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In the end, I bought Reason Intro because @Hiek told me to ... and because it’s really easy to make things with it that immediately sound good - if cheesy. I feel like such a slutty consumer now. ?

Your upstairs neighbors, on the other hand, enjoy free floor heating.

Edit: and that includes cardboard.

Congratulations!

Well, then I'm sure you will enjoy using your computing device where you issue commands by pointing at things and hitting them to watch videos of other cavemen like you grunting and burping to present their arguments.

Shameless. ? The chords feel a bit off, though. First chord sequence is borderline ok, but the second one feels really weird. That said: this is great fun. The bells especially. Goddamn those are tacky.

Good one. Now I know my eyesight isn’t good enough to work with Reason on a 13” MBP Had fun playing with it, though.

Wait ... is that guy putting his beer on the monitor?

Oh great. Now you have me gassing for something I really really do not need and will likely never use.

Haven't laughed so hard about a rock-'n-roll track since ... a long time. (yes, I am immature)

Yup, very much this. The closing chapter of "The God Delusion" is wonderful, but the rest is just painful to read. Guy doesn't know the first thing of what he's talking about. Such a shame because I love his biology and evolution books.

Loved both of these. The octopus book was obviously fantastic and the mind book really helped make clear that the mind, too, is probably a collection of prefab parts working together. Stephen Pinker was pretty cool before he started talking about things he knows nothing about (history).

Youtube for everything is what destroys civilization. I can read, dammit, and reading the ingredients list + method would have taken me 30 seconds.

I don't wear graphic t-shirts but that design is *awesome*

Yes it does: a small, unremarkable church in downtown Boston that was erected in 1843

The biggest omission is they're not saying anything about what they're going to do with Apple silicon.

That explains it all. @ambermonke == COVID-19

It’s hilarious.

This is impossible to argue with. "I can't see them doing evil shit but they have lawyers so they must be doing it" is unfalsifiable. The bottom line is Google collects a lot of information but has, until now, been very good about keeping it to themselves. Facebook: not so much. Both companies are in the business of gouging advertisers. Your data is merely a resource to help them do that somewhat convincingly.

Well I stand corrected then. I was going off HN posts such as this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21217426 (can’t find the one about low pay and Apple rewarding writing new tools, APIs and libraries and discouraging maintenance of existing ones - not to mention the fact that they don’t do a lot of testing). In a way this makes it even worse as it gives them even less of an excuse to make such rookie mistakes all the time. edit: or try this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15801974

Not even remotely the same thing. People explicitly gave apps permissions to look at their Gmail messages. Which is arguably their right because, hey, it's their inbox. Cambridge Analytica, on the other hand, scammed users by making asking them for permission to forward fun quizzes to their friends. This allowed them to build a social graph of users. Then, because Facebook's privacy measures were so lax they could read in any bit of data about the users in that graph they wanted. You *could* argue you can learn a lot from looking at someone's email as well, and you'd be right, but in that case apps were explicitly given permission to do so, whereas Cambridge Analytica was only given permission to show Cosmopolitan type quizzes to friends.

Oh come on. Not everything needs to be covered in sauce. But ... really ... raw pig? You guys trying to get tapeworms or something?

Good point - but IIRC Cambridge Analytica acquiring user data was due to sloppiness on Facebook's part, not actual intent. Facebook has since (supposedly) closed the loophole that allowed external parties to read in people's friend graphs. From their own point of view that's probably for the best, as they can make much more money if they are the gatekeepers to that data. But yeah, like I said, good point. Google, on the other hand, has not yet leaked data - as far as we know.

To be fair, Facebook and Google aren't selling their data to outside companies either. They're selling access to specific demographics to advertisers. To very, very specific demographics. The advertisers don't ever see your data, they don't know they're advertising to you specifically and they have to trust Facebook and Google that you're in the group of people they want to target.

One time in Rouen saw andouilette on the menu, couldn’t recall what it was, ordered it, took a bite, was deeply satisfied.