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by alecb 2y ago
The idea of having a moral compass is antagonistic to the worldview of a lot of people in tech, so they are instinctively dismissive or condescending to anyone who does.
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by alecb 4y ago
it means that essentially the corrections officer union has gummed up any and all reforms passed through legislation (think video cameras in public areas, anti-violence training, etc.). this has led to a situation where there is a preventab
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by alecb 4y ago
for those unaware, even in deep blue New York, Riker's has been run as a Guantanamo-style prison camp where there is no civilian oversight over conditions or corrections officers. to me, the most appalling aspect has been the amount of
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by alecb 4y ago
If you believe Facebook is terrible, isn't taking a high-paid position there and gamifying their internal processes in your favor while not helping a floundering business plug the holes in its sinking ship the real way to take direct a
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by alecb 4y ago
I agree with most of your point but why be dismissive of the very evident reality of how corroded democracy has become in the Western world in large part because of how Facebook-poisoned certain demographics and their elected representives
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by alecb 4y ago
Amazon has a pretty developed video and display advertising market for publishers called Unified Ad Marketplace; for our business, it's typically in second behind AdX/Adsense for revenue and impressions won. That said, I'm no
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by alecb 5y ago
WSJ's reporting is very good but their editorial board is maybe the most off-kilter in the entire industry; like 1/3rd of their op-eds are asking why the Supreme Court won't take up a case to allow employers to bring whips to
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Why Is Every Young Person in America Watching ‘The Sopranos’?(nytimes.com)
3 points by alecb 5y ago|1 comments
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Let It Die(onposting.substack.com)
2 points by alecb 5y ago|0 comments
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by alecb 5y ago
The regular DDG results for 'tank man' are baffling bad too; it amounts to little more than entries on Wikipedia that have 'tank' in them.
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“VC Lives Matter”: Silicon Valley Investors Want to Oust San Francisco’s DA(motherjones.com)
7 points by alecb 6y ago|0 comments
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by alecb 6y ago
It's pretty bizarre how much overlap there is between HN commenters and people who have been rewired by the Facebook news feed.
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by alecb 6y ago
There's nothing secret about New York's "deep interests" - real estate development is the city's king maker.
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by alecb 6y ago
Who on earth thinks Mother Jones is a far left propaganda outfit?
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by alecb 6y ago
Damn, a millionaire professor at Stanford has issues with Howard Zinn. Funny coincidence!
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by alecb 6y ago
A total coincidence that 15 FWD: FWD: UNIon RUInEd My Life stories immediately dominate the conversation whenever a story like this hits the front page.
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by alecb 6y ago
The people who become obscenely wealthy in this country become so precisely because they have so little regard for others and almost no comprehension of the long-term impacts of massive inequality (either to the nation or their own physical
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Top Gov. Officials Plan for Scenario Where CA and Others Secede After Election(nytimes.com)
1 points by alecb 6y ago|0 comments
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by alecb 6y ago
So you're digestion of her letter should not be informed in anyway by the fact that she routinely employed the tactics that she now claims she's a victim of? She's spent her career vilifying and seeking out personal retributi
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by alecb 6y ago
There's several layers of irony here, chief of which Bari Weiss headed a very vocal campaign to fire anyone at Colombia who didn't exist on the far-right on Israel/Palestine - and of course, falsely painted several professors
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by alecb 6y ago
They should have spun off DoubleClick for Publishers and other server/ad mediation into separate companies and is likely what will happen if the government is successful in their case.
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by alecb 6y ago
What does Google have a shrinking share of? This article is specifically referencing ad tech, of which DFP has near 100% market share, while AdX is greatly outperforming it's rival (Facebook audience network pulled support for mobile w
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by alecb 6y ago
Their issue isn't that they are in the newspaper business. Their issue is that they own almost all of the ad tech business from top to bottom.
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by alecb 6y ago
How do you develop a worldview where the grotesquely status quo mainstream of Reddit is considered "far-left"?
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by alecb 6y ago
The site became mainstream while still being extremely vulnerable to manipulation by a very small pool of individuals. They've done next to nothing to address how effective and rampant brigading is (among other tactics).
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by alecb 6y ago
What "political agenda"? If anything, the original core of the site was very left-leaning or heterodox technophiles that didn't have a home on Slashdot. The political parts of the site are now very much deadlocked in the cent
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by alecb 6y ago
Yah, it's also a clumsy plagiarization of our article: https://allthatsinteresting.com/nodosaur-dinosaur-mummy It looks like their site is another on the list that lifts our articles and recirculates them on social med
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by alecb 7y ago
Ah yes, "school choice", a nice rebranding effort for privatizing another industry so Betsy Devos and other aspiring oligarchs can destroy a public good for their profit.
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by alecb 7y ago
As someone who's been in the digital publishing space for a while, it still confounds me that they became the industry standard. Their technology just did not work in any capacity and it was widely known that their metrics were complet
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by alecb 7y ago
Defensive ETFs (consumer staples, health care, utilities) along with diversified bonds. Investors also tend to migrate toward dividends during a recession. Note that health care is not as safe given the political climate. A few funds from t

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