It owns neither... but sure, politics only happen in china... Amazon never did anything political ever... except for that Wikileaks thing... and the Parler thing... but US gov definitely doesn’t own them
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I won't make the case for cryptocurrencies here, have a look at ethereum.org for instance.
> Is what they enable worth $40.000 to the enthusiasts?
I'm not denying that the current price hike and media attention has little to do with any other aspect than "decentralized ponzi"/dollar escape. Was just correcting a false statement.
Man, I remember when I lived in China and we would have the wifes of our engineers sitting out in the stairwell crying because the husbands worked so much and were never home. They certainly did work a lot. Some of them I could never beat at being early in the office and leaving late and I find myself quite good at that I would say.
I was into Bitcoin all the way back in the days, when they were free (I believe I read about it here on HN) and we had faucets and all that up until they were worth around $300. I had great hopes for the technology and was mostly just following stuff on r/bitcoin while also trying to built little proof of concept projects on the side, that could maybe turn into some useful gadget like a payment processing device or similar things.
I got out because it turned into exactly a religion. There was no room for questioning the technology or considerations about whether this was really as useful as we thought it would be.
My Mother is being sucked into this whole QAnon, Covid, 5G conspiracy universe. I dont know what to do about it. She is sounding more and more unhinged every time I talk to her. I am thinking about somehow getting her IP blocked by YouTube, but I am not entirely sure about how the best way would be. Maybe I could run LOIC against YouTube from my laptop next time I visit her, but I am not sure it is enough to get one blocked.
This podcast recently had an episode about parents getting radicalized, and it had some suggestions - might be worth a listen https://castro.fm/episode/2JwRY7
Not sure. She has one of those fiber boxes with branded router provided by the operator. I should try to access it next time I visit her - it might have some sort of parental control.
Probably does, but if she is renting those, you should do her a favor and replace them with something she will own and that has parental control. Or maybe change the DNS servers to one in your control (not sure if that will work with the encrypted DNS though that get pushed onto you by Firefox).
It's not just your parents, it's lots of people who didn't grow up with the internet and don't fundamentally understand some of its nuances.
Excerpts:
"None of this is to suggest my generation's brains are immune to internet breaking. But there are some important distinctions here — three in my observation — that give this a generational dimension.
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"The first (and this is based in data) is that younger generations are less likely to dose themselves daily with the poison of cable news, so that's one less source of content blasting. For those who consume cable news on a regular basis, the immersion becomes nigh impossible to break."
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"And that brings me to the second generational distinction: the degree of innate understanding of the medium. I do not think my older family members understand the extent to which the content they encounter is tailored by algorithms to set their lizard brains on fire. Like the majority of their peers, as a 2019 survey showed, they probably don't understand an algorithm is involved at all. They insist they do understand, but their behavior tells me they do not."
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"I thought my own parents would be safe from all this because — thank God — they are not on any of the big three social media sites; they don't have cable; and their tech skills are limited. As it turns out, that's irrelevant. The internet is so user-friendly now it can break anyone's brain! YouTube and a few political email lists are all it takes. And now that this content history is established, my mom's search results are tailored accordingly. The brokenness is self-reinforcing."
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"[Third:] Our parents have generally not managed that pandemic-time connectivity to their [real life] friends — if indeed they had close friends in the first place. A common thread in my discussions of broken boomer brains is a lack of intimate friendships and hobbyist communities. In the absence of that emotional connection and healthy recreational time use, this media engagement can become a bad substitute. The memes become the hobby. The Facebook bickering supplants the relationships. And it's all moving so fast — tweet, video, meme, Tucker, tweet, video, meme, Maddow — the change goes unnoticed. The brain breaks."
I probably wouldn't. I am getting more concerned recently only because I got the vibe somehow from her during new year that I was somehow involved in some of that shady stuff, which those conspiracy groups claim is going on under our noses. I work in IT for a bank currently and am doing pretty well as a consultant. Somehow she cannot really "compute" that.
Reminds me of that time when I went to an Apple store to have them check my failing MacBook Pro screen. After waiting an hour for some fat dude to come along with an iPad in which he apparently had some sort of store service app installed, he concluded that the price for getting the screen fixed was $800.
Went to an independent shop and had the problem fixed for $100.
I dont quite remember the meeting room names in Mathilda 3 over at the Apple on Mathilda Ave, but if the MA03 (in the screenshot) refers to "Mathilda 3", then this story is totally believable.
I worked at Apple and it was absolutely horrible. I remember sitting on the train and actually thinking about killing myself. Reasons were many, but mostly I just didn't fit in there, I think.
I felt like people there were also a bunch of whiny little bitches to be honest. Always having some problem with a hand or a back or some family problem or whatever which demanded that they take days off. There were a few people whom I felt were probably talking some shit behind my back, but I couldn't really believe it until I read this story. It was just a horrible horrible place and I can also recognize that thing about having a predecessor, who was apparently a "bad person" and thus had to be terminated.
Every other day I would have people telling me how great a place it was and how lucky we were to be working in a place so big while still having that startup feeling. I have worked at startups and I always just imagined to myself that 40 year old "dude" who refuses to grow up. That is Apple..
Never again.
I got dragged through the whole white boarding experience also for the first time and it was fun enough, but in hindsight, they should just have asked me if I would suck Steve Jobs dick, if he came in that door. The answer to that question alone would have provided them with enough information about whether I would have been a good hire or not.
I am 45 and have never every experienced a work place like that. Always had positive feedback and never had any problems with colleagues.
That’s how people take extra vacation pretty much everywhere. It’s not being a whiny bitch it’s called not working yourself harder than necessary. Go work yourself to death somewhere else and stop shaming people for not being Apple fanboys and working extra hard for Papa Steve.
I'm not sure what their problem is. In facebook's case, they have a dating app so I'm sure they're not into that.
Facebook doesn't give you much actionable feedback. Here's the routine I went through _several times_ publishing my ad there.
1. submit app
2. app gets rejected, and my account gets banned. get a generic message saying dating apps need to adhere to special, strict guidelines, and I need to sign up as a Dating service with Facebook's customer service team.
3. I try to sign up for it, and they tell me I don't qualify as a dating service (cause my app is not a dating service, it's an augmentation on it - getsmartswipe.com). So back to square one after this contradictory mess.
4. I submit repeal to unban me.
5. They unban me.
6. I change some wording hoping maybe that's the change they wanted.
7. go to (1)
reddit, similar. I'm sure they made it confusing on purpose but in Reddit's case they took a week to reject it and said I needed to commit a minimum of 30k to advertise dating apps and work directly with them. Made no sense, so I didn't bother retrying with Reddit.
