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by jonstokes 10y ago
Why be obtuse? My point was obviously about suspension of 4A and Miranda rights.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
"More recently I was made to wonder: Does the 4th Amendment apply to Muslim citizens at LAX?" Well, no actually, it does not. Nor does it apply to non-Muslim citizens, or white citizens, or any other types of citizens. And excuse
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I don't know what Searles is smoking (ok, actually, I do -- it's a strong mix called "Remember When..."), but big, battleship "trusted" brands cheat at digital in ways that are every bit as sleazy as adtech. Th
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Is Facebook a Structural Threat to Free Society?(truthhawk.com)
733 points by jonstokes 10y ago|399 comments
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Possibly Historic Flooding in CA Tomorrow, Prepare a Go Bag(tinyletter.com)
2 points by jonstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I beat you by 7 years :) https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1109206
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A Comet, Eclipse, and a Full Moon Will Light Up the Skies Friday Night(smithsonianmag.com)
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I disagree. I don't know about the specifics that Dalio lays out, but as a media person who has been on both sides this issue, his detailed account of the WaPo's alleged journalistic malpractice rings very true. In other words, wh
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Based solely on seeing this title scroll by on HN, I was so hoping this was going to be a piece about Roswell...
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I think there is a thread above this one that nails the discrepancy: the target market here isn't poor Ethiopian villages. Rather, the target market is NGOs and governments who have funding to buy overpriced but cool stuff that looks l
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by jonstokes 10y ago
"I would bet click bait has a far higher bounce rate than accurate headlines" -- It does, but it can still be monetized with junk ads that do pay a tiny bit. So you go all-out for volume, and you end up with the situation we'
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by jonstokes 10y ago
"[it] exposed deep flaws in many customer's traffic data" -- this probably is why nobody cared that much and it got buried. See my longish reply below. The incentives are such that only metrics that make traffic look more val
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by jonstokes 10y ago
That's why I said "some combination of metrics" as an alternative to "clicks". In other words, yes, traffic will always matter, but there has to be better discrimination among kinds of traffic. Traffic that's w
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Wilson is solving the wrong problem. Incentives matter, and the underlying problem that gives us clickbait headlines (and fake news, and the rest of our current journalistic ills) is that sites are primarily incentivized to maximize the num
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by jonstokes 10y ago
With the orphaned closed curly braces and ALL CAPS keywords, it's like this language was created to make programmers twitch uncontrollably. The only thing he could do to make this more off-putting would be to mandate some kind of crazy
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I never do anything business related with our personal Amazon account. I have an LLC with its own bank account and Amazon account for anything business related, and this kind of stuff is why.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I've used OpenWRT in different incarnations over the years, and at this point my suggestion is to forget about OpenWRT and buy some Unifi hardware from Ubiquiti. You get almost the same amount of control from Ubiquiti's pro line,
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by jonstokes 10y ago
The few times I've tried VR I've had post-VR sadness, but mine was sadness because it totally failed to live up to the hype. I could see the pixels, for one, so I never forgot I was in VR. And the other thing is, as "magical&
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Like Calexit, this proposal is so unrealistic as to be unserious and not worth discussing. What is needed now are technologies of resistance. We need the private sector companies who essentially built this monster to give us the tools to re
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MacOS Alternatives: What About SteamOS?(collectiveidea.com)
7 points by jonstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Agreed. Snow Leopard was the pinnacle of OS X for me. I grow less and less interested in each subsequent version.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
I've been reading (and editing and publishing) the same "When will Apple once again start caring about high-end creative professionals who put serious demands on their machines?" article for over a decade, now. I mean, I agre
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by jonstokes 10y ago
So sad to see what the square is turning into. I'm sure Leavitt & Peirce isn't long for this world, either :( I didn't spend much time in Cafe Algiers when I was there, but I did spend a ton of time (and money) at Casabla
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by jonstokes 10y ago
This. It's just UI churn, and it's miserable. My wife /hates/ it when I do an OS update, because she has to re-learn how to do the same stuff.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
That's a great link. I agree with all of it.
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by jonstokes 10y ago
Designers are ruining software in general. iTunes, the iOS music app, and Google Maps are just a few pieces of software that started out relatively usable (if not exactly stable in the case of iTunes), and have been iterated and stylized to
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by jonstokes 10y ago
"Oh my God, they'll turn it on and it'll start spewing memes and jokes and ad hominem and false equivalences and propaganda and garbage!" was my first reaction to this headline. My second reaction was, "at least the
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by jonstokes 10y ago
And then somehow they managed to totally disregard their customers' needs and screw everyone with the Mandrill changeover. Seriously, has everyone forgotten that fiasco? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11170713 I&
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A Survival Guide for Non-Writers Who Have to Write for the Web(collectiveidea.com)
9 points by jonstokes 10y ago|0 comments
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by jonstokes 10y ago
The number one thing I've found to be effective in combatting this is sleep. I have to get 8 hours of uninterrupted, unmedicated sleep. 9 hours is even better. And I have to do it for a few nights in a row. If I do anything at all that

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