jariel

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by jariel 6y ago
The press is literally invited to see much of what is happening. [1] It just scratches the surface. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
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by jariel 6y ago
We know for a fact most of what is going on, it's not well hidden. The CCP will give guided tours of their concentration camps to try to prove they are not concentration camps. Pulling out prisoners, in jail against their will, who sa
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by jariel 6y ago
The word 'genocide' is a little tricky, it kind of implies death-camps, at least in the popular imagination, I mean, the first basis of comparison I think for most of us is the Nazi Holocaust. A note below talked about the DoJ&#x2
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by jariel 6y ago
Blacklist and Whitelist are not 'unnatural' just the opposite, that's why we use terms, because they are natural. 'Darkness' is after all 'opaque', at night we can't see, 'light' is one of t
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by jariel 6y ago
For github, there's no point in scores. For HN, I'd rather it be hidden, something people can peek at if they really want to. For StackOverflow - a simple rank system would be nice, because you really want to know the cred of some
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by jariel 6y ago
One thing missing from the essay: If you hire people that are more interested in solving the problem, then they are the tech ... the problem goes away. Using some 'fancy, risk new thing' has utterly no appeal to someone trying to
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by jariel 6y ago
These businesses are not 'web sites'. They are operating entities. The 'web site' is the front end as it is for many other companies, it just so happens tech is a more important factor. What they are doing is actually di
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by jariel 6y ago
Wow, this is some serious narrative invention. They struggled with their business for a long time, time to rent out student flats for the summer. They eventually pivoted for a while and took on money to be the 'corporate' AirBnB,
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by jariel 6y ago
True, but I'm extremely wary of it and think it leads to magical thinking and bad outcomes. I prefer to take the opposite view: programming is work - it's mostly just 'building something' much like a Carpenter who has
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by jariel 6y ago
Oil for plastic use just is not a CO2 issue, it has nothing to do with sequestration. Oil for plastics is more akin to the use of any other natural resource in a product or good. The above commenter indicated 'issues with extraction&#x
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by jariel 6y ago
? Oil being used to make plastics was never a problem. Oil is not evil. It's the Co2 bit that's a problem. The problem you missed was at least to some extent recycling: we can't reuse the material at all, and while theoretica
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by jariel 6y ago
Different companies, different industries, different rules. Researchers can publish anything they like as long as it's uncontroversial. Google sponsors tons of work for which there is no oversight. But if you're going to directl
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't see how anyone 'set up' anyone. Paradoxically, AI may have been part of the tech used to flag her, but it's all mundane at this point. Kind of implying that AI is just 'tech' and there's no materia
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, you could make the argument that this information is not definitively damning ... at the same time it looks pretty bad on her, and it seems likely that Google was doing something because someone was doing bad things. Also worth noting
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by jariel 6y ago
"she was getting paid handsomely while calling out her bosses by name and taking them through the dirt. I have nothing but respect for people willing to fall on their sword for the sake of making the world a better place. " There
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by jariel 6y ago
You are crossing streams. Nobody is harmed by virtue of invasion of their privacy. Ads, which relate to misinformation about COVID and elections are completely separate issue, and basically have nothing to do with the detailed nature of tar
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't know what you are objecting to i.e. Social Media surprisingly not knowing a lot about us - or - the need only for relatively small amount of solid demo data. On the first point - they just don't know that much about us. Th
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, this is true, but I suggest it's because despite the privacy invasion, we don't know that much about individuals. We don't need to though. Literally just basic demographics, plus a few interest points ... that's all
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by jariel 6y ago
The economy is growing 2-3% these days, so another point on that is about a 30% increase in growth and would be a spectacular for humanity. Your privacy is not compromised by Facebook. Nobody is harmed. There are zero cases of people being
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by jariel 6y ago
A company with 100 000 people will have to quite a number of staff, literally daily, for all sorts of things, it doesn't remotely imply anything about the overall relationship between staff and management. Even when CNN, MSNBC, Busines
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by jariel 6y ago
The 'C++' keyword however, already narrows the target down to the 0.2% of the population, i.e. C++ devs. making it 500x more effective than a non-targeted ad. If only 10% of those typing C++ would ever be interested in a course, t
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by jariel 6y ago
"This entire thesis hinges on targeted advertising being effective. " Targeted ads are unequivocally more effective than non targeted ads, on the aggregate - there is no dispute other than at the margins. Do you think that advert
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by jariel 6y ago
I would but there's actually quite an enormos amount of information out there already. Also, the pitfalls of FB ads are generally well known as well, we all know their numbers are a little ragged and we all know that 'likes'
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by jariel 6y ago
Facebook is one of the only means to do reasonably targeted advertising with a broad reach. Google is keyword only, and that's limited. Banner network display ads are useless. The privacy debate is woefully lopsided by people who have
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by jariel 6y ago
Anyone who is spending any reasonable amount of money knows that. Remember that ad spend that's not conversion oriented is really fuzzy anyhow. Small timers are not spending huge dollars just to show people images of things.
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by jariel 6y ago
WhatsApp was free SMS in South America where it was expensive. Skype was cheap long distance and low-cost mobile in Europe where it was expensive. Both of those things were/are stupidly expensive in those respective locations. Skype bl
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by jariel 6y ago
Social Networks have network externalizations. The presence of the 'freeloaders' makes the value of the network.
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by jariel 6y ago
Help me answer this: If it's 'likely' to happen, then why are we not allocating 10's of billions towards it right now, to accelerate it so that it happens in 5 years? Many, many things can be done in parrallel. Some effo
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by jariel 6y ago
It can be it just entirely depends. Some people here arguing about equity - that's fine - but some people actually like to work on new stuff as well. Stuck doing integration in 25 year old windows code? Now you can go to XBox and work
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by jariel 6y ago
So does your health insurer know, and how much are your premiums?

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