Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
We would really need examples of what you are referring to. The reason for that being that intuitively, when someone talks about a platform no longer being neutral in such extreme language, it usually means the platform does not support the
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by Bakary 4y ago
Wikipedia is great, Wikimedia spends a lot of money on vague nonsense. Some criticism is warranted so that we don't get another Mozilla-type dysfunction
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by Bakary 4y ago
So is their internal culture the same as described here, a decade later? For some reason, this manual gave me the same feeling I had when looking over college brochures as a young man. There was a sense of potential and excitement that was
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by Bakary 4y ago
I actually stopped watching TV because of a series of insights I discovered via HN. https://adam.nz/2001/zen-tv-experiment/ I don't agree with everything written in that essay and reject the Zen aspect but it
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That's either pretty hilarious or pretty depressing
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by Bakary 4y ago
August Dvorak was more prescient than we ever gave him credit for!
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A profile picture with no text implies confidence and knowing how attractive you are (other than being a bot of course)
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by Bakary 4y ago
Attractive people will have options, so the app has to show them other attractive people to retain them. That's why there is a containment system where if your Elo drops low enough you get shown other low-Elo accounts. You also need at
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by Bakary 4y ago
I meant more in the sense that we are primed to take one side of the issue by the default, the one we know. In the counter-factual Socrates-less world I'm describing, we are the unprovable counter-factual and people there are posting a
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by Bakary 4y ago
We'd have to know the algorithm but it's all about the details of how that Elo is implemented, which traits are selected for in which apps, the monetization options etc.
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by Bakary 4y ago
This sounds a bit backwards to me. Exercise and proper nutrition shouldn't be seen as hardship you take on because the alternative is worse, but the path to understanding the potential of your body and the joy of physical activity and
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by Bakary 4y ago
AFAIK from past discussions on here, the Hinge model is to make it harder with people with a low Elo on the app, and to provide them with more fine-grained options to pay to boost their chances ("roses" etc.) If you have a higher
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by Bakary 4y ago
Forget the word competition. Just think of it as smart people having an incentive to produce something with beneficial effects or externalities for once.
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by Bakary 4y ago
Probably some sort of open-platformed AR rather than VR, which looks as though it will form along enclosed spaces. AI software is probably a good candidate. It's currently hit and miss, but could become omnipresent in a decade. The hyp
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by Bakary 4y ago
Ironically, having skills that are helpful in the hyper-real world such as programming or marketing are some of the best tools to help afford life in the real one.
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by Bakary 4y ago
It's not just central banking, but any money-related topic that involves large institutional choices or new paradigms, such as the gold standard or bitcoin. I've noticed that there is a very recognizable tone of voice attributable
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You don't need the remainder. You just need Betteridge's law
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People turn to the internet when real life is not very stimulating. Banning the internet does not remove that problem. That being said, it's a small village, and it's only for a few hours. I find the measure authoritarian, but the
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by Bakary 4y ago
There's no way to know if Socrates' absence would have led to a net benefit or not Edit: to expand on this, we can say it is fortunate that his words were written down, but in a Socrates-less world or a world where his thoughts ev
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by Bakary 4y ago
Fundamentally, the price you pay from working a job in terms of time and energy lost will very rarely be worth it to the individual. There is a disconnect between the human mind, which has complex desires, and the place of any individual hu
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by Bakary 4y ago
What strikes me about this metaphoric description is that I'd much rather be in the real-life scenario. Listening to a streaming service gives you plenty of options, but it's nothing like a live show. News are coming from afar, bu
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by Bakary 4y ago
Why the negativity? Better whimsical projects like this than another cynical moneygrubbing attempt or polluting gadgetry
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by Bakary 4y ago
The pop-up is only necessary if you engage in shady tracking nonsense. GDPR does not mandate a pop-up for cookies that simply allow the site to function. Essentially, it's like blaming the flashlight for having made the rats scurry acr
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by Bakary 4y ago
Working for a FAANG provides negative value since it increases the power of shady adtech oligopolies
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The EU is currently the only territory that is even trying to make the internet less dystopian
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by Bakary 4y ago
What are some examples of answers that the public does not like?
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This happens because bots dynamically change the price based on other bots, which creates feedback loops. Nobody is paying that much for a non-antique book
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by Bakary 4y ago
Well... yeah? We earn money by literally trading our life-force and time for it. If we wanted to compensate the most vulnerable members of society, booksellers and authors wouldn't be the first place to look for anyway.
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Don't worry, that was just the standard French spelling before the 1838 reform.
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Dvorak is not great for phone keyboards because it makes swiping words more difficult by crowding the home row. Something like KALQ makes more sense.

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