bobbygoodlatte

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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I'm curious how these systems would function against a malicious entity. For example, if someone flooded the sensor with laser light. That sort of behavior might be made illegal (if it isn't already), but I'd be curious to kn
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires are fairly commonplace for performance cars and included from the factory on many models. I wouldn't call them "barely street legal"
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
More people value personal health over financial health than would admit in a survey. They just often don't realize it until they've lost their health.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
That depends on the game. I believe one big trend in gaming will be connecting in-game economies to real-world economies. That might happen by tokenizing in-game assets and allowing free trade via exchanges / auction sites.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
It's remarkable how little money clickbait publishers make relative to the large negative externalities they impose on society (especially political clickbait)
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I'm glad the article mentioned Twitter's engagement algorithm — I don't think enough attention is being paid to it. With a different algorithm Twitter could be a remarkably different experience. The current one has a strong b
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
The challenge is that while you and I pay for reliable news, the majority of people seem to prefer not paying for news. And those people vote
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
The sad thing is I don't think it is massively profitable, just slightly profitable. We're all paying a very high price in the form of growing political mistrust relative to what these publishers make in profit.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I think the strongest Product Designers wind up taking on responsibilities that PM's might traditionally hold (and vice versa). I'm fairly biased here, but I'd argue that product vision is often best executed in the hands of
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
There may be a technical solution on Twitter's end — adjust their feed algorithm. I feel like their shift towards algorithmically ranking the Twitter feed (versus chronologically) has dramatically increased the reach of viral moments l
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
Sure, but smart phones & social networks see far more user adoption and time spent than any newspaper during the era of yellow journalism. The scale is just incomparable, and potential consequences far greater.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I agree, except for one potentially huge negative: they might be eroding our ability to have functional democracies. The tech giants' business models strongly incentivize maximizing the time a user spends within their app. To do that,
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I hope this sounds the alarm on how shockingly cheap it is to promote political extremism on these platforms. Donald Trump saw much cheaper effective ad rates than Clinton on social media by crafting viral outrage memes as ads. It will be i
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
Even a CSS change with better typography & legibility would go a long way. You wouldn't have to "modernize" the site. Screen resolutions and pixel density have increased dramatically since HN was designed. It could at lea
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
And I'd hope it would err on the side of false positives rather than false negatives. A false negative reading could be disastrous
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
The problem is that it seems that most people prefer narrative over neutral reporting. So even if a neutral, AI-based site delivered great reporting, or if Musk's truthfulness rating existed, it might not even matter — most readers wil
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
The author fails to mention a likely outcome: the co-mingling of centralized solutions and decentralized ones. Decentralized solutions would be at global scale (not at 2% usage) and they'd complement centralized solutions, not replace.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
In essence they already are via the news feed algorithm. It doesn't show you everything all of your friends / pages post, so it's already deciding "what's good for you". I think until recently the algorithm mak
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I also don't agree it's the root cause, but certainly it's a big contributing factor. Buying that 3 bedroom house in a more affordable area might be a smart idea, or it might severely limit one's economic mobility. Most
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
No. But FWIW my concern is less about data harvesting & ad targeting, and more with how the algorithm itself is amplifying extreme views. But yes, I am aware that the 2012 Obama campaign used the same data collection API that Cambridge
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I would say my comparison is more akin to dictatorship vs anarchy. Obviously neither choice is ideal, so the specifics of how these systems are implemented is vital. I'm a big fan of decentralization in general, but I think it's w
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I'm not blaming the outcome on nefarious ad targeting, rather I would say that engagement-maximizing algorithms massively amplified Donald Trump's voice during the campaign. My concern isn't so much that my team lost, but rat
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
It's a mirror, but perhaps it's a fun-house mirror: algorithmically warped to amplify 'engaging' content. YouTube has similar issues. Start a fresh account and do some innocent searches on topics like the history of civi
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
I don't know if that's true. At least with a centralized social network we have someone to yell at, and Congress potentially has an ability to regulate it. Imagine a de-centralized Facebook with the same engagement-optimized feed.
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by bobbygoodlatte 8y ago
Sure, that's mostly true. It doesn't mean they're wrong. As Jaron Lanier pointed out in his recent TED talk, with previous information technologies like books we figured out how to both charge for the information being distri
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by bobbygoodlatte 9y ago
You can't think of anything? There's a half dozen use-cases that immediately come to mind that aren't possible without a blockchain. One obvious use case is collectible items for games. People spend thousands on games like He
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by bobbygoodlatte 9y ago
Yeah exactly. Considering in many cases a plane ticket from SF to LA will cost less and get you there faster, the high speed rail project makes little sense
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by bobbygoodlatte 9y ago
Yep, I was looking into Eero and Google Wifi when a friend suggested I just get a single, more powerful router instead. Got the Netgear Nighthawk and have been very happy
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by bobbygoodlatte 9y ago
Collapsing? The price is higher than it was 4 days ago... edit: and now back above $10k
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by bobbygoodlatte 9y ago
I think one big reason is that regulators don't want the US to miss out on a large wave of value creation. If Bitcoin becomes a mainstream currency, it could be a very good thing for the US. If US citizens own a large amount of the BTC

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