News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

tt433

Re:Slouching Toward Post-Journalism on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:18PM (#26290382)
We're just meat bags with terrible sensory perception and reasoning skills. This is the reason I am more open to claims of "no reality" and the like. Plato's cave but no one sees the whole picture
Re:Are You Trading or Gambling? on Saturday February 27, 2021 @07:58AM (#26284575)
Everything is worth what it's purchaser will pay for it; every transaction is subjective
Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:18AM (#26276370)
I couldn't tell either fwiw but that's an interesting point; sounds more like a suicide method than an act of state punishment though
Re:Malaysian Grandfather Is Facing Death for Weed on Friday February 26, 2021 @11:11AM (#26276261)
This idea that we need to be stricter is what led to the crime bills now under bipartisan attack
Re:Protest note about user privacy changes by Reddit on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:42AM (#26275221)
So nice you posted it twice?
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:47PM (#26254694)
Just wanted to add there's lots of factors at play besides the renters specifically
Re:Berkeley may get rid of single-family zoning on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:18PM (#26254276)
If the property is adjacent to a gentrified neighborhood but not yet pricey, the landlord can degrade service until the low income tenants leave, renovate the property, and charge new gentrified prices as well. I know of a couple buildings in the DMV area that were doing this within the last 10 years
Re:When did generic grocery brands get so good looking? on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @10:25AM (#26250835)
The No Name brand is one of my favorite parts of visiting Canada. Excessive branding and flashy packaging gets on my nerves
Re:Machines Already Took Our Jobs on Friday February 19, 2021 @10:25AM (#26194124)
I think workers rights has less to do with automation and more to do with forcing exploitative bosses to negotiate via collective action but what do I know
Re:Vertical farming does not save space on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:13PM (#26186448)
And the suggestion that one can live on a loaf of bread, using that price to extrapolate a yearly cost, it's a true worst case scenario.
Re:Vertical farming does not save space on Thursday February 18, 2021 @03:06PM (#26184732)
"Vertical Farming Does Not Save Space [when exclusively considering solar power]"
Re:Electricity over $900/MWh in most of Western US now on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:35PM (#26175342)
How is it legal for them to regulate interstate commerce?
Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @06:46PM (#26173484)
I couldn't; I believe I originally thought you were suggesting these companies can't be expected to exert political will/make consequential decisions for some bizarre reason
Re:Changes to sharing and viewing news on Facebook in Australia on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:49PM (#26170732)
I'm not really sure what you mean by impossible
Re:Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @02:42AM (#26151778)
Sorting by new also usually exposes things like hijacked item or seller pages more easily
Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” on Friday February 12, 2021 @02:10PM (#26117317)
The film "Brazil" was mentioned on another comment on another story a few days ago that touched on this theme, very good movie.
Re:America's 1% Has Taken $50T From the Bottom 90% on Thursday February 11, 2021 @05:51PM (#26108516)
Not really, ticket splitting is a thing for many americans -- it's decreasing though
I don't think it's necessarily union control related at all. From an industry standpoint it makes some sense to have a geographic center so that companies who serve the industry have a place to go and find customers, network, etc. I think in this regard it's largely a spontaneous phenomenon more than a coordinated decision. "Birds of a feather."

The other replies to this are interesting though and it's not all one thing, distributed decision making can be rationalized after the fact any number of ways

Re:Web Scraping 101 with Python on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @07:24PM (#26096693)
I'm just curious if you have any particular use cases you can't get the existing solutions to work with
Re:Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? on Saturday January 30, 2021 @12:54PM (#25971211)
FWIW this did happen to some indentured Europeans in the New World. I'm nevertheless surprised GP thinks that's excusable or defensible in the 21st century.
Re:Siliconpr0n: High Resolution Chip Maps on Saturday January 30, 2021 @10:47AM (#25969971)
Throw in some post processing and these make good greebles/texture details
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler on Sunday January 10, 2021 @10:28AM (#25715542)
I don't understand why people are resorting to apps like signal for privacy, personally. Edit: as in there are better alternatives
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:11PM (#25708904)
So what you're saying is you want to have Nazi policemen? I don't understand what your concern is, because they would probably be incapable of performing their duties fairly
Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:37PM (#25708311)
I think the difference is signal is private, no? Parler people are just airing racist and threatening shit out in the open. I would personally rather it take place in such private online places instead of in front of everyone.
Re:Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:38PM (#25694848)
His supporters were literally talking about that exact scenario in the replies
Didn't fit the perp profile police expect (race)
Why do you feel sorry for them exactly?
Re:We Built a Facebook Inspector on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:38AM (#25658623)
Arguably hiding this data until public rage inevitably boils over is worse for Facebook long term
Re:Moral Competence on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @10:02PM (#25654264)
GP describes a situation I observed working in non profit, not habitat for humanity but something similar.

They didn't have much to show for their efforts but it seems to be a popular strategy. I haven't given them my time or effort since leaving.

You can wager that the human involved with book recommendations will do a better job than an algorithm trying to show you metaphorical train derailments or car accidents 24/7

Older »