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Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know if that would be qualified as an unbiased source. The author seems to have an agenda going by the footer...

The fact that he puts the word "Celtic" in quotation marks while suggesting there was no such culture is interesting.

The footer of the site:

Ad Fontes is a quarterly publication of The Davenant Institute.

The Davenant Institute seeks to retrieve the riches of classical Protestantism in order to renew and build up the contemporary church.

Comment · 2 years ago
There is also a significant distrust of Google (and other large tech companies) growing in Europe, and probably most other places outside of the US. Tie that with the fact that they are now charging people for using photos/email etc, there has never been a better time to cut ties with the company where possible. I'm sure Chrome will remain the most popular browser for now but the younger generations might be more inclined to use products with less "baggage".
Comment · 3 years ago
I find that a pretty strange take.. Shouldn't data like this open up conversations around inheritance laws etc? Seems crazy that so much of todays wealth has been created a long time ago by horrendous people. The British Royal Family are celebrated around the world yet they made an absolute genuine fortune from the slave trade. Are we not being hypocritical to our own modern standards by accepting that they deserve that wealth? And it is a typical story all throughout the western world and beyond.
Comment · 3 years ago
I am seeing this sentiment so often online at the minute that it seems as though nobody has learned anything about DRM over the past 20 years. So many threads on reddit calling Italy "backwards" for protecting citizens data, and now people on HN expecting companies to give everything away for free because of the outcome is "inevitable"!

There are a bunch of for-profit American AI companies. Why on Earth would another for-profit company, especially one based in another country, be ok with other people making money from their content. They can either look at developing their own AI platform, or build deals with the existing AI companies. It would be just plain stupid to give it all away for free, or any price that isn't determined by themselves.

Comment · 3 years ago
I really like this idea. Is it possible for other users to install this (or something similar)? On mac preferably.
Comment · 4 years ago
I absolutely hate when people respond to these kind of articles with "Why are people surprised". The truth is that no one is surprised. People are more disappointed, and frustrated, that this is allowed to happen, not just from a legal sense, but in a technical sense also.
Comment · 4 years ago
I hate that the general conversation around !important is simply: "Important is bad. You should never use it".

Its more of a belief rather than knowledge at this point.

I'd be interested to hearing a good answer as to why one wouldn't use !important on a modifier class such as ".padding-20" or even something like ".full-width".

Surely the problem lies with your html composition if either of these classes are being used on an element that does not need them?

Comment · 4 years ago
Surprised not see Brave listed as an alternative to Google Chrome. Its a fantastic browser
Comment · 4 years ago
Slighlty off topic but has anyone else noticed the following trend on HN recently?

Post == Article Critical of Google

Top Comment === Plays down the severity of said criticism

The upvotes don't seem to have much correlation between the post title and the comments. I wonder is such behavior caused by certain UI features on this site/app, or are comments graded differently?

Comment · 5 years ago
The idea of a fairly distributed world coin is fascinating, and something I would absolutely love to see.

Unfortunately, from reading that webpage, I don't think "Worldcoin" sounds like a very promising application of the concept.

Comment · 5 years ago
he shared a link to buy colman's on amazon. It was in a plastic squeezy container!!

The guy is not fit to write about mustard.

Comment · 5 years ago
You should monetise this with amazon affiliate links that are relevant to each search. And then use that money to keep this project going. Google is fantastic, but it has become something different from what it was, the company and the product. It is so refreshing to see a modern tool that encourages exploration of the actual world wide web.
Comment · 5 years ago
yep, I always find surveys to be a very lazy way of "doing science" but that is probably for another thread. The results of this survey do create an interesting (and in my opinion, believable) talking point, and maybe can lead to a better researched paper on the subject. I personally think that PhD students are more likely going to be cautious of anything they don't have a good understanding of. They would (imo) be inclined to do better research into the pros/cons of vaccination, which is not easy to do right now with all the noise online.

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