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by JackCh 8y ago
Fair enough. The confusion seems to be so common I wonder where it comes from originally. Evidently it's not coming from dictionaries... maybe schools are creating this misconception by primarily discussing government censorship.
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by JackCh 8y ago
The theory as I've heard it goes that youtube believes manual human review of videos is becoming increasingly necessary and creates a significant expense (hiring human reviewers is more expensive than algorithmic review). The less mon
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by JackCh 8y ago
But as otakucode points out, the resulting Baby Youtubes from a broken up Youtube probably wouldn't be economically viable. Independent 'Baby Youtubes' would probably be surmounted by another nu-Youtube kicked off by the lik
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by JackCh 8y ago
I think this may be a case where the truth is difficult for the general public to believe because it sounds too "conspiratorial".
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by JackCh 8y ago
Maybe this makes this problem a candidate for nationalization then, but it's questionable at best if that would actually improve the situation (particularly for people residing outside of the country that nationalized it, presumably
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by JackCh 8y ago
Nobody here is under the impression that youtube is threatening people with imprisonment. So pointing out the distinction is tiring and pedantic.
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "But Youtube isn't preventing the creators from hosting content elsewhere. They aren't hitting them with a slapp lawsuit. They aren't colluding with other websites to ban these videos." Again, you're not
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by JackCh 8y ago
AFAIK nothing. From what I've seen nearly everybody is remaining on youtube and is counting on using alternative monetization platforms such as patreon or selling merchandise. This gives them a security net if youtube decides to demo
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by JackCh 8y ago
The "my preferred definition of censorship specifies that it can only be done by governments, and [company] is not a government" rhetoric that always appears with these sort of stories is truly tiring and pedantic. Nobody here
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>If you can't read and understand that I'm sure you can collect disability checks from the government When it comes to computers there is a WIDE divide between can't read and doesn't read . I'm sure nearly ev
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by JackCh 8y ago
Log into? The 'typical user" interpretation of what "access" means in this context is probably worse than what was actually done. "Access" isn't a word that sounds innocent, if the app told them it was
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by JackCh 8y ago
What client are you referring to? I've used VLC on android to stream media from my DLNA server. Is that what you're talking about? Or is there a better solution available? (I've found VLC to be unstable in this configurati
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by JackCh 8y ago
I hear you, and it's not like I haven't dipped my toes in to test the waters. But after 20+ years of vim usage it's not so easy to turn on a dime. (Particularly when Vim is more than sufficient for the work I'm actuall
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by JackCh 8y ago
My biggest complaint about lisp (which I love dearly) is that the overwhelming majority of the lisp community (or lisp communities) have already settled on Emacs as the obvious choice in editors. And for good reason, the emacs tooling is u
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by JackCh 8y ago
House fires tend to negatively impact the whole community. Not only could such fire spread to other properties, but it would expend fire department resources and quite possibly lower property values in the rest of the neighborhood. Officer
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by JackCh 8y ago
Was it also a regression when governments around the world banned children from gambling in casinos?
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by JackCh 8y ago
It bothered me back then, and I wasn't alone. Here's an article from 1999 in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/24/nyregion/suit-claims-poke... Obviously the objections to pokemon cards
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by JackCh 8y ago
I've heard of incidents where children are given Valve Steam giftcards to purchase games, but then turn around and use the funds on the gift card to gamble. The parents involved have no notion of gambling even being a possibility with
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by JackCh 8y ago
Just a guess, but perhaps these card collecting games haven't received the same degree of negative attention because to outsiders the card game aspect obscures the collecting/gambling aspect. With CS:Go skins it may be more obvio
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by JackCh 8y ago
That's just being pedantic. Swap out "pressured the regulators" with "lobby the lawmakers" and his question is perfectly valid. Let's not pretend large corporations like casinos can't throw their wei
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Here's the weird thing though. My entire childhood was filled with opaque plastic packs of cards, pokemon cards, football cards etc. You didn't know which 5 cards were in there. The cards were semi-randomly distributed
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by JackCh 8y ago
> "Do the licensed gambling entities not perceive this as a threat? Or has gambling revenue increase overall because these games / apps basically groom young people in to being habitual gamblers as they age?" Probably a
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by JackCh 9y ago
In my experience it's standard to pay in person when you pick it up, whether you're using cash or credit. But if you're getting delivery they ask for your credit card number when you place the order (and obviously cash is ha
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by JackCh 9y ago
Well at least it's not digital cheese. More seriously, in America "cheese" is a term that's regulated. Cheez-wiz in a can is called something like "cheese product" because it can't legally be called &quot
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by JackCh 9y ago
Honestly I have better things to worry about. Despite that being theoretically possible, how often do you think it actually happens? It's more likely that I'll be hit and killed by a car tomorrow, a more likely scenario with a f
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by JackCh 9y ago
I see. I typically pay with cash, however whenever my trip to an ATM is overdue I pay with credit and they have my number (and delivery address, and typical pizza order) on file, correlated with my phone number. The pizzeria I most freq
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by JackCh 9y ago
I'd wager the general public has overestimated the capabilities of aviation autopilots for quite a long time and only recently have common autopilot systems begun to approach what the public thinks about them. For instance in 1947 a U
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by JackCh 9y ago
Maybe I'm just out of touch, but the appeal of online pizza ordering is something I can't wrap my mind around. Calling and placing an order using the traditional telephone method seems far easier to me. I do it often, more often
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by JackCh 9y ago
Are there any consumer-centric arguments against this being the default, or is this generally considered to be good for users? I've heard the argument against setting the DNT field by default ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by JackCh 9y ago
Your comment lacks specificity so it's difficult to ascertain what elements of technology you understand the Amish to exploit for themselves, and which you believe they parasite off the rest of us. Speaking generally then, I think it&#

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