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by gxon 6y ago
No? A big player might decide to preemptively squash ANY startup that could possibly become a threat while it's cheap and nobody else cares enough to notice.
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by gxon 6y ago
This is why I think we need to be careful when considering a ban on facial recognition. Pandora's box is open. Even if we do decide on some kind of ban, we need to assume facial recognition will always be used by someone, somewhere, an
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by gxon 6y ago
Killing old.reddit.com would probably be their final Digg moment for me. Maybe they'll manage to keep the bulk of their users and keep some husk of it's former self going for a long time, but I'm gone. I suspect many others w
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by gxon 6y ago
Never had any problems with RIF on mobile.
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by gxon 6y ago
It's interesting how many successful, creative people seem to be incapable at imagining themselves not being so successful one day. What you perform well at today won't necessarily be valuable in the future.
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by gxon 6y ago
And yet, we desperately want to find a better model so we can stop feeding the ad demon.
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by gxon 6y ago
To expand on this, it's tempting to dismiss those warning of doom and gloom when you start to notice a pattern of the doom never materializing. But we should also be aware of the possibility that those warning of doom and gloom activat
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by gxon 6y ago
If the boy cries wolf, but nobody else sees it, how do you decide if the boy was mistaken/lied or if the act of the entire town waking up scared the wolf away?
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by gxon 6y ago
And make them self replicating and you only have to add it once! Grey goo here we come!
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by gxon 6y ago
Absolutely. But the game we use to choose a president does not seem to be at all related to the actual job of president.
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by gxon 6y ago
Is this the one? https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...
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by gxon 6y ago
*SWEs who understand the value of being on blind know how the game works.
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by gxon 6y ago
I would argue the opposite. If I submit a micropayment for an article that turns out to be low effort clickbait, my disappointment will be magnified by the fact that I lost money. I would also expect my satisfaction to be magnified for high
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by gxon 6y ago
It's odd that it was killed suddenly without an apparent reason.
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by gxon 6y ago
OMG. There's a dedicated calendar wiki, https://calendars.wikia.org/wiki/Main_Page I don't know why I'm surprised, but this brightened by day!
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by gxon 6y ago
Why not the 13 month calendar? e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Fixed_Calendar Obviously 12 is nice for divisibility (easy quarters and halves), but are there any other key reasons?
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by gxon 6y ago
The idea of using gaming stats like FPS kill-to-death ratio as a passive measure of cognitive function is fascinating to me. Along the lines of other passive stats like smart scales and fitness trackers. Obviously, there are specific tests
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by gxon 6y ago
I'm not sure I like this for most users who don't have any kind of following or well developed sense of what is and is not appropriate to post. I do like this a lot for high profile accounts. It seems fair that if you're veri
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by gxon 6y ago
This should be drastically safer than a motorcycle. It presumably has a seatbelt and airbags, and no chance of being flung 50 feet in the air or sanded down by asphalt. Parking would be a huge advantage in a dense city. Limited parking can
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by gxon 6y ago
Depends on whether you want the non shared experience or not. Shared rides in a dense area are probably more efficient. Our new post-pandemic reality might make shared rides less desirable. Or more desirable as a marginally safer alternativ
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by gxon 6y ago
Twitter ought to have some kind of strikethrough feature. Allow users to mark that they no longer stand behind a tweet without completely deleting it.
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by gxon 7y ago
I don't see a problem in feeling good that a bad company failed and feeling bad that employees at that company are losing their jobs and going to suffer. Conflicting emotions are a natural result of complicated situations. This is part
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by gxon 7y ago
Do you carry a smart phone? Does it not have a microphone designed to have hands free conversations and pick up audio from a distance? Does it have the ability to constantly track your location? Does it contain most of your private, electro
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by gxon 7y ago
I'd like a way to directly tip artists. Let me set a tip budget in my account and then give me a button push a few cents any time I listen to a song I really love.
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by gxon 7y ago
But has it ever been any different? Planting illegal items on people has always been a tactic that the law could use to ruin otherwise clean people they don't like. Talking about mass surveillance being the source of the problem kind o
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by gxon 7y ago
I saw that too. It would be interesting to see what different states do to try and increase voter turnout. Maybe some even give cash incentives to voters assuming that the economic benefit from being first/early in the primary outweigh
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by gxon 7y ago
Even if we grant that this is all we need to do (I don't believe it is), you can't honestly be suggesting that 8 billion people are going to wake up this year and decide to voluntarily sacrifice such a primal desire. Without big a
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by gxon 7y ago
Yang supports Universal Healthcare as a key attachment to UBI. [1] He does care about the student loan problem, but has a less aggressive and more nuanced plan than blanket forgiveness. [2] Traditional college is not a necessity for most pe
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by gxon 7y ago
Spread fear and despair to everyone you're connected to. Yes, we need to move rationally and carefully, but we're only going to do that when a tipping point of people start believing this is an existential threat akin to an incomi
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by gxon 7y ago
I think the point is that it's not worth celebrating as a win, because the shift wasn't driven by a desire to reduce emissions. It was driven by the fact that gas is cheaper. It's just a nice coincidence that it's lower

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