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by ixtli 8y ago
As I said in another comment this is about consent. It's not that the testing the conversion rates of button a versus button b is in and of itself immoral, it's that experimenting on people without their informed consent, under an
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by ixtli 8y ago
I dunno I think my comment was inclusive of the notion that facebook profits off of (i.e.: its users include) propagandists and other bad actors.
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by ixtli 8y ago
I agree with you but personally I dont see how its so onerous for blizzard or rockstar to tell me in plain language what it intends to do with its behavior tracking (or really that its tracking my behavior at all.) For me this is about cons
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by ixtli 8y ago
Look this clearly is not in the spirit of the argument I'm making. Why would I advocate for rules that restrict a websites ability to change? Again, im talking about consent when it comes to how your behavior is going to be used. Fur
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by ixtli 8y ago
Saying that A/B testing is just different colors for buttons is intentionally ignoring the past 10 years of facebooks development process. Every single aspect of the platform is AB tested and that platform has a big effect on peoples l
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by ixtli 8y ago
This seems to be ignoring consent. I'd bet you if I went around asking people whether or not they realized their FB app experience was being consistently multivariate tested i'd be on the street a while before someone said yes. Th
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by ixtli 8y ago
Its not social media! Social media has a lot of issues that really need to be discussed in public but technology has no morals. Facebook dot com isn't divisive: its USERS are. Before social media you didn't have a deep view into
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by ixtli 8y ago
This is my experience with java > 7. The JVM with default settings is pretty excellent these days (see JetBrains IDEs: they're MASSIVE but they run just as well as any other native desktop app.) The issue as far as i see it is that
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by ixtli 8y ago
As technology advances the easy problems are solved. As time passes we're left with just problems that have highly complex solutions that require collective effort to solve. The remaining problems aren't ones that you can avoid by
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by ixtli 8y ago
Unfortunately this hyper-individualist notion breaks down in our modern era because many of our big problems (access to healthcare, climate change, etc.) only have collective solutions. This argument was central to the obamacare fight and I
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by ixtli 8y ago
Not to nitpick but this is from 2015, which was right around the time when journalists were able to dig into how companies like microsoft and apple worked with the CIA/NSA to violate privacy, happily or otherwise.
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by ixtli 8y ago
I hate to borrow a phrase from the white nationalism, being a pretty vocal socialist, but when will enough be enough? When will people realize that theoretical notions about "freedom" aren't, in practice, justification for le
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by ixtli 8y ago
It's an illusion. I think this is just one of the rare examples where people can't arbitrarily roll their own new language because they're unhappy with bits and pieces of C++ or Python. Consider that in the same span of time
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by ixtli 8y ago
This is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever heard. Definitely listen to the whole thing.
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by ixtli 8y ago
This is wonderful.
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by ixtli 8y ago
I have to say that i really respect that you said this because it's the reality: fast violence gets international condemnation and slow, well-dressed violence gets valorized. I also have to say that even though many of us can't re
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by ixtli 8y ago
It's a real shame I can't directly embed a gif of Zizek sniffing here.
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by ixtli 8y ago
If you read philosophy you'll find (happily, i think) that you're not alone in your thoughts and beliefs. Your whole mind is intertwined with thousands of years of development of those beliefs and the physical structures they crea
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by ixtli 8y ago
It's extremely dangerous to believe that its possible to not have an ideology. The idea that this is possible tends to come from whatever lets people think there's such a thing as "unbiased" or, indeed, that not applying
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by ixtli 8y ago
I realize this might not be the best place to hash this out due to the format but I feel compelled to respond. I just encourage you personally to think about this matter holistically. That is, people dont do, say, and think things in a vacu
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by ixtli 8y ago
What a horrible waste of a wonderful person. We should all do what we can to make sure society completely rejects the out-moded and dangerous ideology that caused this.
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by ixtli 8y ago
This is actually what I love about redis. They added clustering, obviously a massive feature, in 3-4 and you could totally ignore it if you wanted to, while still receiving the stability and speed increases without changing much of anythi
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by ixtli 8y ago
Can anyone give me an overview of why I'd want to consider looking at DO if im already comfortable with AWS? I don't really have any issues with RDS.
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by ixtli 8y ago
Glorious, cursed comment.
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by ixtli 8y ago
To be clear, whats happening here is that 55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 will always produce a pin for 55 Water St New York, NY 10004. Notably, 55 Water Street, The Empire Stores, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (which is a very strange way to format
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There's no way to query an address in brooklyn on Google maps(google.com)
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by ixtli 8y ago
This may be one of my favorite quotes ever. I also don't find it to be a compliment, even if it was intended that way.
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by ixtli 8y ago
> I feel that [a programming language is] just a tool to instruct a machine to do something. I can't stress enough how true this is.
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by ixtli 8y ago
How do we, you know, stop this from happening?
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by ixtli 8y ago
I’m assuming the same.

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