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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:36AM (#30455177)
In your comment, is allowlist a list of videos only they can watch? (not a list of 'age ranges' or 'channels', but actually being able to select individual videos). I was never able to get something like this out of youtube kids when I've tried it in the past.

All these services curate for kids and I want to choose what my kids watch, so they are all failing me. (I'm with the others who go with YT premium, youtube-dl, kids watch with vlc or something on a tablet).

I always think of this quote from the movie, "Body of Lies":

"Our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is as brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd"

Re:Apple Pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:23AM (#14891665)
Now, if china makes them pull shadowsocks(R) clients from the apple/app/itunes store...then we'll know they are serious. Sorry for all the vpners in china on apple, at least you can go get a cheap android device in china and monkey around and patch together a mobile vpn based solution of some sort.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:36PM (#14584265)
Agreed. I don't believe you are implying this, but neither Saul nor I intend to state their reactions are unreasonable. Merely to indicate how divergent reactions can be in different populations and how this can be utilized.
Re:Show HN: Get Paid to Build Your Next Side Project on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:51PM (#14557151)
Sounds like the Alinsky bit in "Rules for Radicals" about working inside and outside of people's experiences:

"....In a similar situation in Los Angeles four staff members and I were talking in front of the Biltmore Hotel when I demonstrated the same point, saying: "Look, I am holding a ten-dollar bill in my hand. I propose to walk around the Biltmore Hotel, a total of four blocks, and try to give it away. This will certainly be outside of everyone's experience. You four walk behind me and watch the faces of the people I'll approach. I am going to go up to them holding out this ten-dollar bill and say, 'Here, take this.' My guess is that everyone will back off, look confused, insulted, or fearful, and want to get away from this nut fast.

From their experience when someone approaches them he is either out to ask for instructions or to panhandle — particularly the way I'm dressed, no coat or tie."

I walked around, trying to give the ten-dollar bill away. The reactions were all "within the experiences of the people." About three of them, seeing the ten-dollar bill, spoke first — "I'm sorry. I don't have any change." Others hurried past saying, "I'm sorry, I don't have any money on me right now," as though I had been trying to get money from them instead of trying to give them money. One young woman flared up, almost screaming, "I'm not that kind of a girl and if you don't get away from here, I'll call a cop!" Another woman in her thirties snarled, "I don't come that cheap!" There was one man who stopped and said, "What kind of a con game is this?"...."

https://archive.org/stream/RulesForRadicals/RulesForRadicals...

Re:Wanelo: The First Million Users on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:30PM (#7460768)
Except the fact that one is (most of the time): - a characteristic that is outwardly visible and generally perceivable -a characteristic upon which many societies have historically (and/or currently) organized biases around

While the other is generally related to how big one's feet are.

I would gather the submission intend to point out that this 'news event' was 'rare' and therefore worth submitting (rare because of the success, being a single founder, and being a woman in a field where (I presume) women are significantly less numerous). Anyway, looks like there were issues with the submission for some reason since it has been edited.

Re:Wanelo: The First Million Users on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:06AM (#7458242)
Why is it not?
I don't get it. So if things are not fun we don't do them?

Is someone claiming they love to dance to the doctor to see their child in pain?

I have a newborn. He has been upset, in pain, and sick in his first 6 months - we always try to do what is best for him, our family, his health, and public health. Dancing or allowing his discomfort to heavily bias our decisions never even remotely occurred to us.

Re:Beats Music launches on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @11:47AM (#7096405)
Seems that I can't 'shuffle' play my own library by genre (or 'mood'). Which makes Beats about the thousandth company to not offer this (common sense?) option. I can do this with Google Play Music (thankfully). Personally, there are plenty of ways to get 'curated' music...make it easy for me to play what I want.

Also, spent about 15 minutes on their site and still couldn't find the web player...maybe launch day issue?

Edit: found listen.beatsmusic.com (thanks to a comment here)

Re:Hate Parking Tickets? Fixed Fights Them In Court For You on Wednesday January 15, 2014 @04:46PM (#7066404)
Now if only there was a service that would auomatically ticket all the police, fire, government, etc. officials that park illegally.
Re:Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever on Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:09AM (#6974279)
Don't worry, you are not the problem...the problem is all these morally, self righteous people doing their best to abide by the intent of the tax code even when they think the system isn't fair (or well managed)....even though you have more control in what is 'collectively decided' then they do...
Re:Moguls Rent South Dakota Addresses to Dodge Taxes Forever on Saturday December 28, 2013 @01:23AM (#6974185)
Then I guess the question becomes, you appear in an article in Bloomberg about how you are using this loophole. Now what do you do?
Re:I’m the Accidental Owner of a Banksy on Sunday October 20, 2013 @09:18PM (#6582559)
I'm guessing critics are often historically wrong about the importance of various artists. How are you determining most of them don't take his work as value additive? Why do you accept their opinion as valuable?

Also, for reference, My wife is an Art History Professor at a highly respected liberal arts college and she takes Banksy seriously.... though she would not want to be called a critic.

Disclosure: owner of a Mr. Brainwash original

I think you have confused America with the idea of America.
Re:The most telling part of “1984″ is the appendix on Wednesday June 19, 2013 @03:38PM (#5907698)
Can't speak to android but I love their site on my desktop and love the articles I have read there so far. So, I guess I might be the reason why they are still in business.
'If Slate trusts Farhad Manjoo with their Op/Ed writing and critical thinking, why should we trust Slate with their journalism?'

//insert crappy article

I mean, why should we give interviews at all? Obviously someone's resume and a class they didn't complete is all we need to know about them.

Re:Bret Victor: Learnable Programming on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @08:08PM (#4578678)
As someone who has been spending time this year learning to code, I just wanted to say this essay is EXACTLY what I have been yearning for. Thanks for putting this together.
Re:Your Goals Are Holding You Back on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @10:59PM (#4482649)
Wish I knew this 12 years ago at your age:) Now that I have gone through years of becoming a more 'effective and efficient person', I agree with they key points you lay out here and really appreciate you writing it (so I can refer others to it). It seems that much modern thinking on 'how the brain works', choices, and productivity is in line with what you are talking about here (that habit forming is essential, but most people's brains find a way to get in the way (or most people let their brain find a way to get in the way)).
Re:The Hidden Truths about Calories on Monday August 27, 2012 @09:31PM (#4441710)
It's ok, Taubes doesn't take most dietitian and nutrition researchers seriously either :) (thankfully, imo). -demagogue
Still waiting for one of these or Mog or Apple or Rdio to sign artists themselves...
Re:My Paleo Media Diet on Thursday August 23, 2012 @06:55PM (#4425312)
As I was thinking - 'local' in values and principles, it doesn't have to mean 'local' in geography. :)
Thanks for posting this.
I'm not on a mac but good luck, I've been waiting for someone to do something like this or similar for a while. For those people looking at alternatives I recently found and am enjoying - tomahawk-player.org
YAY! Hopefully this fills the void left in my life after the loss of getspool.com...now if only I can cache on my android for viewing on the go..... good luck with reelsurfer
Re:A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:37AM (#3980497)
I think the more interesting theory (Gary Taubes's I believe) is that most of us have the causation backwards. People are eating 'all this food we have' because they are obese, not that their obesity is caused because they ate all that food.
Re:A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity on Wednesday May 16, 2012 @12:28AM (#3980478)
You are right, but he didn't say he was arguing in his comment, he said he would. :)
Well, it is important to note that society has often been incorrect about what things are healthy or not; so I think one should always be careful about the way things are 'considered' (not that I am arguing against fruit). If you check out some of Dr. Lustig's other work you will see he states fiber is the main reason fruit is not as 'dangerous' as fructose outside of fruit. Obviously all fruits are not the same either (in terms of amount of fructose and other characteristics).
Re:Aziz Ansari releases DRM-free standup special for $5 on Wednesday March 21, 2012 @12:34AM (#3733146)
Of relevant note: I believe Joe Rogan's next special (late April I think) is also going to be released in the Louis CK $5 methodology
...remembering my favorite scene in Good Will Hunting... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrOZllbNarw

hold out for something better ;)

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