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by arczyx 3y ago
I really don't want to ask this since it run contrary to HN rules, but did you really read the article? No one expect Facebook to remove all misinformation/hate speech/etc. That is unreasonable. But they have literally 1 da
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by arczyx 3y ago
Rather than the 5% number (which may be the best they can do with current start of art), what feels more damning to me is that they found a method that can reduce misinformation (by way more than 5%), and then decided to rollback it. >
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by arczyx 3y ago
> At worst its negligence According to the article, Facebook did make the deliberate decision not to dedicate resources to Myanmar and other non-western countries, so I don't think it's negligence. "Greed" is more app
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by arczyx 3y ago
So Facebook is presented with a trolley problem that have people lives on one track and more profit on the other track, and chose the latter, just as what we can expect from big corporations nowadays. Not an unexpected decision overall, but
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by arczyx 4y ago
Maybe this is what you're talking about? https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Club_Project#20...
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by arczyx 4y ago
This is unrelated to the news, but does anyone here ever get unknown charge from "Google Play Bending Spoons"? It doesn't appear in the Google Transaction History, but my ewallet provider confirmed it was from Google Play. So
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by arczyx 4y ago
> For some reason more people picked the latter. So, they just dislike public transit? I mean, it seems like it's the same trolley that have run over a lot of people for the previous 19 levels, why wouldn't I want to decommissi
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by arczyx 4y ago
consumer's demand is indeed part of the problem, but the corporate/industrial's perpetual quest for growth is also part of it IMHO. if corporations are okay with not growing, planned obsolescence won't be a thing and we
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by arczyx 5y ago
I think that 220bn is the profit of that particular Irish subsidiary. They got their revenue from all other Microsoft's subsidiaries around the world and only need very little expense ("directors", etc). Hence, profit.
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by arczyx 6y ago
> You understand that without copyright the underlying content wouldn't exist, right? Is it, really? Not OP but I think there is a lot of room for alternative business models that doesn't have to depend on copyright. It's
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by arczyx 6y ago
> ...that means that industry (and therefore industry jobs) is more useful to society. Because it is generating more wealth. I feel that this is a rather narrow view, since there are a lot of companies who generate wealth by being detrim
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by arczyx 6y ago
>but I think a lot of people on this thread have never even used a mac for more than five minutes, let alone developed on one. HN monoculture is real. I for one, use mac and develop on it for my job, and I like windows significantly more
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by arczyx 6y ago
>It’s funny you take this example because your point of view is precisely surface thinking too But they're not...? GP didn't say he want to take refugees in, they merely said their friend want refuse refugees without specifying
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by arczyx 7y ago
>Indonesia is still in the "pray to make it go away" stage This is true until last Thursday, but now the government had acknowledged at least 19 confirmed cases. Still super late though.
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by arczyx 7y ago
Governments are already printing money for the rich though, it's called 'Quantitative Easing'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing
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by arczyx 7y ago
To be fair, paying the government in taxes and royalty does not mean that the diamond is not obtained through exploitation of the local population while the corrupt officials took the money (this sometimes happened in my country). I don&#x2
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by arczyx 7y ago
>Presuming that you are aware of these occurrences, do you agree with your government's positions and actions, and - if not - what actions, if any, do you take to make it clear your opposition? I'm not from China and I disagree
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by arczyx 7y ago
Maybe OP was living in different country than yours? I don't think you can dismiss their statement as 'complete nonsense' before confirming what exactly are they talking about.
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by arczyx 7y ago
>I don't know any developer who is excited to work for less than $40k/yr on the absolute lowest In my country, $40k/year is a super high salary, even the average senior developer wouldn't make that much.
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by arczyx 7y ago
>Which likely is a major reason why it is so popular. It's cheap for the consumer, the kids. Which is another problem, as anime is mostly for kids, not adults. This is patently false. There are lots and lots anime for adults and the
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by arczyx 9y ago
To be fair, it was normal at that point in history at many parts of the world to have multiple wives (or one wife + multiple concubines). That and the prophet was actually monogamous for 25 years (until his first wife who was 15 years older