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Re:"I'm on a War Footing": Terry Tao and the Crisis in Math on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:57AM (#50150416)
This is a very bad example.

The IRS is treating you bureaucratically and poorly because of lobbying from companies and politicians being bribed by said lobbyists.

My point being that you are beholden to a poorly functioning IRS because of capitalism; where companies have lobbied so hard against tax reform and simple filing that it more or less forces you to use their software.

Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook on Thursday July 16, 2026 @10:34AM (#48935173)
Yeah, next generation of SOTA models will probably come with a misspelling mode, marketed as "inspired by artisanal human misspellings".
Re:I also filed the corners off my MacBook on Thursday July 16, 2026 @09:57AM (#48934677)
There's a spelling mistake in the first paragraph. The expression is "lo and behold", and not "low and behold". Lo is an old English interjection for expressing surprise.
The parent comment is not presenting a false dichotomy but is making precisely the point that it is how you apply the laws that matter; that just having laws is not enough.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:00AM (#45287727)
Why don't you start a non-profit that gives laptop to kids so you can decide over the kind of machine to procure. These constant opinions on other peoples decisions where you have no insight to the whys is very ego-centric in a i-know-best kind of way.
Re:Pushing the whole company into the past on purpose on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:32AM (#42683765)
Or, you know, maybe your interpretation of what they said is incorrect?

It's quite obvious to me that the original poster was confused about what the end of the article meant and trying to communicate that the explanation they got made sense.

It's also quite obvious to me that they don't think the updated policy about using slurs being okay makes sense.

> Then proceeded to get downvoted to oblivion because there’s apparently a large subset of folks who think calling homosexuality a mental disorder is a perfectly normal thing to do.

If you are receving massive downvotes, instead of insisting on your interpretation being the only correct one, maybe you can try to critically analyze your interpretation and see if there is another way to interpret what was said, instead of doubling down and believing that HN is the last bastion of LGBTQ hate.

The vast majority of people will not read about the collected telemetry, even fewer will read it and then make a decision to opt-in.The telemetry is optimizing for the vast majority, not the loud minority, hence opt-out works better in order to cater to a larger group of users. Your voting analogy is really bad.

With that said, I don't really like telemetry and will turn it off.

Re:Every Noise at Once on Saturday April 03, 2021 @09:35AM (#26680922)
At least you get the genre info is in the web API, just not present on the artist page (you need a token for the query to work, but you can create that on dev page): https://developer.spotify.com/console/get-artist/?id=10YNQq8...
Re:Every Noise at Once on Friday April 02, 2021 @07:15AM (#26670515)
They are not that secretive, it's been written about several times. Long story short: a lot of it is still Glenn McDonald, the person behind everynoise, that was acquihired when they bought echonest.

Here are a few articles about it (there are several more): https://artists.spotify.com/blog/how-spotify-discovers-the-g... https://www.thefader.com/2020/12/02/escape-room-genre-spotif... https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-ma...

Re:Dual-flush toilets 'wasting more water than they save' on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @05:25PM (#24633193)
A wrapped cucumber is actually better for the environment than it's unwrapped counterpart [0] as they last longer leading to fewer deliveries and less waste

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/feat...