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Recently, I've been thinking about creating an Instagram account. I've never used it before, and I dislike it in general, but because of recent circumstances in my life (a breakup that almost gave me depression, and some other things), I need to go out more and meet new people IRL, and Instagram is the de facto way to meet people in my country, at least for those of us under 30, to the point that you're seen as weird if you don't have one.

But I know that once I create an account, I'll get hooked to the feed, to uploading pictures, etc. because I know myself.

I don't know if the positive social aspect (meeting people, or creating a lasting connection with people that I meet once IRL) is going to offset that addiction and the general anxiety that comes with having an account.

Apple, and west coast US companies in general, are the biggest promoters of political over-correctness, "inclusion", "diversity", etc. (to put it in non-offensive terms).

It would be extremely hypocritical for them to simply dismiss the feelings of people. So, even if it doesn't make sense, they're obligated to apologize to be consistent with their own discourse.

Re:We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:48PM (#33541092)
> and the reason is that they are being actively investigated or banned almost everywhere.

That's not an indication of anything wrong with Binance. A more plausible explanation is that the laws are too oppressive "almost everywhere".

Re:Gender and Age Differences in Love Styles and Attitudes on Thursday September 22, 2022 @12:52PM (#32941509)
Probably because intersexuality is so rare that there's not enough data.
Re:TikTok bombards young men with misogynistic videos on Thursday August 11, 2022 @12:42PM (#32428378)
Even if some of the things he says are dumb or exaggerated, he still makes more sense than the "progressive" delusion that we've been bombarded with for the last 5 years.

And he's also pretty funny, so I consider him and his message as an overall upgrade from the current state of affairs in social media.

Re:From August 1: Cash transactions above NIS 6k illegal on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @12:59AM (#32234420)
Please, HN, tell me again how cryptocurrencies are useless.
Re:Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:03PM (#31485364)
The very act of mentioning "western gender stereotypes" starts from a biased position.

Why couldn't they be "northern gender stereotypes"? Is the world best explained as a division of west/east instead of north/south? The northern hemisphere has much more population than the south, and almost all rich countries are in the northern hemisphere. And precisely it's these rich countries pushing the concept of gender stereotypes. In poor countries, nobody cares about these "gender stereotypes".

Actually, the lines dividing the earth into north and south, east and west hemispheres are arbitrary, so maybe they shouldn't mention the word "western" to avoid the propagation of stereotypes about earth regions.

Or why couldn't they be western age stereotypes? Why are there no kids or very old people depicted as nurses?

Why couldn't they be western body shape stereotypes? Why are there so few obese people in the images? Why are there no obese people depicted as athletes?

Are all of these really stereotypes or just natural consequences of natural differences?

> The US has a lot of legal policy that is based on spirit of the law

Yes, but that's a wrong and unfair way to define and apply laws.

> humans are imperfect

Smart contracts and "code is the law" mantra don't contradict this. You're imperfect and you commit a mistake, you lose. You find a mistake in someone else's code, you win.

This is much better than the current legal system where we are all collectively forced to adapt to, or even pay for, someone else's mistakes.

Re:Encouraging Self-Doubt on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:17PM (#31010843)
Funny. I'm on a personal journey to reduce self-doubt.

Maybe there's a time and place for self-doubt, and some people certainly lack it severely, but my extreme levels of self-doubt have always stopped me from trying things and now I realize how much it has cost me.

Maybe instead of "self doubt vs no self doubt" the questions should be:

- Is my project in the 95th percentile, or higher, compared to all projects in this given context?

- Is my project in the 70th percentile or higher, compared to all successful projects in this given context?

- Am I in the 95th percentile or higher, compared to all people in this given context?

For me, it's much easier to answer "Yes" to these questions (and the answer is usually "Yes") than to answer "Yes" to an ambiguous "Is the project going to succeed?" or "Am I going to succeed?"

Some may find this contradictory: If you think that you're above the 95th percentile, then how do you have self-doubt at the same time?

Self-doubt is not always logical. For me, self-doubt is more psychological than rational. I think I'll do a better job than most people, but I still think I'm going to fail, even when I see less capable people succeed.

Coincidentally, "mimir" is a funny, baby-like way of saying "dormir" (to sleep) in Spanish.
Re:Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:21AM (#30790162)
On one hand, I don't want to be anywhere near protestware when it comes to my work or the tools I use.

On the other hand, Javascript developers have a whole different culture than the developer circles I like to frequent. In npm-land, the societal expectations of quality and solemnity (for lack of a better word) are lower, and this kind of behaviour is even celebrated if it favors the "right cause".

The last two cases we've seen (faker/colors, node-ipc) just took it one step further, but we've seen a lack of seriosness from both the npm organization and the community during the last... what? 6 years?. At this point, if you stay in the whole npm ecosystem, it's understood that you do so at your own risk.

They don't, so they shouldn't use it.
The driver should know the capabilities of the car. If he doesn't, then he shouldn't drive it. If he isn't 100% sure that autonomous driving system will work as expected, then he should never enable that system.
Re:Elementary OS is imploding on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @09:52AM (#30615012)
Even from my point of view that transgender people don't exist (at least not on earth, our science hasn't developed a way to change the sexual cromosomes throughout the human body yet) I would still call someone by the name that they call themselves, even if it's a name that tipically isn't associated to their actual gender.
Isn't that the fault of Sony for selling them at a lower price than what people are willing to pay?

And the value being provided is the possibility of buying the PS5. Even without scalpers, chances are that someone else would have bought it. Scalping only works when the demand is very high compared to the supply.

Re:Google Search Is Dying on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:32PM (#30350641)
Am I the only one that has trouble with language preferences being ignored by Google? Accept-Language HTTP headers seem to be completely ignored, but even Google account language settings are ignored sometimes. IP address seems to be more important to them.

When I connect from a VPN exit point in Brazil it only shows me results in Portuguese (even when I'm logged in). When I connect from my hometown in Chile it's mostly fine but I think it's still not the same as if I connected from a US exit point, even though I have US English as my preferred language everywhere.

Is there some point at which people will start rejecting this arbitrary and excessive exercise of power?

This sets a dangerous precedent for a country that until now we considered a liberal democracy with freedom and respect for individual rights. I wonder if we're all headed to a point where state control and erosion of freedom are widely accepted by the public in our western democracies.

Re:Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:25PM (#30340725)
> 90% of Canadian truckers are vaccinated

That's irrelevant. The protest is not against vaccines.

I'm fully vaccinated and have voluntarily received my booster shot, and I would support the convoy if I was Canadian. I also support vaccination and want the highest amount of people to be vaccinated. There's no contradiction there. I want people to get vaccinated, I just don't want people to be forced to get vaccinated.

> Evidence suggests that funding for this protest is in large part foreign

The news has spread to the world and it's currently the most notable example of government vs. anti-mandate disputes.

> most canadian donations are from wealthy business owners,

Most donations, in general, are almost always from wealthy people, for the very obvious reason that they have more money to donate.

Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:21PM (#30267376)
Even I encrypt my keys before uploading them to the cloud, and I don't give them a descriptive name, and I have less than $2000 worth of cryptocurrencies, and it wasn't stolen.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:04PM (#30267246)
Another reason why Monero is better. With Monero, it wouldn't have mattered that AlphaBay was hacked.
Re:Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:54PM (#30267159)
Honestly, it would surprise me more if you told me that there are no high profile crackers/cybercriminals in this website.
Re:Poll: Where do you live? on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:49PM (#30213794)
And if someone knows a little bit of statistics and someone else knows a little bit about browsing patterns relative to timezones around the world, then we can correct for front page decay.
Re:Poll: Where do you live? on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:42PM (#30213715)
It would be cool to see it relative to the population of the country.
Re:GTA 6 Confirmed on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:29PM (#30213530)
I'd rather play a game where free players are subsidized by frivolous microtransactions that don't affect gameplay, instead of having a much smaller playerbase.
Don't remind me of it. I missed some important messages because of that stupid feature back when I used Facebook.
Re:Wire is now on F-Droid on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:44PM (#30119408)
I'm not parent comment, but I wouldn't be happy either if they started censoring antifa or any kind of speech.
Re:Wire is now on F-Droid on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:40PM (#30119362)
Then radical left speech shouldn't be allowed either, but many Mastodon instances allow communists (like, they literally call themselves communist) without any issue.
You know what tastes bad? The alginate material dentists use when making a mold of your teeth.

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