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by gambler 5y ago
People who consider this an issue either wouldn't work for Google to begin with or end up butting heads with management and leave the company. The benefits of self-selection. There is also a lot of internal corporate training and team-
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by gambler 5y ago
And not just in two German states: https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/03/crime-support-russia-u... "It’s a jailable crime to support Russia’s Ukraine war in EU members Slovakia and Czech Republic" T
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by gambler 5y ago
"A web for everyone" turned out to be a lie. The web architecture made it trivial to manipulate information and cancel people. Nothing in the protocols deals with archiving or true redundancy. Nothing deals with DDoS or bypassing
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by gambler 5y ago
I don't need someone gaslighting me about an article that I've just read. Here is what it says: "The Times also errs by utterly failing to grapple with the problem that “cancelling” represents free speech and free associatio
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by gambler 5y ago
A) Criticizing an idea so that others understand how it is flawed. B) "Criticizing" an idea to get it expunged from various media to manipulate what ideas people are exposed to. If you even pretend that there is no difference be
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by gambler 5y ago
I am sure after learning this all Americans will take to the streets and after a massive protest the government will defund CIA and prosecute everyone responsible for the related crimes. Right? And if that doesn't happen, European comp
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by gambler 5y ago
Reframing mass doxing as crowd sourcing doesn't change the basic dynamics of what's going on.
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by gambler 5y ago
A lot of these "oligarchs" have citizenships of European countries. (Which, in my opinion, they shouldn't have been given in the first place, but that's an entirely different conversation.) So in many cases people are ef
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by gambler 5y ago
If you need to change your platform's rules for literally every major event (elections, Covid, this war) there is something profoundly wrong both with your rules and your platform. There is tremendous value in having actual principles.
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by gambler 5y ago
>Sow doubt, maintain deniability, gaslight, deflect, and project. "Russian restaurant owners in the U.S. say they face harassment over Ukraine war" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ukraine-russia-restaurants-
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by gambler 5y ago
You know, I am beginning to see that all that talk about mass psychosis caused by social isolation due to Covid and lockdowns was onto something. It explains a lot of what is happening right now. People are hyper-focused on only one thing a
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by gambler 5y ago
The article you're linking to is partisan propaganda [1] and doesn't address the question I've raised. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/03/16/no-white-...
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by gambler 5y ago
Threat Reduction Program? Wow, that sounds familiar. "Of the $41.91 million, $37.61 million was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), which describes its mission as “to protect the United States
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by gambler 5y ago
> Japan is not using Ivermectin. https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOFD31A0C0R30C22A1000000/ 2022/1/31 興和（名古屋市）は31日、寄生虫病薬「イベルメクチン」が新型コロナウイルスの変異型「オミクロン型」の治療薬として効果があることを確認したと発表した。北里大学との非臨床試験をもとに、抗ウイルス効
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by gambler 5y ago
I disagree. HN is definitely less insane than Reddit these days, but it's not representative of what Web 1.0 was like and felt like. Everyone here would do well to read and understand this essay by Jaron Lanier: https://www.
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by gambler 5y ago
Here is a simple one. https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/se7t5p/i_saw_the_t... https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/secvqz/i_stood_... A subreddit with
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by gambler 5y ago
> Reddit and Twitter are an information source for what people are talking about. It's a source of information for what Reddit and Twitter owners want you to see. Both websites are heavily manipulated in a myriad of ways. (The simpl
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by gambler 5y ago
> I could say that if you’re handling multilingual text, then you should damn well know how multilingual text works, that it’s not peripheral to your problem. Trouble is, anyone using Unicode and accepting user inputs is effectively ha
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Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm(unicode.org)
2 points by gambler 5y ago|0 comments
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by gambler 5y ago
> Except by telling every speaker of Arabic and Hebrew saying they want some of that delicious “plain text” action to go screw themselves The problem is not with Arabic or Hebrew. The problem is that this modifier affects other languag
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by gambler 5y ago
Problem is, this behavior is so outside of the range of common expectations, it's really hard to say if it's harmless or not and what are the worst cases for (ab)using it.
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by gambler 5y ago
Extremely bad design. This kind of complexity should have been moved to some kind of post-processing spec rather than core Unicode. It's already causing issues and will cause more. The more universal something is, the more effort shoul
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by gambler 5y ago
The cause that raised 9 million dollars in a few days is a "a tiny minority of truckers [...] making a huge fuss over really very little"... because someone somewhere claims that they've seen a data dump of hacked donation da
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by gambler 5y ago
A fringe minority wouldn't be greeted by people lining highways and overpasses in freezing cold. [1] It wouldn't raise over nine million dollars in crowd funding, twice. [2] At the very least we're talking about a very large
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by gambler 5y ago
Absolutely. Like I said, we are on social media right now.
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by gambler 5y ago
Funny. I was literally recording a podcast about this very subject today and yesterday. No, it's not published anywhere at this point.
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by gambler 5y ago
I define "social media" as anything that manipulates content visibility based on metrics that aren't related to the content itself or user's direct inputs. Because of deliberately deceptive terminology in play this defin
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by gambler 5y ago
I hate the gaslighers who try to downplay this by putting into some BS "context". The situation with tech is abysmal right now. I do think it's fixable, though. > What can we do or is it already too late to save the worl
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by gambler 5y ago
Language evolves via gradual changes in common usage, not by decree from a fringe minority that captured some institution. Anyone who says that this nonsense is an example of normal process of language evolution is a gaslighting liar.
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by gambler 5y ago
Best practices in civil engineering are connected to outcomes. You know that something is a good practice if not doing it causes things to collapse or catch on fire. "Best practices" in software engineering are usually about inte

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