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by 13415 6y ago
Regulations are never for particular companies, that would be legally untenable. Whatever regulation a country comes up with for Facebook will also affect any other company trying to get into their footsteps. Regulation is the only way to p
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I'll be honest, judging from my experience with Facebook's ads system, I'd wager they have accumulated some technical debt and their content evaluation (aka censorship) systems don't really work or don't scale. Ther
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We're definitely living in different parts of the world, work in different areas, and are at different universities. Obviously, I wouldn't have written the points if they had been implemented at my university. (I don't want t
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The only alternatives I see: 1. National research funding agencies and universities need to stop doing their assessments based on publication counting. Of course, publications need to be taken into account somehow, but at the very least the
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I'm rather skeptical about this and this could also be a case of correlation!=causation. First of all, what they mean by "leaders" are management positions. However, the professional choices that lead to these are mostly base
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He's an analyst for "the right", that's why he's so brilliant.
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I think you could just have one rule instead, which is also taught to beginning journalists if I'm not mistaken: Everybody is biased. Always. There are no exceptions to this rule.
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Talking about "connecting the dots" is a bit naive in this context, though. The NSA has been pursuing what they called a "total information awareness" program since the late 90s / early 2000s. The goal is to collect
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Although I agree in general, the example you've chosen might not be the best one. This might be one of (numerous) areas in business where success is not measured correctly and the methods used are never really validated. Do human resou
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Pretty much everything I do: Programming and writing books.
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For me it's the opposite, for some reason practically all Youtube recommendations outside of the subscribed channels are completely useless and I would never watch them. There are only few exceptions. It's not that the recommendat
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At least they should stop copyright once the authors dies. I understand that the creator deserves fair compensation, but why would relatives or companies who bought the copyright make a living from some dead person's work? To me it mak
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It's not about status and prestige, it's about scientific freedom and possibilities. Of course, someone who was on tenure-track or had an otherwise promising career before they left will not want to get back as a staff member, and
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I'd remove this kind of content from a public pinboard anytime if I was in charge of one, so I personally find it hard to object if Youtube removes it. However, I also believe that any algorithmic removal without human oversight should
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It's not a bad idea to principally ban social networks that exercise government censorship on their users. I don't know if TikTok does that. Do they? The problem is also that what one country regards as political censorship anothe
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Personally, I'm agnostic about the issue because I don't have the necessary data to evaluate it. If there are legitimate concerns by intelligence agencies that the CCP might use TikTok to influence users or spy on them on a large
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I'm currently building a network for a cheesy 80ies-style virtual Lisp machine from a parallel universe with libp2p. It's very cumbersome, the Go libp2p library is pretty arcane and split up across too many packages. But it does w
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As paradox as that may sound, in a sense the opposite of open-mindedness is needed. There needs to be more social pressure on people to keep discussions civil and to stay intellectually honest. The problem right now is that people advance a
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I've got to wonder: I've used FreeBSD and OpenBSD in the distant past and I can't see a good reason for using a Unix for a desktop system . I know it works, but many Linux distros provide a much less painful experience, espe
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That's not really true, most conspiracy theories do not withstand even the most basic scientific scrutiny and are not scientific theories.
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I just don't get your point. No matter how you put it, it's not a government's job to distribute a cheap, universally available subscription-free substance that might benefit their citizen's health. Why does the governme
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Vitamin D can be bought without prescription and there is currently no shortage, so why should a country (government) distribute it? Anyone who wants some can buy some. Handing out free Vitamin D is like handing out free gym passes. It&#x27
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by 13415 6y ago
Oh yes, I agree. The reason is also that in the US part of the right-wing pro gun / militia / anti-federal government culture on the countryside overlaps with the prepper community. Some of them are also fanatic Christians who lit
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In real emergencies people tend to be solidaric and help each other out.
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I've studied the US "prepper" culture intensively for a novel I've written, watched hundreds of videos by preppers for research and read Lundin, Dartnell, and Seymour's books among others. It's not a prejudice,
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There is disaster preparedness and then there is prepping, the two don't match each other. Most self-proclaimed preppers advocate atrocious "us or them" social darwinist ideologies and have policies that could get them and ot
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Common practice? Car dealers in the US can disable used cars remotely?
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Sorry, late reply - I'm only in this account once a day. Purebasic compiles to assembly code in flat assembler format using yasm.[1] Some of its support libraries were even directly written in assembler. That accounts for speed and com
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I've owned PureBasic for many years and sometimes use it for personal tools. Lack of object-oriented features make it a bit old-fashioned and not a good replacement for Realbasic (which I really found useful when it was still affordabl
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Both you and these commenters are missing the point. They're not just collecting metadata. We know from the Snowden leaks that the NSA was able to decrypt most https traffic as well as most SSH and VPN traffic around 2013. Although pro

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