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by kgin 6y ago
There's power in pitchforks
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by kgin 6y ago
The key thrust of this is that at Facebook specifically, the company is agnostic and amoral about the uses or effects of facebook, and the only goal is maximizing attention to be sold by any means necessary. I don't know anyone who wor
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by kgin 6y ago
Would compostable cups still have these issues?
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by kgin 6y ago
This kind of stuff is useful when looking at big populations, but much less so when just talking about a single individual.
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by kgin 6y ago
Every A/B test is this, to some degree. Every ad run with variants is also. Facebook did specifically do a test to see if emotions spread between people through the news feed. They didn't create posts to manipulate emotions, but t
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by kgin 6y ago
There is something there about the different standards people use to judge the virus vs the vaccine. The vaccine could have “unknown long term effects”. But the virus “only has an x%” death rate”. No concern about unknown long term effects.
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by kgin 6y ago
When I was 5 years old, I saw a pbs documentary about the Arecibo telescope. During a shot of a huge expanse of the telescope's metal, the narrator said something to the effect of "as one gets closer to the equator the sun's
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by kgin 6y ago
The unfortunate thing is that "cost of living" in this floor definition is literally the cost to stay alive. The floor in a pressurized market will not be the cost of a comfortable life, just a life at all.
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by kgin 6y ago
Wages are set by the minimum amount it would take to replace you with a different sufficiently qualified worker. That's it. It has nothing to do with any other abstraction. If someone else can do the work for less (including the cost o
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by kgin 6y ago
AP and NBC are not the ones disputing. They're reporting the dispute.
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by kgin 6y ago
Everyone likes revolutions as long as they're not on the business end of one.
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by kgin 6y ago
What laws do they break?
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by kgin 6y ago
Where is the line for a public utility?
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by kgin 6y ago
I don't think this is a common perception outside of super a super plugged-in crowd that reads tech news.
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by kgin 6y ago
It's not about trusting Amazon except to trust the company wants to stay in business and not commit regulatory suicide right out of the gate
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by kgin 6y ago
>Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;) Literally illegal
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by kgin 6y ago
I've noticed even apart from this there are many people who have a strong emotional reaction against space, using almost moral language to describe their problems with it. It's as if the space is truly being wasted, squandered...
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by kgin 6y ago
This is always true, every time, 100%. The UIs that people here are wishing hadn't changed were absolutely hated when they were announced. In a few months we'll be able to have a more measured discussion about the good and the bad
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by kgin 6y ago
A lot of people here rooting for their preexisting beliefs to be confirmed, rather than being happy that a city is experimenting and evaluating new ways of doing things. NYC didn't dig in and defend the status quo. They also didn'
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by kgin 6y ago
"... you will"
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by kgin 6y ago
It's a totally normal thing in english to add redundancy to emphasize. Global pandemic isn't wrong and nobody has to pay more to use two words instead of one. Lived experience is the same thing. Nothing wrong with emphasis.
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by kgin 6y ago
It easily could feel like it, given a very reasonable amount of support by platform owners. There is nothing magical about Ui powered by compiled vs interpreted code. It is limitations in the platforms that are the roadblocks.
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by kgin 6y ago
The level of abstraction at which the average tinkerer is tinkering continuously increases over time. Certainly makes things harder for those who long to tinker at a lower level, but I don't see it as a tragedy.
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by kgin 6y ago
This car is more about rebranding GM as an electric vehicle company. Even if they only break even, it's an extremely inexpensive PR campaign to change what people are talking about when they talk about GM.
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s been the classic chat bot application since Eliza. I have no doubt one day there will be one good enough to begin to help people.
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by kgin 6y ago
Nobody gets paid for the value they bring. People get paid by how much it would cost to find and onboard a qualified replacement.
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by kgin 6y ago
I have the cheapest ACA / Obamacare bronze-level plan available to me in my area. It costs $500 monthly (no subsidies if you make more than 45k a year) and has a $7000 deductible. It provides zero coverage (except life/limb emerge
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by kgin 6y ago
United States prices are so out of whack with the rest of the world, they can’t even be included in worldwide insurance without drastically increasing premiums
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by kgin 6y ago
I would love to take this energy for fighting apple on the 30% fee and use it encourage them to adopt web notifications and other web apis.
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by kgin 6y ago
And yet people would rather battle Apple than make a web app and push open technologies further.

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