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What is bloomberg's MO with these near unreadable articles?

puddintane 10y ago
Still rocking paint like it's 1995 - Bloomberg The color choice is just yikes! Did anyone else get reminded of Futurama - Law and Oracle (S06E16 / E104)? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Oracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Oracle I do wonder if this type of technology is something we should slowly approach due to the very nature of the outcome of sentencing. We already incarcerate a lot of innocent people and I truly wonder if this is something we should tread lightly on.
- nickles 10y ago
  Law and Oracle is an adaptation of PKD's short story "Minority Report" in which the Pre-Cog (short for pre-cognition) department polices based on glimpses of future crime. Orwell's "1984" explored the similar, but distinct, notion of 'thoughtcrime'. Both works examine the implications of such policing methods and are certainly worth reading.
  - Jaruzel 10y ago
    Or, if you are time impaired, there is of course Minority Report the film, starring Tom Cruise. Not as in depth, of course, but not a bad adaptation imho.
  - Pamar 10y ago
    To be honest I read 1984 maybe six or seven times and I do not remeber "prediction" to be one of the main themes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime The oppressive regime of 1984 does not use math or computers to look for "suspects". We might argue this was because Orwell had no idea about these methods (book was written in 1948, after all) but personally I doubt he would have used this because advocating decisions to an impersonal algorithm would make the bad guys slightly less bad: in the novel the main baddie says something like "do you want to see the future of Human Race? Think of a boot stomping on a human face, forever...". I.e. power for them is a end in itself, and the only way to use it is to make someone else suffer. I don't see any place for "impersonal algorithms to better adjudicate anything" in this.
- ladzoppelin 10y ago
  Firefox Reader View makes the so much nicer.
intrasight 10y ago
I was actually pleasantly surprised that the weird style and graphics rendered since most of their article just display as plain text due to my uBlock Origin settings. And I sorta like the weird style, mainly because it's out of character with Bloomberg.
eyelidlessness 10y ago
I find them more readable than the endless wall of indistinguishable text of pick-a-random-news-site. Of course all the text is readable, and there's innumerable ways of increasing the readability. But their art direction and effort to distinguish particular content helps it stand out and helps overcome the kind of fatigue that causes readers to drop off within a couple paragraphs and has plagued other content-oriented sites with horrifying "minutes to read" estimates.

Still rocking paint like it's 1995 - Bloomberg The color choice is just yikes! Did anyone else get reminded of Futurama - Law and Oracle (S06E16 / E104)? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Oracle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Oracle I do wonder if this type of technology is something we should slowly approach due to the very nature of the outcome of sentencing. We already incarcerate a lot of innocent people and I truly wonder if this is something we should tread lightly on.

nickles 10y ago
Law and Oracle is an adaptation of PKD's short story "Minority Report" in which the Pre-Cog (short for pre-cognition) department polices based on glimpses of future crime. Orwell's "1984" explored the similar, but distinct, notion of 'thoughtcrime'. Both works examine the implications of such policing methods and are certainly worth reading.
- Jaruzel 10y ago
  Or, if you are time impaired, there is of course Minority Report the film, starring Tom Cruise. Not as in depth, of course, but not a bad adaptation imho.
- Pamar 10y ago
  To be honest I read 1984 maybe six or seven times and I do not remeber "prediction" to be one of the main themes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime The oppressive regime of 1984 does not use math or computers to look for "suspects". We might argue this was because Orwell had no idea about these methods (book was written in 1948, after all) but personally I doubt he would have used this because advocating decisions to an impersonal algorithm would make the bad guys slightly less bad: in the novel the main baddie says something like "do you want to see the future of Human Race? Think of a boot stomping on a human face, forever...". I.e. power for them is a end in itself, and the only way to use it is to make someone else suffer. I don't see any place for "impersonal algorithms to better adjudicate anything" in this.
ladzoppelin 10y ago
Firefox Reader View makes the so much nicer.

intrasight 10y ago

I was actually pleasantly surprised that the weird style and graphics rendered since most of their article just display as plain text due to my uBlock Origin settings. And I sorta like the weird style, mainly because it's out of character with Bloomberg.

eyelidlessness 10y ago

I find them more readable than the endless wall of indistinguishable text of pick-a-random-news-site. Of course all the text is readable, and there's innumerable ways of increasing the readability. But their art direction and effort to distinguish particular content helps it stand out and helps overcome the kind of fatigue that causes readers to drop off within a couple paragraphs and has plagued other content-oriented sites with horrifying "minutes to read" estimates.