cwkoss

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by cwkoss 4y ago
The key distinction is that news feeds' customers are advertisers, not the audience. News feeds were not built to maximize the audience's experience: it's an inherently consumer-adversarial technology.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
(Crack) consumers like crack. Nobody likes news feeds filled with ads.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
VR is never going to be a replacement for short form video. Casual passive consumption of video benefits from being able to fit in between other activities easily. I'm never going to want an immersive experience when I have 2 minutes
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm sure subversive ads happen, but in my experience people are pretty straightforward about marking posts as paid. Then, there's also a lot of small and medium sized manufacturers/artists where their whole channel is showing
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Seems like Tiktok has far fewer ads than other social media platforms. Less than 10% of things are ads. Instagram is like 30+% ads for me.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think nearly every credit card will be able to support "accepted as a credit card worldwide". So, I think you can just pick whatever card doesn't have an annual fee, maybe choose one with rewards you'd use if you care.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Why do you need social graphs for long videos? I'm not sure why that would be the case.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Do you have any basis for your negligible statement? About half the videos I watch on TT are 'educational'
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by cwkoss 4y ago
DefenseStorm | Seattle, Atlanta | Full Stack Engineer, Senior Full Stack Engineer, Lead Engineer - Data Ingestion | Full-time | REMOTE or ONSITE https://www.defensestorm.com DefenseStorm is a cybersecurity startup that helps ban
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by cwkoss 4y ago
lol, why do you think tiktok is evil? seems the xenophobic propaganda is being successful. there isnt a single valid arguement that 'tiktok is evil' that doesn't apply even better to facebook or youtube.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I hope it succeeds, but fear Pelosi (the 'leader' of that party) will tank the bill.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
It's epistemology 101. Absolute truth can never be determined. So we must inherently use imperfect method of approximating the truth. Those approximations are open to criticism, so any system that determines fake news will necessari
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A bot that detects logical fallacies would be amazing for journaling. Would be really interesting to stream of consciousness into a text document and have the computer put red underlines under questionable premises or conclusions.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
What is 'fake news' cannot be objectively determined - would just be a new cudgel for elites to use on the weak for their own power.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I feel like the Atlantic's vision for democracy diverges significantly from what the majority of Americans want it to be.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
If only we could get paid by ad companies for trying to steal our attention.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I would LOVE to be able to sue political spammers. I donated to many candidates in 2016 and have been getting crazy amounts of text spam from pols ive never heard of for the past 5 years. Politicians shouldn't have zero consequences f
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Our political parties are failing us so badly, I wouldn't be surprised if the guillotine came back into fashion over the next decade. I hope congress can get its act together and serve its constituents better before it comes to that, b
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by cwkoss 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina... Any imperfect measure that becomes a target gets pursued at the expense of the original intent.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Recipes cant be copyrighted, so bloggers write long-form narratives ahead of the recipe to make the contents of the page intellectual property.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
all of social media is a national security threat, we just handwave away the dangers of domesticly owned social media because of excessive trust in the state and greed facebook could extort billions out of its users using the data its alrea
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Its pretty pathetic that american companies cant compete with tiktoks social media dominance (because they are too busy optimizing for maximum ad engagement over user experience) and so are trying to engage in a xenophobic propaganda campai
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by cwkoss 4y ago
99+% of ads are unethical thought manipulation. Until citizens recognize this and take a stand with their wallets against the businesses who profit from unethical ad tactics, we're going to keep slipping deeper into the abyss.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Nope. Sour grapes reaction. US should use the demand to fund an effective semiconductor industry, not shrink the pie to account for its ineffectiveness.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Its weird to have an article about the dangers of editing that doesn't clearly identify what the dangerous edit was. Seems like the hand wringing was about a scene the article-author incorrectly said was edited, so the article updated
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm not sure if the article clarified, but I was under the impression the $11-20k was the incremental cost per unit. They said the whole project has spent $550,000. Hopefully they got more than 3 trashcan prototypes and a QR code t
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by cwkoss 4y ago
US citizens need to start feeling embarassed that we can no longer manufacture simple objects cost efficiently. These trash cans should cost $1k max. I wonder if this cost discrepancy is due to pork or too many middle managers. Not even s
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I've heard people say that the serotonin deficiency hypothesis was invented by drug companies rather than academics. Is that true?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
didn't he waive due diligence, not due process? Or do those mean the same thing in this context?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Sybil attacking democracy with digital personhood is a super cool idea. Would be a great premise for a story.

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