SerLava

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by SerLava 9y ago
Easy- just make ads that humans can't tell are ads. Also helps if you make ads that the FCC can't tell are ads! As they've been doing.... sigh.
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by SerLava 9y ago
They probably wouldn't like it, but a market is a good way to describe those types of transactional backroom deal.
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by SerLava 9y ago
Meta nitpick: he's clearly referring to the future relative to now, so it makes sense in that context.
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by SerLava 9y ago
I think the word you're looking for is "at" As in "I would at stayed home." or "I at good grammar."
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by SerLava 9y ago
> and in most cases they think much better than humans. >Lately seeing what humans did and still do to planet Earth, >If humans pretend to be more intelligent than animals, My brain knows this is just someone being snarky on the in
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by SerLava 9y ago
That's a myth. Facebook maintains detailed data profiles on non-users.
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by SerLava 9y ago
I guess you've described the 4 steps to existing as a company that makes itself known for burning the fuck out of people without recourse - you don't get to have a good reputation in the areas you want. That user just said "h
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by SerLava 9y ago
Im not sure what you'd call it when liberals listen to... Slightly biased news, and conservatives listen to people with clearly expressed political allegiances who refer to conservatives as "us", liberals as "them",
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by SerLava 9y ago
It's clear that NPR has bias in its choice of reporting, but every other political radio station has a clearly stated allegiance more than they have a simple bias. The difference is stark -"oh boy this story is here for the left
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by SerLava 9y ago
This always puts it into a bit of perspective for me. We'd had, say, 99999 generations of people precede us. For 1 generation, we've felt that a vital component of every parent-child relationship is actually the United States Air
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by SerLava 9y ago
I should clarify, there should only be a pattern like that for the many frivolous services, and a different password for financial medical etc.
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by SerLava 9y ago
One thing that works is putting the name of the service into part of your password for each site. So like, Abzysbej@10netflix and Abzysbej@10hulu
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by SerLava 9y ago
Well to be fair, most Roman stuff didn't survive, and plenty of non-steel-reinforced concrete things will last just as long as the Roman stuff. Often times buildings are disappointingly short lived, but I think sometimes people lament
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by SerLava 9y ago
I don't understand why people think "wine-dark" could mean "purple". Just parse it like normal. This grammatical construction means "as dark as wine"... blue green and red things can all be dark or light.
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by SerLava 9y ago
The other strange thing is that people think about this stuff in the most mundane of situations. If there's an impassable genetic predisposition to intelligence, it's preventing you from becoming Einstein - not, you know, a mid le
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by SerLava 9y ago
Oh. That actually makes sense. It kind of seems like the whole story is silly now...
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by SerLava 9y ago
Well, Chinese is a very cool language but it's awful for keyboard input and the like. Ideally we'd use a language with an alphabet that also isn't tonal.
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by SerLava 9y ago
I've been questioning the general assumption that male-dominated things are always desirable. Maybe some things are stupid to do, and men tend to get tricked into them more often. Maybe moderately high pay is a trick to get people to d
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by SerLava 9y ago
Those things aren't zero sum. When a business gets hacked and shuts down, a bunch of people spend time sitting around trying to get a new job, and then learning that new job. If going outside is scary, police can make it not scary and
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by SerLava 9y ago
Ugh, it's a park... relax.
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by SerLava 9y ago
It was amazing. You could talk to anybody - everyone was very positive. I haven't seen anything like it since.
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by SerLava 9y ago
I agree that it's probably not unethical. But during the past, the human population was actually too low, creating instability and suffering. At some point it may become too high, or may have already become too high. It really depends
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by SerLava 9y ago
Curation of shitty content is also built right into the algorithm. They'll hide behind "But people are voting for this mindless content" but that's not the full picture. A vote after 5 seconds is actually weighted high
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by SerLava 9y ago
It sounds like the experiment there wasn't to add call to action buttons, but rather to change the wording to be more action-suggestive. And they might have flubbed them - I see people go way too far on that sometimes. Changing it from
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by SerLava 9y ago
I've still never figured out why Hacker News gradually turns down the contrast when something gets downvoted. It's the worst possible way to represent it. Absolutely frustrating. Even though downvoted comments usually are inflamma
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by SerLava 9y ago
I'm in marketing and do most of my work in a proprietary CMS. 1. See if it has to integrate with any software. Find out what marketing really really needs to still have, and what they could switch out if necessary. 2. See what they do.
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by SerLava 9y ago
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/do-cold-drinks-... I don't think cold water is actually bad for digestion.
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by SerLava 9y ago
Well realistically, someone could become a reasonably functional, useful doctor in 12 weeks, but the problem is they'd kill people pretty frequently. Bad programmers just write bad code, so if you're building a stupid website it
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by SerLava 9y ago
Chili peppers can be used to compensate for otherwise poor flavor, but that is certainly not the only use case. Fat sugar salt and other spices can be used like that too. If British food is obnoxiously spicy to you, you're probably ver
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by SerLava 9y ago
Hm. Wouldn't that have little bearing on the result? Can't really say "he poisons" when that wasn't the plot of the story.

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