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by digging 3y ago
What does one do with unallocated credits? Would they be banked for future votes or lost? In the case of social media, how are credits even allocated? If a simple daily model, that already feels bad. See something great in the morning, don&
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by digging 3y ago
> 10000 possibilities for a dog I suppose it's not your main point, but that number is off by... probably about 10,000 orders of magnitude.
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by digging 3y ago
Is it not fair to say those of us using adtech in our work are also complicit? I work in a highly regulated industry where consumer data is protected - except the data they unknowingly let f*cebook harvest by visiting our marketing sites.
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by digging 3y ago
> (1) You need to memorize the order of the streets (... Vine, Race, Arch, Market, Chestnut, Walnut, Locust, Spruce, Pine, ...), which is mildly annoying but you just have to do it once. A complication - there are multiple series of stre
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by digging 3y ago
I think map reading is more useful than handling a specific form of a specific technology. It's hard to imagine a situation where a rotary phone would ever be useful - they don't work on their own, but require infrastructure as we
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by digging 3y ago
Back when I used google maps, I especially hated its insistence on making unprotected left turns. If I knew the area it was taking me to, I would scan ahead for those and try to avoid them, but there were some terrifying times where I pulle
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by digging 3y ago
Rather, players have a FIDE rating within FIDE, and a unique rating in each system, because no organization follows the exact, original Elo system.
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by digging 3y ago
> You are talking about running huge social experiments based on guesses about what might work better No, I'm not. But it's a good idea. > extremely difficult to convince people to participate Yes - easier to just stop tri
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by digging 3y ago
> If he can get 50k paying users, he's a millionaire. How did you reach that conclusion?
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by digging 3y ago
The survivors are working on it. RedReader is allowed to continue using the API for free because it has accessibility features, but the creator has announced they do not plan to depend on that goodwill and will expand the app to connect to
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by digging 3y ago
Simple: we don't replicate the lives of past peoples. We take ideas from [our ideas of] the past and find out if they work for us. And... it doesn't need to be from indigenous New World people.
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by digging 3y ago
Largely agreed. A total regression view is inaccurate and foolish. Plenty of people had shit lives before industrialization and plenty of good lives were cut short. We can't just assume "the past is better." That's wrong
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by digging 3y ago
why?
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by digging 3y ago
It strikes me as the attitude of someone not familiar with the platforms. I can recognize their evils and harms while still appreciating how mind-bogglingly much I've learned from them. The issue is that all tech companies treat their
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by digging 3y ago
Then we don't have that product until it can be safely created. It's extremely dangerous to treat innovation as irreversible
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by digging 3y ago
Most government actions aren't democratic.
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by digging 3y ago
Wait, what kind of drinks from what kind of high end restaurants are coming with straws? And why don't you just ask for a drink without a straw instead of removing it later?
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by digging 3y ago
It is imperative to control material incentives for all entities, both individuals and organizations. Entities will pursue incentives; money is no exception. Therefore, if we have designed a government so that it profits from protecting cit
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by digging 3y ago
> Humans discover that the cool and useful thing is toxic as fuck, but only after years go by. It takes years for the awareness of the toxicity to become widespread enough for everyone to concur it’s a problem. There's no reason for
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by digging 3y ago
> So far I've been putting everything in an Excel sheet but I'm not a big fan of Excel and would like something standalone that might also show me progressions and changes more easily.
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by digging 3y ago
Still, reading, but I'm looking forward to this. I've read a lot of the author's other posts about things like military organization in LOTR and theory of history in Crusader Kings. I typically find the tone to be careful and
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by digging 3y ago
While I miss forum days as well, reddit has permanently shifted the space. For someone with a lot of interests, are you going to sign up for a forum for each one and keep tabs on those? It's difficult to even think about how I want my
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by digging 3y ago
> It doesn't have to be this way. That goes both ways though. People are responding to hostage-taking actions by big tech and trying to protect themselves. There is a theoretical middle ground where data is available for research bu
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by digging 3y ago
People
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by digging 3y ago
> natural food Are seed oils something other than oil derived from seeds? As in, some of the most natural possible foods?
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by digging 3y ago
I would not, because reddit doesn't deserve my money. A different organization running a similar but different site would get money from me, but that doesn't really exist. The dichotomy isn't really "ads" vs "s
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by digging 3y ago
> Yet another thing is that two-day boycotts … don’t … work. It’s “we’re going out of town for a weekend”, except at scale. It just shows Reddit that some moderation teams will participate in a power-flex protest that is a result of some
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by digging 3y ago
> but I do think Apollo (and, by proxy, its users) will eventually have to pay Reddit something. Apollo will never pay, because it's shutting down. It was always an option to monetize 3PA but Reddit decided not to.
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by digging 3y ago
Well, feel free to make up a new word then and see if it catches on. I will keep calling it hallucination because that effortlessly describes what is happening through analogy, a powerful tool by which we can make difficult concepts more ac
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by digging 3y ago
I'm sorry that I contributed to a judgmental discussion. I was being glib and short-sighted.

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