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by jensensbutton 5y ago
> We should be able to implement services like these, that are free of ads, on globally distributed infrastructure, with no central authority, to have truly free-flowing information. Who's going to pay for and operate it? And why wo
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Big difference is that the vast majority of people in China did not _choose_ to live under that model and can't easily try a different model to see which they like more.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Lot of people who were hoping for Facebook's demise are going to be sorely disappointed this year.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
No they don't. They only prevent tracking _across_ apps. Facebook will track everything you do and show you just as many ads in their properties as they did before. This really does harm smaller companies more than Facebook.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
There's an argument to be made that "tracking" has had less real world harm to humanity than the push to get rid of it. Real harm will come to people/business through loss of income due to the clamp down on tracking. Not
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
A problem of their own making.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Windows is literally the last consumer OS to get on this train. Seems they have learned. From their competitors.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Apple's biggest engine for growth is services. Even they are clear about that.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
> And besides, I wanted to give Windows 11 a fair chance So they went ahead and used pre-release (not even alpha) software that is explicitly not for folks who want stability to give it a "fair chance". Sounds like great judgem
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Why politics and not practicality? Taking a ton of time and resources (and potentially risking attrition) to migrate a thing that works to a thing that _hopefully_ works often simply doesn't make business sense. It's not a politic
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Wouldn't it be the people publishing code written with Copilot that (potentially) violate any licenses? It doesn't seem to be that the tool violates anything, though it may put the _user_ at risk of violating something. Like, don&
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
What are you mad at, exactly? That people want to minimize the number of mistakes ML systems make due to skewed training data? Or that people don't want known problems to be baked into decision making systems that will impact real peop
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
At my FAANG they did studies and on average people are working MORE hours each day since the switch to WFH. If they were concerned about maximizing hours then they'd leave it as in. I suspect there are other concerns.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
Interestingly enough I think Ops work is far more resilient to automation than SWE work.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
You seem to be bringing a lot of personal baggage with you in your comment. Maybe you should just not comment on Microsoft related posts.
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
On the web you are explicitly choosing (i.e. clicking a link or typing a URL) to go places that show you advertising in exchange for providing whatever content or service you when there to see. This is why many argue (coherently) that using
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
I'd love to see more discussion about what success actually looks like for content moderation on facebook (or the internet, really). We don't seem to care that the legal system doesn't get remotely close to catching everyone
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by jensensbutton 5y ago
You have no attachment to the content you see on Tik Tok. Facebook and Instagram are social network based. Tik Tok is not.