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by dilemma 10y ago
Even though it is fraudulent, corporate customers like this because they get better KPIs to publish in their internal reports. This is why Facebook advertising is popular; not because it is effective.
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by dilemma 10y ago
The parent is saying that these clickfarm accounts are randomly liking stuff so as to look like normal users. If a group of 10,000 accounts only like things from 5 different pages, the farming would be easy to detect.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Unbranded products are commodities and therefore should have lower margins.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I know nothing about the mattress business, but many shops, especially those on fancy addresses, lose money and instead function as branding instruments. Its possible that the stores you've observed work as showrooms and have attached
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by dilemma 10y ago
If you're not sleep deprived you need to check your privilege.
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by dilemma 10y ago
By better organization design and management.
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by dilemma 10y ago
No, I'm saying that in many cases UBI is far too low to have any effect at all. Unless you put it at $100,000/year.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Scenario: You're married with 2 kids and live in San Francisco. Is an $8,000/year UBI going to enable you to quit your $100,000/year job without another lined up?
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by dilemma 10y ago
Im referring to Teslas hitting stationary objects. One such story was posted here a week ago.
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by dilemma 10y ago
Tesla's non-perfect "autopilot" seems to be causing accidents a human wouldn't.
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by dilemma 10y ago
You have Apple, which is state sponsored (federal level). Tesla, too, is state sponsored.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I think the main thing this structure brings is the unbundling of camera module from the handset, so that larger sensor/lens modules can be offered. As it is, manufacturers are afraid that protrusions will hurt sales and are therefore
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by dilemma 10y ago
You're only fine with it because you don't live in Stockholm. I had to leave the city and the country because of it.
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by dilemma 10y ago
These regulations are the results of social evolution, and explain why it's so hard to be a young adult today, across all industrialized societies. I believe that the saying "The first generation makes it, the second generation sp
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by dilemma 10y ago
What's the catch aka business model?
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by dilemma 10y ago
Nope.
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by dilemma 10y ago
As I've said and been downvoted for before, there will never be Artificial Intelligence because a machine merely does what its program tells it. There will be plenty of Artificial Stupidity, however, as evidenced by this thread.
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by dilemma 10y ago
What won't be effective and why?
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by dilemma 10y ago
No, what the post is saying is that power will be consolidated among a very small number of very large players. The system won't be distributed but relatively centralized.
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by dilemma 10y ago
If you're not happy with Facebook you can create your own social network.
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by dilemma 10y ago
I work at a Shenzhen startup that is global first and doing very well. I know a couple of other companies here that are too, and are opening offices abroad. They're all hardware, and that may count for the difference as the environment
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by dilemma 10y ago
> As it was explained to me... If you want to do business in China and you're not a citizen, you damn-well need to find one to start a Chinese business which can transact with you formally. If you want to scale your business and you
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by dilemma 10y ago
I agree that information (communication) is fundamental to human society. But I don't agree that information technology is a force for equality and decentralization of power. Over the course of history it's been the opposite - pap
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by dilemma 10y ago
Facebook in many ways want to have and benefit from fake accounts and fake engagement. They're not really selling advertising, they're selling KPIs. Facebook is the best platform because they deliver the best KPIs and so get a lar
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by dilemma 10y ago
And a confidence range for the confidence range.
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by dilemma 10y ago
This is what's called Artificial Stupidity. AI will never be achieved because fundamentally, a computer only does what it's told. There will be plenty of AS in the near future, though, due to misapplication of technology and wishf
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by dilemma 10y ago
The point is to be the boss, then ask five times.
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by dilemma 10y ago
No, the most common grade at Harvard is A or some variation thereof. See the Carol Joyce Oates interview.
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by dilemma 10y ago
By the same logic, you should never have been given the job you have today. Is the logic faulty or correct?
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by dilemma 11y ago
>When they do, it'll cause rent to drop in San Fran, NYC, DC and Seattle. No it won't, no more than today. >With basic income you no longer have to live where the jobs are and can move around freely. Poor people are already

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