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5 лет назадdiscuss

the answer is simple... either it's an employee for the marketing department who can turn anything into a positive or it's a fanboy. The page long responses that starts with textbook marketing BS ("No worries, the most important..") tells me it's from an employee because no one cares that much and actively wants people to lose data faster. The amount of buzzwords in his other response... ffs how can you guys seriously think that it's just a normal person who likes the service?! you should know better.

5 лет назадdiscuss

>If there was a problem with the vaccine we probably would have noticed something by the time a billion people got injected with it.

Not when everyone who tries to talk about their bad experiences gets treated like qanon and the morons who thought 5G caused covid-19.

Even quoting CDC or letters from a company who makes the vaccines is considered dangerous misinformation and can get you banned if what you are showing doesn't paint the vaccine in a good light.

5 лет назадdiscuss

it's a very different situation. The money the artist stole never belonged to him, it wasn't his salary or a budget he was allowed to spend on the fabrication of the art. He had a specific contract and he was paid to take that 84k$ and lay it on a canvas to replicate a previous art piece he had done. The cash was supposed to be returned to the museum after.

5 лет назадdiscuss

every time your eyes look outside your monitor (even for a fraction of a second), they get a little rest. EG.:Looking a your coffee mug before you grab it, looking at the window, adjusting your keyboard, looking at your colleagues, your 2nd/3rd monitor that's a bit further, moving back and forth on your chair, etc. You never spend 100% of your time starring at the center of your monitor.

On a VR headset, your eyes will always focus at the exact same distance until you remove the headset.

5 лет назадdiscuss

I don't think the stocks liquidations at the beginning of the pandemic is a good example of this. shit was hitting the fan and cities were closing down before most of the "insider trading" happened. If the information they used to make their trades was on the front page of every newspaper, it's not insider trading.

I think the conflict of interest alone should be enough to ban them and their close relatives from trading individual stocks

5 лет назадdiscuss

this type of solution sounds good until you get hit by a false positive in a game.

happened to me on pugb and the only way I could get my account back was with a paypal charge back. It's very typical that game companies refuse to tell users what triggered it or how to avoid it in the future. For all I know, it could have been a scam from the devs.

I can live with a 40 - 60$ loss on a game, but losing the ability to play all games on protected servers forever would be really bad

5 лет назадdiscuss

>Win 8: bad

>Win 9... well, #8 was so bad they had to skip a number

If you know what to install to replace the stupid touchscreen interface with a proper start menu (eg. Stardock Start8) and disable metro ui feature, it's a great OS. You get 3/4 of the modern features of Windows 10 without the downsides (eg. telemetry, no control on updates, keyboard layout management, taskbar freezing, etc.) and an interface that's halfway between 7 and 10.

If you don't replace the start menu, I agree it's a dumpster fire and I would never use it.

5 лет назадdiscuss

>Teams is another one I don't even want to get started on.

At least this one is actively used by most companies (at least outside of IT/devs firms) and they generally find it acceptable.

OneDrive on the other hand... Even when I was an IT consultant, I haven't met a single person who has tried it and didn't absolutely hate it. I have seen employees playing out of pocket for dropbox or gDrive even when OneDrive came for free with the MS Office subscriptions provided by their employer because of how frustrating it was to use and work mysteriously disappeared or got corrupted on a regular basis.

5 лет назадdiscuss

The part that you are missing is that all of alternatives to YouTube pay creators little or no ad money and have far worse search engine/discoverability. If a creator is getting demonetized on youtube, moving to a platform with no monetization would not solve their problem.

And sooner or later, any platform that becomes popular would have to implement a content ID system and and have to deal with ban/demonetization waves every time Twitter/journalists discover a new type of offensive content on the platform.

5 лет назадdiscuss

>You can, but it will then be obvious to anyone familiar with the references

The whole point of "fact checkers" is to be used by people who are not expert on the subject

5 лет назадdiscuss

I think I big mistake people make here is that they think they are far better at everything on a computer than a non-programmer. They don't realize how much you can do in Excel and how much they suck at it. If you can't use it without a mouse and/or if you don't know pivot tables, you are just as much of a beginner as a C++ programmer who doesn't know what a pointer is.

It's only after trying to convert an excel sheet to [insert your favorite language] that they realize it would take them 6 month with a team of 5 to replicate what a single accountant did in a week.

5 лет назадdiscuss

I think I big mistake people make here is that they think they are far better at everything on a computer than a non-programmer. They don't realize how much you can do in Excel and how much they suck at it. If you can't use it without a mouse and/or if you don't know pivot tables, you are just as much of a beginner as a C++ programmer who doesn't know what a pointer is.

It's only after trying to convert an excel sheet to [insert your favorite language] that they realize it would take them 6 month with a team of 5 to replicate what a single accountant did in a week.

5 лет назадdiscuss

It's called Youtube Premium and the vast majority of people of the internet made it very clear they will never pay for it even if the ads are driving them crazy.

Youtubers also get far more money from premium views than normal views.

Ironically, most of the complains people have with youtube are derived directly or indirectly from the fact that the platform is ad-supported. Youtube doesn't care that your video is offensive, but advertisers do. Every demonetization wave was preceded by a mass of people putting pressure on them (eg. NYT "journalists" literally searching for isis videos, taking screenshots and telling the companies with ads next to them that they will be listed in their article if they don't stop doing business with youtube)

5 лет назадdiscuss

then get a job that requires less hours and/or less transit. Don't try to work at a place that requires a very high dedication with a lot of hours and then use wfh as a way to lie to you boss to spend more time with your kids when you are supposed to work.

5 лет назадdiscuss

>You're right - in fact we should do this for every line of code, so that we know of whom to ask questions!

if you want to live in this kind of absolutism, I would rather have the name on every line than no comments at all.

5 лет назадdiscuss

>I think it means that the site is an attempt to centralize something that is currently decentralized

with that definition, almost half the internet would be "GitHub for...". at some point, you have to realize that it's just marketing BS and they have almost nothing in common with it.