mFixman

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Twitter gets bad content because Twitter promotes bad content, and that happens because Twitter's work culture prioritises engagement metrics over meaningful interactions. The underlying problem is a problem of Twitter-the-company, the
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Back in 2007 Hotmail was so big that it was profitable for them to have accounts that deleted themselves if you didn't log in in a couple of months and not pay too much attention to spam filtering. Then Gmail came along and ate their l
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Discord is actually a good example: I think I got 0 notifications about groups I don't follow, so isn't as big of an incentive to aggressively smugpost as in Twitter.
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This happened in May. It's probably even worse now.
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I used to agree with you until I created a new Twitter account from scratch. I'm not American and I specifically put non-political things in my interests. Yet, the second I signed up I got the following: 1. A notification about a smug
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My favourite resolution is that "intelligence" is a concept created by humans that only humans and species evolutionarily close to humans have. It should be called "human intelligence". The Fermi paradox doesn't wor
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Disclaimer: I'm a former Meta employee and I still hold a bit of love and nostalgia for the company. The article is right to point out that Meta has by far the largest and most sophisticated ad targeting and tracking system in the mark
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Remember Google Buzz? Google tried to copy Twitter and automatically added it to the front page of every Gmail account, fucked up the launch by having everything be public by default, and finally declared it a failed product and abandoned i
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My first real programming was NQC (Not Quite C, probably related to NXC?). I owe it my programming abilities. Lego Mindstorms was one of the best creative learning tools you can give a child; my life started the day I stopped using the buil
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I honestly think that the best way to fix everything wrong in the world is to reduce class sizes in schools, and age categorisation seems like a good place to start. If there is such a difference between the academic results of a kid born i
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I'm using extensions on regular Firefox 106 for Android.
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I know nothing about the chip-making process, and news about fabs and the chip industry confuse and scare me. Can anybody link me to a guide with the basics of these topics, like what exactly is a chip (is it a microcontroller? a part of a
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How do we know that scores between different years are comparable? Couldn't it be that tests after the pandemic became harder?
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The tragedy here is that Meta employees internally use Workplace, an IMO superior product for big companies than both MS Teams and Slack. The fact that they failed at marketing it properly and was pulled from the market is one of the many s
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That's the exact reason why the housing bubble will never pop: the government will prop up the entire industry before having its voters lose money in their housing gambles. The BoE spent billions to support pension funds that made risk
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Sure, but almost nobody uses Facebook on their PCs anymore. Most Meta's users and revenues come from smartphones, which have an ecosystem controlled by Apple or Google. Zuck is betting that more people will use VR in the future, and if
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The headset is the reason why they are doing this in the first place. Nobody expected people to buy a $300 iPhone in 2007 or a $500 iPad in 2011, but when they did they gave Apple money-printing machine that can also bankrupt competitors. M
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What kind of R&D does Twitter do for $1.2b per year?
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Where do these emails and texts come from? Does US litigation force companies to reveal executives' communications?
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Because the government will bail them out if they go bankrupt. Gambling is completely risk-free if it involves UK pensioners.
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This is a fantastic project. I really liked the 16th century Indian painting of an astronaut [1], and now I see a role of programs like DALL-E in giving people a good intuition on how to identify art from different styles and periods. [1]
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The tragedy of the UK is that its many spots with world-class beauty such as the Lake District, Snowdonia, or the breath of Scottish Highlands aren't as popular internationally as they should be since they are pricy. Maybe it's fo
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I'd expect rents to raise at least as much as mortgages, so until the next 2008-style house price crash nobody who bought a house during the pandemic is losing money.
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As a middle point between the main post and your comment, I have been getting 1 or 2 spam emails every week for the last couple of months. Gmail's spam filtering was perfect before, so something is going on on my account (although not
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But you do include credit card fees, which is something that should be more explicit.
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My Galaxy S21 is the best phone I've ever had. I didn't install any new firmware or anything that requires rooting and I never had a problem not accepting Samsung's terms. Everything that matters works: the phone is fast, nev
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Everything on the Internet is fake. For all I know, all user reviews are negative because they are mad at diversity and all professional reviewers are positive because are paid for by Amazon. Reading reviews just biases taste anyway. My pla
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Jupyter is not great for collaboration with multiple people editing, but with a little bit of order it's perfect for in-person working and presenting that work. Notebooks can be clean if you follow some rules: 1. Code flow always goes
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The amount of people keeping life savings outside banks after the 2001 crisis caused a huge increase in the amount of kidnappings and violent crimes. Those were difficult times.
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My favourite one is Kermit the Frog in the style of different movies. https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/v1sc2z/kermit_the_f...

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