Amezarak

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by Amezarak 4y ago
> The complexity of your product has nothing to do with whether it is profit making or not. Yes, this is my point. All this incredible AI engineering did not actually make Twitter a better product. They could have just as well not spent
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by Amezarak 4y ago
No doubt you can have big teams doing highly complicated work. That doesn’t mean your AI system performs better than a simpler one. Or that the system is useful in the first place (recommendations.) I’m not saying they were sitting around t
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> You see a couple of ads mixed in your feed; behind that there's a big machine selling that space to advertisers and mixing it into the timeline of every user based on whatever profile Twitter has created for you. Then the advertis
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> WhatsApp didn't have advertising, Is there a reason to integrating ads into WhatsApp would require more than another 50 people? Twitter ads are certainly do not appear very complicated. The most complicated thing about Twitter is
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This might be a promising step, but you still have the problem of a) the data exists b) people are highly incentivized to get the data. Ban selling it? They'll share it. Ban sharing it? They'll form byzantine corporate structures
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by Amezarak 4y ago
What kind of actually effective controls do you think could possibly exist in a world where everyone can buy the data except the police? Aside from the fact other people and corporations can do quite a lot of horrible stuff to you, includ
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Neither exists in a vacuum. Technology changes culture and culture shapes the use of technology. Nevertheless, anytime you have people highly incentivized to use data, and the data exists, it will be used. And in fact our use of technology
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by Amezarak 4y ago
Technology destroyed the Fourth Amendment. If the government couldn't fly the helicopter themselves, they would just buy the data, as they already do your cellphone location data, car tag scan data, credit card purchase histories, etc.
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What he’s saying is that we’re making them (or China or Russia) special by singling them out with these reports. There’s no country in the world that hasn’t been doing this since at least WWII to the US. Heck, part of the reason for our ent
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The law is not executed by computers. It is executed by people operating via tradition and common sense. These have their own problems, and sometimes the law is bad, but this is a case where it works the way we’d hope given the law. Nobody
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by Amezarak 4y ago
This is one of those comments I have difficulty reconciling with my experience. Ex-cons and former addicts seem to be a substantial part of the evangelical churches I've been familiar with. Of course I do not know any highly-placed mil
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The exact same things happened with people on different sides of the Roman Empire. Again, the reach is not new! Nor is the speed - it’s just before only the Right People could do it, excepting maybe AM radio. Before that, the reach was sti
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by Amezarak 4y ago
“Cross-continental” reach but the world is a smaller place. Rumors and lies spreading like wildfire through the populace have caused major countrywide social unrest and even revolts in the past. They spread just as far, just more slowly, be
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The "demographic window" created by policies that none of said people voted for?
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by Amezarak 4y ago
There is nothing new about this. Mobs, riots, and mass unrest have occurred as a result of rumors, conspiracies, and "disinformation" since the beginning of human civilization. It was a major concern during the Constitutional Conv
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The article makes it very clear what the motivation for this is: > In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government. As t
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by Amezarak 4y ago
It has been my observation that the “humanitarian” experiments in the US have been a large net negative for everyone involved. It is not theoretical. It’s not a bizzaro reality: peoples and cultures vary across geography in different ways.
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Okay, so you can go ahead and lay out how I am objectively wrong from a humanitarian and historical standpoint? It’s fine to assert that but so far you haven’t actually explained it. I agree there is no agreeing to disagree about value diff
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> You are free to disagree and be in the moral wrong, The reason I posted is because you seemed to be unaware other people have different moral value systems. This is the fundamental reason behind a lot of disagreements. Here's the
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by Amezarak 4y ago
I disagree. That’s exactly what justice is, providing it is carried about by the state after a fair legal process and not by private feuds. This is also a great way to build a safe and free society, and the fact we’ve gotten away from this
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I live in America and leave my valuables unattended in public all the time. It’s locale-specific. It’s always a culture shock for me to travel to other places in America and see bars on store windows, homeless people, signs telling me not t
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by Amezarak 4y ago
We knew the odds the Covid vaccine would substantially reduce transmission were very low. Covid first impacts your mucosal immune compartment, which means an infection first gives you all the symptoms exhibited by a mild case of Covid. It a
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If I didn’t cut my yard for a year I wouldn’t need a mower, I’d need a large brush-clearing tractor. It’s already almost impossible to cut with a mower after four to five weeks.
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We focus way too much on carbon emissions. There are a lot of other environmental disasters impacting everyone on earth.
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I’m not going to watch a series of YouTube videos, but I strongly dislike the films and have read everything Tolkien that’s been published, repeatedly, from Letters to HoME to the Nature of Middle Earth. This is flatly untrue. The show comp
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They did have a license to LotR, and cite the Appendices of LotR as what it's adapted from in the show credits. It radically departs from these to the point where there's really nothing in common other than a few character names a
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by Amezarak 4y ago
The article notes that the software encourages landlords to maximize profitability by raising rents and reducing supply. > RealPage claims its software will increase revenue and decrease vacancies. But at times the company has appeared
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by Amezarak 4y ago
> And no that's still quite low for a software developer in flyover country. If you know at what company I can do better without relocating, I'd be delighted to hear it. > It might be a good wage compared to median wages fo
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In flyover country, 70-100k is a fantastic wage for a software developer. Source: after 10 years of being a star performer and job hopping I have nearly tripled my salary…to a little more than 100k. New hires are making less than half that
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Yes, an electric motor is conceptually simpler. Yes, there’s less moving parts. But the powertrain in modern cars is engineered to a point where it is incredibly reliable and can be expected to last to the point where the rest of the car is

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