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While the U.S.'s core strength has always been propaganda (they got Operation Paperclip Nazis to becom American patriots, got the USSR to abolish itself, and the young Russian Federation to destroy itself with its infamous "shock
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This has the potential to provide a lot of meta-insights about society if it coalesces into a distinct branch of social studies. Power laws are everywhere. Why isn't there a field dedicated to studying these social/psychological a
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I don't like the frame of "big tech's rights." Sure, corporations have free speech rights in America. But the pressure to ban "bad people" comes from below; organized campaigns pressure Twitter/Facebook et
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> Corporations simply have a right to choose which speech they will AMPLIFY I'll readily admit that algorithms can amplify content; but more than enough people have been tweeting for years and barely have any likes on their tweets (
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A better comparison would be if Gmail placed emails you really want to receive in the spam for you. Actually, they wouldn't even put it in the spam folder; they'd just delete it permanently before you can read it, "for your
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Grammar. "It's not supposed to please engineering-minded people, systematizing people, left-brained people." I'm talking people like you, who indeed don't think like the advertisers who just wanted a braindead contr
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> I'm fascinated to learn more specifically about this sequence of events. Can you suggest any good sources? I witnessed it in real-time and discussed it with marketer/advertiser friends who have good industry knowledge. I don&
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> The thing is most companies don't want the extra work in finding who they don't want to be associated with It's a PR solution; it's not supposed to please engineering, systematizing left-brained people, but to calm
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Would it be more ethical not to pay? I don't get it. Interview them for free, you're making money without compensating them. Interview them and give them part, you're exploiting them by underpaying them. Interview them and gi
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> Do people actually think ads mean the company's approve of the messages of the content? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't see a terrorist video and think man Proctor and Gamble sure loves terrorists. An ad is just som
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> Honestly, I don't think Google cares per se. They just don't want the hassle of another adpocalypse. The issue comes from advertisers not wanting to be seen promoting certain things. I think it's important to be very cle
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This is not true; demonetized videos still get recommended on all of YouTube's surfaces (homepage, recommendations sidebar, end-of-video suggestions).
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Everyone on Earth is being paid less than they generate for their business. That is true for utterly everyone except equityholders. And your reasoning is completely self-defeating, unless you suggest that this YouTube channel should kidnap
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This is a self-inflicted problem for YouTube, and with each move they make in this direction, they more indelibly associate themselves with the idea that they endorse each and every ad on their platform, as well as where it's shown. Th
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Forcing ad-supported platforms to allow competing ad networks & auctions would be a pretty brilliant piece of legislation. They would need to be forced, though ( https://searchengineland.com/google-allegedly-creates-ad-
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> What am I missing here? Every online micro-niche always attracts huge drama; whether travel vlogging, some zen Buddhist forums, "truecrime" fans, TCAP fans. How likely you are to encounter drama has zero correlation to how ju
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10% per year, not 10%. 6% in 16 years is utterly pathetic.
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You understand poor grammar using context. This isn't poor grammar, this is a syntactically broken sentence, which requires more extrapolation for meaning. The AI hears "a lightbulb surrounding some plants" and understands th
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"A lightbulb surrounding some plants" is not English. If a wolf pack is surrounding a camp, we understand what it means. If a wolf is surrounding my camp; does that mean I'm in his stomach? Absurd. "A lightbulb containi
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by concinds 4y ago
You can expect YouTube to take a fat percentage (30%?) far beyond what alternative monetization methods like Patreon. Good revenue stream, especially if they can get partnership deals with schools or other educational institutions. Imagine
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Completely different. The risk with the British Royalty is that the Queen is Queen of many Kingdoms. While England may still be pro-monarchy, some of these kingdoms and territories are more split down the middle. You only need one to switch
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by concinds 4y ago
This isn't a surprise. Meta's headcount grew 32% in one year, and revenues went down 1% YoY in Q2. Wall Street expects it to go down even more YoY in Q3. Layoffs usually happen in September since that's when budgets are set.
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The idea is that another abdication, even if it wasn't driven by an underlying scandal, would have sowed a perception of instability in people's minds, associated the concept of "Royal Family" with chaos or drama, and mi
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> The CIA didn't setup the LDP anymore than it setup the Portuguese Socialist Party Yeah, it setup and ran both equally. > The most crucial interaction between the CIA and the Liberal Democratic Party was the exchange of informat
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Egregious mismanagement by stupid European leaders. Why would they hold themselves accountable? https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php... "Production of primary energy in the EU was 17.7
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I got it from this comment: ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32755925); and Chromium's official blog that hints at that: https://blog.chromium.org/2020/12/manifest-v3-now-available-... &
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That's fair, and there's certainly tons of incentives to ignore problems; office politics, liability (because if a company is "internally aware" of a problem, that's a huge liability for lawsuits and regulation), et
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> Even if you lied that you are older then 13 years , did the Cam girls company paid FB to show that ad for ages between 13-18? Why? To prepare their minds for the future ? From the Guardian ( https://www.theguardian.com/m
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FB said in SEC filings that many young people lie about their age when signing up; independent research I've found confirms that FB uses self-reported age for ad targeting ( https://www.demogr.mpg.de/papers/working&
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The upper classes are more likely to support environmental policies, so this is a pretty asinine comment. And it's these same upper classes that are pushing for frivolous as opposed to substantive policies (plastic straws, anti-nuclear

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