Quite odd that a city called Seaside doesn't like boats to be kept in sight.
I would think a sea-side city, of all the cities would need such a legislation due to the abundance of boats in their neighborhoods.
Readit Newstaauji commented on A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence news.artnet.com/art-world... · Posted by u/geox
Be willing to pay for them.
Users don't pay for reddit. People staying don't pay for Airbnb (it is just a cut of the booking). Advertisers pay for YouTube. Conferences, influencers, and rich people seeking reach pay for LinkedIn.
If you want something pure and ad free and aligned with your interests, you and the platform need to share interests. As things stand, they do not, as your version of a great platform is losing money hand over fist for them.
I agree. Being willing to pay for services reduces companies from doing such things,
But offering something to the public for free for years and once they make an essential useful place in the society, using their position as ransom to extract money is still unethical in my eyes. e.g. If Reddit was going to be a paid service from the beginning, this would not have happened. They only shove their advertisement and dark patterns ridden app when they have gotten their users addicted. Same thing with Youtube, Gmail and other services. Reaching critical mass and then using their market position to extract money or selling data.
taauji commented on Vim Keybindings Everywhere – The Ultimate List github.com/erikw/vim-keyb... · Posted by u/philonoist
I am not even a power vim user but having vimium on firefox helps reduce the thought to action latency significantly.
If someone is able to get over the steep learning curve, having vim bindings on your fingertips is awesome.
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook.
You don't have to actually use Facebook in order to have your privacy violated by Facebook.
This came out years ago in Congressional hearings. It's also why lots of people who never had Facebook accounts got privacy-violation money from Facebook — it created profiles of people in the backgrounds of photos.
Yes Ghost profiles is what people used to refer it to.
Browser fingerprinting is how they are able to track you across the internet despite having no connection with facebook.
One way to fix this to stop your PC from communicating with any facebook servers.
- Firefox provides an extension for this.
There must be other methods that I am not aware of but if anybody knows.
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy?
Not saying everything FB does is ok but I think we are going too crazy with the government intervention. I don’t exactly see that FB was committing deliberate fraud based on this latest report (but a lot is redacted). It seems more like there were just some bugs? As a dev I worry about a world in which we expect perfection from all software.
Not being forced is the wall behind which every un-ethical tech company hides.
- Nobody is forcing me to use youtube, but youtube has years of collection of important tutorials and educational material.
- Nobody is forcing me to use facebook (and its products) but fb has gathered users over the years that forces me to use the product in order to remain a part of the social sphere. Kids feeling left out in high-school because of not using instagram is an example.
- Nobody is forcing me to use Netflix, but if I want to watch the trendy movie that my friends are talking about, I do not have a choice.
If you see the pattern, tech companies by the virtue of their money have created a social effect where they might not "force" me to use their product but I have to use it if I wish to remain a part of the society.
It is difficult to swim upstream and the companies by the virtue of their deep pockets have shifted the flow that helps them make the most money.
He isn’t forcing you to use Facebook. If you go into a store and they have a security camera that records you is that also violating your privacy?
Not saying everything FB does is ok but I think we are going too crazy with the government intervention. I don’t exactly see that FB was committing deliberate fraud based on this latest report (but a lot is redacted). It seems more like there were just some bugs? As a dev I worry about a world in which we expect perfection from all software.
Facebook is founded on 3 pillars of unethicalities.
1. Data Privacy - They will try to find every possible way to sell your data and not get noticed. An easy example of that is when fb started throwing fits when apple didnt let it track users activity across all apps by default. They tried to hide behind the fact that it would "severely" affect small businesses.
2. Depleting Mental Health - They will try to find every possible way to keep you engaged on the platform. That is often done by algorithmically promoting content that inspires extreme emotions in you. Emotions such as anger, jealousy, lust etc. Experiencing these emotions for an extended period of time EVERYDAY is not healthy for maintaining a good emotional balance.
3. Fake News - They will try to find every possible way to shrug off responsibility for spreading fake news. This affects politics by creating echo chambers, healthcare by preventing people from believing in the correct diagnostics and other areas.
I agree that nobody is stopping you from opening facebook, but facebook is like smoking. Everyone only wants to try it once, and then many fall into the downward spiral.
I was reading somewhere that how resisting facebook and all of facebook products everyday is not possible with the will power reserves that an average human has. This is because he is competing with psychologists and researchers employed by facebook who have been studying human behaviour for years.
I do not have any sources to back my claims. Social Media has personally affected me a lot so I keep reading about the phenomena out of curiosity. Here's one little article that breifly describes what I am talking about. https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peop...
taauji commented on Ask HN: How are the current layoffs affecting non-US developers? · Posted by u/fbrncci
ping me. i may have something..
Hi jayzalowitz,
I am a researcher in statistics and data science from university at Buffalo. Just reaching out to see if you have any potential opportunities that I might consider
taauji commented on Ask HN: What can you do or learn to experience a better love life? · Posted by u/optbuild
You cannot make anyone fall in love with you. That belief that you can, and the hubris that goes with it, leads to twisty and dark places.
Instead,
1. Be the best, and authentic person you can be. Authenticity is not found by looking outside, but rather, connecting deeper within your consciousness. Various forms of meditation allows one to explore this space. This means working through layers of conditioning, expectations, and hangups related to this: beliefs and attitudes about love, beliefs and attitudes about success, what you truly value (rather than what you are conditioned to value), hangups around seeking approval, intimacy, etc. Therapy can be a good way to get help exploring this if you don’t know anyone you can connect with for wisdom.
2. Care for and contribute towards something greater than you. This connects what you discover about yourself in (1) to the world outside of you. When this clicks, it gives a sense of purpose to your life.
3. Give others a chance to know who you are, from (1). This is a relaxing on the psychological armoring surrounding (1). Approach dating as such, as a way two people are discovering each other, rather than aiming for a particular outcome or meeting certain metrics.
Falling in love can be a profound experience. However, I can tell you that being in relation, and relationships involves a lot more than falling in love. Any long-term relationship and life partnership is far more difficult than dating, and the expectations people create around notions of “falling in love” puts unreasonable demands on each other.
The advice I hear from couples who have been married for decades, particularly those from traditional Indian marriages (which are arranged by the parents), is “tolerance”. And it’s going to the little, stupid stuff you tolerate. Sense of humor helps a lot here.
Indian marriages are a sham in my opinion. I would like to respectfully disagree with you. Most Indian marriages do survive because of tolerance but the tolerance arises from the societal pressure and stigma that surrounds separation. I am getting close to a marital age and have been observing Indian couples. I see a pattern where many couples are not happy but are still together because they can tolerate each other. I don't like that. Not everyone is like that but many are and they are okay with it
I mostly leave location services disabled altogether (as it saves a good amount of battery).
how do you get around using navigation. that was the only reason that prevented me from turning off location permanently.