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by 794CD01 10y ago
PSA: if you realize that reality "puts you in a bad position", take that as a hint to reconsider your position.
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Which will accelerate the move Facebook, Twitter, etc are already making to rehost all that content on their own servers to provide an "integrated experience" for their users.
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>Or imagine that the fee to cross the bridge depended which neighborhood in SF you were driving to? So, how BART works?
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"Imagine if you always had to follow the same speed limit no matter whether you were driving to McDonalds or to the hospital"
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For the average person paying 60 bucks a month for internet today while only using Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and Netflix, this sounds like a great deal.
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What does democracy have to do with Jesus? Like most monotheistic religions, Christianity is incredibly authoritarian. Christians don't vote on what God does. He does what He wants, and it's beyond even the comprehension of mere m
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Not necessarily - they don't specify arcane magic. They could be using divine casters like priests or druids.
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"That makes me smart" - Donald Trump
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I think their motto/slogan/whatever of "front page of the internet" is pretty straightforward.
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They provide camoflauge. If homebrew did not exist, such products could be uncontroversially classified as piracy tools, allowing Nintendo to aggressively remove them from the market. Instead they are in a bittorrent-like situation where ev
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Most people have preferences for belief that prioritize other factors above truth. They are served by false or misleading news. Any attempt to distinguish this "fake news" from real news is contradictory to free speech. In short,
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I went to university 8 years ago and learned from SICP. It has decades worth of influence left even if everyone in the world stopped teaching it today. Not to mention the second order effects.
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Another article that avoids talking about the root cause because it's too unpalatable. Blaming facebook is misguided. Free speech is inherently incompatible with news.
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Newspapers and news television broadcasts had to do that due to the nature of the medium. There's no reason news websites couldn't tailor their content to the user in order to maximize views, engagement, or whatever other metric m
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Where did you get the idea that I thought it was positive? (For the record, I have no opinion there because I don't give a shit what happens to them, good or bad.) I said it was different from what you had described in your first comme
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Not everyone here lives and works in Silicon Valley.
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Many might, but not the ones I talk to about it, since people who think similarly congregate together. Perhaps you can see some parallels in the anecdata I was replying to.
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Sounds similar to my attempts to convince Americans about the negatives of gun ownership or free speech.
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Why is this baseless speculation so upvoted? We already know what China exerting its influence on other countries looks like. Just look at places where that's currently happening, such as Ethiopia or Zambia.
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Yes, there are potential negatives if it is abused. Like with literally anything ever created. You have to weigh that against the much larger number of encounters with actual bad people that can be safely avoided. In fact, if that didn&#x27
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It seems like a nice collaboration tool but what does it have to do with spicy chicken?
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Wikipedia calls it Train-Case but doesn't provide a source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_case#Special_case_style...
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It should be allowed in general, but if you promise not to do it, you should expect to be held to that promise.
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It's politically infeasible. You might as well ask "why doesn't everyone just get along? what's the downside?"
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Right, but it doesn't matter whether their belief is right or not, what matters is that they believe it.
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Which doesn't discredit the equivalence, it discredits social scientists, since any layman can look at the two statements and see that they are facially the same.
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So part of the product can involve hiring a random human to play the part of the love interest, with the VR putting an attractive face and voice on their actions. Heck, that person can even be another customer getting the exact same thing o
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Right, but the prediction isn't about the "closeness" of the election in some ideal sense, it's about the distribution of electoral votes. That's why the site is called fivethirtyeight.
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Those principles might make sense in isolation, but we know that being poor and uneducated leads to being racist.
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Which is still inaccurate. Trump didn't narrowly squeeze by to 270, he's on track to clear 300.

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