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by en-us 8y ago
As someone with a father and a wife who are both physicians, yes. In both cases they started working to get into medicine in high school, pushed hard in college, and then had med school and residency. That alone is 16 straight years of norm
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by en-us 8y ago
You mean like Cambridge Analytica did in 2016?
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by en-us 8y ago
It's special because with microtargeting you can target exactly the 10000 voters that you need, giving each one a personalized message crafted to fit that individual's personality and views, and the messages will be seen by those
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by en-us 8y ago
Do you think that newspapers, radio, or TV have decided elections in the past? And do you understand microtargeting? For me the answer is yes and yes, and I would be surprised if Facebook does not have a major effect on elections.
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by en-us 8y ago
Who in the article said they feel superior? Here's the people from the article: Mary Amanuel - saw her friend obsessing over likes and thought it to be unhealthy, realized she used social media to put on a false face and stopped. Isabe
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by en-us 8y ago
Oh please. So everyone who has concerns about the loss of privacy must have a superiority complex? "You're not a special snowflake just because you don't have an app installed on your phone" ...I think I figured out who
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by en-us 9y ago
You think you don't need to test your code or ensure that it compiles consistently? And you try to teach this to jr devs? You must be a joy to work with...
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by en-us 9y ago
Well this is depressing.
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by en-us 9y ago
You could check out secure-scuttlebutt (scuttlebutt.nz). It's an open source and decentralized social media platform. I hope that the decentralization will remove the advertising profit incentive and then we can actually design apps to
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by en-us 9y ago
Nope, I've got too much scrolling to do. These headlines aren't going to read themselves.
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by en-us 9y ago
I understand where you're coming from, but ultimately it is your decision to stay on Facebook. If you ever want to try something different then try Scuttlebutt. All of your data there is stored in your own blockchain, and then you exch
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by en-us 9y ago
You don't have to use corporate sites like Facebook and Pinterest. Check out scuttlebutt.nz for a serverless alternative, or Mastodon for one where anybody can host a server. Or just stick to forums and IRC.
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by en-us 9y ago
The book called Deep Work by Cal Newport looks at this same idea in detail. If you've noticed that smart phones and shallow content are affecting you as they did this article's author, I recommend it as a resource for reclaiming
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by en-us 9y ago
Current social media has those exact same problems. Corporations violate our privacy daily and successfully work to manipulate the population. We already crossed that bridge unfortunately.
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by en-us 9y ago
For anyone interested, this is here, section III A: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_publ...
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by en-us 9y ago
I use a Dell XPS with Ubuntu. I didn't have to deal with any of the bullshit. Why do people continue to purchase products from companies that blatantly want to spy on them? Vote with your wallet and never go through a bizarre multi-ste
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by en-us 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. I've read that the people most satisfied in life are craftsmen who dedicate themselves to mastering a craft. There is not much craft in managing deadlines and customer commitments and such. It is necessary w
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by en-us 9y ago
We need a Pearl Harbor or 9/11 level event to drive people to action. However, the back-to-back world-wide coral bleaching events didn't do it, and the back-to-back record breaking storms in both the Atlantic and Pacific this year
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by en-us 9y ago
Reading through your post, I was thinking "that sounds a lot like rxdb". Turns out it was! I recently selected rxdb for an offline-first project I'm doing doing for myself. I expect it will be making my life much easier in th