Chardok

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by Chardok 9y ago
Went into that article ready to argue, but I had to quote this line from it: "But by insisting that wolves fixed a broken Yellowstone, we distract attention from the area’s many other important conservation challenges. The warmest temp
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by Chardok 9y ago
Its not that simple. Facebook creates "shadow profiles" of people that don't use Facebook, and can be be populated by friends/family posting pictures of you or mentioning you/tagging you in a location. So - not thei
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by Chardok 9y ago
I've always been attracted to the idea of science and medicine becoming more "open source", in the sense that all knowledge could be free flowing and lowering the entry to understanding and contributing to it. It could be a g
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by Chardok 9y ago
"This time around, though, that community will be bridled with union–busting and data-harvesting apparatuses sure to make even the most paranoid techno-tyrant salivate." This is what worries me the most about something like Face
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by Chardok 9y ago
"Car culture" generally brings out the same primate programming you see in the "comments section". There's a level of pseudo-anonymity that brings out the aggressive asshole in all of us and make it unsafe for the
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by Chardok 9y ago
Honestly we need to completely rid ourselves of the notion that education should be preparation for a job and instead looking at it as a betterment of society in general.
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by Chardok 9y ago
Of course you can never truly prove someone is a "shill", but it was the entire purpose of Correct the Record during Hillary's campaign. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct_the_Record
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by Chardok 9y ago
That is by far the biggest red flag for his political aspirations. I cannot even fathom the conflicts of interest, the potential to misuse/abuse Facebooks front page rankings, and the massive data and insight he would have access to.
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by Chardok 9y ago
"A study published earlier this year by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that heavy social media users were, on average, more isolated than their peers. Zuckerberg doesn’t see it that way, arguing that the best way to
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by Chardok 9y ago
Right, just in the same sense that Google and Equifax are not just websites , Facebook is not something you can entirely ignore without consequence.
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by Chardok 9y ago
Not only post your picture, but friends can tag it with a name along with time and location, and now association with certain circles of friends. You are probably not going to get that kind of context with a picture on reddit or imgur.
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by Chardok 9y ago
Thats not entirely true. Facebook will build a profile on you through like buttons and information shared from family/friends/acquaintances whether you choose to or not.
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by Chardok 9y ago
“In a lot of ways Facebook is more like a government than a traditional company,” Zuckerberg has said. “We have this large community of people, and more than other technology companies we’re really setting policies.” And this is why I am
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by Chardok 9y ago
Can anyone explain what are the possible implications of this? I am imagining a bunch of annoying add-ons to access news articles and what not, but is there a potential to carry over to smaller or niche spaces?
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by Chardok 9y ago
FTA “There is little empirical evidence showing that taxing investors less stimulates savings and growth,” said Emmanuel Saez, an economist at the University of California at Berkeley.
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by Chardok 9y ago
I could see this as a potential avenue for the relaxation on the blanket schedule 1 classification on all psychedelics, which would hopefully lead to a better discussion on them in general.
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by Chardok 9y ago
I can certainly agree to that sentiment; we are not moving forward as a society if we artificially preserve jobs for the sake of the job itself. However , the theme of this article seems to be "Automation came to Amazon and no jobs we
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by Chardok 9y ago
We can begin with leveling the starting point for all. Transportation, healthcare, education, internet and cell phone access - all of these are necessary for being successful, yet we put the responsibility on the individual for acquiring th
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by Chardok 9y ago
Here https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffp... seems to be the article in question, with a chain of followup articles about it here https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?ta
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by Chardok 9y ago
That was actually a very nice read! I just finished the book and certainly remember the meat factory scenes the most, but couldn't help but feel Upton would have been disappointed from the message he was trying to ultimately convey.
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by Chardok 9y ago
"Opting out doesn’t work. It’s nonsense to tell people not to carry a credit card or not to have an email address. And “buyer beware” is putting too much onus on the individual. People don’t test their food for pathogens or their airli
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by Chardok 9y ago
More expensive, longer startup times, and strange proprietary buttons on the remotes that if you accidentally press them you have to wait 2-3 minutes before you can exit out of them.
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by Chardok 9y ago
Its a conundrum right now, for sure, but I am all for getting more people on bikes, electric or not. The main issue with e-bikes in the bike lane is obviously the speed and pacing are not going to match your average bicycle commuter. The sa
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by Chardok 9y ago
Ultimately it seems like the software issue is just a symptom of the greater problem that is our criminal justice system. I think software could play a helpful role in all aspects of our government, but having closed source, proprietary alg
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by Chardok 9y ago
I completely agree. Where I lived at in Houston, trying to find a place to sit and study quietly was near impossible, which is something I certainly took for granted. Libraries provide so much public good: giving the public internet access,
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by Chardok 9y ago
Well said. Its hard to quantify it in an objective context, but there is something just viscerally disgusting about taking something so old and spiritually significant to humans and perverting it into a tool for efficiency.
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by Chardok 9y ago
"if you are invested in an issue, find a way to get involved (reach out to you representative etc.) and have a voice in the discussions, rather than waiting idly by and demonstrating against the result." https://www.you
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by Chardok 9y ago
I did not know that! It looks like anything greater than 120dB could be entirely inaudible and can lead to hearing loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound#Safety
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by Chardok 9y ago
"US investigators have concluded that the country's diplomats were being hit with an advanced device that can send out sound that is inaudible but can cause huge damage to the ears of a person around them, which appears to have be
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by Chardok 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito Teens also have used this frequency as a ringtone in class as most teachers couldn't hear it.

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