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by jariel 6y ago
Better idea: Fall back to trusting brands. What does Amazon really offer now: 1) Search convenience, which is really not that big of a deal and 2) Fast delivery but everyone is catching up and do we really need that thing in 2 days instead
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, using AI to spot fake reviews seems like a fools errand to me. However, why doesn't Amazon only allow those who have purchased to leave reviews? And to ban any company offering monetary or equivalent incentives to leave reviews? I
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by jariel 6y ago
I'm not sure his audience is that big. Cable TV audiences are big and consistent, and they bring big advertising dollars. I'm not sure if 1.5M views is that much. When a network backs you, the advertising, promotion, reach is subs
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by jariel 6y ago
Ok, meant to say they've signalled the fact they may not support in the future. It seems however they are not really backing it, more or less, doing the least to simply not let it fall over. Which is material.
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by jariel 6y ago
That makes sense, but that gives him a lot of leverage. He can get a fat cheque, with a big production team and set his own terms if he's in a position to do it. Or - he can literally make the same stuff, but have it under BBC terms. I
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by jariel 6y ago
This guy is an amazing content creator why doesn't the BBC pick him up? There's a guy called 'Captain Disillusion' or something like that who makes these amazing shows about visual effects that remind me of some of the s
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by jariel 6y ago
You are a public figure if you are a public figure. Star Codex guy is not a public figure. The press does not write about certain groups (informants) for specific reasons, they shouldn't write about others. If Star Codex guy had lawful
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by jariel 6y ago
Responding to my own comment: I think he does deserve a lawyer. But he's obviously different.
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by jariel 6y ago
This feels like a fad not a trend, but it's hard to say. They could adapt in some way. Twitter seemed useless at first, but once you realize the voice it gives a small class of people - and - that the media would use it incessantly and
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by jariel 6y ago
They are not sweating. They're too lacking in self awareness for that, moreover, this is not remotely a threat.
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by jariel 6y ago
Oracle has in fact discontinued their support for JavaFX, and of course gave up on it long ago. It's apparently being supported by a tiny company 'Gluon' [1] so I'm wary to think that there will be any material progress
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by jariel 6y ago
You've contradicted yourself in your own comment though. First - Nixon inherited a war that others started, and put in place a strategy to end it, which he did. Second - Your statement "killed more people in Laos and Cambodia than
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by jariel 6y ago
Self awareness, which is the 'real' topic of this post is a challenging thing. Growing up, I was naturally humble, and I knew I didn't know much and was amazed to find some confidence after ostensibly earning it to some degre
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by jariel 6y ago
Like the commenter above indicated, it does not work that way. 'The Press' is already a structure of independence and decentralization. Without integrity in those systems, someone will come along and dictate the Truth. 15% QAnon,
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by jariel 6y ago
LTCs are like hotels with under-paid immigrants changing diapers. Of course they knew 'there was a transmissable virus' - but what does that mean? "Nursing homes and LTCs did not have extra staff or isolation wards, sanitari
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by jariel 6y ago
1) "It was Dr. Fauci" --> This is not true. (Edit: As per 'BrendanEich' - point below, I had misread his earlier statement with respect to his view that this was mostly about Dr. Fauci - he didn't indicate that i
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by jariel 6y ago
My understanding is that JavaFX is discontinued and so that 'it happens to still work with Graal' is just a bonus. Things change over time, so unless there is a focus on things actually working and integrating, this won't las
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by jariel 6y ago
Responding to _ketamine: "In my state close to 50% of deaths were attributed to nursing homes. So either N95 wasn't available or healthcare professionals were careless. Either way it led to a lot of deaths." So the problem wi
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by jariel 6y ago
I think it's fine. Charlie Rose, Joe Rogan, Larry King - they didn't really push very hard either. Sometimes just giving a people a forum to speak works just fine. Lex has a very odd personality for media - but it works fine for t
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by jariel 6y ago
So there are some things that are 'slightly off' in your statement, enough to cause some odd conclusions - especially in the context of public communications. With respect to timing, there was no pandemic in January, we're no
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by jariel 6y ago
Wow, this is not a good look. There was absolutely a shortage of PPP among healthcare institutions in the areas that were hit by COVID. If 350 million Americans in a giant panic, decided to make a run on PPE, then there would be serious s
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by jariel 6y ago
? The entire media industry relies on anonymous sourcing. There are literally laws about it. The news may not exist without it. So given that context, that they will respect the privacy of probably most of their sources, and won't reve
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes of course, I was referring to the press in general. Rupert Murdoch & Co. have a kind of similar influence as well. They are not held to the same standards of accountability and I don't think people realize how bad it is, that m
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by jariel 6y ago
"The trouble with the NYT piece is not that it makes any false statements, but just that it constantly insinuates nefarious beliefs and motives, via strategic word choices and omission of relevant facts that change the emotional colora
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, we're all keyed into morality, which is why it's such a powerful lever for companies to pull. Whether it's water, shoes, or software, they're keen on 'using the right language to make us happy' and how tha
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, but we of course know it's way more complicated than 'too few or many arrests'. As to the OP, I would argue the job of police is really to just 'keep a lid on things'. We don't not run around killing each
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by jariel 6y ago
That is directional evidence, not the kind of evidence needed for a study like this. Assuming we accounted for every one of those court cases, would that nudge the data? Are there 100x cases that 'never made it to court' for every
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by jariel 6y ago
This is an important point. We could use 'less force' and 'arrest less' by literally not policing at all. It's good to have more data but like always it's just one more piece of the puzzle. FYI One area that se
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by jariel 6y ago
Step 1: find a group or movement Step 2: find the individual in that group of movement who says something crazy Step 3: make them the defacto face of the group, make the group about them, take everything out of context. Step 4: ignore every
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, and this is the 'Grey Lady' - bastion of credibility and objectivity.

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