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New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Google says iMessage is too powerful"

johnsolo1701 — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:45:59 +0000

This is like suggesting cars' days are numbered because skateboards have become extremely popular. Sure they technically are competitors in some extremely narrow ways, but suggesting so belies a misunderstanding of the underlying uses of each.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter"

johnsolo1701 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 21:23:34 +0000

This might be hard for you to believe, but there are a lot of people who have genuine and consistent empathy for needless suffering, no matter where it happens. You might not hear from us much online, because we often get crushed under the relentless cynicism your comment chillingly embodies.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter"

johnsolo1701 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:58:43 +0000

https://www.justice.gov/storage/report_volume1.pdf

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Buying Influence: How China manipulates Facebook and Twitter"

johnsolo1701 — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 20:53:24 +0000

When something negative about China is posted: "Everyone does it!"

When something negative about the US is posted: "Downfall of an empire!"

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Log4j: Between a rock and a hard place"

johnsolo1701 — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 22:12:53 +0000

When a Javascript logging package has a vulnerability: "Why do you need a package for something so basic as logging? This should be part of JS core lib, or just roll your own."

When a Java logging package has a vulnerability: Sober introspection about the role of maintainers, dependencies, and backward compatibility in the OSS ecosystem.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Snake in a block – how I ran snake on Ethereum"

johnsolo1701 — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 01:57:46 +0000

OP asked a simple question and did not say "crypto is the primary existential threat we face". Crypto's environmental impact is a valid concern.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Bank transfers as a payment method"

johnsolo1701 — Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:02:39 +0000

But aren't most Americans' biggest asset their house, aka real estate? And their savings is their 401(k), aka the stock market?

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 07:45:43 +0000

Nah, the UI is not very intuitive, so there's plenty of blame to go around :-)

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Nvidia releases Paint me Picture – A web app for GauGAN2"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 05:53:48 +0000

Literally the first step after accepting the TOS:

https://i.imgur.com/oH4P1Xc.png

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "No YAML"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 00:21:45 +0000

I just use JSON and related tooling instead. Because YAML is a superset of JSON, all yaml parsers also parse JSON.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 07:01:24 +0000

Tell that to a parent of a kid who wants to play Fortnite on their iPhone. Make no mistake, this isn't a matter of consumer choice. Whether or not people trust Tencent/Epic, they will install their app store because they want to play their games.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Senators introduce bipartisan antitrust bill to promote app store competition"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 06:49:07 +0000

If Epic/Tencent forces iOS users to use their app store to play Fortnite, there will be no luring of users based on lower prices.

They will just (effectively) all move over and (effectively) none of them will read any warning text.

God only knows what companies like 100% Tencent owned Riot Games will have running on millions of Americans' phones once they get the elevated access an app store requires.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does"

johnsolo1701 — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:46:55 +0000

Would totally make sense - when visiting .co.uk sites!

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does"

johnsolo1701 — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:44:53 +0000

Just to share the American perspective, it feels like this: Many people speak English, and thus it is difficult/impossible for people from outside the US to discern the difference between domestic and international services. (Not saying Google is a domestic service obviously.) Through historical chance, we don't have the luxury and benefits of a native language like many of you reading this right now.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Captcha pictures force you to look at the world the way an AI does"

johnsolo1701 — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 23:33:28 +0000

Honest question - how can you tell the difference between "English speaking sites" and "American sites"? Since English is currently the common international language, when an American creates a site or service for a domestic audience, anyone around the world can still come visit and read it. But how does one know if a service is meant for a domestic audience?

We've all seen services launched by American companies, with American employees, American VC money, that only work within the US, and are only offered in English. We've also all seen how these companies get criticized by people around the world that the service doesn't work in their country and their language. From the American perspective it seems like the rest of the world feels they are automatically entitled to services created here. Even if the stated plan is to eventually roll out to the rest of the world.

This behavior is stunningly obvious when a Chinese or Indian company launches an interesting new product or service for a domestic audience. In those cases, it's hard to find people upset that the service only works domestically or doesn't work in their language. This is because those people aren't falling into the logical fallacy of "American = English = International language = International product".

As a good faith question - if you were an American, how would you create a site or service for a domestic audience without insulting the rest of the world?

p.s. This is a side question non related to this article specifically - obviously google is an international product.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Maildog – Hosting email forwarding service on AWS with GitHub Actions"

johnsolo1701 — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:34:17 +0000

I am not sure how common this is, but my domain registrar does this for me. In case someone else is looking for a simpler way to do this.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Our plans for PeerTube v4"

johnsolo1701 — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 22:22:50 +0000

This is disingenuous. NTP is not a platform to spread destructive hate speech.

New comment by johnsolo1701 in "Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro"

johnsolo1701 — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:28:27 +0000

And the Dell is $500 more

911 outages reported across US

johnsolo1701 — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 04:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/518684-911-outages-reported-nationwide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24624153

Points: 1

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New comment by johnsolo1701 in "A word for a value between 0 and 1 (inclusive)"

johnsolo1701 — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 12:52:05 +0000

Is there a difference between ≤ and <= in Raku? Curious why you used ≤ in your example.