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To me, design and ease of use counts as innovative. Whether it was inevitable or not isn't particularly relevant.

As I said, if you had to regularly use cabs prior to ±2009, they were a nightmare. Uber is a massive improvement.

I wonder if Facebook Twitter etc. banning violent and bloody content has prevented the public from protesting these things more widely. It is well known that TV broadcasts of Vietnam led to outrage growing against that war.

I don’t understand how people say Uber isn’t innovative. You can pull out your phone and order on-demand transport in seconds. If you were around before it took off and had to use a cab, Uber is literally 1000% better than the previous solution.

It goes against pretty much everything in the zeitgeist, but yeah, men and boys are really hurting from this lack of all-male spaces. I hope culture boomerangs around enough to permit them sometime soon.

This used to be the case for most communities in America, before we decided that externalizing and professionalizing everything was the "economically efficient" solution. If you had a problem, you'd talk to the elder folks in your community and see what they thought about it. Now we barely know our neighbors and our community elders are shipped off to special-purpose holding facilities.

These would be comparable examples if religion included nothing but the physical building of a church/mosque/synagogue.

I am curious if HN has input on this:

The court heard the father-of-one downloaded the video two weeks after the massacre in March 2019, but had last viewed the video in April this year, prompting police to search his property.

How would they know if/when the video was watched?

As someone that worked in kitchens for years, this is backwards. The environments are already like this and the media simply describe it.

My personal theory is that kitchen jobs attract a certain sort of person: ones with short attention spans (making a dish is immediately rewarding) and those that couldn’t get a “real job” due to tattoos, drug use, alcoholism, etc. etc. This all adds up to a more variable group of people than the white collar academic media class considers normal.

I strongly object to the terminology here. These people are not elite, they are good at gaming the current socioeconomic system and/or have some advantage gained by family relationships or proximity. They are not the smartest, or strongest, or any X adjective. If they are smart or strong, this is only somewhat correlated with their societal position.

I follow many people online because I care what they have to say. Because I have read their works before and find their ideas insightful.

Not because they write clickbait headlines.

That might be true, but I think if a business doesn’t rely on views/advertising to fund itself, it has more room for creating a quality brand and attracting subscribers that way. As opposed to writing clickbait headlines.

This is essentially what the Financial Times does.

Adjective inflation. Yet another consequence of the advertising business model.

People like creating systems more than they like implementing them. Hence the popularity of military strategy books as compared to the number of real generals.

While I think this is a reasonably good idea to opt-into and maybe even something I would sign up for, I am worried that something like this will become mandatory by BigCos.

I can already see it: teams work under surveillance in shifts with a 5 minute break every hour. Companies clawing themselves into the home, with no way to avoid it. Terrifying.

An off switch or other way to preserve privacy would help address this.

"You killed him."

"No, I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

- Collateral (2004 film)

The inland towns and more isolated islands are still quite local.

And Montenegro is 100x more overdeveloped and touristy. I’m not sure where exactly you are referring to.

Advertising it online isn’t going to keep it preserved for very long.

Yeah, Croatia is already turning into a country-sized tourist trap. It is really a shame considering how beautiful the area is.

No, it is both, as I just said.

It is widespread common knowledge that the American accent is the easiest to understand. If you don’t agree with this, I’m sorry but you are not speaking from experience.

American media (movies, news, etc.) is universal. People all around the world watch American shows and movies and are accustomed to the accent. This output dwarfs any other versions of English. So, to begin with, people are just more familiar with American English.

Adding to that, I’m not confusing prevalence with clarity. The standard American accent is clearer and easier to understand than most other variants, including American subcultural accents like the Boston, Texan, or Southern accents.

The NA English accent is considered the most clear and easy to understand. This is not a controversial opinion and is held by virtually all non-native English speakers around the world.

Frankly there are billions of people who would kill to speak English like a native American. It’s about economics, not identity politics.

Is this really that surprising? Human beings are social animals and learn by imitation. Locking newborns into a room and preventing them from interacting with the world will stunt their development.

The effects of “long lockdown” are almost certainly going to be worse than those of “long covid.”

So if there is no clear authority on reality, that means that a single private site is? How does that argument make any sense?

The solution is the same as it’s always been: read multiple sources that have different viewpoints.

Anything that isn’t a large donor-funded private organization would be an improvement.

The wiki model seems alright to me. It just needs a better way to view changes.

PayPal is pretty embedded in the institutional power matrix, so it’s not really that surprising. They want to be a bank, if they aren’t already one.

Outsourcing reality checks to private organizations is a serious problem with 21st century America.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is another similar org that is treated as authoritative yet has zero safeguards or unbiased processes.

The email space has a ton of cash. Frankly I’m surprised it’s as low as 10B. Probably due to the fact that social media is “new” while email is “old.” Hype matters.

“Would would anyone need elevator buttons? There are already trained elevator operators everywhere that do the same thing.”

“Why would anyone need light bulbs? There are gas lamps and oil everywhere that do the same thing.”

“Why would anyone need email? There are post offices that do the same thing.”

I would rather pay a few hundred dollars for a private space and have control over my time/work hours, than be forced to physically commute to an office. Time > money.

In my experience, most decent employers have a stipend for co-working anyway.

Just rent an office space or coworking desk. Problem solved.