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by Chaebixi 9y ago
An example: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/business/dealbook/arbitra... (part of an in-depth series).
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> tl;dr - a major donor ($250 million) is a Franklin fan. He cut a check for nearly half the estimated cost of the college, so they named it in honor of one of his heroes. That's honestly way better than naming it after yet another
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> With their new architecture, universities all too often abdicate leadership in promoting artistic innovation as they pander to plutocratic donors. Meh. I'd rather have this than more unlivable architectural ego-trips.
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> NYT does real investigative journalism and should be paid for that The problem is that's the stuff I wish the most people had easy access to, or order to build momentum to fix the problems. For instance, I post a link to their se
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> Strictly speaking as a consumer, Am I the only person who doesn't like subscriptions? Do the subset of masses who are willing to pay for journalism really prefer subscriptions over one time use payments? I guess i'm just weir
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> Many opposed to the growth of populist, right-wing movements in the US (and to a degree abroad) see the NYT as emblematic of a news media more interested in humanistically profiling far-right extremists, including self-avowed white nat
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> 'Please provide a clear photo of yourself holding your government issued ID, and a piece of paper with the following code handwritten on it'. This is literally stuff authoritarian regimes are doing to control their population
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Even Bluetooth is a no-go. What happens if the control is app no longer available or drops support for your model? Something like a sous vide stick should have control buttons. Ditto for stuff like Roombas. I've noticed all the new
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> the coolest of projects. But running an emulator on an off-the-shelf ARM microcontroller and putting it in a retro 3D printed case isn't really that cool. Not to say it isn't cool, but don't get carried away.
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> You realize Facebook's algorithm is most likely keeping those posts well hidden from your "friends", right? Yes, but not completely. I do get a handful of likes/comments on them and one friend commented in person a
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I prefer posting only articles critical of Facebook to my feed until I get locked out of my account for some reason. I won't create a new one, but I might as well use the one I have to do some good.
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> I fear it's much more insidious than that. Facebook has a tendency to start doing some invasive stuff and then announce it to the world only 5 years later. > They probably plan to use your facial profile for a number of things,
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> They have learned that it's safer for them to do nothing and then blame the algorithm when enough people complain When Facebook does that, people need to call them out on their bullshit. "The algorithm" and Facebook are
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> Isn't mass reporting done by people a form of activism. Don't know why you want to diferentiate, activism doesn't have to be "good". Any kind of "mass reporting" should be blocked, regardless of the m
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You can still use Facebook and still not be part of the problem if you use it to post anti-social-media articles. That's seems a lot better than just deleting your account in protest.
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> That assumes a lot about what one considers "real life." My social circle has never included "people who only remember me because I'm in a list curated by Facebook". Whether or not these people invite me to par
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>> you'll be forgotten by all but your strong friends (who don't need Facebook's friend-menu to remember you). > How is that a bad thing? I already covered that in my original comment: it might not be a bad thing to
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> Perhaps the author does not understand the logistical nightmare of having human moderators manually approve all content. Pretty sure he does, from the OP: > A step back to assert human control -- even if it cuts into the tech compan
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> Life isn't fair. We're all born into different means and of course more money allows for more optionality. The "poor kids" have to work harder to save up their money to get their chance, but that's completely p
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> but why is it hard not to use facebook for people? It's a serious question. Everybody I know (me included) who is not on facebook has no problem with it, and it certainly isn't getting harder. You'll get left out of real
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Because Facebook doesn't want to pay people to do the work of directly policing them, and instead relies on community reports.
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> I would hate to stand in Zuckerberg’s shoes here. It seems like they will lose this fight, no matter what. The solution might be more political than technical; that is, to teach people to be skeptical and use proper judgement when read
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I kinda feel that UI developers should work with crappy, old PCs. Then they could optimize to the point where things are barely usable to them, but then they'd be snappy for everyone else.
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> Just last week I discovered I could disable animations in Android through the hidden developer options. It's fabulous. The only initial quirk was no visual feedback when a picture is successfully taken, so it felt like i missed th
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> The drink comes in a bottle about the size of a 5-Hour Energy shot. It's clear and has no smell. The taste, however, burns like rubbing alcohol. It caused our eyes to tear. We gagged, loudly. > Still, after a few minutes, our s
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Natural disasters rely exclusively on word-of-mouth advertising. Political campaigns? not so much.
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But the key point is that they're not paid by the publisher for the publication, they're paid to produce the publication by others. The publisher is just gets it for (basically) free and then profits off the fees.
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The impression that I got was that Target thing wasn't some spooky self-learning AI product recommender, but rather they had the data to write some special-purpose analytics to detect a specific but common purchasing pattern. Your mot
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>> Well, some of those privacy and security nerds happen to work for companies like Google and even have influence over those companies' hardware purchases. >> So now AMD has just lost a big chuck of potential Google busine
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> metamodel is actually human reasoning friendly There's so much power in being able to think about a language (or your application) without having to always dig into the code.

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