DocTomoe

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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
You misunderstood my point. I didn't claim the participants wouldn't know whether they own a phone - obviously they would. I said they wouldn’t know they’re in a study whose purpose is to correlate smartphone use with academic per
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> Or is the point that there are many biases both ways? My point is that if you ask wagonmakers what they think about cars, you won't get many positive replies, but enthsiastic ones where city governments decide to go full Amish. Ne
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Neither the test group nor the control group does have to know they are part of an experiment.
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
It's not entirely honest that we argue about 'times the teenager has sex decreasing' and 'collapsing birth rates' being a problem when most parents and society itself heavily discourage their teenagers having sex an
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> You don't want kids to smoke, scrolling algo feeds is not better. That's a dogmatic axiom until you can show how TikTok causes lung cancer.
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
You know that you can just, you know, cancel your ISP contract and live in a hut in Montana, right? HN is 'social media', btw.
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
In example 3: Kid lies about their age. Just like they did ever since there was COPA.
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Teachers are not good indicators of measuring 'benefits', as they are both the beneficiaries of a more brain-dead, more bored, more asleep student body, they have rose-tinted ideas about the way things used to be, and they are als
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
Kiki is a corporate emissary caught between empathy and policy. I believe she genuinely wants reconciliation and understanding (“Would you hop on a call?”) but speaks in the soft dialect of institutional mediation. Her motivation is damage
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
When you've seen this over and over again, you notice the pattern. Marsf’s declaration will stand as a warning, yet not a turning point. The Japanese community will fade into quiet dignity, its pages archived and replaced by machine-re
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
> it's true to say that the Internet was created as a surveillance and control tool I'd even argue against that, unless you got some strong evidence supporting such a claim. The mere presence of potentially traceable (IP) addre
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
And still some of IT's biggest trends right now are LLMs, which essentially make shit up on an industrial scale. What is going to be lost is more than an old book for old people: It's the folklore associated with it, the - and I m
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by DocTomoe 11mo ago
In all fairness, if you put data on the internet (aka "the Cloud"), here is no reasonable expectation of privacy, unless you yourself control both the server and the client AND have everything encrypted.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
But if we target only fifty browsers instead of five million websites, we cut ourselves off that sweet sweet punitive monies. it's much more lucrative for lawyers to have a 5-million-strong pool to sue rather than a 50-strong crew, whi
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
At some point, Europe will learn that if they keep preventing international solutions without creating a climate in which similar or better local solutions can emerge, they are cutting their own nose to spite the face. There are secondary a
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
The problems with that argument are that first, the Viking culture was mostly rural and agricultural, the raiding and pillaging was a tiny side-effect that mostly happened during times of economic hardship, not as a way of life ... and that
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I was under the impression that the 20th amendment would still terminate his term on January 20th, noon. In the absence of an elected president, the line of succession as defined in the Presidential Succession Act would kick in, meaning y
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Matter of fact, I can, and have done, all of these things. Recreationally. The idea is not to be hypergeneralist. What I observe - subjectively - is that we are losing whole generations of what used to be the 'nerdy IT/ham-radio&#
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Yes. I have a background in East Asian cultural studies. A lot more expressions are done via the eyes there rather than the mouth. For the uninitiated, it's subtle, but once you get used to it, it becomes more obvious. Anthropologists
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
As a kid who was raised editing and tinkering memory blocks out of CONFIG.SYS, I've been watching this for a while when the GenZ-Mobile-Generation showed up and was not able to do the darnest things. I see with terror in my heart that
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Why buy a new car? Less TÜV trouble, less mechanical problems, and as stupid as it sounds: I work in an environment in which the age of the car is a factor in determining seriousness as a business partner. But even if these were not factors
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
If bias can only be seen by a minority of people ... is it really 'AI bias', or just societal bias? > “In one of the experiment scenarios — which featured racially biased AI performance — the system failed to accurately classi
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
On the other side, I am not going to buy a new EV if it depreciates too quickly. Part of the 'new ride' buyer's consideration is trade-in value when it's time for another one three years down the line.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
By definition, a meme is an idea, image, phrase, or piece of behaviour that spreads through imitation—usually because it captures something funny, relatable, or sharply true about human experience. These are as old as mankind itself. All ma
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
In all fairness, as someone who never 'understood' the 'collective mind' behind skibidi toilet (and would argue there is none, he absurdity itself is the 'meme' - a term used very loosely here, considering meme
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
... and at a service level that makes Google look like a spa.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
This is a very America-centric idea. Most of Europe works on a 'human dignity is inalienable' principle that gives everyone, even immigrants, access to public welfare if the circumstances necessitate it.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Being a victim (some say: customer) of the Deutsche Bahn (with bahn.comfort black status): I sincerely believe they can not. After 40 years of ignoring maintenance, never setting up the East-German rail system for success, I honestly believ
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Mostly it is general caution of website owners not wanting to get sued by Saul-Goodman-type lawsuit mills who abuse this - and virtual every - half-baked law that comes out of the EU. Now, if I was cynical, I would point out that most parli
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Truth probably is somewhere between my extreme and your extreme ... but I have - in 20 years of working in the country - not once encountered a situation in which an AT-contract I saw was not significantly better than an union contract when

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