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Broadcast Radios (FM and AM) did a much better job. Their music was real and each station was more or less an algorithm.

There were ads, but as you mention, people don't seem to care much.

The quality check was the non personalized streams cathered to please its audience and competition among stations. So, the solution is to kill targeted algorithms and monopolies, ha.


I dislike ads even more than slop. Ads drove me to change stations to music I didn't care for and listen to the same CDs more times than I would have otherwise. Ads made broadcast radio unplayable as interaction-free background music.

> don't think I've seen this approach before but I do it for any app that doesn't seem like a security problem when out of date

Besides security:

There are apps that don't like you lagging behind with updating, like whatsapp and epocrates. Since whatsapp needs internet, there is no way around it. Old versions of Epocrates could be isolated from internet for the offline content, but they fixed that this year, and you can't download the databases with an older version.


Ah sure, but in the example given (Spotify), it sounds like they're updating but then not liking the new version a lot of the time so I was curious why update then

No offence, yours is an effective altruist take on any problem: <If there is no final solution that can be achieved fast and with minimal effort, it is not worth doing anything.>

There is NO FINAL SOLUTION to any human problem: not hunger, not disease, not poverty, not racism. All effort counts and smart effort contributes more, but it is not a once and done deal. We must eat everyday, we must not shit plastic in our air, all children must get polio vaccine, and taxes have to be paid one way or the other.

It's ugly, it's hard, it's long, it's life!


I literally cannot believe the phrase FINAL SOLUTION is being used here without any irony

I would like to believe that he/she/they knows no other context for that phrase

Words do not have magic attached to them. They do not inherit sins. 'Solution' and 'final' have definitions, use those... don't gasp in shock and insist on synonyms when someone happens to use a combination of words happened to be used somewhere else and some other time by an evil man.

Part of the answer is the Histones (spools for DNA) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone

There are other protein complexes that keep the strand in proper shape and form. They unfold the strand periodically, and can cut and repair it as needed.

If my mind serves me correctly, it is part of gene regulation. Genes located in places of the strand that tend to form tight knots are "more difficult" to transcribe, so they express less, to some extent.


Apparently, the official CPC is pro-stablishment, unsurprisingly, while the common CCP is anti-stablisment

https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/03/30/ccp-or-cpc-a-china-...


It should be taught in school that being a whistleblower requires safety preparation. Make it a woke thing or whatever, because it is something many don't give an afterthought about.

The problem is, from a game theory perspective, things like a dead man's switch may possibly protect you from your enemy but won't protect you from your enemy's enemies who would gain two-fold from your death: your death would be blamed on your enemy, and all the dirty laundry would be aired to the public.

Well I imagine this is a relatively new phenomena in the USA. Usually I hear about these "coincidences" in foreign countries... but here....? Maybe the older HN generation can shed some insight...

It was common where I live. Since the current government (the last 17 years) it doesn't happen anymore. There is no criticism, and people often go to jail for no apparent reason.

By " common " I mean at least one very famous person yearly in a 7 million habitant country. Suicided without antecedents, family either disagreed with the investigation or speak about it.


which country is this? israel?

That is why many people complain about not really owning the device. And some others defend not owning the device because - cool reasons; and if someone owns his own device that breaks the magic for everyone involved, somehow /s

Do something about it? Get an Android phone you can root and own your device;

And if you feel you are missing something, slap an apple sticker on the back /s


You can use makeup to change your skin color (ashen, icteric, black). And fake facial hair covering bone features. And contact lenses.

Enough for a cab camera


Any sane person would discard the evidence by scattering it. Any homeless will take anyone of the items.

He was smart enough to carry away the feat without getting caught. He is not smart socially, his demise doesn't serve his purpose. Sounds like fit to be an engineer. And kind of suicidal.


There are 10,000 people waiting to take the place of the now unfortunate after the train runs over him.

So, more trains with hundreds of thousands will topple over until the tracks are fixed.

Your healthcare system principles are the problem. Healthcare can't function the same way Automotive industry or Oil Wells work. Heck, it can't even work the same as Auto insurance. For moral reasons only, because profitability is great.


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