Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
The great swindle that capitalist ideology has pulled is simultaneously convincing workers that 1) they are completely dispensable ('we can replace you'), but 2) that they are also completely indispensable ('we need you'
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Does anyone else find it incredibly fucked up that the government gets to dictate our concepts of time?
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Coal to crypto: The gold rush bringing Bitcoin miners to Kentucky(longreads.trust.org)
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Yes.
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> Is it name and shame time? I feel like this will basically be "pretty much every company out there". A more useful list might be companies who actually do truly delete accounts.
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> de-biasing ML models As exemplified by, for example, Google firing the two heads of their Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team...who had been researching bias? [1] [1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/13/2
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> It's refreshing to see that tech is now heading in a more socially responsible direction What? Absolutely the opposite is true. Tech is now doing evil shit that was unthinkable ten years ago. Like Facebook using the phone number y
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Yes, sometimes this requires sending a fictitious identification image to customer support.
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Before requesting an account "deletion" for an account you have anywhere, always go through every single field and enter fictitious data. This includes adding fictitious photos and the like. The service may keep the previous ite
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> However I'm not really sure what's so hard to understand about the fact that the NYT is going to remove most controversial ones from a word game. The most controversial words were not removed from the game. Unless you think
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> The NYT removed words with foreign roots you might not expect ("pupal" / "agora") in an English language game If the NYT were to remove words with foreign roots, there would be a lot more words removed than j
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> Compare British English dictionaries to American English dictionaries. Is this censorship? Yes. Am I OK with it? Absolutely. Removing a word because it is not in use in the region the dictionary is published is much like you wouldn&#x
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The relevance is that the NYT has a sordid history of user hostile actions, and this is just the latest in a long line of them. In other words, the relevance is in highlighting that this is kind of conduct is part of a pattern, not an aberr
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Did a lot of racists play Wordle on the NYT page? Is there a stormfront thread about it or something? I haven't really seen any news of racists being outraged by this; likely because many of the removed words are not racially-charged t
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If your criteria is some specific quantity instead of one around the ethics of censorship, would you likewise be OK with dictionaries removing a small percentage of words? Under the same pretense, that this removal would surely only impact
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> What's user hostile in taking words off the list? I don't really see how that impacts the experience. If you don't see how removing words off the wordlist impacts the experience, I really can't explain it to you, it
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Ask HN: How can I have companies reveal where they obtained my personal data?
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The NYT has put a shitton of advertising trackers on their Wordle site [1], has censored words from the original word list [2], and now this. These kinds of user-hostile actions are exactly why I will never support them. [1] https:/&#
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> I don't really care if she's real or not I don't understand comments like this. Why go through the effort of articulating your lack of interest in a topic? "I have no intellectual curiosity about this topic, but I f
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> I would pay a premium for a TV with no internet connection. Why pay a premium when this is something that is extremely easy to achieve? Simply don't connect your TV to the internet. Criteria met. If you want to go further, you can
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Recall that Walgreens has a history of making moronic decisions, like contracting with Theranos in spite of receiving clear-cut warnings against doing so.
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> As a lawyer that sues car companies, and the spouse of a lawyer that does work for car companies This is interesting to me. Do conflicts of interest with both of your respective employers come up?
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> Many countries have a culture that advertising should be truthful and not deceptive Truthful advertising is an oxymoron, like saying 'peaceful wars'. The only difference in sectors where there is ostensibly more regulation is
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Good. Blocking ads is essential for... security reasons: to prevent malware from being installed via rogue ads; for privacy reasons: to reduce being tracked by corporations; and for mental health reasons: to reduce being bombarded with inju
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> FB/Twitter are not one community, they are a million different communities You can apply the same arbitrary granularity to bodybuilding.com (different subforums) and 4chan (different boards) too, and say 'such and such subfor
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So in layman's terms: "we looked at a bunch of ads, and found that a bunch of them are making bullshit claims". I mean yeah....that is what advertising is: exaggerated, nebulous, or otherwise evasive if not outright false cla
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> Bodybuilding.com misc & 4chan are super toxic communities. Yes, but so are Facebook and Twitter.
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You could give that response to almost any product. For example, in response to 'so Windows was invented by Bill Gates?' 'Not the modern version. Just the name'. That doesn't change who invented the original product
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Yeah, just to clarify: the point of my anecdote is that even things like board games, which are supposed to be fun and relaxing, are being politicized by some people over topics like name changes.
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I wholeheartedly agree with you. My point was just that even things which are supposed to be relaxing and apolitical like board games, are being politicized over things like discussing name changes. And that sucks.

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