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by apatters 8y ago
If the author of the site is reading this, I was unable to scroll down on Firefox/Android.
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Eternal comments might actually be a pretty bad design pattern. Humans forget things that other humans say in face to face conversations. By conversing naturally with each other over a casual electronic medium, our brains might be tricked i
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We are talking about a country where tens of millions of subsistence farmers died in one of history's worst famines, subsistence farming isn't something anyone does if they have other options--one or two bad years can mean starvat
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It's one thing to work at a company with questionable business practices, even if they could hypothetically lead to a Black Mirror future. It's another thing to work at a company which has decided to aid a government on the other
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I mean, this is a forum filled with web developers...
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I clicked mainly because the clickbaitiness of the headline annoyed me and I wanted to inform myself a bit before complaining about it. The NYT rewarded me by telling me I have one less free article this month. That annoyed me even more so
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by apatters 8y ago
The Wikipedia article on extended family looks like a good primer on the diversity of family structures that exists around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_family Rather than "everyone is roughly
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by apatters 8y ago
The skeptic in me is very wary of romanticizing the campfire model. For me it has generated a lot of short term happiness but very few lasting, deeply committed relationships. And if you look at human history, this model is the exception, n
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by apatters 8y ago
How do you know she was telling the truth? If she criticizes the system too much she'll lose credit and be blacklisted from booking flights etc.
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China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced(independent.co.uk)
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Doesn't the Snowden phenomenon kind of make his point? His leaks spawned a shitstorm of US/Western media coverage and even court cases against the government. What happens inside China if a Chinese national flees the country and b
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by apatters 8y ago
Both viewpoints are half correct. Automation eliminates low skilled, low paying jobs and replaces them with a smaller number of higher skilled, higher paying jobs. Whether this is good for society or not depends on the difference between th
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by apatters 8y ago
I think micropayments are a classic example of a solution that seems sensible to engineering under the assumption that humans are rational beings, but in the real world it falls apart because they aren't. The hardest part of making a s
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by apatters 8y ago
What a shame, I was looking forward to picking one of these up the next time I went back to the US. Seems like I may have to bite the bullet and accept that my Raspberry Pi, while a fun gadget, is not a substitute for a full fledged HTPC. A
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by apatters 8y ago
This sort of happened when the WHATWG effectively wrested control of HTML away from the W3C (although Google was not a founding member, they are one of the Steering Members now). https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/when-standards
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by apatters 8y ago
Not to mention the clickbait/hyperbole in the title. I strongly believe that targeted advertising has negative effects on society, but "breaking the world" screams "we want to grab and monetize your attention by activati
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by apatters 8y ago
I don't get the cynicism. The article leads with a concrete example of technology working and producing better outcomes. I have no doubt that having a human coach is a big win and results in better outcomes, if you get a good one. One
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by apatters 8y ago
It bears mentioning that services like Radio Free Asia have been broadcasting into China via shortwave and have been an uncensored source of news for decades. Tuning into a shortwave broadcast is more anonymous than the Internet will ever b
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by apatters 8y ago
Yep, favorited this post solely for this reply. Excellent job
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Nothing beats searx.me - Google's results are good (but slipping), but when you combine Google, DDG and Bing, it doesn't get any better
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Oh man. This is amazing. Going to require at least one full evening to figure out WTF I am looking at though :)
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I've always been curious about this hobby but never jumped in. The technology is an interesting curiosity to me but speaking bluntly what would probably give me the impetus to really spend time on it would be tapping into any kind of u
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by apatters 8y ago
This is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen
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In the United States, the Founding Fathers debated the idea of direct democracy at length and rejected it. Their reasons included preserving state sovereignty/local governance, and protecting rural minorities. Here's an article by
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by apatters 8y ago
Can I have a tool to add this noise please? So that Facebook et al. can't find me and build a profile on me based on random images that I didn't even know existed?
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by apatters 8y ago
Listening to their experiences is a pretty easy way. If they have a bunch of experiences you don't have they're likely to have a perspective worth reflecting on. As a bonus, listening to people makes them like you, too.
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That's an interesting question. I'm not sure this is a satisfactory answer, but I think what we do isn't really enabled by superior intellect as much as it is by a focus on good process and introspection. In other words it co
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That's a fair response, thanks. I used the word 'push' because I was responding to a comment which identified 50/50 representation in all occupations as potentially a reasonable goal. It would surely take a big push to a
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Your two comments don't really answer the question I posed. The first one denigrates it and attempts to outsource the task of answering it to Reddit. The second one is, I guess, mostly a recitation of various things feminists have done
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by apatters 8y ago
Excellent point

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