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by kgin 6y ago
For many people, most of wanting to keep their data private is to keep it private FROM the state.
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by kgin 6y ago
This feature isn't going anywhere, but they'll be much more careful in the examples that they use. It will be like Q-tip ads that never show them being used to clean ears.
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by kgin 6y ago
There isn’t an obligation to be bad. But there are things in life that people generally feel lose their meaning when subjected to the dispassionate tools of efficiency and productivity. For many “engineering types”, we may not feel the dist
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by kgin 6y ago
There is nothing good that doesn't have an optimal size. Growth mandates eventually kill everything good. Or at least necessitate it changing into something totally different from what made it good in the first place. The best you can
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by kgin 6y ago
All those "it's better on the app" pop ups make me sad for the web team that had to implement an interstitial trashing their own work.
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by kgin 6y ago
So the problem is mostly when deciding whether a face is likely one of the faces already in the system or if it is a new face that hasn’t been added yet?
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by kgin 6y ago
For facial recognition, aren’t you just hoping for multiple images of the same person? A wide variety of faces doesn’t help you match specific people. It’s not about tagging a face as “human” it’s about tagging Bob’s face as “Bob”
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by kgin 6y ago
I understand how ml can replicate existing cultural bias in recommendation systems or risk scoring systems, but how does bias work in the context of facial recognition?
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by kgin 6y ago
Now that we’ve got no-code and no-design, I think we’re just missing no-idea.
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by kgin 6y ago
All of a sudden, I've been seeing people mentioning the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon everywhere
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by kgin 6y ago
> 48. Resource Curse I've seen this at work in people (including myself) as well. Wherever people have a natural, unusual strength that starts at a young age, they often have many underdeveloped abilities due to relying on their str
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by kgin 6y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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by kgin 6y ago
Other commenters are suggesting that this would mean the end for YouTube and Gmail. My understanding is that a hypothetical breakup here wouldn't mean that YouTube and Gmail would have no ads. They would become clients of an independen
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by kgin 6y ago
In the US, there are more old people than young people actively using The Facebook.
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by kgin 6y ago
I wish we could all agree also. 100% of Twitter’s value is network effects. People are there because other people are there.
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by kgin 6y ago
It’s a fascinating thing to realize that policymakers consider zero unemployment to be too low. The economy is built on the idea that some people at the bottom will be desperate enough to keep minimum wages low.
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by kgin 6y ago
I would be down for a revolution against gerrymandering.
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by kgin 6y ago
Violent revolutions aren’t great when the ruling system is a democracy. By definition it’s going against the will of “the people”
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by kgin 6y ago
What's confusing to me is that killing 230 would make social media liable for the content published by its users. It seems like it would require them to control and filter content more, not less.
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by kgin 6y ago
In that case, just hardcode shoplifting = true
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by kgin 6y ago
I guess they could have said "This account will pause tweeting until we start tweeting again" but that's a funny turn of phrase.
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by kgin 6y ago
Considering how often this is the explanation for why we can’t have nice things, I’m beginning to think our country is too big.
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by kgin 6y ago
As long as that data only flows one direction ( advertiser configures ad -> Facebook matches ad -> user sees ad ) what is the concern?
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by kgin 6y ago
Assuming you're still looking at Twitter for reasons other than @rustlang, the notice will be on Twitter when the tweets start again.
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by kgin 6y ago
I'm not sure what the problem is. No one can be can make a statement about any bad thing unless they make statements about about all bad things equally?
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by kgin 6y ago
Same here, I spent so much time making semantic html that felt great but in the end was never consumed semantically by anyone or anything.
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by kgin 6y ago
The idea that HTML was meant to be a pure data format, styled by CSS classes that also were somehow part of that pure data format was always silly, but it became much more silly once REST apis became popular.
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by kgin 6y ago
There is the famous Benjamin Graham quote, "In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine." This article is trying to say "I think the stock market is broken because it should
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by kgin 6y ago
Absolutely, and as with the Paris accord and every other attempt at taking action, the United States was the odd one out. Our culture is a unique mixture of “you can’t tell me what to do” independence and “let me speak with the manager” ent
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by kgin 6y ago
Even at this stage of development, the electricity needs of the US could be met by wind and solar. It would be extremely expensive, but it could be done.

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