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Ironically Google changing how it responds to my search queries, and me finally figuring out that's why my google experience has degraded, is what actually made me switch to DDG as my primary search engine.

I'll take the hit and say it's bad. A great purpose of nation states is to enrich and protect the lives of those who are from those respective nations, often and usually at the cost of others. A bunch of non-governmental entities undermining the nation state is undeniably untenable -- both cannot thrive.

People, especially the rich, often pretend we don't live in nation states and that the global nation is here -- but it very much isn't. I think we ought to be afraid of what happens when nation states dissolve. The ultimate result doesn't seem to be unification but disunion.

Did SETI@home accomplish anything useful with its 21 years of computing? Outside of the general "it's always good to do science, even with negative results" which I agree with.

I ran a large cluster of university machines surreptitiously for this project many years ago.

Does does security like that?

can you say for certain that home depot supplies the construction industry to such an extreme degree that it will be really bad? maybe for small businesses, but the bigger ones have independent suppliers that aren't home depot for their shit.

Significantly doubt that is the real reason.

Disturbing? I don't think so. I subscribe to the_donald because I want to keep up with what the nutters are saying. Yesterday I reported a post where they had photshopped out the dots in the " i "s in all of Mike Bloomberg's ads and replaced them with the star of david. That's just yesterday. And just one post that caught my eye. And it was one of the top posts of the day with thousands and thousands of votes and hundreds of comments. What's actually disturbing is the view that subreddit affords into the minds of 20-30% of the country.

The_donald has always been breaking the rules. The only reason it isn't banned is because reddit doesn't want the bad press of deleting it outright, even by their own rules it should have been nuked ages ago.

Finally, this isn't even touching the level of silent censorship that happens on hacker news to maintain its quality so its a really funny place to take a stand on it. If reddit is disturbing to you then man, you should be horrified by this place. Funny how HN is such a great place for discourse -- wonder how that happened.

edit: since a ne'er-do-well has accused me of lying here's a screenshot of the post. But I want to make it clear, this is one example out of an infinity of examples. I am illustrating that the_donald will not follow the rules and that's why this is happening: https://i.imgur.com/NHN1Mhx.png

>Almost none of this thread should exist. There should have been zero response to my post.

Not quite. Your post shouldn't exist at all. It's condescending tripe.

This kind of quisling act is of little value.

After finishing this article I can't help but think that he's writing about himself for himself than anyone else. Not everyone lives in Ivory Towers or is the partner at a prestigious law firm. I truly can't imagine this applying to any of the leftist activists I know; and by activists I mean they organize, protest, and collaborate multiple times a week. They're all working class people -- of the top of my head, off the ones i know personally, there's a retired school teacher, a caretaker for the elderly, a machinist, a waiter, an electrician, a nurse, a mechanic, an engineer, and a janitor. They all have various degrees of involvement in the leadership of the local D party and activist groups.

Just who is this article aimed at? I don't mean the article doesn't have some good points, but the way it treats this as a monolithic generally true problem immediately strikes me as incorrect. Dude's in a bubble of his own to think this is sage advice that can be generally applied.

Paywall: https://pastebin.com/NxwFrYEg

Why do we need to try to streamline C++ here? What's behind the urge to "cut out the fat"? Would doing this make C++ an even better performing language? What's the upside of gutting the language?

I don't understand the impulse here. Yes, the semantics of C++ are more elegant than the syntax. But that doesn't mean that the syntax is actually cumbersome.

Well, there's one pre-print paper that goes as far as saying that because some segments of the RNA resemble, closely, parts of HIV, that those may have been inserted by human efforts. Of course, there's been a lot of pushback to this assertion; detractor say that this "inserted segment" actually shows up in all kinds of things and it also being in HIV is not significant here.

For the article and the pushback, see this link and its comments:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.30.927871v1

I think that the bicameral mind hypothesis makes sense.

Oh, and the phenomena wherein the disconnection of the hemispheres of the brain results in strange cognitive artifacts such as being able to give two different answers to one question, even questions like "what is your favorite color," points to at the very least some kind of parallel consciousness. Another hypothesis is that one hemisphere is the "speaking" brain and the other is the "listening" hemisphere. That is, only one of the consciousnesses can talk -- and that's the one we call "me"; maybe it should be "us."

As with the ostensible Aphantasia I believe that this is a problem with people being able to describe their inner experiences accurately. It makes way more sense to me that >99% of people fall into the behavior category that you described, rather than that 10% of people don't have an internal monologue.

FWIW, my experience lines up very closely to yours.

The ocean acidifying is perfectly fine terminology. You're looking at this through a politicized lens.

Are you claiming that your shit doesn't stink?

This is the first time I'm hearing that it was a hoax from the start. I've heard this study referenced more times than I can count in discussions on mental illness and mental hospitals. Could it really be that it was complete horseshit?

Priorities, right? I wonder what their business would be like if they had the foresight to not make the split so lopsided.

Elaborate.

I was doing some deep searching in very specific date ranges with lots of modifiers and google gave me the "your query reminds us of bots or some shit try again later" and I had to stop because it wouldn't let the queries through anymore. Is that what that was?

I mirror your sentiment. It used to be that you could use your google fu and you'd be able to find a dozen relevant forum posts or mail chains in plain text. It's much, much, harder to get the same standard of results. "Pasting stack traces and error messages. Needle in a haystack phrases from an article or book. None of it works anymore."

Yeah, if I know where I'm looking (the sites) then google is useful since I can narrow it to that domain. But if I don't know where to look then I'm SOL.

The serendipity of good results on Google.com is no longer there. And given the talent at google you have to wonder why.

Does for me. USA.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/S2rPywz.png

Also, is this guy a Q follower or something? The favicon is a Q.

Wal-mart has a hideous reputation among the general public and that doesn't seem to stop them. Walmart grows YoY every quarter.

I'm not certain their reputation will change much so long as they can still ship a product to my house in one day for less money than at a physical store, and have effortless returns.

The other thing is that these services aren't even a good deal for the customers. I can order chinese from a local place by calling them and pay 30 instead of 20 w/ delivery, but with Doordash it ends up being almost double not including a tip. I'm not sure where the customers are coming from outside of drunks. It's not a good value.

I love Edge. It's very quick and feels super stable. However that new icon is terrible. It looks like laundry detergent branding and it only vaguely resembles an e.

It does. It includes all publishers and academic journals. I would wager a huge portion of that 27 billion is textbooks in k-12 & university, and journals; though, I haven't been able to find the raw data.

[0] https://www.bookstats.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BOOKSTA... (page 1, bottom)

>I never see the Reddit mobile site and never need to tell the browser to request the desktop mode.

There is a seemingly persistent bug where reddit fails to remember preferences surrounding mobile/desktop and old/redesign. Sometimes you will click a link and the page it delivers you to will be on the mobile site, sometimes it will take you to the redesign. It's been going on for at least a year. I use reddit a lot and I run into it at least every week. Sometimes it sticks and I have to relog to get my preferences back.

Aside from Rich Integration (which is arguably also there if you include bots/scripting), most IRC clients have search, history, emoji, and reminders. What's missing I think is a pretty UI and lots of marketing.

> Accidental moderates end up in the middle, on average, because they make up their own minds about each question, and the far right and far left are roughly equally wrong.

I don't think I can take seriously an essay that so flatly and flippantly claims this as fact.

Aimed at younger than 2-4?