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Many (most?) big sites will try on different titles to see which one drives more traffic.

Almost no one would read it. I've done it both ways. People read threads. Blog posts might get traffic if you stumble on an uncontested search term. You might say "just link it on Twitter!"

Doesn't work. No one clicks.

There are 50,000+ ways to learn anything, and most won't work for most people. Sometimes I have to read 20 different takes on something before it finally clicks.

The fact that there are so many people trying to explain it in their own way is a good sign.

There are finger-based counting systems with more than one number per finger. Our average of 10 fingers can handle a lot more than 10 numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger-counting

It's possible to do an album on your own, but it takes knowledge of every step in the process. Otherwise you end up with levels all over the place, and people stop listening at the first song that's too much louder than the others.

Working with local communities to come up with culture-fit solutions is exactly the right thing to do. Most of the problems people seem to have with Facebook is their past attempts to apply a single concept of decorum to a global population.

It's usually fine to let police handle threats, but they can quickly spiral in places on the brink of erupting, or in populations the police aren't always good about protecting.

The best part of Gangnam Style is it was a critique of what it became.

I can't speak for the others, but Mastodon hasn't ended. I use it every day and still meet lots of new people.

It exists: https://social.coop/about

I don't know how well it works.

This is something I didn't know I cared about until I followed Blender's PeerTube instance account from a Mastodon instance. Pixelfed is working on it, and Plume, and...

It's something I've come to expect. If your hot new app doesn't federate, I don't care about it.

It probably wouldn't be too hard to put something together with a JavaScript bookmarklet and their archive page. http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/list.htm

>> "In my previous comment, please note when I say "hip-hop", I am not referring to music, but culture. Nonetheless..."

We may have fundamentally incompatible perspectives if you see culture and art as separate things. I grew up surrounded by hip-hop (Atlanta), but I know better than to sing along with the n word as a white person. This is because the experience of the music is inseparable from one's experience with its culture.

Appropriation and disproportionate credit for white people is a real and serious problem, but it's not the whole story. Most of the actual musicians who were inspired by black music fully acknowledged their inspirations and were often annoyed at how no one seemed to care about the people they looked up to.

The actual artists out on the stage doing the music know exactly what comes from where. Culture spreads like that: someone likes a piece and adds it to their own, fusing two cultures. It's how we have American Chinese food that looks nothing like Chinese Chinese food. (the xenophobic policies that led to it is another matter)

You have a very narrow and stereotyped view of American culture. The whole of it is not a few white-majority cities in the north and one over-funded region in the west.

It's the same with music software.

It's wonderful that Reaper has a native Linux version! I might just go with Linux when I have the means to build a dedicated mixing and mastering computer, though I'll miss the ease and quality of SerumFX. Unfortunately, few VST developers have taken advantage of the new Linux support in the VST SDK. And then there's Ableton Live. All of it runs on Windows and Mac. None of it is likely to see an iOS port.

I need my whole workflow to come along. None of it is trivially replaced.

Business Wars did a series on Netflix and Blockbuster at its launch: https://wondery.com/shows/business-wars/

Both entertaining and enlightening.

Someone's probably done a study of changes in the odds of this happening over the years.

Someone conceived in a McDonalds restroom the last time he was its CEO would almost be able to drink legally in most US states now. The US was in the middle of an economic boom in 1997. He does not have a relevant perspective.

This discussion has already devolved into a war of slogans and soapboxing. It's barely been an hour.

I can't really blame HN. The article focuses on minimum wage and largely blames it for automation, and the author is under the impression that it's still possible to go from working the register to CEO.

This is not a good article. It lacks any insight or perspective.

This is said about every industry standard product before another replaces it. What makes this different?

I don't know if the mobile version of uBlock Origin has it, but there's an eye dropper button if you click the uBlock button on the toolbar. You can use that to build block rules automagically. It reminds me of the API spies people used to make for Visual Basic 6.

That was almost every comment before I posted. All of them seem to be grayed out now.

And then you can grab the RSS feed for people whose comments you want to follow. At least, I assume all Fediverse-supporting software generates user RSS like Mastodon.

I honestly didn't know Make did all that. I thought it was just a build script thing for complex software. This was enlightening.

A lot of comments in here are poking fun at how little data it is relative to a commercial data mining operation. The data they process and what they do with it is worth more to society than any number of petabytes crunched to target ads. Processing petty petabytes is not praiseworthy.

If you focus on the headline, you'll miss the point. The point is they used open source technology to process public data for reporting once the government stopped updating its own tools.

That was humor. I'm aware of the centuries of anti-fox propaganda.

>> "fox being a sneacky tricky animal"

Foxes are good and pure creatures.

Just plain old Lockfox. However, I understand you probably have some branding/marketing/PR concerns to keep in mind with naming.

We either have different definitions of proprietary, or I'm misunderstanding something. The format appears to be open and documented. https://github.com/mozilla-lockbox/lockbox-datastore

Can't believe they didn't call it Lockfox.

Would an Ayn Rand inspired city reject states and promote individualism for decades, then finally accept help once it starts to fall apart?