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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
What does matter is what their primary goal is- Is it to increase user engagement for its own sake (and ad revenue is an incidental necessity), or is it to increase user engagement to maximize their ad revenue? That is, is the main goal of
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
I've written software used by thousands of companies for a couple decades. That makes me happy just as much as the salary I made writing it. Providing utility to large numbers of people is satisfying. And for your startup to change the
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
This policy adjustment is in regard to a federal program that shared the seized proceeds with the state and local police that made the seizures using federal laws. That is, the laws that were 'suspected' broken were federal laws,
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
"Making ads not feel like as much of the FB experience as they are is, itself, about ads..." Well, we just disagree here. I see it from exactly the other end. That the main FB goal is to engage users, and minimizing the (necessary
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Right, so ads don't feel like much of the FB experience. My point is that FB seems much, much more focused on creating an engaging user experience than it does on ads, so it seems wrong to say that their deep learning efforts have ads
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
"Basically everything in FB has one main goal: Ads" Is this actually true, or a glib answer? Ads certainly don't feel like much of the FB experience, nowhere near the level of Google, or even Twitter. They're negligible,
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
The inevitable HN comment on the topic, even though the article explicitly contradicts it. Sigh.
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
He could possibly know just from watching BTC flow through Gox.
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Elon Musk is building a five mile Hyperloop test track(theverge.com)
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Right, and libraries in various municipalities are in fact censored, both in terms of publications and in internet access they allow. Why would this be different?
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
A thought that occurs to me is that if the government is providing internet access, various pressure groups will leverage that for various kinds of censorship. Why is my government providing access to porn? To religious sites? To sites th
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Lots of people need to read it, including many who consider themselves scientifically literate. Evolution is a very widely misunderstood field, to the extent that many people with biology degrees harbor a number of misconceptions about i
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Home-Built Scanning Tunneling Microscope(dberard.com)
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by WillNotDownvote 12y ago
Does a fantastic job of threading a very thin needle. I was surprised at how perfectly they pulled that off.
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White House seeks cyber bounce from Sony hack concerns(politico.com)
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