wirthjason
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Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
After I downloaded Fahrenheit 451 my hard drive caught fire.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder if they have a new control technique up their sleeve. Innovative gameplay and pushing new control ideas is one of Nintendo’s signatures. That said, being the switch 2, not a new console, maybe they kept it the same and just upgraded the processing and graphics hardware.
Looking forward to more!
Comment · 2 years ago
How could someone write a post like this and leave off the great book “Metaphors We Live By” by Lakoff and Johnson?
Is particularly found the part about how metaphors “hide and highlight” information. In other words the metaphor we use necessitates how we think. We often frame arguments using the metaphor of war and that frames how we think. The other party is an enemy that must be defeated, its bloody, and there is a loser. However we could frame it as a dance, in which case they are a partner, and for the outcome to succeed they must move together in harmony.
Lakoff has written other fascinating books like how metaphors are used in politics as well as math (“Where Mathematics Comes From”).
Comment · 2 years ago
This is a great addition next to my race car VHS rewinder.
Comment · 2 years ago
You’re totally right. And it’s important to distinguish between the many forms of homelessness. There’s visible homeless, they are what most people think of. There are also invisible homeless, they don’t “look” homeless. Often you don’t know they are homeless except for carrying around some belongings and brushing their teeth in public places.
Businesses care about the first type because of the associated problems and are completely fine with the later.
Comment · 2 years ago
When I was in high school (ages ago) the boy’s bathrooms didn’t have doors. I guess it was to deter kids smoking, graffiti, and other bad things that happen. We were a middle class suburb so I don’t know how often this happened anyways. I was fortunate to never need to go but I always remember it.
Comment · 2 years ago
Will they really not let you use the bathroom?
The same idea exists in the US, and often bathrooms have a PIN code to enter or a special key only the shop owner has.
I’ve never been turned down when asking politely. Most people are rather sympathetic when someone needs to use the bathroom for legitimate purposes.
Comment · 2 years ago
The article has one good point: there’s diseases and conditions that cause people to need the bathroom, and even if you don’t have this upset stomachs are common enough that at some point it’ll impact you. Parents with young kids realize it too. So this is everyone’s problem.
However the article misses the point with statements like this.
Quite simply, Lowe was right: there is often no place to go.
Public toilets are one of those things where all it takes is one person to mess up a good situation for everyone else.
There’s no incentive for people to treat them nicely. There’s an asymmetry, people want to use public toilets but who wants to clean public toilets? It’s always “someone else job.”
I see no problem having a little friction as a way to help control it. A small charge to use the bathroom or social capital of asking can be enough to remedy the problems of misuse.
Comment · 2 years ago
The words “public company” often carry a negative tone but ownership rules are complicated. It doesn’t mean much until you know the specifics. For example a non-tech example of a publicly owned corporation that people might not think of is the Green Bay Packers.
https://www.profootballnetwork.com/who-owns-the-green-bay-pa...
Comment · 2 years ago
“Addiction is a disease” is something I learned as a child of a (now sober) alcoholic parent.
It’s a strange classification at first because addiction seems like a matter of will and strength.
If we’re going to lump algorithmic addiction in with other addictions there’s a lot of interesting things that would flow from that. For example now that online gambling and sports betting is more common there’s disclaimers and commercials telling people to get help if they have a problem. Should the same thing be true for social media and Candy Crush games?
“Do you have a problem with social media, go to Facebook.com/gethelp for more information”
Comment · 3 years ago
I might have miscommunicated my idea. I certainly think everything that documentary shows happens and agree with everything you say. No dispute there. I just don’t know what percentage it represents.
Maybe my driver is a corporate driver, not a DSP, and has different metrics etc. I don't know.
BTW I really like the term “partner” in delivery service partner. It’s a weasel word that covers up what’s really going on. They are not partnering in the common sense of the word like “my wife is my partner.” (Although on a long road trip she wouldn’t hesitated to make me pee in a bottle rather than stop for my baby bladder. Haha.)
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes. He comes all the time. I haven’t been in this apartment for very long but he’s had this route for at least a year. I first met him on New Years Eve when ordering a board game to play that night. I came back from picking up last minute groceries and he was delivering packages. In the spring we talked NBA playoffs (he was very proud that he predicted the Nuggets to sweep the Lakers). During the summer when we talked about the Cubs. It’s coincidence we bump into each other but I see him driving the truck around.
Comment · 3 years ago
Obviously not all of this is true. I chatted to Amazon driver for my apartment about some local Chicago sports and he talked to me forever. Ironically I had to end the conversation by saying I needed to use the bathroom. He’s definitely not timed.
Can’t wait for Season 2 where he chronicles how to game the ratings system.
I feel 99% of the people on HN understand it but on the other hand there’s people like my 70 yr old mom who look at that and think, oh what a fantastic product. She is very susceptible to dark patterns, has no concept of sold by Amazon vs 3rd party sellers, etc.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you for saying Michigan is your state. Context matters a lot. It’s annoying when people generically use “in my state” or “in my country”.