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Philadelphia··on Amazon spending $465M on season 1 of The Lord of the Rings series
We all used to watch TV from the 50’s and 60’s in the 80’s and 90’s. You pick up on the context as you watch. A lot of situations are universal and timeless.
Philadelphia··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
I’ve never been at a company where users could get the right permissions to use it, unfortunately
Philadelphia··on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
Parent comment is about “Americans touting their free speech.” First Amendment is obviously what that refers to.

The Internet doesn’t have a limit on the number of web sites. You want to say something, get a $2/month shared hosting plan and post HTML, or lease fiber and run your own server farm, or do any number of things in between.

Philadelphia··on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
If someone doesn’t like a forum’s moderation policies, they’re free to find a different forum. This has been true since BBSes. It’s been true since the days of newspapers. It’s been true since the days of people speechifying in taverns.
Philadelphia··on The fall of Reddit: Why it’s quickly declining into chaos
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

There’s nothing in there about Reddit making moderation policies

Philadelphia··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
Any e-mail client with rules can do that and much, much, much, much more, though. Slack only offers three primitive options for notification filtering, and they can only be applied at two levels.
Philadelphia··on Copilot sells code other people wrote
Yep, anything useful has to be legal and welcomed. Microsoft should start breaking into people’s houses and sorting their underwear drawers for them while they’re out. Million dollar idea!
Philadelphia··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
What does Slack offer that’s an improvement over email for non-realtime conversations?
Philadelphia··on Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022
Could someone explain how you don’t lose track of a message irretrievably in Slack if you don’t respond to it right away? There doesn’t seem to be any way to ever find anything again without looking through every single channel and DM conversation once it’s read — no way to see every message you’ve received by date or anything like that. And DM conversations just drop off the sidebar entirely if you have too many of them.
Philadelphia··on I was part of the 10% Elon's layoff yesterday
And just coincidently, it lets more of the revenue go to towards making the CEO a gazillionaire than if the workers were paid more for 12 hours work…
Philadelphia··on TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams
Savings accounts and similar are the appropriate place to put cash you’re saving for a specific purpose or for emergency funds. You don’t want to invest something you will or could need access to in the short term.
Philadelphia··on The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation
At least 6 million people died worldwide so far, including more than 1 million in the US. In what universe would letting even more people die improve the economy? Dead people don’t work or spend.
Philadelphia··on Ask HN: I am stateless – trouble learning from feedback
This is common in people with ADHD
Philadelphia··on Twitter makes it harder to choose the old reverse-chronological feed
This may be the motivation I need to permanently delete Twitter. I’ve deleted it before when they’ve played with this stuff, because I don’t want to use an app I have to fight with. I was going through Apple News last night, and that looks like it might be a decent replacement for me.
Philadelphia··on Twitter’s founder admits that shutting down the API was “worst thing we did”
Thought you were talking about Google now for a minute. It’s close to 100% spam, fakey rankings, and the world’s cheapest SEO content for almost any search.
Philadelphia··on Expanding our private information policy to include media
You could look here to find out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Philadelphia··on Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
People used to call that kind of stuff “being evil”
Philadelphia··on U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy
If they can’t be profitable as standalone businesses, by definition they’re failing as businesses.
Philadelphia··on If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
Twitter has been so bad with this lately. It feels like the app is different in some irritating and pointless way every time I open it.
Philadelphia··on The metaverse is bullshit
It reminds me of the Bubble Yum Gum VR exhibit that traveled across malls in the mid 90’s

Edit: Found an article about it. Actually in 1993-4 https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1993-06-19-93061...

Philadelphia··on Israeli breakthrough could mean miracle for organ transplants
Totally acceptable. The restriction is only on eating non-kosher foods (basically), not anything else related to them.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10618731/

Even if that weren’t the case, saving a life takes precedence over almost all other laws in Judaism (exceptions are murder, incest, and idolatry), so it would be allowed under that.

Philadelphia··on Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families
I’m glad you found success and that your hard work helped increase your satisfaction. It doesn’t take away from anyone’s achievements to acknowledge that accomplishing anything significant requires a lot of circumstances to fall into place, the majority of which are beyond any individual person’s control, and those circumstances generally play the larger role in determining the outcome.
Philadelphia··on Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families
1) You’re probably not rich in the sense of generational wealth. 99% of people aren’t. 2) There’s no aspect of luck in your success? If you had gotten sick, would you be where you are now? If the company that hired you had gone with another candidate, would you be where you are now? Did a friend refer you to your job? If you had been born in a different time or a different country, would you have the same opportunities? Hard work is good for success, but it’s not sufficient. And that’s especially the case for gaining outsized wealth.
Philadelphia··on Entrepreneurs don’t have a special gene for risk, they come from rich families
Luck, or crime, or some combination of the two.
Philadelphia··on Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
A wad of chewing gum seems like it would fit nicely where the camera is
Philadelphia··on Apple Never Made iMessage for Android to Lock in iOS Users
Yeah, completely don’t understand this. Do they mean FaceTime?
Philadelphia··on Is that ship still stuck?
Just use the Philadelphia Experiment technology to teleport it to another dimension
Philadelphia··on EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind
Because the US doesn’t actually operate like that; it was just Trump being stupid and evil. Now that we have a president who’s not a vindictive moron, we’re functioning properly.
Philadelphia··on The Waste of Daylight
What sort of agenda are you accusing the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms, which appears to be a well-regarded professional organization that publishes a high-impact academic journal, of having?
Philadelphia··on The Waste of Daylight
Sleep experts who have education in the area and study for a living seem to overwhelmingly disagree with what you're saying. There is extensive discussion of the issues in the linked article, with inline links to sources.
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