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by frabcus 5y ago
Well, I also believe that no single company should be allowed to have more than 10% market share in any market. So I would have competition, with different companies having different moderation policies.
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The only way I've dealt with this is, every couple of years, to unfollow everyone and carefully pick who I follow again in a niche community that is interesting to me at the time.
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I thought I was aphantasic, but after a coaching session with AphantasiaMeow, I'm sure I'm hypophantasic. And having none is very different from having a tiny amount - I think if I was motivated I could train to have phantasic abi
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by frabcus 5y ago
That's a super interesting question. I suspect it is because Facebook dominates the market for advertising-that-tracks. They're just not as good as other players at advertising-that-doesn't-track. So when they lost inventory
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And a note that you can donate to them, and I have done so for nearly four years.
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Link to the study: https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-1330800/v1 Found via: https://biotechnews.net/2022/02/09/antarctic-soil-sample-fro...
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Yes! As a concrete example, people spent all of the C19 trying to fly, learning lots about aerodynamics along the way ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aviation#19th_centu... ). This culminated in the Wright Bro
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I don’t think they can do this - it feels like it would require a central contact database with an extra setting for that. But who knows, the private contact discovery is quite magical so maybe there’s a way…. https://signal.org&
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This page gives some details and the technical reason can be inferred: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do... It doesn’t send the number to them - Signal don’t get the contact list fr
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by frabcus 5y ago
This is fascinating. I feel like an anthropologist so have lots of questions. Do you have multiple Discord servers or just one for all your friends? Roughly how old are you and are you a student or in a job or something else? What country o
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By "they" I meant Google - instead of embedding just their own services in the SERP. I guess it could be a marketplace made by the industry as a whole or regulated by government. But yes, you’re right this needs thought. Developin
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Yes, harmful behaviours by companies have to be regulated. We don’t let chemical waste get poured into rivers. Likewise, we shouldn’t allow harmful behaviour online. We have to as a society agree what that means, which is what is now finall
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Early on Google adverts were entirely targeted on search terms and made tons of money. It’s a myth that targeting users is needed - it makes more profit, and creates a moat for the ad market, but that’s all. DuckDuckGo shows this is the cas
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by frabcus 5y ago
Not at all - the improved competition would help existing users by encouraging innovation and improving search quality. For example - by offering a way for any provider to embed info boxes and search UIs, all competing with each other. Or
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Only if they don’t innovate. They could create a search marketplace for providing high quality hours of operation services, and let multiple providers compete for it.
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This feels more interesting than most cryptocurrency uses. One thing a cryptocurrency can be is an open protocol for payments - it makes sense to try and make one into such a protocol. The privacy preserving aspects of MobileCoin are inte
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However, a useful bandaid does show that early blockchain is useful, just as "Early computers solved problems they were designed to solve". Lebanaon, Turkey and Venezuela are very much part of the real world!
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It’s a military reason. In the event of war you want complete control of comms systems for your military. This makes sense to me! I think it would be foolish of any army to use a comms system another country controls.
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Which? https://www.which.co.uk/ is great, based in the UK, not very expensive to join for a month to look up one product.
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These days they use lots of sources in addition to Bing. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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Originally it was basically a reskin of Bing, but now it has many sources and its own crawler. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so...
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In my experience, yes. Also a few weeks into using an account I made for testing a product that uses their signin system, it asked me to scan in and upload my passport. Luckily it wasn’t a core part of my job so I just gave up having any ki
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Roger Penrose’s The Emperors New Mind proposed this in the 1990s. He gave circumstantial possibilities, and I don’t think we know more than that now. As an amateur, my instinct is that the mystery of the observer "causing" wave fu
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Foursquare still exists amazingly and is pretty good.
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My favourite was the Skype outage in 2007 where a peer to peer algorithm didn’t scale - they had to work this out, and change the algorithm to fix it. It took ages! https://www.wired.com/2007/08/update-skype-ou&#x2
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by frabcus 5y ago
Does this relate in any way to us getting cheaper hearing aids? A pair of bluetooth streaming rechargable ones is about $3000. With Transparency mode and the latest software for AirPod pros, you can adjust the frequency distribution, and ge
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It's only decentralised at the web layer - we basically stopped inventing shared protocols after that point in the 90s. Email interoperates, but messaging doesn't. There's no adopted standard for identity (except centralised
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by frabcus 5y ago
Out of interest, why didn't you agree over email to switch to Telegram/Signal/Skype/Snapchat Video and have the call immediately?
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I learned Unity in 3 simple* steps(youtube.com)
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The earliest place I’ve seen this is the introduction to Julian Jaynes “Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” https://www.julianjaynes.org/resources/books/ooc/en/introduc... The

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