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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Probably amazon They can also see the things that you highlight, the things that you reread. This could be used to profile the reader and personalize ads not only this, but being forced to buy an ebook through their portal, they'll kno
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
That bit with the semicolon way off to the right side of screen is kind of sloppy. It's a dead giveaway of "I'm doing something I shouldn't be doing"
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> In the past people have been harsh to call me ill informed for not being up to date on all things media, but to what end does this actually benefit the individual? My argument is that it’s mostly a detriment given the state of the worl
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Personally I use ddg at home and Kagi for technical work Why Kagi? What does it do better
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I still think google has the best results, but I'm not surprised that the new york post is trying to sow distrust in google as a company. IMO google results are still better than bing results But also: I use an alternative frontend[1]
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I think you just hit the jackpot
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> There's also no stray pointers, because all communication is done through deep copying messages, so there's no pointers referring to the process of another memories process. Doesn't this bog down from all the context swi
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
What kind of product would warrant the cost/benefit of using erlang? Where did you use it? Just curious
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Preparing for the next 6 months of Musk threads. Wish me luck :)
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I noticed something similar a couple years ago with reddit where a sub becomes either a full on sjw circlejerk or an alt right hellhole. There's a shrinking middle ground. I feel like HN has yet to be compro
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> As a side note, the people that run mastadon are a bit... off when it comes to ethics Could you give more info... sounds like there's some juicy details here
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Typical microsoft employee
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I think there will always be this conflict between the state and the open internet. The state is an institution of the past, and the internet is an institution of the future that transcends any state in particular The critical question is t
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> about the madness of the last 5 or so years. I felt this too: it didn't just start with covid. There was a characteristic shift in around 2017-2018
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
The cynical partisanship of the past couple years has been used by the intelligence community to justify increasing its scope. This isn't a matter of D vs R but of the state vs its own citizens
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> I'm curious what commenters here think should be done about this, if anything? This will sound impractical: I think the internet is a revolutionizing force, and a free and open internet is incompatible with our current conception
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> Intelligence agencies backed new startups designed to monitor the vast flow of information across social networks to better understand emerging narratives and risks. The onus is on the people here, reading this, to actively fight to co
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I wonder if the main goal of doing this isn't to judge people by "who has the most PRs" or "who's contributed the highest number of LOC", but to see who can explain what they work on vs who can't That&#x27
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
There's a certain sort of determinism involved in using past behavior to predict future behavior. That kind of thinking is prerequisite for a social credit system For some reason, people really love to make these kinds of predictions.
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I watched that presentation earlier today. Interesting how he gave the presentation in 2011 right when smartphones were taking off. I feel like what he's talking about has in part already happened (somewhat) with smartphones, tablets,
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, does anyone know a place where solaris is still used? What's the use case?
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
idk why but these are really satisfying to read from a stylistic pov
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
One missing part of the definition is that the increased nutrients cause algae to overgrow and reduce oxygen supply in the water, killing the fish The process is similar to what's happened to reddit: new users come in like agricultural
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
With facebook dying, twitter getting bought out, reddit's eutrophication, and tiktok on the rise, it seems like things have unsettled quite a bit The next couple years are going to be very interesting. Facebook will probably get bought
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> The word "Diverse" has been successfully appropriated and destroyed by the right. I don't think one political coalition has a monopoly over the words it uses Looking at college campuses, I see a lack of diversity of pers
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I'm pretty sure bytedance is in the process of taking facebook's place as the high offer talent poacher, which is a shame imo because they aren't an American company Also (this might not apply to you if you already own a home
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
I agree, also interesting that people are downvoting this
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
> These are the two biggest stories in tech this week, but not apparently on HN. Maybe because HN isn't meant to be a substitute for mainstream news? Idk what the creators' intentions were, but I'd prefer it stay a niche c
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
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by cr4nberry 4y ago
Whenever I've heard it used it's referring to general ads infra, which includes personalization. But there's also a lot more to it

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