alanlammiman

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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   Thanks! Will have a look at those
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   This is really great, congratulations. Is it a business? Or open-sourcing it by any chance? Would love to try it on some other forums too
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   Well, legislation + policing + prosecution + courts of law with due process are precisely that - manual moderation of social behaviour at massive scale (admittedly not billions, but hundreds of millions of individuals). Yes, endlessly compl
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   ah, but you are assuming that the inconsistent enforcement is an accident. "for my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law"
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   LOL. It's telling that even in these satires they don't quite get the tone right - it still has a tinge of US- centrism in there
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   True, but lots of harm can be done in 20 years and lots of harm was done by concentrated media in the past (eg all the cases in Manufacturing Consent)
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   Indeed. I can see the logic for the US - accept that these guys milk your own citizens a bit in exchange for bringing in loads of cash from abroad plus massive spying and influence capabilities wrt the rest of the world. But why GB, EU etc
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   Yes. In both directions: 'Low-profile' advertisers (millions of dollars per year is still low-profile) meanwhile get the nonsensical AI rejections and shadowbans
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   by alanlammiman 5y ago

   Indeed, and therefore it reveals that enforcing guidelines is not the priority.
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    Unfortunately it's not just that. A few years ago a friend reached out to a few investigative journalists with documents about wrongdoing at a big co. No response. This was at the time of the Mossack Fonseca hack when many of those sam
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    In society not everybody is equal, however in societies with rule of law, the idea is that everybody is at least deemed equal under the law. That this unfortunately often fails in practice is very different from explicitly and intentionally
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    depends on your definition of 'automate'. If you mean by computer software, perhaps not, but it begs the question of why one would presume that automation to be necessary. If you just mean 'software' (not necessarily com
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    it cuts both ways. for every high profile person posting real porn (eg Neymar's revenge porn in the article) there are thousands of instances of regular users with ML flagged 'napalm girls'
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    If the moderation is extremely prejudiced, then it doesn't work. Though I don't disagree that lots of well-intentioned humans could be a path to moderation that works.
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    yep, agree. So simply preventing all the re-work (on the vendor side) of everyone having to implement account management, payments, etc + the resulting confusion (on the user side) would be a start
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    Interesting, do you mean no link rot in that the URC at least gives you the metadata for what was there originally instead of showing a 404 error, even though the content itself is no longer there? Or do you also imagine archiving the page
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    Ask HN: How would you redesign the WWW (WorldWideWeb) today?

    2 points by alanlammiman 5y ago|5 comments
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    I believe one of the arguments used in the suit was along the lines of "Apple, by making the minimum price (other than 'free') for apps and IAPs 99c, prevents us from charging, say, 37c and this harms consumers and is anticom
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    I was looking into this recently, but only superficially, so apologies (and please correct me) if I'm mistaken here: 1. Your intro appears a bit misleading in that because 'Certified B-Corp' is just a certification issued by
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    by alanlammiman 5y ago

    My company runs one of the top iPhone apps for creating & exporting stickers to WhatsApp (and iMessage, Telegram & others). When WhatsApp started accepting animated stickers, we implemented the Giphy API to allow users to get GIFs a
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    by alanlammiman 9y ago

    I personally know vik, knew of the project, and so was so excited to see this article here by coincidence. He's personally investing great effort to rescue music that otherwise wouldnt be heard. Super recommend his other albums (one is