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Someone needs to sue these people into bankruptcy.

Dumb expression. CGI is cheap and easy. A Mars rover is easy to detect by other nation-states.

I do not see the point of reading translated literature, let alone translated poetry. It's like trying to appreciate an IOCCC submission by looking at a Java port that does the same thing. The beauty of it tied up in the specifics that you can't replicate 100%. Even if the translation is good, it ends up just being a different piece of work altogether.

> This implies that brown skin is an indicator of diversity. To use your method of reductio: ...only if you think that diversity is determined by superficial attributes like skin color.

I started my comment by mentioning skin tone. It's you and the comments I quoted who decided to label this "diversity" with scare quotes, and now you're arguing about the definition of a term you brought into the argument.

> I don't, and you chose the value-laden term "abnormal" instead of "demographically atypical".

That's not a counterargument, you're just nitpicking word choice here. Regardless of what you call it the skin tone distribution matches that of the people who make these graphics. It's also not far off from the national average.

According to Wikipedia 60% of the US Population is non-hispanic white[0]. I imagine the number of Hispanic and Asian people with light skin is around the same as white people with darker skin so this is a good proxy for skin color distribution. If I count one of the first Google Image results for "corporate memphis" about 54/71 = 76% of them have light skin and look white to me. So no, it's only statistically abnormal in that there are probably not enough cartoon brown people.

> I too use my identity as a cudgel, except I am a philosopher.

You either have a poor understanding of philosophy or an inflated ego if you think the semantic games you're playing counts as philosophy.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_Un...

[1] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e662715857fa5...

Only if you think that "diversity" is somehow abnormal. Why is it a calculated move for companies like Google, whose CEO has brown skin, to have some of their advertisements include brown skinned people? The real cynical move would be to make them all white to appease middle America. Why do you feel the rest of us have to hide our existence to appease you?

If you're going to make people jump through so many ridiculous hoops just to use a pager then you might as well do away with the screen entirely and make it beep Morse Code.

I feel bad for the all the non-programmers in your country if this is a common attitude. Pretty much every single native English speaker agrees that the Latin alphabet is an inadequate alphabet and that it's unreasonable to force others to learn English, but for some reason programmers act like a bunch of monks defending the Vulgate Bible any time you ask them to make functioning software that supports their own fricken language.

> multi cultural inclusive visual banality

> It lets companies look diverse

> Not sure what skin color to use? Make them blue

Seeing cartoon SVGs of brown people really hits a nerve for some people. IMO if you walk around the Bay Area the racial distribution is more or less the same as these graphics, so there's really nothing to complain about in that regard. Go buy Russian software if you don't like it.

Products made by people who take no pride in the product are rarely good. It's the difference between enterprise slime and the software that you actually use on your personal computer. Most software really doesn't exist in a competitive market, it's naturally monopolistic, so you can't just rely on market forces to ensure it isn't shit.

I've never seen anybody argue that inflation doesn't exist.

In my experience, people who are quick to accuse others of shilling are usually actual shills themselves, or arguing for a position for which there are many obvious shill accounts.

Did you know that people who speak other languages exist? GP had a very valid concern. And yes, pagers that use other encodings do exist.

I stand by my words.

> Linux desktop experience isn’t a pile of UX trash.

Desktop Linux is the only bearable desktop UX. Anyone who actually prefers the UX of desktop Windows is mentally deranged and should not be allowed to make user facing software.

From "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction" to "Russia is using energy weapons". I wonder when they'll start claiming Kim Jong Un is in contact with hostile extraterrestrials.

> 90% of children never waking up to the sounds of birds around their house?

As someone who grew up in such an environment, 90+% of my peers spent the entirety of our adolescence doing as much as possible to get away from suburban hells like that. And you know what's ironic? I have way more access to actual nature now that I live in a city close to some national parks than I did when I was younger and was trapped in endless suburbia.

> they don't fuck up an entire city

Skyscrapers fuck up a city how???? Do you expect Manhattan to consist entirely of 2 story suburban homes? It's attitudes like yours that are the reason the streets are full of so many homeless.

> I remember the moment when lag killed my hard core Diablo2 paladin.

This is why I don't play roguelikes.

I thought Birmingham was a small city.

I don't get the scientific value of this. What can be learned from doing this opposed to observing normal human embryos?

If it's done for ethical reasons then I don't see how injecting human cells in an monkey embryo then killing them is more ethical than just killing human cells.

What if I belong to a monkey worshipping cult whose god commands man to create hybrid monkey-men?

> When you feel like using state violence to harass drunken college kids you create a campus PD.

Someone's never been mugged on campus before... Campus PD exist to give special protection to the children of wealthy upper-middle class families that thw surrounding community is usually deprived of.

There's a selection bias here. Parents whose children killed or mutilated themselves as toddlers are too busy or too aggrieved to be posting anecdotes on HN.

How is not having railings negligent? Isn't it negligent to stand so close to the edge?

Instagram and Youtube did the same with TikTok. Maybe one day all the FAANG companies will have massive identical apps with a gazillion features cobbled together. The social media equivalent of Emacs.

Yes.

Classic HackerNews to have the top comment be an anecdote from 10 years ago.

Ah yes, famous non-white females Albert Einstein and Lewis Carrol.

IMO autocorrect only works well if all of the following are true:

1. You only speak one language, and never find yourself in a situation where you encounter transliterated foreign words or names.

2. You never use any obscure or technical words. No jargon or slang.

3. You also never find yourself in a situation where you have to come up with new terms and abbreviations.

4. You never use the keyboard for any notation other than prose. No code.

5. You agree 100% with the orthographic choices of whoever made your autocorrect.

Personal experience tells me that as a result anyone who has autocorrect on tends to be a boring conversation partner.

I will never understand the HN crowd's deification of the internet. Out of all the methods of communication out there it doesn't seem particularly special, and definitely not special enough to supercede the sovereignity of nations.

It's a figure of speech...