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by convery 4y ago
Sometimes people just want to "see" work being done, rather than trusting that it's based on statistics/previous work/gut-feeling. Kind of like when you add a loading icon to an action that has already been complete
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by convery 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illegal_number
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by convery 4y ago
FYI, Elon Tweeted[0] a response to the article saying they have about double the headcount reported by CNBC. So take it with a grain of salt. [0] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1616706530841333761?s=20
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by convery 4y ago
I remember articles on the 3000 series where manufacturers were reporting that Nvidia was selling the chips themselves at higher price than the MSRP for the entire card. So ye, take that with a scoop of salt =P
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by convery 4y ago
So the tl;dr: "If you don't want your kid to be stalked, and the car driving them assaulted, surround them with bodyguards 24/7 or stop being famous". HN really is turning into Reddit these days..
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by convery 4y ago
Where in Sweden have you ever heard someone pronounce 'katt' anywhere close to 'cut'? Maybe you misheard someone say 'kut' (baby seal)?
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by convery 4y ago
Not to mention that their priorities when it comes to blocking decisions seems odd. DDoS-for-hire (stressers), piracy, ISIS support-forums, revenge-porn etc. are all fine because free speech. But a forum supporting nazis, an imagebord with
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by convery 4y ago
Then the company can hire more engineers? Even if devs in SF virtue-signal on Twitter about how they'd never work under Musk, a competitive paycheck attracts outsiders.
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by convery 4y ago
He announced that he will not take any action against that account as it's free speech. So need to find a new "gotcha" / narrative / joke.
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by convery 4y ago
Counterpoint: Scandinavian countries has had fermented dairy as a core part of our diet for centuries, and we are frigid AF until we get a pint in us.
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by convery 4y ago
Ye, seems like a good fit for the terminally-online Twitter users as their main complaint about Elon is him wanting to be fair in terms of moderation and not favouring their side. Even launched their Twitter clone called "Tribal"
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by convery 4y ago
Seems like he's making it more of a "verified human" mark as a bot-farm is not going to pay for 1000 marks that can get banned. Not to mention backend protections such as 1 mark per creditcard, or checking the name of the hol
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by convery 4y ago
Worth pointing out is that although anyone can apply, Twitter has been very selective regarding approval and it's been more of a "Twitter approves of your content" rather than them verifying your identity. For example: @discl
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by convery 4y ago
According to the engineers in the undercover interviews, a large part of the staff only work "when they feel like it", which would result in some taking months of paid time off or just hanging out in the office all day. kloc is no
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by convery 4y ago
The "without telling who the parties are" is more about non-personal identifiers. Similar to how knowing your IP address doesn't really identify you by itself, you need to go through (often several levels of) other parties to
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by convery 4y ago
> If 48.2 million are breaking a law, it’s probably the law that’s wrong. *glances over at the IRS*
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by convery 4y ago
Reminds me of the Snowden leaks where the NSA and the Swedish FRA had a deal as neither was allowed to spy on their own citizens, so they just spied on eachother and then shared the data.
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by convery 4y ago
> Though if this post gets enough attention, it'll probably get fixed in a few days. Was just fixed for me at least, both .com and .se no longer shows any logo.
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by convery 4y ago
Sweden: Saw it 5 minutes ago, now there's no logo at all.
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by convery 4y ago
Yep, and there's not much google can do about it as every metric can be gamed. Remember the "upvote this thread so that this image is the first result when searching for [politicians name]" campaigns on Reddit the past 6 year
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by convery 4y ago
The whole "verified person" / "credible account" went out the window years ago when it became a "twitter approved politics" badge. Remember when the drama around 'SJW's were at its height, people
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by convery 4y ago
No, as you can't influence the outcome of the measurement. So both parties reads a bit, which is random, they just happen to be opposite of eachother. No useful information is transmitted.
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by convery 4y ago
> Do you think you provided a reasonable and objective analysis of events and viewpoints? No, I provided a selection of examples from the two HN threads on the happenings to demonstrate the subjectivity of what people consider harassment
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by convery 4y ago
Maybe should have specified 'US' law-enforcement as it's a US site ran by a US citizen. The citations on Wikipedia are interesting though (from the perspective of what's considered a reliable source when it comes to cont
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by convery 4y ago
No, but peoples definition of what is considered harassment varies wildly. As can be seen in this very thread: Keffals doxing people is not harassment, Keffals calling for their Ukrainian supporters to spread that KF's admin is pro-Put
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by convery 4y ago
We may never know as they've deleted their tweets, if only there was some kind of forum archiving these kinds of people constantly incriminating themselves while grifting..
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by convery 4y ago
They do indeed handle a lot of UGC, the vast majority of which is filtered out by AI and then teams upon teams to review inconclusive results / reports. Millions of users that can report what the AI and teams missed. With a quarterly r
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by convery 4y ago
> Stay hydrated and keep cool. I've made silly statements before on HN when I'm dehydrated or flustered You may want to consider your own advice mate.
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by convery 4y ago
> This is incredibly dishonest. It took me less than 1 minute to find anti-semetism Eh, a few users using naughty words on the internet doesn't really say much about what a site "is all about". Unless you're equating
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by convery 4y ago
> with a signature boasting about their involvement in threads that resulted in people killing themselves > quite a few reply with "doxx", "nigga/er", and "jew". That should say enough. Pretty sure c

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