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>I guess the argument is that advertising would be OK, if it didn't track your every movement and share that information with thousands of scummy companies. Honestly: no. I'd rather pay more than selling my attention, because t
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What really grinds my gears: they do the same thing when you're a paying subscriber. I'm with the nyt for two years now, and I can vividly remember seeing the first ad that was displayed despite me being logged in. How is that oka
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>But almost all websites are getting out of control And they don't care if you're a paying user! I susbcribed to the NYT, paying them fair money every month for a couple of years now, just to be subjected to the same mess regar
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...below the atomic domain, which may very well constitute what the author considers "this world". Our lifes don't take place in the quantum realm (although you could argue that reality as a whole is some weird quantum graph)
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...duh.
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Very cool. Also, see this: https://i.redd.it/h6annrws3qa41.png
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> To what end though? How would you even begin measuring success in such a vast context? Well, so far it's just mindgames, so while these are very valid questions, I never thought of an exact goal... But I'd recognize it when
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I wondered who'd call themselves AlanTuring on HN :-) I think you come across very genuine, not arrogant at all. And it shows that you do your best to reflect, don't worry about that. However, while the philosopher (and sensationa
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Multi-accounts or coincidence? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22001317
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>Anything really by relating them to the substituent energy and power. My brain is tickling, thank's a lot for the reference!
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> Delivery date: 16 Jan 2020 Much appreciated!
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That's cute! I like that emojis can be links :-)
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I actually ordered "Systems thinking" after someone in the thread mentioned it, Milewskis series on category theory is on my todo!
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I've thought about this a lot, it's my goto "one day I'll write a book about this". I frame the problem slightly different (heh): Different disciplines, branching out, will (or so says my hypothesis) discover the sa
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No one claimed that every system can be changed; traffic will be traffic. The same applies for the rules of politics [0]. Not sure how you get the idea that "capitalism" is a bad thing, the majority of educated people (and not jus
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Not compile-time, but waiting for models to train :-) * Stand up/walk a couple of meters * get a cup of tee * use the pull-up bar (well, we have one in our office) You get the gist - do something for your body/metabolism. Even if
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That wasn't the point of this thread (at all, mind me). Op said that ones contacts shouldn't be allowed to share informations about you via perms on their address-book, as this was never part of the social contract you made with
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That doesn't stop others from saving your number/email (probably bundled under the same contact) next to your name - so long as you have a number. That, and the classic security/usability-tradeoff, render your implied suggest
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diff compares files line by line, here we just redirect the output of cmd1 and cmd2 via <, so they serve as 'proxies' for the file-args diff expects you might want to read into redirection on the commandline, it's amazingl
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Two hours and no one mentioned Lex Fridmans podcast on AGI? Interesting. Hard to pinpoint a specific episode, here is last weeks episode [0] with Stephen Kotkin, on "Stalin, Putin, and the nature of power". Fridman has a lineup of
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This gap is filled by consultants; a centralized, interdisciplinary knowledge-hub would be more than "a huge undertaking", because the forces that are at work when people try to reach consensus are not the same forces that drive u
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>People get prosecuted for having lied on a resume...why is a politician allowed to stay in the "system" after having just lied on facts and numbers? Because politics is not an industry, it's the unique dynamic of ruling a
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From a social psychology-perspective, I think we are far more fragile than you suggest here, but I'm not in team "make facebook responsible for the moderation of political speech", and I don't want to derail the conver
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I think the parent suggestively implied 'facebook wants to benefit from russian inteference in foreign elections, because money'
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Interesting. Honestly asking: was someone held accountable for the 350-million-pounds thing?
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They're not exloiting it, they're just being a company. Companies have one goal and one goal only: maximize revenue. The idea that it's up to them to define or moderate social standards without being legally obliged to do so
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To put it more blunt: risking your rep for some additional amount per user isn't worth it, if your margin is already a non-trivial multiple of said amount.
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>It's very unlikely tracking can even be banned [...] How so? It's just politics - no more, no less. I don't even consider it highly unlikely that it will , letalone can, be banned, at least in the EU.
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>[...] U.S. special operations forces who deployed to a military site in Uzbekistan shortly after the 9/11 attacks found pond water that glowed green, black goo oozing from the ground and signs warning “radiation hazard. [...] Afte
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That's amazing! Does anyone have a list of websites that provide this kind of view? And is there a browser-extension automatically redirecting to lite-versions? Browsing with cvim, this is a blessing .

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