This is maybe the first relatable comment I’ve come across in here — work kills, the stress of having to be there on time, eating fast food because you don’t have time to cook, no time to exercise because you’re driving an hour a day, all the other things in your life piling up because all you seem to do is drive back and forth to work… I mean people aren’t even getting vaccinated because they’re worried about being able to show up to work the next day.
It’s a dream for a lot of people to just wake up, get a cup of coffee and sit down at their computer, to not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night, plan bowel movements like a military campaign and run around like a maniac all day every day.
Not sure about your sorting filter, refreshing the "center" sources is giving me some OAN, Epoch Times, New York Post, Breitbart, Daily Kos, Gateway Pundit - maybe "center" is a mix of everything? It should probably be just sources from the top center 1/3 of the chart at adfontesmedia
Not sure if Elrond is putting up the money or Moralis (Elrond is a promising Ethereum-type blockchain thingamabob and Moralis is a JS framework that interacts with things like that). Elrond’s Telegram channel is probably the place to go https://t.me/ElrondDevelopers
Hell they might already be paying a penny per stream to some major labels, and everybody else takes whatever's left over, we have no idea.
Maybe Drake's label demands a penny per stream for his new album or they pull it. And then somebody else who's on a tiny label gets 0.00000000001 cent per stream because that's all that's left.
They really need transparency, the labels will never be transparent so Spotify has to be. If nobody's transparent about these deals then there probably needs to be legislation.
That would be obvious anti-competitive behavior on the part of music labels if that's what's going on, and knowing them it probably is.
Typescript is fun because when something breaks I get to play “am I stupid or is Typescript?”
It seems to be about 50/50 and I get a little ego boost when it’s not my fault. Go is no fun, when something breaks in Go I know for sure I did something stupid.
My favorite is when Typescript/Angular magically fixes itself, which I swear happens even though nobody believes me. Sometimes I think JavaScript held together with duct tape might not be completely fool-proof.
That said the “tele-sense” or whatever it’s called that tells you the errors as you type is truly awesome and so I put up with the weirdness and occasional wasted time.
I kind of disagree, Reddit has its own problems (nation states run by warlords) but the downvote button and anonymity solves some of the “outrage for likes” stuff that plagues Twitter and Facebook. I haven’t seen the frontpage you’re talking about in years and I doubt many users do.
I really don’t know why FB and Twitter don’t add an anonymous “dislike” feature. Maybe they tried it and it caused other problems, who knows. More likely though they see that outrage increases engagement even if the toxic environment chases people away eventually.
Reddit is the only social media that falls so low as to regularly display lynchings and beatings on the front page. "JusticeServed", and other cheap justifications for violence. Reddit and Twitter the biggest dumps of the internet.
> I haven’t seen the frontpage you’re talking about in years and I doubt many users do.
It's the default page for anyone who isn't logged in (most likely a majority of users, or at least a large fraction). And I'd be willing to bet at least half of logged in users only have the default subs.
"dislike" buttons can be extremely powerful tools for enforcing groupthink.
I think you downplay how much this affects reddit. Hot-topic issues shift from 55/45 popularity splits (where the minority view is present, but usually overshadowed) to 10/0 when you net out up and downvotes. It gives a sense of single-mindedness in a community where the majority view in truth only barely edges out the others.
I think forums should let users moderate things for themselves by doing the following:
- If I dislike something, don't show me that user/subject anymore unless I choose to explore outside my bubble.
- Instead of showing me how the whole world feels about something, show me how MY group (people I've upvoted) feel about it...unless I choose to explore outside my bubble. At the very least - sort comments based on how much I will agree with them.
- Maybe extend it a few levels deep: If I liked someones comment, maybe content which that user liked is also weighted higher for me.
Essentially - just make these things work for me and not some ambiguous majority of the moment. I wish HN would do this too. I really don't care how many anonymous people liked something because they're still wrong IMO. The system is not working for me.
In the real world we've solved all these problems by not forcing everybody to listen to the whole entire world's opinions all the time. In real life, if I'm homophobic/racist/etc, I hang out with my homophobic/racist/etc friends and nobody else sees me because they're busy hanging out with their own kind.
The world is full of bubbles. I don't see why we need the Internet needs to always be the polar opposite of how real life relationships work.
Of course there should still be ways to explore outside your bubble. However, there's probably no easy money with my ideas. All the user engagement addiction comes from outraging people.
> if I'm homophobic/racist/etc, I hang out with my homophobic/racist/etc friends
Well, maybe, just maybe, we should expose these people to non-homophobic and interracial content to "brainwash" them into thinking that black or gay people might not be as bad as they think :D
They can, but I always thought that had more to do with the “warlords” chasing away everyone with a different point of view.
I think the test case is probably r/libertarian where the mods are extremely hands-off, you’ll still get the downvote hammer and it’s sometimes infuriating but it’s nothing like saying something unpopular in r/politics, which isn’t even one of the worst ones.
This might be true on more civilized "niche" communities, but the split on the default front page is roughly 50/40/10% ragebait/meme/substantive content, and I use the word "substantive" very generously.
It would be fine except the user has no way of proving to the developer they already bought the app, which would be handy for continuing to get updates elsewhere. Apple doesn't share anything about who bought what.
This isn’t quite correct. Vendors can and do verify Mac App Store purchases with applications deployed outside the Mac App Store. The installed bundle contains a receipt you can validate yourself. I think there is a gap where if you delete the application, then Apple removes it from the Mac App Store, you can’t reinstall it to get the receipt, but that’s a bit of an edge case; the majority of customers will be “upgrading” from the Mac App Store version to a newer non-Mac App Store version in a situation like this.
Also, if you have user accounts and plan for it in advance, you should upload the receipt to your server and associate it with a user account, which makes some things like this a lot easier.
It’s a dream for a lot of people to just wake up, get a cup of coffee and sit down at their computer, to not have to get out of bed in the middle of the night, plan bowel movements like a military campaign and run around like a maniac all day every day.