thomassmith65

The film's issues wouldn't speak to today's young Americans, many of whose parents are (outwardly) too individualistic even for a mid-1960s beatnik.

If someone made an updated version of The Graduate, it would have to pick on a different version of conformity - maybe on "I'm different just like everyone else".

An opportune time for a remake would be the 2010s when working at FANG had a similar cachet to working in "plastics"

When someone posts "why was this flagged" or "why did this disappear so quickly from the front page" it makes me think of De Niro driving alone in the final scene of Taxi Driver.

Not to pick on this post in particular. The gold medal for such comments was a John Gruber blogpost accusing HN of blackballing him. As a runner up, there are the requisite accusatory comments on every flagged Israel post.

People too young to remember the 1990's might not know that Patrick Stewart's Picard was a sex symbol.

I was surprised by how many of my friends considered the character 'hot'; on paper, one would expect young people to write him off as a balding goody-two-shoes.

To have a character whose main traits included compassion and reason was a good influence on my generation of men.

In normal circumstances, one cannot return a phone with a broken screen; it's generally accidental damage rather than the design being unfit for purpose.

In this case, it's obviously a manufacturing or design flaw, but were I in these customers' shoes, I would be a little nervous on my way back to the AppleStore, too.

Is that a misguided dig at Apple? I can still run plenty of my old Mac apps, some of them from as far back as 2025 or 2026 /s

It does not matter how they give Alzheimer's to a lab mouse providing they give Alzheimer's to a lab mouse – not a different disorder that happens to have the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

Probably, but the questions I was thinking of are whether it's the design or the substrate that we consider significant.

The question comes up a lot here when there are posts about whether to consider LLMs conscious.

"We're going to condemn conscious entities to slavery"

vs

"They'll always just be machines and it's dehumanizing to consider them anything else"

If a device made of human brain cells were designed to function like a traditional, deterministic CPU, that would raise similar questions as LLMs raise today.

"Just like the majority" is exaggeration, but my comment locked before I could think better and delete it.

It's primarily about social media, just like the majority of the idiotic protests and riots since Occupy Wall Street.

The incumbent is always a villain, every policy failure is an evil plot, the system is irreparably corrupt, no commonly accepted knowledge is trustworthy, etc.

And we are here as on a darkling plain, swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant redditors clash by night.