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by maeil 2y ago
> Instead, a lot of extremely smart people in the UK would rather get the 'safe' job at Google, or McKinsey than the 'this will never work but can you imagine how cool it would be if it did' job at a startup. This isn
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In the US, what Trump is doing is working. In the EU, what the authoritarian far-right parties are doing is working. Their tactics have been working incredibly well for them, use them, the inane pacifist take of "being above that"
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Did you know that foreign companies are banned from owning more than 25% ownership of a tv and radio broadcast licenses in the US? I'm sure you've spent much effort looking into and trying to repeal those laws too.
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I'm a reader of r/allsvenskan, also don't quite remember them getting the election wrong.
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India is the obvious case to look at here and people went to Meta.
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The problem that that politician caused?
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> feels like the start of a very dangerous path. I'm baffled people keep saying this. You're miles down the dangerous path - you've almost reached the end of it. This is nothing new.
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It's a complete myth used by the greedy to justify corporate greed. The only way someone would ever be succesfully prosecuted for this is if they'd clearly intentionally crash the company. Go do a search, you won't find a s
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It won't. It would be fantastic if the EU banned Meta or X. Instead they're suddenly scared of continuing to fine them for their endless illegal data harvesting and gatekeeping to cozy up to Trump.
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Guess the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is also democratic then. See, names are meaningless.
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>Edit: found one from Pew. "The share of Americans who support the U.S. government banning TikTok now stands at 32%." Sept 05, 2024. In contrast, 87% US lawmakers voted for the law that caused this. The relevant poll would be o
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> So then some CS drone has to answer the ticket about what I was banned. They know that 999 of every 1000 tickets are lying, so they just automatically close it with no recourse. It's not worth the company's resources to make
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I would fully support the EU banning X! Even though unlike TikTok it has not yet decided elections in the EU, it's clear that its owner is actively trying to do so. Not sure why you think I wouldn't be in favor of it. With TikTo
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They don't have to sell it, they can simply choose not to operate in the US. If Zuckerberg, or Musk (X), or Reddit, or Snap, or HN, or any Western platform would want to operate in China, they'd have to hand over control to a C
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I don't remember ever seeing an article at the top of HN for 12 hours straight , and I'm on here an unhealthy amount. While it is a major event, it's definitely not the biggest we've seen, even in tech.
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The "incredible free PR for almost no effort or money" pretend-merge. Suddenly tens of millions of people are hearing about Perplexity who hadn't heard of it so far.
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Sourcegraph.
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Longer paths, especially ones like these that require keyboard input, are especially painful from an accessibility perspective, where for most cases such typed fields make things take exponentially longer than if it can be achieved by just
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by maeil 2y ago
Fringe but incredibly similar to Typescript. I don't think there exist any other language that is not a direct dialect of Javascript that's as similar. I didn't find there to be any language barrier, especially now with LLM
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Similar here at a big company that placed a lot of emphasis on opsec. It worked.
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To an extent, yes, some of the arguments absolutely apply to other platforms as well. But others don't. You never saw such platforms directly impact elections as much, having Russian operations have as big as an impact as they have h
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> Steam is also extremely notorious for exploiting their user base on "loot boxes" by hiring specialists for making it as addictive as possible As well as allowing off-platorm gambling markets in their games (CS:GO) to thrive,
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And this is why everything will keep going up in flames - you're not interested in doing what it has been shown to take to get people to support your cause. Unfortunately it doesn't matter what we think people should be angry ab
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Environmentalists and those championing similar causes politically have taken this approach for decades. The result has been a perpetual shift to the right-wing who has no qualms about playing dirty, using fear, anger and other tribal emoti
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by maeil 2y ago
This is nothing but head-in-the-sand, arms-in-the-air, feel-good baloney to convince oneself to sleep well at night. Guess what happens when you buy a used laptop instead of a new one? That's right: less "standard practice overse
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> Telling them to not do something usually makes them angry unfortunately Then it's up to you to get even angrier.
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I hadn't seen this comment and just wrote pretty much a mirror one - Wikipedia overly focuses on one-off accidents and events, rather than news with long-term implications. Does your service do a good job at thinking longer term? Would
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Wikipedia's current events selection has little to do with significance, being overly focused on events that cause multiple deaths and political events, regardless of their global significance. Not trying to have an edgy take here, it
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The section on training feels weak, and that's what the discussion is mainly about. Many companies are now trying to train models as big as GPT-4. OpenAI is training models that may well be even much larger than GPT-4 (o1 and o3). Fram
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Reminds me, many years ago someone paid me to translate a Korean wiki article about some League of Legends pro player to English. No idea why, most of it was random trivia, it didn't contain any notable insights. But it was decent mone

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