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Hong Kong activists use 'Pokémon Go' and Tinder to organise as police crack down

jmalkin — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 06:27:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-protesters-tinder-and-apple-airdrop-to-organize-2019-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20642320

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New comment by jmalkin in "Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew"

jmalkin — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:36:49 +0000

Yeah this is gorgeous

I wonder how much it costs them compared to a regular article

New comment by jmalkin in "Highlights from Facebook’s Libra Senate hearing"

jmalkin — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:35:25 +0000

Is it unusual or unheard of for a senate hearing to be held into an unreleased product?

New comment by jmalkin in "How to Find Hidden Cameras in Your Airbnb"

jmalkin — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:30:56 +0000

Whoops hugged the site to death

New comment by jmalkin in "Slack Wants to Replace Email. Is That What We Want?"

jmalkin — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 02:04:15 +0000

For me, Slack is good because it adds fun to the workplace, especially in one too big to chat to all these far flung people

You get to know people you work with before you even met them in person

And you swap gifs and jokes. It just helps built a positive culture I think

New comment by jmalkin in "Facebook Cryptocurrency Plan Faces Opposition in France"

jmalkin — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 10:20:12 +0000

An article I read claimed exactly that, saying that the real money sitting in a bank would also be used for generating interest to pay back initial investors

Can't find the source but it was reliable, Techcrunch or the New York Times I think

New comment by jmalkin in "[dead]"

jmalkin — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:57:30 +0000

That's a lot of editorializing in the title there.

New comment by jmalkin in "People care more about privacy than they think"

jmalkin — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:54:42 +0000

Yeah this is not the same at all.

That one phone exchange operator couldn't make hundreds of billions of dollars by selling access to the information for advertising for example.

When I think about the privacy I value, it's more like I don't want to be manipulated and have a soulless corporation benefiting from my private life.

Small town gossip and eavesdropping is human and harmless, but I'd be pissed off at phone lady too.

Maybe the townsfolk weren't because they knew her and she was harmless or not creepy or something.

New comment by jmalkin in "People care more about privacy than they think"

jmalkin — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:45:21 +0000

I hope privacy becomes a core thing people care about, as much as having a right to free speech.

It already is a bit but it isn't quite mainstream enough.

It's more like a nerds concern, but it should be everyone's.

Maybe because free speech is guaranteed by the Constitution but not privacy.

New comment by jmalkin in "The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)"

jmalkin — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 03:43:18 +0000

I've gotten nothing out of my Smart TV that I couldn't have gotten from a Chromecast, or preferably, a laptop hooked up to a TV.

And I've lost a lot. My TV is slow. When I try to control the volume, sometimes I have to wait multiple seconds.

And things stop working all the time and require a reboot.

I hate the damn thing. It even comes with bloatware for some reason, games I'll never play that it insists on updating forever.

And with the privacy concerns on top of all that, I wish I had a dumb TV.

My shit cube TV from the 90s was better!

New comment by jmalkin in "Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles"

jmalkin — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:51:08 +0000

Concerned about his this will impact their sales. We are easily seduced by pretty screens, and overestimate our driving ability with gadgets on hand

New comment by jmalkin in "Magic mushrooms should be decriminalised"

jmalkin — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:48:53 +0000

I believe it's Portugal that has very successfully triaged decriminalisation of many or all drugs

New comment by jmalkin in "The difference a dad can make"

jmalkin — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:45:38 +0000

Lovely story. My parents' approach to learning and what was acceptable and not had a very big effect on my choices in life

New comment by jmalkin in "Gimp 2.10.12"

jmalkin — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 10:43:20 +0000

I think UX issues, without data backing them up, are just opinions for the most part. I don't feel very comfortable putting them in a bug tracker.

I wonder if they have UX trained people doing research and so on.

New comment by jmalkin in "Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers"

jmalkin — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:17:43 +0000

Facebook's equivalent of Google pay on the sense of data gathering?

New comment by jmalkin in "Game Builder: Create 3D games with friends, no experience required"

jmalkin — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 03:16:52 +0000

Looks amazing!!

I wonder how well it will cope with non-basic games, as in non-platformers, non-shooters.

I've noticed that many frameworks are great for basic tutorial project usage but don't do well once you start on a real project

New comment by jmalkin in "How to Design for the Web in 2019"

jmalkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:28:50 +0000

Is it ironic that this is on medium, which is a great example of how not to design for the web?

New comment by jmalkin in "How to Design for the Web in 2019"

jmalkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 13:28:24 +0000

Apps do a huge amount of tracking too, and they have their own dark patterns, like making things really addicting

What's more is apps exist in their walled gardens far more than websites, even if the web has been getting worse in that regard

New comment by jmalkin in "Gimp 2.10.12"

jmalkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:40:20 +0000

Have not tried Paint Shop Pro since the 00's!! Maybe I'll try it again

New comment by jmalkin in "Gimp 2.10.12"

jmalkin — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:39:37 +0000

This wasn't the place to list all my specific complaints, so I didn't