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> Everybody has different preferences of how they want a search engine to look and feel.

I will never ever ever ever spend time going into the settings of a search engine to customize my search experience. Not when Google does a good enough job for most of my tasks.

okay this is amazing. but wtf is this sentence?

"No union victory is bigger than the first win in the United States at Amazon, which many union leaders regard as an existential threat to labor standards across the economy because it touches so many industries and frequently dominates them."

could google interfere w/ the API's that are used to make this work?

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Hilarious article. "Why I changed my mind about advertising: I decided I wanted to make money off ads"

blood on tesla's hands when they market the feature as full self-driving, then in the fine print say "but not really." now they're going to put the full blame on this taxi driver who was basically using the feature the way it's been marketed.

I see your point, especially about tone

if you don't want that type of comment on HN, feel free to remove it - it's not a big deal to me. But it's not a shallow critique - this article makes grand claims about how the brain works that are not backed up by any experiment or reference; it's reducing an extremely complex phenomenon - music and subjective experience of music - to a simple cognitive processing and meaning-making framework; and none of this makes any reference to work that other people have done on the matter. If you consider this a shallow critique, then I have to think that the only thing you wouldn't consider shallow is engaging deeply with the content, but that's not fair - for the reasons I gave, my contribution is claiming that this not worth engaging further with - it's crankery

I think it's a really cool idea but you have a network effect issue. I would expect it to be hard to get enough of my friends on it for it to be useful. Integrations with existing message apps and environments would be ideal, though I'm not exactly sure how that would look.

I agree but relax with the antichrist stuff, we don't want the justifiable hatred of him to turn into antisemitism like it already is in the conspiracy circles

the picture for "responsible innovation" is so funny... they're like "we're approved by this disapproving black woman!"

wtf is chinese algebra

propaganda

The cigarette lobbyist is making a specious argument comparing cigarettes to lettuce in order to exonerate cigarettes, despite that noone smokes lettuce, lettuce is not addictive, and it's just totally different altogether.

Similarly, your comment is trying to exonerate Facebook by comparing addictive Facebook use to... regular, "addictive" participation in healthy, fun physical activities? Despite the fact that it is a completely different situation: Facebook deliberately tries to be addictive, there are numerous studies about the negative effects of excess Facebook use, there are no physical health benefits, etc.

So I was just saying that your argument is as specious and nonsequitur as the tobacco lobbyist.