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1. 10291.▲
   by api 8y ago

   If true it means that social media is spiraling further down in terms of depth and information quality. People are flocking from dopamine hits interspersed with meaningful text to straight dopamine hits with no text. Social media has peaked
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   by api 8y ago

   Same question applies I think. My post was US-centric but the same issues exist to varying degrees across the developed Western world. Check out the unemployment rates in parts of Europe. My overall point is that we should be looking inward
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   by api 8y ago

   It really sums up nerds' lack of comprehension of the importance of user experience. It's like the UX version of the apocryphal "640k is all anyone will ever need."
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   by api 8y ago

   The question not being asked is: what makes people susceptible to radicalization? I think it's telling that America's potential for radicalization might be comparable to that of a former war zone like Iraq. We are not a healthy so
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   by api 8y ago

   > the authorities simply have no credible authority left. But it's the Russians! I do think there was a Russian bot campaign. It was kind of obvious. But the rush to blame the entire phenomenon on them strikes me as disingenuous.
6. 10296.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I don't think you could show me enough inane neo-Nazi videos to make me a Nazi. Insane, ready to gouge my eyes out with an egg beater... maybe... but conversion is not likely.
7. 10297.▲
   by api 8y ago

   Iraq and the bank bailouts followed by absolutely no reform are two massive ones, but there had also been a death by a thousand cuts. I've lost track for example of how many nutritional recommendations have later been retracted. Those
8. 10298.▲
   by api 8y ago

   You have to take a long view of this. Whatever powers we cede to the state or corporations now will remain long after nobody remembers Alex Jones or that Nazi punching bag (forget his name already!) After 9/11 there was a mad rush to c
9. 10299.▲
   by api 8y ago

   I feel like there's an elephant in the living room nobody is seeing, and that's general loss of trust in our institutions. These kinds of ideas have more traction today than they did 20, 50, or 100 years ago because people trust t
10. 10300.▲
    by api 8y ago

    This is the road to rule by men and not laws, since at that point any politician can make up whatever "context" they like to interpret the law any way they see fit. Be careful about the precedent your setting and think about who m
11. 10301.▲
    by api 8y ago

    The people harassing Sandy Hook victims should be arrested for stalking and assault or sued for libel and slander. Letting them talk about it on the Internet just helps the idiots incriminate themselves.
12. 10302.▲
    by api 8y ago

    You realize that your argument is an argument against democracy, right? If mere exposure to bad ideas is this dangerous then mass scale democracy is not viable. The viability of democracy beyond very small groups is dependent on the idea th
13. 10303.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I'm shocked by how many liberals who really ought to know better are cheering for the deployment of corporate oligopolistic censorship at this scale. We're not talking about just kicking someone off Twitter... now we're talki
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    by api 8y ago

    I don't hate on it to hate it. I hate on it because it's orders of magnitude more complex than it needs to be, has a history of being broken, and somehow managed to end up harder to use and more obtuse than the ancient wad of shel
15. 10305.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Demolishing that was a crime. Cincinnati has a lot of absolutely awe inspiring architecture dating from the 1890s to the height of the Art Deco era. Check out the Cincinnati Museum Center sometime. It's the old rail terminal that was s
16. 10306.▲
    by api 8y ago

    No. Don't even need to read the article. You're looking for a very tiny needle in an enormous haystack. You're going to get flooded by false positives. If you turn up the filter enough to filter out false positives you'l
17. 10307.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I trust it more than unencrypted SMS or Facebook Messenger. I trust it less than p2p chat over an encrypted network I control with layered defense in depth. Security is not a boolean.
18. 10308.▲
    by api 8y ago

    If you were born in a first world developed nation and grew up above the poverty line in your area, you are not a rags to riches story.
19. 10309.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Musk should not have gotten into a twitter war. The other guy started it (check the full context) but still... where I come from we have a saying: "Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it." When you war w
20. 10310.▲
    by api 8y ago

    I see that systemd is still junk. I love Alpine Linux. If we (ZeroTier) had our infrastructure to do over we'd use it instead of CentOS for servers. It dumps systemd and countless other pieces of over-engineered cruft that you don&#x27
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    by api 8y ago

    I can't think of anything wrong with this, but I feel like there should be.
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    by api 8y ago

    Many more billions have been spent by others trying to do these things and they have failed.
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    by api 8y ago

    Come back when you led a team to build an orbital rocket with a reusable first stage while simultaneously leading a team to build a luxury electric vehicle with self-drive capability... and largely succeeded in both with a few hiccups. I th
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    by api 8y ago

    Every time I get sick of the Dems, the Republicans come along and show me why I can never support them. Then when I get sick of the Republicans... repeat.
25. 10315.▲
    by api 8y ago

    Wait it's called what ? Sounds very professional. Sounds like the system I want counting my votes. Maybe they won out over v0tr.io and Votester?
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    by api 8y ago

    If mere exposure to irrational ideas is this dangerous then this basically means the neoreactionaries are right and democracy is not viable. If people are that dumb they should not be able to vote. I think the answer is much simpler but equ
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    by api 8y ago

    Block chain developed by someone halfway competent would be better than glorified Access databases. From what I've read most election systems don't bother to have any cryptographic record whatsoever.
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    by api 8y ago

    I think the best scenario would be for people to see en masse that his predictions amount to nothing. Some people will never catch on but many will. Over time this will discredit his movement.
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    by api 8y ago

    I have mixed feelings about this. I fear it will actually make Jones' brand of demagoguery and crackpot theories more appealing and sexy. The best thing to do might be to let far-right conspiracy theory propaganda die in the mainstream
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    by api 8y ago

    Sure. I expect that in cryptocurrency when the current bubble pops. It's likely that the most interesting things in cryptocurrency will be introduced during the crypto-recession. Right now there is too much noise.