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> Side note: Interestingly, teen loneliness briefly went way down from about 1996 to about 2006. That’s consistent with the idea that the old computer-based internet was a complement to in-person interaction That’s been my experience too
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> The Friend did not answer to the name you use so obtusely here, ever after a "rebirth." That historians such as Susan Juster (the publication ca. 2000) would disrespect the Friend's wishes as you do here, insisting on a
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It's pretty interesting looking at the history of that article[1]. For the first decade or so, the article pretty clearly states that Jemima was a woman. All the sources cited treat Jemima as a woman as well. Around 2014 you get the fi
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Trump winning can happen in a model that gives him a 30% chance and a model that gives him a 5% chance. What was odd was seeing fans of Nate Silver point out the former, but then trying to say that his model was better because it gave Trump
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> after several minutes of googling/SO failed me ** > and google/SO failed me This is what I've been noticing as well. There have been many times when I spend 5-10 minutes trying to figure something out with Stack Overf
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The vote ranking system is good if you want a steady stream of new curated content and your taste largely coincides with the user base. For instance, you go to “r/catpictures” daily and find the most upvoted cat pictures that users hav
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He actually has a fairly interesting segment on the reporting of strikes: > The underlying trouble appears in the news through certain easily recognizable symptoms, a demand, a strike, disorder. From the point of view of the worker, or o
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He actually touches on this as well: > There is a very small body of exact knowledge, which it requires no outstanding ability or training to deal with. The rest is in the journalist's own discretion. Once he departs from the region
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Audience capture is probably the biggest driving point behind media bias, whether the media is commercial or independent. Walter Lippmann put it wall 100 years ago [1]: > A newspaper which angers those whom it pays best to reach through
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I think everyone is able to see how the other side incites violence, but thinks the rule doesn't apply to them. For instance, there was a lot of rhetoric about how dangerous it was when Donald Trump was elected - that it would be the e
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An alternative point of view is that computers provided a lot of increased productivity, but that the increased productivity didn’t reach the enormous levels of productivity increases caused by mechanization. In other words, it’s not that c
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Based on Soviet officials. From your article: > The figure widely used in Poland of 4 million victims at Auschwitz-Birkenau was arrived at by a Soviet commission that came to the camp in February 1945, one week after its liberation. >
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This isn't true at all. The federal government's School Breakfast Program started 3 years before the Black Panther's program. During it's first year, it was already serving many times the number of children than the Pant
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Though much less culturally prominent, there does seem to be a lot of people who are preoccupied with correlating race and IQ.
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The Russians had been claiming in the months before the explosion that sanctions were keeping them from delivering gas, and that Europe needed to back off sanctions if they wanted gas to flow. Europe called them out and said this was obviou
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> but for me it makes it stranger that there's so little evidence in this piece which, as it notes, alleges an act of war. It makes it less surprising to me. Back in 2006 I believed Hersh when he reported that the U.S. had troops in
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Another thing that gets overlooked is that in the months prior to the explosion, Russia had cut off the gas and lied about the reasons why it was cut off twice. Europe kept asking them to send the gas Russia had agreed to send, and Russia k
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> But I can't see how anyone will be incentivized to create and post content for Google to scrape if they won't have any traffic from Google. The problem right now is that the incentives have caused most of the output online to
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It’s an issue - a lot of people just want to be decently fit, so they look online for advice. But the people populating forums and putting up blogs are usually bodybuilder types who that are on steroids and have been lifting since they were
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Years ago I saw someone who was starting out in a specialist forum lament that everyone else on the forum was so much further ahead than they were. A user pointed out that the type of people who spend a lot of time on specialist forums are
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It's a good point. Also being slotted into the proper path when your capabilities are still forming and you know very little about the world. I know a lot of extremely smart and capable people that ended up stuck in dead end jobs becau
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> Here is an idea: maybe the Beatles are only great in the context of pop music, and particularly in comparison to a lot of pop music that came after the Beatles. I often think it might be the opposite. A lot of the overly effusive prai
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One of the first things I do when I'm considering a piece of media is I read the negative reviews. Finding out the reasons why someone doesn't like something is a good way to see if you'd like it yourself. For instance, most
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> On the other hand, Wikipedia's image changed largely due to the transparency behind its editorial processes- both the edit history and the discussions regarding editorial decisions are available in public. That was still true earl
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A lot of it is for entertainment, even when it’s infotainment. News reporting, Wikipedia, current affairs podcast, Tweets, Reddit, Hacker News comments, etc. The inaccuracies here aren’t that important, because the vast majority of this con
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Good point about Wikipedia. In just a few years the image people had of Wikipedia changed from an untrustworthy joke (The Office had a joke about Michael Scott trusting Wikipedia) to one of the first places people went to get information. B
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I think this is true for both ChatGPT and AI art. People use them the same way they would Google, get an output that’s mediocre, and write the entire thing off. There was a similar reaction when people were being shown the web decades ago.
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> I don't know that it's an "incredibly smart" anything; I think it'd be better described as incredibly well-read, with poor discretion. But likely much better read and with much better discretion that most of p
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It can happen, but after a few hours it’s _extremely_ rare for people to read comments. If you’re an infrequent commentator, you’ll notice this. You’re almost never going to see your points change if you haven’t made a comment that day. On
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One of the issues with both is that there’s an invisible timer countdown until the point were any reply becomes unseen. On web forums I like to wait a few days before responding, to judge whether or not a response is actually worth the time

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