yourduskquibble
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Comment · 7 years ago
> BTW LinkedIn and others are doing the same, and what anyone is going to do about it?
Stop using their user-hostile service? They need my eyeballs in order to sell me to advertisers. If they are creating features that turn users away, their bottom line may be impacted enough that they reevaluate their user-hostile business practices.
Comment · 7 years ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or serious.
Comment · 7 years ago
100 round barrels?
Comment · 7 years ago
One could argue that we do have moderm day timelessness; single use plastics that will take a few thousand years to be destroyed.
Comment · 7 years ago
No, but they aren't compensated nearly as well due to the market prices being "set" lower than what they can command in another market. i.e. practicing medicine in the U.S. commands a higher wage than in Canada so doctors leave the Canadian system after completing their residency. Hence, the shortage of supply caused by a market distorted by socialism.
TANSTAAFL
Comment · 7 years ago
No I'm saying the supply is artificially constrained by the price of "free" so there is less incentive to go into medicine, hence shortages at the price demanded.
Comment · 7 years ago
Economic incentives (or lack there of) under socialism. There's too much demand for the supply at the price established ("free").
Comment · 7 years ago
HN'ers all agree ;) that modern day journalism is filled with hyperbole and unsubstantiated information.
Comment · 7 years ago
> I think that the new User Interface that Facebook is rolling out will show whether or not Facebook has a real commitment to privacy.
How would you determine if the new user interface provided (or not) any [new or perceived] level of privacy?
Comment · 7 years ago
> What is the trade-off for not being included by default in the main extension, CPU?
gorhill's (developer of uBO) explanation from[1] below:
> uBO-Extra is needed to deal with IL stuff because the IL inline script appears at the top of the served HTML page -- before any other secondary resource-pulling tag. uBO-Extra injects its content script declaratively, i.e. on every page, hence it will always run before IL stuff.
The root cause of why it is needed is because of a bug with web socket implementation in chrome.[2]
Additional info on why both are needed (& why for chrome but not firefox) in some reddit threads.[3][4][5]
[1] https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/227#issuecomm...
[2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=487422
[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/83quub/ublock...
[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/7mfkv1/ublock...
[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/a9trz2/ublock_origi...
Comment · 7 years ago
Are you using chrome and also have either uBO-Extra or Nano Defender installed? If not it's most likely the ads are being served by Instart Logic. [1] [2]
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBO-Extra/wiki/Sites-on-which-uBO...
Comment · 7 years ago
> NYTimes is the main reason I've been on the search for some kind of feature for HN (addon? greasemonkey script? ANYTHING) to auto-hide articles based on domain or title matches. Does anyone have a solution?
You'll leave an orphaned article info table row with this approach but you can hide the article row itself with uBlock Origin procedural filters[1].
Add the following to 'My Filters':
news.ycombinator.com##table tr tr:has([href*="nytimes.com"])
[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...
Comment · 7 years ago
> HOAs are still relatively rare outside of SoCal, so this issue is unlikely to pop up for 99.999% of the US population.
This seems incorrect. They are more common than you think, especially in neighborhoods built within the last 30-40 years.
Comment · 7 years ago
> I had a call yesterday and the Airpods were beeping that they were dying at the 20min mark, and didn't make it to 30min on the call.
> I love the form factor, and I just ordered the "new" Airpods, because I am hoping the battery life has improved - the old ones are basically a disposable item after the first year, from my experience.
The OP complained about battery life and the $200 "disposable" headphones he bought a year ago, but happily bought the next iteration, hence my comment.
Fool me once...