't very good for the environment, and maybe there are still problems to be solved with energy generation - it doesn't mean that it's not worth it to try to make our vehicles cleaner.

Can anyone really keep up with Youtube's policies anymore? Especially when they're partially created and enforced by automated scripts? I keep hoping that the worse this situation becomes the better incentives people will have to move to alternatives. A man can dream.

People's allegiances are tribal, and this kind of juvenile gatekeeping is probably only prevalent among teenagers and young college students.

I've never identified with a particular technology so strongly as to feel attacked when its flaws are pointed out, and vice versa, I have never felt the need to attack anyone personally based on the technologies they use. Some might be better for some tasks but not others, and that's the only thing that matters.

Experience shows that people who lack broad knowledge of several programming languages tend to identify as "language X developers" instead of developers as such. This enhances tribalism and creates pointless language wars. Any time somebody says that some particular language is the best choice for everything, or some other language is never the best choice for anything, they're just inexperienced and are trying to mask it with fake confidence. Except for Java of course, it's the worst.

People keep paying because there's no other choice on certain routes, short of driving or taking a bus.

This isn't an upgrade or anything, people who wanted to pay to reserve seats could already do so. You could have also not paid, and picked whatever was available, switch with your neighbors, and so on. Obviously, since Ryan Air figured out that they can extract some extra bucks out of that, you're now assigned a place and can no longer just pick whatever is available once you board. This is a standard rent-seeking behavior with no advantage for the customers.

This is because you used to be able to sit wherever you liked once you boarded the plane, and only premium passengers could get a reserved place. Now they are reserving you a bad place beforehand, so you can't just sit wherever you like, and if you want to change that, you need to pay. What used to be free, is now being charged for, and there is little reason to do so other than "because they can" because it doesn't raise the operating costs.

This sort of teenage gatekeeping is why nobody will take your advice seriously.

You're also extremely protected from ever making any profits, I'm glad people like you stay out of crypto out of fear.

This sums up this stance accurately:

https://i.imgur.com/Rgvqkln.jpg

And the end result are tyrannical power structures that de facto exert totalitarian control. There is very little difference between government-enforced restrictions and those created by global capitalism and its monopolies.

It doesn't matter to me if my rights are restricted by legal means or by corporate hegemonies, in fact the mechanisms in play are so complex nobody can really be sure anymore.

There is no alternative to Google, Amazon, Youtube, etc. You have tiny, inferior competitors that don't even come close to 10% of the monopolist's market share. Google works very hard to trap you in their ecosystem. Once you're there, escape is almost impossible.

Google uses their AI systems for profiling where the sex of the people being profiled is a crucial piece of information and acts as a predictor for interests which is then further used in targeting ads. As long as it makes Google money, it's not a problem. This bias actually accurately reflects reality and the advertisers know that, otherwise they wouldn't be paying Google for targeted ads.

The problem is that cryptominers are not an alternative to ads, they're used in parallel with ads.

That HN Bingo is a great idea for a browser plugin that adds a board to the HN page and fills it automatically as you browse

>Forty thousands Americans die on the roads each year. That's a statistic. But even a single death of a Tesla driver or passenger is a tragedy.

I don't know if paraphrasing Joseph Stalin is the right way to go around this

There was a science fiction story about a society where privacy was completely impossible because air everywhere was permeated by nanoscale cameras that recorded everything everywhere from all perspectives at all times. Looks like we are approaching that future.

There would be no privacy issues if the users did not give up that private data willingly in the first place. A-ok with random company on the internet having access to it, but suddenly other random parties exploiting it are "creepy"? It was being shared with advertisers and analytics providers anyway.

Who are you?

I never get it why people who discover secrets like these make extra sure nobody else can ever enjoy them again. Just use the undocumented feature and don't make a big thing out of it.

This way it's ruined for everybody, and they get nothing in return, except for some HN points on their blog post.

So now we have three pairs of terms that apparently mean exactly the same thing. I'm sure that whatever "minorities in tech" are more interested in not being needlessly confused, than not seeing the word "slave". Who would even think of this in terms of human slavery, and why would it be connected to american minorities only?

It's better to stick to tried and true terminology that everybody understands than to needlessly introduce new and redundant designations for concepts that have been in use for decades, just to avoid upsetting rather irrational American sensibilities.