macilacilove

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by macilacilove 5y ago
Does that mean that if we wern't here, natural overpopulation of methane-emitting animals could have caused similar levels of global warming by "accident"?
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by macilacilove 5y ago
> Zuckerberg is sitting in his office deciding which country to bring genocide to when it's absurd to think he has made a decision to that effect I don't find it absurd at all that one of the most powerful people on earth would
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by macilacilove 5y ago
I agree that it is probably a lie. Zuckerberg has shown that he prefers Biden/Trudeau for understandable reasons (from his perspective). However the important point is that the ranking algorithm is a very powerful and very opaque tool
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Faces are extremely densely packed with information about the subjects genetic makeup, wellbeing, average and current emotions. Humans are very well adapted to process such visual information and can produce statistically significant(althou
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Moscow never said it is planning to invade. They are holding military drills near the border from time to time since at least 2014. All this fearmongering is coming from US leadership, who incidentally are the only ones who would benefit fr
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Russia claimed it was a military drill. Also Russian military active personnel is 1,014,000, so most of it was not at the border. Also, no one really gave a convincing reason why Russia would benefit from invading Ukraine now. Does US leade
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Then don't use it. Simple. :)
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by macilacilove 5y ago
NATO did not do anything substantial nor does it have any obligation to do something. There was one (always the same) NATO country claiming that the ivasion is definitely going to happen and they were wrong.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Does fb messenger have a profanity filter?
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by macilacilove 5y ago
*Uninstall
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Sure. Are they massing Saddam Husseins' WMDs too? At this point, why bother?
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by macilacilove 5y ago
People spontaneously cooperate all the time based on their selfinterests. I don't intend to argue for the commenters position, but this blanket argument against everything that even remotely resembles a 'conspiracy' is not co
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Any public discussion forum that is susceptible to such attack is already drowned in spam.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
If there is any suspicion that the prominent child's death was not an accident, it can very quickly become a free speech issue.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
It is more like they are blackmailed that they will lose access to their friends if they leave. We don't use fb because it is a good product. We use it because it was 'hot' and now we are stuck with a company that agressively
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Most people I know use fb because something called the collective action problem . Each individual would lose by leaving, but if everyone left at the same time, we'd have a more human centric platform. This is the case when laws shoul
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Zuck has priority shares that have like 10x voting rights. Even if he only has a small percent of the shares he will be in control.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
The more effective treatment will shrink the market, therefore market forces incentivize competitors to cooperate. It is the same reason that the OPEC exists. It is called game theory, not conspiracy theory.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
> As I understand it, the reason an HIV vaccine has been so difficult to create is that HIV mutates so easily. Nope. There are exactly two species of HIV since at least the '80s. HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV however can trick the immune sys
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by macilacilove 5y ago
I am dpark from 2032. I have absolutely no human rights, and I never need to think about what to buy/watch/read, because Google consolidated all markets. I don't vote anymore because every aspect of life is controlled by G an
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by macilacilove 5y ago
I think it is important to praise diversity at every opportunity on your site for SEO reasons. I may be wrong. They call it "Machine learning fairness"
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by macilacilove 5y ago
It is not a strawman if it speculates motivations, because people are rarely honest about their motivations, even to themselves.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Most people in North Korea believe the party is actually really popular.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Many countries treated Covid as a kind of war. If by any chance it turns out that someone restricted treatment that they knew would have probably saved 10s or 100s of thousands of lives, will we treat them as a kind of war criminals, or wil
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by macilacilove 5y ago
There are some whistleblowers indeed, but for the most part many dominant tech companies semiopenly proclaim these groups to be "dangers to society" and many admit to use "throttling", shadow-banning, and "machine l
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by macilacilove 5y ago
On the contrary I think the reduced progress on preventing global warming is not primarily because of sceptics, but due to the fact that believer leaders often have very specific solution(s) in mind, instead of being open to any solution th
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by macilacilove 5y ago
> the immune system can get "stuck" with whatever initial antibodies it comes up with and doesn't adapt well Original antigenic sin. However I don't think it predicts that the alpha-based boosters we have will be any
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by macilacilove 5y ago
985 lines in rut plus the haders, if anyone woners.
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by macilacilove 5y ago
Anti-wokeness is very popular. Not trusting the presidential elections is very popular. Not trusting big pharma is very popular. All of these are algorithmically suppressed. If the definition of popular is what you see on twitter, etc, then
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by macilacilove 5y ago
No one wants their unpopular ideas to be "promoted" she gives anecdotal accounts of popular creators being gradually shadowbanned. It is the very point that propagation of speach is not dependent on popularity but increasingly on

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