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Sam is not having a good week, Nvidia potentially backing out of a 100 billion dollar “commitment”, now looking a fool for getting butt hurt because a company is trying to gain market share via marketing. Looking awfully pathetic

The Verge has truly become one of the most respected sites on the web. Some of the best reporting, tech or otherwise, is being done there. Kudos

Agreed. I signed up for a paid subscription last month after I was linked to this article[1] which correctly, clearly, and accurately labeled the administration's claims about that incident as lies. This is journalism, and it is worth money. The half-assed "videos give the appearance of possibly contradicting..." decide-for-yourself garbage printed by places like the NYT isn't worth the cost of sending the bits over the wire.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/policy/859055/minneapolis-renee-goo...


Now that's a hilarious comment. The Verge has become a joke website.

> The Verge has become a joke website.

Because? I'll be honest, haven't read much from The Verge so don't know much how it used to be/is now, but given they seemingly post articles about how to resist government tyranny, doesn't that make them a good website in general?


Yes. Unless you support govt tyranny.

Government tyranny is when customs and border protection enforce immigration laws? ok lol

If what you're seeing right now is just "enforcing immigration laws", then yeah, obviously that's not government tyranny.

But I'm guessing you still have somewhat free media (?) and also could look at what international news channels report from the US, and they're not painting a picture of "enforcing immigration laws", just the amount of added vote restrictions that been going on should give you a heads up where it's about to go, and that the president is flirting with that the administration should actually be the ones responsible for the elections.

If you don't see it at this point, I'm afraid you might be blind.


I'm curious ... what are you doing in the comments section of an HN post about an article from The Verge then? I mean I look at articles from El Reg even though it's clearly yellow journalism, and sometimes I do it partially for the same reason someone might listen to a crazy person ranting on the train. Is that it?

Because? It doesn't align with your views?

I have a lot of criticisms on The Verge and stopped reading it a long time ago, but one of my favorite moments from them was when Jean-Louis Gassée trolled Nilay Patel and showed just how hypocritical he is and how fragile his ego was.

I wouldn't call it "reporting". More like opinion pieces with some facts here and there, but also a ton of flat out lies and half truths.

The thing I like about this article in particular is that it reads like one of their vapid and paid-for vacuum reviews (https://www.theverge.com/tech/625409/best-robot-vacuum-mops) but it's for civil disobedience. They are in a way poking fun at their own business model and it makes me laugh.

Yeah, this is quality content right here,

> Durable enough to survive a scuffle with a right-wing extremist, even if the bones of your hand do not


Can you clarify what you take issue with?

The author in particular strikes me as a thoughtful, considerate and unbiased individual, a paragon of inclusivity: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45052534

some dumb old troll tweets that someone wrote years ago (and publicly apologized for) shouldn't disqualified them from being a great reporter.

hell by that metric basically noone who ever wrote something publicly of any substance is qualified

also ever visited twitter? the stuff she wrote is pretty tame even by 2022 cancel culture standards


She didn't apologize, what she said can be used by any harasser. "I was harassed by girls when I was young so now I adopt their language and harass women." Also I didn't know there is so much harassment online towards young south korean girls.

sarcasm is easy, but I'd be willing to hear any earnest objections you have. my assumption is that you don't have any that aren't themselves hypocritical or contradictory, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong about that!

ETA: in case it's unclear - this is not me trying to platform OP's bullshit in good faith, this is me calling OP's bluff. I don't think ne can articulate an actual problem that isn't self-defeating, which is why ne retreated to sarcastic implication rather than outright accusation.


Shouldn't we celebrate her for changing and growing instead of trolling the web for 12 year old edgelord tweets that she has already apologized for? Since then, she has become a strong and rational voice on the national scene, and there is nothing to indicate that her change in beliefs and apology was insincere.

I don't think I was a "bad person" at that age, but I certainly know that I said some cringy, stupid stuff that I certainly don't stand by anymore.

Quite frankly, I think it is far more concerning if a person can't identify anything that they have changed their mind on. We should celebrate when people change for the better instead of attacking them for having been bad in the past.


Cancel culture.

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Don't fool yourself that buying into the culture war has anything to do with being grounded in reality.

My doctors recommendation has always been “Eat a little better and move around a little bit, that’s your goal”

Refrigeration is a big one

I feel like things have been going on a little bit longer than this indicates.

Interesting, I’ve had a lot of emails lately flagged as “Promotions” even when they were not.

But there are also millions of acres of corn being grown solely for the purpose of ethanol. A lot of that acreage could be better off utilized as solar farms


Wonder how long it will take someone to find a prompt to get rid of ads? Im guessing less than 3 days


You say that like the LLM must be built and retrained on ads rather than a separate scan of the prompt


Yes but there could be negative key words that no advertiser wants to associate with.


Not approaching 1, but certainly greater than zero and higher than it’s ever been in my life. Maybe 15-20%


Probably not higher than in my lifetime, because I lived through the Cold War and nuclear annihilation seemed like a serious possibility more than once.

But definitely higher than any time since 1990. With a possible exception for the days immediately after 9/11, when it seemed like there might be follow-ups.


How has Kevin Rose escaped legal ramifications from all of his NFT grifts he hawked in the past few years?


If celebrities can hawk rug pull crypto coins, I seriously doubt there will be any legal ramifications for him.


For most of us, trying to get away with all the stuff the Trump family gets away with is a good way to end up behind bars.


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