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by hos234 7y ago
Where is the CBP/state dept side to this story?
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by hos234 7y ago
Facebook/Youtube/Twitter et al uses mass surveillance to place ads. Netflix uses it to decide what movies and shows to make. Google uses it to rank info. Insurance companies use it to decide prices. The more data we have the more
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by hos234 7y ago
This is not Journalism. Journalism is what Julie Brown did since 2008. This is just Buzzfeed being buzzfeed getting some sure shot clicks.
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by hos234 7y ago
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind" We live in interesting times. Teachers of the Paglia calibre, have become visible to larger and
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by hos234 7y ago
All of us have a baked in Negativity bias - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias And in the current environment of negative info overload, things are going to feel much worse than they really are. We don'
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by hos234 7y ago
I sort of agree with this. Having been around hospitals a bit, I have watched quite a few people going through one procedure after another for years and years with no improvement in quality of life. Most of them just want to checkout, but e
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by hos234 7y ago
Agree. It's how they figured out Kurt Hendricks was in Dubai.
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Guilt and shame are stone age tools to get people to be obedient and fit into domination based hierarchies. Lot of cavemen still use them. But this is not the stone age and there are better ways of getting things done. The Outcomes speak fo
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by hos234 7y ago
Guilt tripping and shaming your friend isn't productive. He is just going to get defensive or feel bad. People when pushed into that state of mind don't exactly effect change or are open to change.
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by hos234 7y ago
What's the suggestion? Hire Alex Jones?
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The Fire movement is pretty harmful imho. I think it benefits the authors and podcasters much more than it helps actual people. It probably works for very specific personality types. And really shouldn't be sold to anyone and everyone.
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by hos234 7y ago
There are different dumps. Text doesn't take much space. It's the images and videos. Usually about a 100GB. Check https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages
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by hos234 7y ago
This is a good list of different type of issues being produced. I think there is a need of tracking it the same way we track software bugs. I thought Tristan Harris's Ledger of Harm's was a good attempt. Looks like this author is
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Chinese teens shying away from WeChat(scmp.com)
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by hos234 7y ago
You don't "jar" people into Learning anything. That is why the late night comedian brigade and the bombastic news reader class (don't call them journalists) have never managed to change anyone's minds, irrespective
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by hos234 7y ago
True and the mind boggles how much they are spending on trash, and how much they are raking in. Just Disney projected hitting 7 billion dollar blockbusters this year. Look at the titles - Aladdin, Lion King, Toy Story 4, Star Wars, Frozen 2
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by hos234 7y ago
Superficial debates. Superficial actions. People as it is have a Negativity Bias. Facebook/Twitter/Youtube's biggest content producers use it and depend on it, to hit their engagement metrics. Elevating threat perception or
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by hos234 7y ago
He is correct. I don't know why you are getting downvoted.
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Newton's father died when he was 3 months old and his mother ditched him as a kid and when she returned years later made him quit school to take care of the pigs. The reason he went on to become the Isaac Newton everyone knows, was bec
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by hos234 7y ago
I like Bernie, but it's not simple. Canada has 60 shrinks per 100k ppl while the US has 4. Universal healthcare is not going to increase the number of shrinks over night. Another thing with the "all other western nations" lin
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by hos234 7y ago
They aren't evil man. They are just well programmed robots constantly searching for things to over-optimize. They hit their metrics every day and then plug into their charging stations. That's it. Give it a few years and they will
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by hos234 7y ago
There are no winning strategies. Its all BS. There are people who are addicted to tracking weather fluctuations on Pluto and there are people who are not.
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by hos234 7y ago
I disagree. I personally get cheesed off with psychologists and counselors who I don't feel a connect with. Imho best one's are those that know what is involved in creating an empathetic connection. Sport psychologists are much mo
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by hos234 7y ago
People are all full of foresight until their foresight doesn't work. Which is most of the time when working at the cutting edge of Tech. That's when companies crash and burn. Intel has not, despite missing the boat on big calls al
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by hos234 7y ago
> The protesters learned in 2014 that having leaders was a weakness. Once the leadership was arrested, the heart went out of the occupy movement, and it lost momentum. So in 2019, there is no leadership at all. This part seems a little
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The problem with telling people they need to be "more scientific and less emotional" when dealing with fear or threats, is that it doesn't work. If they knew how to be more logical, there wouldn't be a problem in the fir
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by hos234 7y ago
Well put. The history of science should be taught more and deeply. That said, given how much the total number of scientists/ engineers/curious people with resources has grown, it feels like, for any work happening in one corner of
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by hos234 7y ago
Yup interesting trend. The real story is the public has made this happen. Given the kind of cut throat competition that exists, Marketing manager don't really get "fed up". They are more focused on hitting their weekly number
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It is Pavlov's dog experiment, where instead of the bell, you have a like/retweet Count conditioning and reinforcing behavior. Natural human interaction has never had a number placed next to every thought and utterance. The number
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by hos234 7y ago
I know this lunatic who is into base jumping. And according to him, if the body isn't in the right position within a few seconds of jumping you are dead. Dumbest sport on the planet.

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