fwn

57 ms·

631.
by fwn 10y ago
It's a straight forward sentence, I don't think you can just redefine it's content detached from the words in it. However, the sentence is not even close to describe the interview and creates a weird focus by making this side
632.
by fwn 10y ago
This big effort could serve as an indicator how experience damaging those ads were perceived to be. If you create great costs (like ripping 30 pages from a magazine) for a small gain is this a particularly well intended economic strategy?
633.
by fwn 10y ago
In the first case you are also screwing the advertising entity for the gain of the publisher, in the second case you are not pretending to see ads to profit for someone in the ecosystem on the expense of someone else. I can hardly see any m
634.
by fwn 10y ago
A correct URL to ublock Origin is: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/ The one you posted is an abandoned fork.
635.
by fwn 10y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/settings/ In the data saving settings sub category. The setting panel itself seems rather hidden.
636.
by fwn 10y ago
Who would have thought that actually adding value to peoples lives is hard. Much harder than paying someone to force others to see something.
637.
by fwn 10y ago
Oh, he was not saying that there are bad social scientists. This is a completely valid statement to make. However, calling a discipline unscientific is not a matter of taste or opinion. There are a bunch of scientific methods and as long as
638.
by fwn 10y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with everything the parent wrote, nor did I downvote, but maybe "I don't think social science is a real science" is not the greatest starting point for making a genuinely social point. It&#x2
639.
by fwn 10y ago
So, according to this definition, standard news sites are incapable of ever producing fake news since their website also serve as legitimate news site? That does little more then raising the costs of implementing manipulative falsehoods by
640.
by fwn 10y ago
If anything, stuff gets less trustworthy when forced into 140 characters full of weird grammar tricks to keep the limit.
641.
by fwn 10y ago
That must mean they are evil spies, no? ...or just idiots. Not all unfortunate behavior is an intentional attempt to manipulate.
642.
by fwn 10y ago
I am certain that this was a metaphor, not an actual comparison.
643.
by fwn 10y ago
Replying to myself, since I can not edit it anymore. I know it sounds all funny and stuff, but if someone is curious about how context, in this case at least the statements exposed curator pewdiepie, matters, Foucaults 1969 essay "What
644.
by fwn 10y ago
"regardless of context" does not even exist. Your comment featured it and I don't think it's an inappropriate comment you made here.
645.
by fwn 10y ago
Arguing that someone should give you something is much easier to communicate than arguing that someone should redo its tech to be able to give you something. Policywise it is beneficial to conceal your own knowledge about their technical ba
646.
by fwn 10y ago
In a perfect world, government would be good, capable not oppressive and there would be zero reason for anyone not to trust them with private data - but government would not want it, since they would not be immoderate and power hungry but p
647.
by fwn 10y ago
I always thought that putting the blame on actual agents instead of stuff is the direct opposite of being evasive. You rightly said that I will answer that it was the adults fault. The bad act done with the weapon was giving it to a child,
648.
by fwn 10y ago
Not "we" as in "we the general public with no specific interest in staying hidden". But of course criminals, terrorists or secret services do have the right incentive structure to always benefit from circumventing encryp
649.
by fwn 10y ago
I strongly believe that tools are ethically neutral. A hammer, a knife or a government can be pretty useful, or pretty violent - depending on how you use it. This alone does not imply that a hammer, a knife or a government should not exist
650.
by fwn 10y ago
I'd love to make a project to sum up every TED talk in 140 charaters. This way one could consume their whole set of ideas worth spreading in under an hour.
651.
by fwn 10y ago
This writing experiment/demo is pretty fun. All immigrants should be deported. All boy bands should be executed. Both got me a 0%. All Germans are evil rats. 1%. All my (self)hate wasn't sufficient to trigger this al
652.
by fwn 10y ago
Something like a big list of reoccurring payments? Like a checking account? Joke aside there is an overview page on Google play for subscriptions placed through apps from the play story. That's probably the closest to what you describe
653.
by fwn 10y ago
Not an expert, but as secret stuff gets leaked it tends to create huge public discourse and leads to political action. Knowledge about their actions does seem to have an effect on the country. Secret service staff would probably not necessa
654.
by fwn 10y ago
The "what would happen if it went away tomorrow" question is not particularly useful to determine facebooks power, since it's not going to go away tomorrow. I think the argument is about influence, not complete determination.
655.
by fwn 10y ago
Who knows? They are certainly not going to tell. Secret services are rather secret about their services.
656.
by fwn 10y ago
Of course also democratic non-profit organizations wildly disalign with what one might call a "free society". Those adjectives mean little (as does "free society") without a definition.
657.
by fwn 10y ago
> But what exactly is the force that seems to be pushing us towards Armageddon? Inflating panic might be very trendy right now but it is a bad opener for an intended(?) think piece. The awful things he lists are: increased migration and
658.
by fwn 10y ago
Imagine the beauty of this tax if it were not mandatory. Kind of like a gov. service, but without any threat attached to it. Like a private startup out something..
659.
by fwn 10y ago
We would not have this debates if this were as easy to deliver as it is demanded.
660.
by fwn 10y ago
Since all the popular filter lists are public, you could even scan them on the fly to evaluate your likelihood of being blocked. But in the end you probably won't win against someone who really hates ads. - and that's probably bet

More ›