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by fortythirteen 8y ago
GA is a cog in a much more nefarious machine, no matter how "benign" it might be on its own. Analytics, maps, recaptcha, and fonts, not to mention all the data siphoned from Android, are pieces of a mass surveillance apparatus, us
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
If you read this article you'll also get to learn how journalism dies - through opinion pieces promoted as objective reporting.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Many social media companies now appear to agree with Brady and are making efforts to address some of the concerns that research like his raises. Twitter, for example, recently announced an open call for proposals on how to improve “con
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Right, and I'm making it clear that opinions born of ignorance should be avoided.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> I have not even tried to join Army because I saw them as people doing pointless shit to quote you. So you have even less experience and are just pulling your strong opinions out of your ass. Got it.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Sounds like a metaphor for wasting your life doing pointless shit. > That is living life like as slave. You sit when they say sit you shit when they say you can shit. Sounds like someone who flunked out of basic. That drill sergeant stuf
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> High-quality publishers were losing out to sketchy clickbait factories. Users were spending tons of time on social media, but they weren’t necessarily happier or better informed. Platforms built to empower the masses were rewarding ext
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
It's actually a perfect example of correlation to causation. The title could easily have been "fathers perpetually kept in cramped quarters produce dumb babies".
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> on mice And the article automatically relates it to humans, when absolutely no study has been done. Correlation to causation.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Correlation implied as causation. Here is another correlation into causation article linking cardiovascular fitness to IQ[0] Another way to look at it can be from the per-capita relation of economic class to fitness[1]. It is entirely possi
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Ubuntu MATE 4 life. It's like running peak 200x Ubuntu frontend with all the up to date backend.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> In addition to these perceptions about people in tech, tech actually is less social for women than for men. It’s harder for women to make friends and fit in, both in university classes and at tech companies. Because it’s unnatural or m
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
"Let us tell you what's newsworthy and what isn't." "Let us direct your searches through filtered autocomplete and 'curate' your search results." "Let us filter out any 'controversial'
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
To be fair, if the only thing they're geniuses as is making a money pit look attractive to investors.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
It all makes sense when you realize that they're lying and their "automated system" is a bunch of low level contractors.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> The child is not property. The child is a human, and has human rights. Those rights are protected. The child has his own independent legal representation to look after its best interests. How humane of your government to decide that a
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Who in their right mind think's a toddler's best interest is to die?
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> But also Alfie had his own legal representation. What?! How does an infant/toddler receive legal representation arguing for the plug to be pulled, outside of the wishes of his parents?! That is the very definition of authoritarian
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
You misinterpret or spin the data from your link. Look again and you'll see that, as far as compulsory spending goes the US and UK spend roughly the same percentage of GDP on "healthcare". What is "healthcare" as de
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I think you misunderstand the statement. I wasn't referencing the comparison of the tax costs of different public healthcare systems. But while we're on that subject, I'm willing to bet that your VA comparison isn't per
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Lower average cost of medical care All derived from figures that don't account for how much more you pay in taxes for that "free or cheap" healthcare.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
You'll get no concessions from a political ideology that refuses to disassociate from, or even recognize the existence of, extremist elements on it's side of the spectrum.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Generally Economist is unashamedly political. I have no problem with unashamedly political. I do have a problem with willful disingenuousness to promote ideological dogma.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
This article conflates public "essential health" services with universal, state-run healthcare. It also uses nondescript graphs, in image form and with no link to source data, to make sweeping, "correlation equals causation&q
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Trying to perform a "media consumption strike" without dropping your smartphone is like trying to quit coke while keeping a eight ball in your pocket.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Let's say the average developer works 45 hours a week at a company and makes $15/hr more than a FT senior dev (with salary calculated at 40 hours). That's $2500 more a year, which sounds bad when you factor in all the FT bene
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
> Much more transparency about what the phone is doing: how it’s charging, what it’s downloading, etc. Except all the things Google is syphoning in the background without telling you.
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
You also have to factor in the amount of responsibility for pay. A contractor with decent negotiation skils may net out slightly less than a FT senior dev at a company, but they often have less responsibility than even the FT junior and mid
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
I'm sure no fan of dismissive, know-it-all programmers, but to play devil's advocate, who's injecting their feelings into a site with the explicit purpose of solely answering programming questions?
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by fortythirteen 8y ago
Its intended purpose has little to do with monitoring. This starts Orwellian and end Huxleyan, in that a generation or two in, the majority of people's perception will be altered . They have no access to dissenting thought and their c

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