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Comment · 3 years ago
How many is "many"? Looks like the only affected apps were those which provided a different means to access Twitter without ads. This feels like a storm in a teacup with the majority of developers on the API being unaffected.
Comment · 3 years ago
What's the issue here, an important American day? Genuinely ignorant of what's the big concern about launching a campaign on this date.
Comment · 4 years ago
The young will be expected pick up the tab for the old, despite owning none of the assets.

It would not be a surprise if there are policies announced to further tax the young to give 'Granny' more free money off her bills (the existing winter fuel allowance is not means tested), and further free transport round major cities (over 60s travel London free). Then there's the echoes of the lockdown nightmare, mass punishment of the young so the old could feel safer.

The response to any complaints about this generational vampirism is always of course; "you'll be old one day". Inheritance is rare to appear, all too often you hear that Granny has given it all to the local cat sanctuary. Patience is running thin and apathy is higher than ever.

If you're young, this country actively punishes and steals from you, then tells you to stop complaining. Finding hope in anyone under 60 is a tough task.

Comment · 4 years ago
Spotify's insistence that it display Podcasts on the Home Screen is very frustrating, these are shows (often political) I've no intention of ever listening to or wanting to know even exist & there's no means of hiding them or telling Spotify I'm not interested. A quick online search shows many others equally frustrated by this "feature".

I wouldn't mind so much if the product was free, but I'm paying and don't appreciate having extreme political content thrust toward me each time I open the App.

Comment · 4 years ago
This looks promising, is there a pre-fleshed demo of the end result? I tried the blog but there's some message about cannibalising your own content. Funny but unhelpful!
Comment · 4 years ago
Very cool, are the language stats from outside the year though? I'm fairly certain I didn't use Go whatsoever this year but its ranking highly.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not explaining why segregation is cruel to you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Medical consent is their right. They have the right to say no to any medical procedure for any reason. Right there in the GP funnily enough.
Comment · 5 years ago
The cruel workaround that's playing counter to this is to diminish the person's life and freedoms until they take it out of desperation, and if they still don't give in; forsake the pretence of choice and mandate it anyway.
Comment · 5 years ago
Excellent stuff and a nice break from the "rewrite it all in in my tasty-flavour-lang" approaches to doing this that crop up often on HN (not that those aren't impressive on a technical level!). This ties in nicely with the recent discussions here over the need for more specialised search engines.

Are you able to give any insight into how this works behind the scenes, is it all manually input?

Bookmarked for future use.

Comment · 5 years ago
Can you expand on what those "advantages" are exactly? You've mentioned them twice on this thread now. How can an electricity dependent VR toy benefit someone in poor and likely cramped living conditions?
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Comment · 5 years ago
With your case it's perhaps a relief to the rest of us.
Comment · 5 years ago
Thousands of similar examples to this, whatever spooks run these jobs are obnoxiously sloppy - almost intentionally so.

"Sure, you caught us. What are you gonna do about it?"

Comment · 5 years ago
In poor defence of web devs; often they are passed nonsensical designs & requirements on shoestring time budgets. Most would like not to do horror shows, but are forced by industry conditions. Now-days web devs are very rarely the ones making decisions beyond "how do we achieve this render within too little days?". Don't blame the builders when the architects won't acknowledge the laws of physics.

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