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by dschuetz 9y ago
I believe so, yes. Why else would they be so successful? Any other attempt to replace Facebook (or even copy it) as a social network had failed or remained insignificant. Why? I think, because they cannot agree on how to finance their servi
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by dschuetz 9y ago
Well that's an interesting juxtaposition. His life achievement would then be "he connected people all over the world" but what he essentially did "was selling ads and he was good at it". There's always a middle
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When you ask general questions you get "We did not do anything illegal, we did something wrong though; but, people do not read Terms Of Use/Privacy, and they do not read manuals" When you ask very specific questions you get &
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by dschuetz 9y ago
Being such an annoying/intense associative thinker that I am, then I must be some super creative genius, and don't know it yet? Unlikely, so I doubt that it's true.
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As I learned, my habit of kinda omitting the obvious and wander off to the non-obvious relations behind it all the time seems to be rare. I've never met another person who does that.
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Fiction in most cases uses descriptive language, with a lot of cues for imagination to kick in. It's something different compared to reading scientific articles in journals. In such article you need to follow the logical reasoning and
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Skimming text doesn't work the same for everyone. The eyes literally scan a page for (basically random) nouns, buzzwords, verbs etc to kinda guess the content, regarding the context. The associative power of the brain (which is diffe
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There's a plenty of occasions, causes and distractions to make your mind wander. To me personally the most prominent ones are when reading a book (which is also the most infuriating) and while riding some sort of public transport. The
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That's an interesting question. It definitely doesn't fit in any definition. DC is on US soil, yet it doesn't have the same political representation of any other cities, states or unincorporated territories. It's an anom
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I disagree. No power for months is quite a bit worse than 2 days without the Internet, no matter what the scale or the cause is. 100k people without power is far worse than 100k or 1M without Internet. On the scale of Internet outages, I ag
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Puerto Rico is an unincorporated part of the US; it is controlled by the US government. So, basically, the US are responsible for that corruption?
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Internet down for just 2 days - "Huge African Internet Outage" Still no power in many network blocks in Puerto Rico after months - SNAFU EDIT: Thanks for the title edit! It's more accurate that way.
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I don't understand. Why? What was the motivation to conduct such talks? Regarding what Facebook does, according to Facebook connecting people , how does patient's medical data contributes to that? "You've been committed
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Because, in the end it would cost a fortune? Imagine that, most people only pay for one content provider . A social network is not a content provider, just a different kind of social network. If you cannot afford a subscription of some soc
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Yes, that's usually how it works with Netflix, Spotify and similar single-purpose services. But social media? If you take social network as a single-purpose service then there is no need for several or dozens of different similar servi
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It's scary that it doesn't surprise me anymore. Especially social networks are considered most lucrative in terms of targeted marketing and data mining, and it's obvious why. Social networking remains a big deal, it's
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I've got an idea. Is there any way to place targeted advertisement inside Facebook's internal communications feed? Based on Facebook's latest reactions to media coverage and memos shared to public I was able to deduce an ad p
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by dschuetz 9y ago
It's interesting to see how Facebook reacts to internal corporate data being shared, in reverse to Facebook sharing private user data to third parties. Boz complains that his memo was taken out of context and he doesn't even agree
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The road to hell is paved with good intentions, innit?
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Well, that was unfortunate for Facebook. Zuck was trying to mitigate the PR disaster that Cambridge Analytica has produced last week, telling that mistakes were made. Now there is another whistleblower who basically destroys all credibili
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It's a step in the right direction, but still I don't trust Facebook making a decision like that. In the end they'll just replace it with something else which might turn out even worse than before. You cannot make money selli
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I'm not sure what to think of it. Either it's a case for gun supporters saying "see, their jobs are at stake! gun law supporters endanger the economy!!1!" Or it's a case for gun law supporters saying "making gu
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Opening that link my ad blocker is going crazy. I guess the website surely runs less software, huh?
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I think that the whole point about this Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal is not that Facebook collects all sorts of data, but that Facebook shares that data to third party services via "Login With Facebook" without any p
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You had me on "The field of deep learning...". Sounds seriously scientific to me. What's the next big flashy field? "Deep thought"? Oh, nope, Douglas Adams already covered that one.
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While it's just an introduction, what I am actually missing is the proper introduction of the neural processing model. How it works in the physical brain, with potentials and a couple of ! different neurotransmitters is a whole differe
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I don't think that decentralized voting is a good thing at all. Voting will lose its significance when a vote can be issued with barely more than just a click. Elections and votes will become increasingly meaningless and much more freq
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Can't read the article either w/ and w/o adblock. Briefly shows 'article not found' then redirects to overview.
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Challenge Accepted
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The rule of thumb in chip design: your chip clock is as slow as your slowest logic pipe. Complex logic circuitry slows down potential clock rates significantly. You can make your logic gates switch faster, thus allowing longer signal paths,

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