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by Hokusai 5y ago
To move wealth from the poor and the middle class to the rich is not what commonly is known as wealth redistribution. Even if it can mean that if you take the words literally.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Brooks is literally against wealth redistribution. The parent comment is very relevant for this individual.
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> The democratisation of the public discourse haunts and frightens the ruling classes to their bones. "democratization" does not exist in social media. Algorithms designed to maximize profit rule what people read and watch. It&
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by Hokusai 5y ago
CGP Grey has a great video about this topic: Americapox: The Missing Plague - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk TL;DR; You need big cities to keep plagues ongoing.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Absolute certainty is impossible, that is not an argument to not act. Completely agree.
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> vehemently disagree and will fight to allow people to break the rules The new rules save lives. Crash accidents involving large trucks statistic: https://zarzaurlaw.com/category/blog/trucking-accidents/
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Great text on why it's so difficult to put into code human activities. Do you want a library to deal with complex math equations? No problem, you can define clear unit test that will stand the trial of time. Do you want to code time zo
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So we may still find some day ice-nine like the one found in Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. Or do we know that it's impossible?
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That exactly. People were disgusted by the attention grab and the lack of respect for people risking their lives. 'I'm a billionaire, look at me!' syndrome.
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Here in Sweden it shows a list of products, none is a phone.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I upgraded to Windows 11 beta. I get green Blue Screens of Death. The right click button (contextual menu) does not cover all previous functionality so it has a 'show old menu' option to bring back what is lacking. Edge and Teams
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Most products are produced by a few corporations, monopolies are on the rise, that kills competition and variety but it allows to accumulate power to further increase control over the markets. That's the reason that antimonopoly legisl
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Business, but I'm also curious now.
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Oil Buddhists will have have allowed that. The dangers of greenhouse gases was already there, and it did not matter. It has caused wars and the rise of authoritarian governments, and it did not matter. When money is the main motivator for a
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This should invalidate any argument that the UK does not need to accept Indonesian immigration because it's not their problem. Clearly the political and economic situation in many countries is shaped by powerful countries. That does no
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by Hokusai 5y ago
From the original comment: "The algorithms are still optimized for increasing sales and engagement, not improving recommendations (for the user)." That is an opinion about 'product strategy'. The answers, in this context
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> They might not work for you, but for millions of Spotify users they seem to work. That is the most reasonable explanation. HN users are not the average user of Spotify.
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> The creepy factor does way more damage to FB’s business than the bells and whistles that the buyers of inventory use adds to it. Facebook incited a genocide in Myanmar. PR is not in their list of worries.
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So, learn on the job. Why we do not have the same learning time that doctors. Time to learn, time to go to conferences, time to share knowledge with colleagues. Study at home makes no sense if society expects people to have children and edu
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"What’s also apparent from her vantage point is that supply uncertainties, disruptions, and inflationary forces are here for the foreseeable future, perhaps into 2023. But how things play out this month, one of two peak seasons each ye
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I'm not Swedish. I stayed in the country for the nice working environment.
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In Sweden I have seen that people just understand that others are human. If you stay at home because you have a sick kid, I support that. If I leave half an hour early because I have a doctor appointment my manager understands. My manager m
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Eurozone is at 3.4. But as inflation is the result of pandemic related production halts, the BCE is asking too wait for the shock to pass before taking measures that may weak the economy.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
But as an Amazon employee you need to sign a non compete agreement. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-... Or we do stop Amazon, and others, or the future will be the corporate hell t
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> The robots went silent. What about the traffic coming to our CDN sites from Facebook User-Agents? The gap is indisputable. We see about 30% of a typical request rate hitting us. But it's not zero; why is that? We'll let you k
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> Amazon has a much larger surface attack area so if they were playing fast and loose with security, chances are we would know already. I get your point and I am no taking about AWS but about Twitch. Each part of the company has its own
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> this isn't something I'd expect from an Amazon owned property Because you expect Amazon to put security priority over new features and profit? We have very different understandings of what Amazon stands for.
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extremely unpopular in the real -world- USA.
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> My experience has been that it is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated So, if someone wants to do something to give that person tools to achieve it will be productive. If someone does Not want to do something it is v
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> The public is not presently pro-regulation I guess that this is true for the USA. But Facebook is a global company and other countries may be more regulation friendly.

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