abathur

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by abathur 7y ago
Oh, for sure. I just took the first study. And it's a good example of how big the leaps are in our thinking and communication around these topics. It's possible the others are all stellar, but my experience says it's not like
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by abathur 7y ago
I wrote a few direct responses, but they all felt patronizing. Apologies for the length, but I'm hoping to avoid that by showing my math, as it were: About 7 years ago, I started to wonder about a cluster of concepts that I've yet
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by abathur 7y ago
I guess the inverse is: heaven forbid people like something without letting their passion curdle into possessive competition with other people who try to like it?
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by abathur 7y ago
I was interested in hashed aliases as well, though I haven't had any terribly bright ideas about how to mesh platform-blindness with a revenue model that at least covers costs. I've thought about tokens or credits that get consume
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by abathur 7y ago
Cool. I've had a similar idea kicking around in my head for a few years. How do you think about the compromise/disclosure risk of the data you keep that associates the subscriber account with aliases?
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by abathur 7y ago
I don't think this negates the parent's concern. The parent uses an extreme example, but I think the underlying concern is: what assumptions get baked in when we assume the available environments are pretty normal ? Our modern en
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Afterthought: an interesting test of coops like this are how well they identify and exclude/expel customers and workers that cause trouble.
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by abathur 7y ago
Ditto. I imagine there may be limited overlap between people who do the work a given coop could provide and those with the ability to start standing up a service and app. Tech hiring seems hard even for companies with large reserves of expe
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by abathur 7y ago
Sorry for the slow response. Came down with a cold and haven't felt very lucid. I'm just talking about positive externalities: anywhere the social value created by producing + consuming local news exceeds the social cost of produc
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by abathur 7y ago
This just begs the question. People concerned about the loss of local news aren't concerned about the reallocation of attentional resources and eyeball-seconds. They don't agree that the social value of local news is equal to the
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by abathur 7y ago
I am also not a fan of government-funded media. But this sounds a lot like a rediscription of the dystopia we're already rushing towards. The advertising model that floated newspaper journalism was circulation . Whether you read 1 s
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by abathur 7y ago
This strikes me as conspicuously focused on market value. The market will only find a solution if it is profitable to find one. I don't think most people who are concerned about the loss of "local news" are concerned about
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by abathur 7y ago
Another general vote for a Brother laser printer, though I differ on some details here. In 2014 (if I'm remembering right...) I bought a DCP-7065DN (B/W all-in-one with wired Ethernet). I don't print much (sometimes go months
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by abathur 7y ago
(for context, long time windows user--but not for the past ~22 months. Started using macos in 2013. When my desktop died in early 2018, I rebuilt with nixos.) Maybe this shades into what you mean by diy, but I don't think finding one i
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by abathur 7y ago
Not to suggest they aren't also struggling, but mostly-national outlets with a strong or exclusive web presence aren't the epicenter of the crisis in journalism--they're the outlets weathering the storm. Newspapers, particula
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by abathur 7y ago
It seems like you may be misinterpreting what "family planning" means. "Family planning", as it's commonly understood, is an umbrella term for how normal, everyday people avoid having children when they don't w
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by abathur 7y ago
Later on page 46 there's a more succinct statement. The judge is evaluating one element of the relief the plaintiffs sought--that the agencies be required to expunge data copied during a search which, per the ruling, is unconstitutiona
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by abathur 7y ago
Edit: Oops. Fixed a use of "probable cause" where I meant "reasonable suspicion". IANAL, but my rough impression from the opinion is kinda . It seems like the reasonable suspicion can emerge entirely from the interactio
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by abathur 7y ago
While this is very relevant in a broad sense, it isn't at matter in this case. The plaintiffs are 10 U.S. citizens and one lawful permanent resident.
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by abathur 7y ago
IANAL, but I'm reading the opinion itself and I've found it pretty accessible so far. If you find this issue interesting, you may find reading at least part of it rewarding. The ACLU has a PDF embedded on this page: https:/&
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by abathur 7y ago
Ditto, roughly.
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And a stock symbol. :)
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This might just come down to why I'm not sure I'm interpreting you right. It's one thing to have the platform equivalent of a spam folder for new top-level posts that smell like junk. But these platforms have more significant
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by abathur 7y ago
> Make note: Design and contract parameters go hand in hand. When the front page is the only entry point, only a single page of the publication requires hyperbole to convert passers-by to readers. Online, every article becomes a potentia
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by abathur 7y ago
Can you clarify which statements in the parent you're asserting are counter-factual? The parent seems to assert: 1. the parties function as controlled opposition 2. the Democratic Party is pseudo-left 3. after the 1970s, the two partie
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by abathur 7y ago
Replying to your root comment but also addressing some points in subcomments. Generally (and perhaps ideally), I like the idea of more visibility/transparency into what algorithms (and human moderators) do. But I think it's worth
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by abathur 7y ago
Maybe I'm misreading this comment or the context (because I think the biggest single piece we're currently lacking in platform moderation is maximal transparency into what/who gets moderated and how)... but how would this &qu
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by abathur 7y ago
This is a good response. Building a little (but speculatively... I don't know much about wasps and their nest-building instincts): I often wonder what (if any) fractions of behavior that gets chalked up to "instinct" are actu
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by abathur 7y ago
I've seen similar variants of this headline floating around, so I don't want to over-blame this Fox outlet for something that's just in the water by this point (I don't recall if they were all on Fox-family outlets, but
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by abathur 7y ago
Indeed! I'm a fan of hyperfine and bat, and I've been meaning to check out pastel when I have more time...

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