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by gthtjtkt 9y ago
Easy: Stop littering the feed with pictures, videos and articles. Exclude them altogether or show them very rarely. You can also easily identify "viral" content that doesn't belong to the user and remove it. Eventually they&#
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by gthtjtkt 9y ago
Facebook was great in the early years. No ads, no political spam, no viral garbage, no pictures of what your friend ate for dinner, no psychologically manipulative algorithms. Just people talking to their friends and posting pictures of the
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I put this whole post into Google.com/translate but I'm still completely lost.
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> Meh, this is just ridiculous moral posturing. Got the same feeling. Couldn't help but think it was mostly an opportunity for the author to brag about his l33t h4x0r skillz as a kid. "Look at me, I was in the newspaper when I
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> Caring that your clothes look good is narcissism (excessive interest in your appearance) now? As if caring is a binary thing and not a matter of degree? When you pay $200 to have "fashion experts" (or AI) judge your outfits o
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> Style Check keeps your look on point using advanced machine learning algorithms and advice from fashion specialists. Submit two photos for a second opinion on which outfit looks best on you based on fit, color, styling, and current tre
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Snopes and Politifact are abject failures. Nothing but glorified bloggers who have declared themselves the arbiters of truth. Even Rachel Maddow has called them out on numerous occasions, and she was rooting for the same candidate as them:
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> would you not consider the "I worked harder than others, therefore I'm more successful" sentiment self evident? Not at all. We can swap anecdotes about successful people all day, but the fact of the matter is that hard w
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> MOST successful people work very hard. Surprising right? Duh. If you're going to complain about an author making unsubstantiated generalizations, you should probably avoid doing the same.
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> 3. US Corporate Culture is currently rife with an attitude "Let the Boomers Retire, we have a Hiring Freeze" I would add: 4. US Corporate Culture is currently rife with an attitude "If you're not sacrificing your li
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
Whenever this topic comes up I always think of the letter Bukowski wrote about it. A few quotes: > You know my old saying, "Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors." > what hurts is the st
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I think you missed the part where they implied these lawsuits are often completely without merit. It's abuse of the parent system to stifle competition, and we're supposed to believe business owners just shrug it off after they&#x
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> Companies with deep pockets lock down the market by making it too expensive for competitors to operate and to offer lower-priced yet quality products. It is a legitimate tactic; even those who succumb to it don’t really begrudge the ap
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Good! How does that saying go? "If you can't pay your employees a living wage, your business shouldn't exist"? And maybe it's about time consumers learned the true cost of the goods they buy, without the artificial
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I don't think U.S. costs are bloated when it comes to these types of applications, where perfection is pretty much a requirement. On the other hand, if you just want to make a million doodads and sell them to consumers, U.S. costs are
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I think Google fucked them hard just to prove a point. 99% of lyrics sites are utter trash littered with popups, redirects and extremely obnoxious ads. Genius was the first lyrics site I ever saw that broke that mold. Sure, they also broke
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
> Is it a problem? If people are happy with that status quo, who are we to challenge them? If people are happy doing heroin all day, who are we to challenge them?
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It's not Facebook, it's the fact that we're all too happily Amusing Ourselves to Death: http://a.co/frMmE2s “We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Ameri
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On the one hand, I'm also skeptical. On the other hand, I could see someone glancing at the date and accidentally reading "Mar 10, 2017" as Mar '10.
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You can already see the rapid appreciation starting in the console CRT market. All the most desirable monitors have doubled or tripled in price over the past year. A 20" monitor easily sells for several hundred dollars, and the larger
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by gthtjtkt 10y ago
That's a nice thought, and Keynes had the same one almost 80 years ago[1]. Unfortunately, capitalism disagrees. As long as we have capitalism + greed, the owners of the automation will reap the benefits while everyone else struggles to
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Yeah, that sentence stood out to me too. Kind of like starting a philosophical debate with the statement "Obviously God exists, so I will now proceed with the other parts of my argument". Definitely not as axiomatic as the author
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I feel like we're already starting to see the effects of Amazon's attempts to become profitable. Their customer service has certainly gone down the drain, and their whole website is littered with cheap garbage from Alibaba. To me,
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The way I see it, most subjects in school focus on teaching you what to think. Philosophy focuses more on how to think. That's obviously not true in all cases (there are plenty of dogmatic philosophies) but in my opinion it's
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Based on all the supposed benefits of doing math, it sounds like people would be better off studying philosophy. Same benefits but a much broader appeal, and far more applicable to most people's everyday lives. When I finally "dis
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> thereby reducing their opposition to caricatures and removing any realistic and reasonable discussion. Isn't that exactly what you're doing with this comment by comparing the term to "SJW" and "White Knight&quo
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Yes, anyone who calls out moral grandstanding is a right-wing troll.
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The best time to plant a tree was when they were dropping bombs on them. The second best time is when it becomes hip and trendy to plant trees, apparently.
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So when we were dropping bombs on them it wasn't worth making an official statement, but now that they get held up at the border for a few hours it's suddenly worth talking about? I can't think of a case where the term "
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You can get a giant roll of this stuff on Amazon for $6 less than your shipped price. And they even include a marker...

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