Bakary

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by Bakary 6y ago
Every time I see the term 'dark pattern', it's always a case of one or the other, with the delineation into fraud varying depending on the relevant laws. In this case, they mention how websites skirt the minimum GDPR requirem
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by Bakary 6y ago
Who came up with the term dark patterns? It's psychological manipulation and fraud, pure and simple
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The lessons will lose their potency not because of comparisons like these but because most people don't particularly care about history and don't want to expend the effort of knowing history as opposed to other things they could b
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by Bakary 6y ago
No social phenomenon is independent of any other. Promoting this sort of thing accelerates the virtualization of the economy and the addition of artificial scarcity. It rewards bad actors. It saps the resources of people who fall for bubble
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by Bakary 6y ago
I've been dual booting for a long time but the time to switch completely is imminent
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The simpler explanation is that we probably have a flawed understanding of what the CEO role entails at these companies.
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I used to have a dim view of extreme sports until it occurred to me that the sort of person who engages in these pursuits views the life of an office worker with the same sense of vertigo and horror with which we view theirs
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These are already famous people. As a rule, journalists don't mention names in the headline that would likely be unknown to the audience. Of course, this creates a chicken and egg problem sometimes...
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Factorio and its genre are escapism to an alternate fantasy world where there is a clear and linear connection to effort and reward. It's almost sexual in a way
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It was not my intention to imply negative things about people in the developing world. It indeed does make perfect sense to pirate in such conditions. In any case, I was not making a moral argument, more of a strategic one from the POV of a
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by Bakary 6y ago
A corollary to this is that the neediest and most unpleasant clients tend to be the least lucrative. It's an open secret that raising prices can get you better business in various professions, from escorting to tailors to art commissio
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In this case, the chicken is the current job from the vantage point of which you see similar jobs to your own that also require a specific skill in addition to what you already know The egg would be the effort you expend on that skill to me
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by Bakary 6y ago
Reading this was very satisfying and brought a smile to my face, but I can't picture a situation where I wouldn't just staple the pages together for any document over a few pages. And if it's a document with too many pages fo
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by Bakary 6y ago
The Mediterranean diet is only superficially close to the American one. It would be more accurate to speak of separate lifestyles than diets. The relationship to food that Americans have is almost completely alien to what most Italians expe
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The type of person to microdose is generally from a demographic unlikely to be arrested, investigated, or convicted.
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by Bakary 6y ago
You would be surprised how long this sort of thing can hold. To paraphrase a bit, societies can remain irrational longer than citizens can remain sane...
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The real scary truth is that people probably don't care as much about you as you might think they do. The way you frame the problem, assigning envy of your success to acquaintances by default, worrying about negative attention, reitera
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It's more about the relative change in the weight of the factors. Luck has always been important, but often required extra effort to go with it. Generally if there was an opportunity to be seized you had to do some active seizing. The
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Among those who "solve problems", how many have the end result of their efforts be rent-seeking schemes, skinner boxes, surveillance tools, superfluous services, shiny toys for adults, Veblen goods, etc.?
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by Bakary 6y ago
I don't know how you can look at this and tell me that our system is efficient, stable, non-parasitical, rational, less wasteful... It will interesting to consider the effect of randomness on our minds in the coming decades. It has alw
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by Bakary 6y ago
To avoid confusion around semantics, I'll try to draw up a more stripped down version of the argument. Cultural shifts linked to specific left-wing ideas underway in various parts of society → concern based on the idea of the foundatio
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by Bakary 6y ago
It is a bit counter-intuitive, but the cultural shift you describe is a mirror image of Peterson's popularity, in the sense that both are the result of sloppy, black-and-white, and adversarial thinking and ideological repackaging. If t
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Ironically people sometimes intentionally use the word expat to avoid the "western people are expats, non-westerners are immigrants" terminology trap
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This is the problem with anarchy. People forget how states formed in the first place...
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He is captivating to a certain audience, but so are televangelists. That's the whole crux of the problem. If you recognize it as being entertainment and an aesthetic/subculture, that's fine. But Peterson is presented as a lea
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Editors and reporters have to reflect their audience and given them something at least somewhat relatable. I would be careful though: we could also describe a meta-meta-perspective, where you recognize the dangerous seductiveness of thinkin
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I don't have a iota of trust in Apple, but it does seem that they would have little to gain and a lot to lose from just selling user data.
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Essentially, the problem with Peterson is that it's a boring rehash. It's a bit frustrating to see the guy defended along the lines of him being a victim of censorship and close-mindedness, when in fact the issue is the lack of co
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The more straightforward explanation is that the INTP/INTJ descriptions are much more exciting to someone with introverted traits than any other MBTI result. They are much more likely to be discussed for that reason alone. The glamor o
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INTJ and INTP are basically the "coolest" introvert result of the Myers-Briggs. For a supposedly rare result, it's one of the most trumpeted online and one with which people identify the strongest. The description of the resu

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