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Can_Not commented on China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week   reuters.com/world/china/c... · Posted by u/extesy
danrocks · 4 years ago
Half-truth here. Younger people, recently more influenced by Xi Jinping's heavier hand in dispersing Marxist indoctrination, are indeed very supportive of the CCP ("generation N"). Other demographics, specially in southern China, aren't, but they can't speak up or they'll get prosecuted with "picking quarrels and provoking trouble".
Can_Not · 4 years ago
> Marxist indoctrination

As opposed to good old fashion American indoctrination.

Can_Not commented on Twitter starts to require login to view tweets   reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/... · Posted by u/oenetan
splatcollision · 4 years ago
It would be great if the community here just started downvoting stories that are twitter links. If it's not worth a blog post somewhere, why should we care?
Can_Not · 4 years ago
Twitter threads are a confusing mess to look at and usually I can't figure out OP was trying to convey by posting a link to 30 tweets that probably should have been a text post somewhere.
Can_Not commented on Add dark mode to your sites, or at least let the browsers do it for you   blog.okikio.dev/psa-add-d... · Posted by u/smusamashah
bnl100 · 4 years ago
I suspect that dark-mode-everywhere fans turn up their monitor brightness way too high and then complain about bright mode websites.

On the other hand, people accustomed to using bright mode turn down their monitor brightness and have no issues. As a rule, the white background should not be much brighter on a monitor than a piece of paper next to it.

This often results in brightness settings between 15-20%.

Can_Not · 4 years ago
> I suspect that dark-mode-everywhere fans turn up their monitor brightness way too high and then complain about bright mode websites.

This weird contrived strawman scenario is an insult to people with disabilities.

Can_Not commented on Troubled teens left traumatised by tough love camps   bbc.com/news/world-us-can... · Posted by u/Renaud
TheAdamAndChe · 4 years ago
My statement on the feminization of society doesn't come from trauma. Global testosterone levels have been dropping for decades[1]. You can see it in old pictures: men were less fat, more competitive, and happier. Rates of sex and relationships among men and young boys have dropped precipitously.

Speaking anecdotally, I feel most fulfilled when I embrace my masculine side and focus it on positive pursuits. Competition, pursuit of status, and power can all be good things if focused. This event unlocked that in me and helped me live a more fulfilled life I'm the long run.

In fact, your response is exactly what I'm talking about. Productive masculine behavior is shamed nowadays. That's sad to me.

[1] https://carraghermethod.com/the-hard-truth-for-men-declining...

Can_Not · 4 years ago
So then you'd be in favor of Universal Healthcare, subsidies for gym memberships for low income individuals, stricter regulations against lying/misleading in fast food/junk food, and stricter regulations/penalties for pollution?
Can_Not commented on Show HN: DarkHN – Dark Mode Mirror for Hacker News   darkhn.herokuapp.com/... · Posted by u/gaberomualdo
LilBytes · 5 years ago
Does dark mode help those with visual disabilities?

I whole heartedly want dark mode HN but your comment seems insincere and hyperbolic.

Can_Not · 5 years ago
This is why it's basically illegal for businesses to ask someone to prove they need their service animal.

It's annoying as duck to 1.) have a disability in the first place and 2.) have every random person ever acuse you of lying about it for literally no reason.

Can_Not commented on GameStop Is Creating a NFT Platform   nft.gamestop.com/... · Posted by u/thomasreggi
NoSorryCannot · 5 years ago
I can see the business appeal of the prospect of being able to skim off the top of second hand sales while maintaining a thread of DRM enforcement along the way, but it's pretty cynical and at the expense of consumers.

Most other uses, like whether some particular series of bits have been blessed by a particular person and to the benefit of whom, seem to already have been solved by the nonrepudiation of digital signatures.

It appears to me that the distributed and public properties of the block chain are not being used for good here.

Can_Not · 5 years ago
> being able to skim off the top of second hand sales

Steam's current strategy of "no second hand sales" (but better sales and distribution instead) really beats anything NFT has to offer and doesn't require forcing a blockchain and mintinv fees into the scenario.

Can_Not commented on Civilization Is Older Than We Thought   palladiummag.com/2021/05/... · Posted by u/throwkeep
irrational · 5 years ago
That’s hardly a flood though. A flood is the village disappearing in day or two. Disappearing in a decade or two? I’m not sure what I would call that, but definitely not a flood.
Can_Not · 5 years ago
True, but if you invented writing today and decided to record a 500 year old story, in that scenario are you really likely to be able to discern what the term flood meant back then, or if the word flood was even in the original story? Hundreds of years later people who weren't there are going to get lazy with the details.
Can_Not commented on Watches from the Soviet Union   rbth.com/longreads/soviet... · Posted by u/gscott
contrarian_5 · 5 years ago
yes, exactly. everyone is very quick to point out how evil the united states is. but there is no public reaction about the soviet union in which millions upon millions of people were deliberately murdered. more people than the nazis and the united states. i point out the absence of objectivity when i see it because i am a good citizen.
Can_Not · 5 years ago
>but there is no public reaction about the soviet union

There's literally non-stop public reaction against the Soviet Union, a country that stopped existing 30 years ago, especially in threads like this that are completely non-political. Case in point, you, congrats on being the first person who thinks watch connoisseurs are committing wronkthink by talking about watches.

You need a chrome/FF extension that adds to every comment an extra sentence like:

- "I disagree with Stalinist grain policies"

- "The Soviet Union murdered millions"

- "I think the Ukrainians are right to complain about the USSR"

- "They were too many gulags if you think about it"

- "But of the course, the Soviet Union was bad"

- "Stalin? No, I disavow him"

Then you don't have to derail a thread about watches to defend the Nazis and United States from the ghost of Stalin.

Can_Not commented on DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized   krebsonsecurity.com/2021/... · Posted by u/feross
jandrese · 5 years ago
More like a $250,000 salary + benefits. Medical coverage is hideously expensive for example. Plus retirement, dental, insurance, and taxes. Still a cushy salary for a dev, but not completely out of the realm of reason.
Can_Not · 5 years ago
That's incentive for someone living in silicon valley to not do it, but outside of the hubs most of the United States has miniscule demand for tech workers (using that term very loosely), and the majority of the world would average out to something like "30k, but the job only exists if you live in the capital".
Can_Not commented on Movies every physics lover should watch (2020)   wondersofphysics.com/2020... · Posted by u/vedangsati
stared · 5 years ago
I would add "The Arrival", which I enjoyed a lot (rare for a movie based on a story I love). Even though it dropped the crucial physics reference, which was the turning point in "The Story of Your Life".

Still, physicist or not, if you are interested what is time, I couldn't recommend a better writer than Ted Chiang.

Can_Not · 5 years ago
The scene with the mountains and the cloud was really cool. After that, there was some build up but kind of just went nowhere. "Here's some circles, now you can hallucinate the future" was overall a pretty underwhelming drift into fantasy.

u/Can_Not

KarmaCake day985October 18, 2015View Original