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BongoMcCat
·3 года назад·discuss
I pay for a mailbox.org account.
BongoMcCat
·3 года назад·discuss
Is there a filter for device function somewhere that I just missed?

I don't care about games that aren't available on any device that I already own.
BongoMcCat
·3 года назад·discuss
I clicked the comments here just to find out what type 1 means, I saw that the site was called "typenetwork", and that didn't mean anything to me.

It might not be clickbait as in it is not intentionally misleading, but it still is a very confusing title.

Not everyone that visits this site is a typography expert...
BongoMcCat
·3 года назад·discuss
Why?

I live in a country where I pick a party to represent me in the national government, not a local person, and it seems to work just fine.
BongoMcCat
·3 года назад·discuss
Ok, now I have read several of your replies in this thread that are basically all arguing the same thing, so, I'm basically replying to more than just this one post.

When you say "the entire population", you mean the entire population of the country "USA", right? Because as someone from another continent, it seems like there is a very specific set of opinions that you want included.

You use terms like "the other side" of the political discourse, which to me, reduces the set of opinion to two specific sets of opinions, namely the two sets represented by the two major parties in the american two party system.

As someone from "the outside", this seems like a very narrow view of reality, even if you managed to get your "unbiased AI", that represents both major american political parties, it will still seem like a very narrow and biased AI to someone from the outside of that.

Also, what exactly is the goal of a conversational AI? is it just to make a conversation with it seem like a conversation with an average american? If so, why would anyone want that? Wouldn't it be of more value to have an AI that could tell me what people with knowledge of a subject thinks of it, rather than what random people think?
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
Not op, but I think it means that the cooling system contains a gas that if released (it would normally not be released at all), it would do the same amount of harm to the environment as you would normally do in a year.

(I have no idea if this comparison is accurate, but I do know that coolers commonly contain gasses that you don't want to release)
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
No, it is because we don't use the tipping system.

And it's not awful, and people are not rude, just not "fake-friendly" as americans.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
This is why things like "/s" are useful.

I also didn't understand that you were making a joke, and was sitting here wondering how using a different type of database would solve this kind of problem.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
I think that the economic argument is that it isn't viable for a private company to start a nuclear power-plant, it would require government involvement, and lots of people don't want the government to get involved in something that they think no-government entities can handle.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
Isn't "the sun" an extremely untrustworthy tabloid?

and no, I haven't read the article, and I'm not going to.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
Why on earth would you come to that conclusion?
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
But how do you know that?

Is the source dugin himself?
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
from bayers wiki page:

In 1925 Bayer merged with five other German companies to form IG Farben

IG Farben the made Zyklon B, and as a result it got split up after the war, into it's original companies, one of them bayer.

So, yes, you are mostly correct.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
I think that he is nowhere as influential as reddit thinks.

This is the conclusion I came to a few years ago when trying to find out why nobody had ever bothered to translate his writings into english:

Reddit usually points out that what he writes aligns pretty well with what putin seems to think. The problem is just that this is what almost every russian fascist thinks, it is nothing unique about dugin, he is just the one russian fascist thinker that reddit got their eyes on...
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
While I'm happy that something is being done to address the problems of social media; as an outsider I'm having a hard time understanding why every problem has to be solved with law suits in america.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
I guess it depends on the topic.

If the topic is some change in the latest release of a programming language, I usually find the comments here to be helpful.

But if the topic is global politics or economy, then sure, the quality here isn't much better than some other random social media site.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
I agree about the comments here often being the most interesting part.

But I think that the best way to start the conversation is usually with a well-written article.

If there would only be a title and no article, I'm pretty sure that I would find the comments to be less interesting.

But maybe I'm wrong, and since my argument is based on the original article being well-written, maybe it isn't true for most posts.

But I still think that I would rather try to find the posts with good articles, and just ignore the rest, and hopefully, that is what the ranking system does (at least help with).
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
I have other sources that I read when I want general information about what is going on in the world.

HN is something that I read for a very specific subset of information.

I don't find this to be that strange.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
It's the same from an inside perspective.
BongoMcCat
·4 года назад·discuss
yes, but the title used here on HN is bad.