malvosenior

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by malvosenior 7y ago
What you're basically saying is that if a candidate tailors a message to an individual, then that individual will support them. Yes! That's how it should work. The candidates have to earn the support of the voters. They should be
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Probably not. In fact Obama did more or less exactly what Cambridge Analytica did: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/17/obama-digital-... > "Consciously or otherwise, the individual vol
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Only if you discount people's ability to think for themselves. Both these candidates had been in the public eye for decades. People decided based on what they've witnessed with their own eyes.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> For people who pride ourselves so much on understanding how systems work There's some irony in admonishing people for not understanding systems, while simultaneously failing to understand the electoral college. That's the s
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> Probably the most useful takeaway from CA's approach is that it's useful to realize how malleable opinions are of large swaths of "independent" voters. What makes you think that people are malleable? This article
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by malvosenior 7y ago
The Century of the Self does cover advertising being born from early 20th century psychology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self#Overvi... I don't remember if Watson is explicitly mentioned thou
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> Putin and Trump can affect the information at everyone's fingertips always with social media and online information. > Indeed, any powerful entity can buy anything online: clicks, bots, comments, views, accounts, literally a
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Postmodernism is the recognition that all points of view are equally valid (or invalid). Policing "hate speech" and "protecting" society are modern concepts not postmodern ones. I think if you read classic postmodern lit
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Gen X did just fine. They created most of what we know of as the internet. You probably don't hear much about them because we've (Gen X -- I'm one) been focused on building new things and not complaining about old things. It&
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> The internet of the 2010s will be defined by social media’s role in the 2016 election, the rise of extremism, and the fallout from privacy scandals like Cambridge Analytica. When I think of the internet of the 2010s I think of clickb
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by malvosenior 7y ago
It's called pretentious. It's an attempt to appear to be working on a higher level by deliberately discarding aesthetics and what would commonly be thought of as good design. A sort of purposefully ugly. It was a trend in fashion
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I wonder what the thought process behind putting character design like that in this post was. I find them utterly repugnant. Combined with the color scheme (and as others have noted, page performance), I'd vote this for worst design
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Aren't they almost exactly the same though? From the article: > "Consciously or otherwise, the individual volunteer will be injecting all the information they store publicly on their Facebook page – home location, date of birt
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by malvosenior 7y ago
If the staff of these companies was actually concerned about this issue, they wouldn't have allowed Obama to do this. It's clearly not an issue with the technique, but who is employing it. > Have you been living under a rock?
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by malvosenior 7y ago
You keep calling it a conspiracy theory without providing any evidence that it is. It's a known fact that Obama was praised for targeted political advertising: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/feb/1
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by malvosenior 7y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory to say that the vast majority of employees at the tech giants are very anti-Trump. People were openly weeping in their offices after he was elected, execs gave people time off to cope. The parent poster is
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Can you point to something non-factual that Wikileaks has published that you think should have been retracted?
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by malvosenior 7y ago
They great thing about Wikileaks is that the data speaks for itself. I don’t care at all about Assange’s personality but I’m very thankful the information he put out there is available to the public. He’s exposed tons of corruption.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Even if you believe that, it doesn’t answer my question. What information was forged by Russia?
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by malvosenior 7y ago
What was forged by Russian Intelligence?
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by malvosenior 7y ago
What Wikileaks revealed went far beyond endorsing a candidate. For example: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/wikileaks-dnc-and-cnn-col...
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> People sided with him because they believed he was impartial, and turned away from him when it was clear he wasn't. He literally provided evidence of mainstream media being highly impartial in favor of Clinton (against Sanders
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by malvosenior 7y ago
That data doesn't reference the point I'm making. What I'm saying is that it's very possible that if the same people that got bachelor degrees instead entered the workplace, they'd have equal or greater lifetime e
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by malvosenior 7y ago
The grandparent very clearly defined what they mean by that. Assange hasn't had to make any retractions.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Correlation does not equal causation. There's a very broad spectrum of people who do not have degrees. It's very likely that if you took those same people earning degrees and had them enter the workforce instead, they'd have
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by malvosenior 7y ago
We're talking about two different things. The grandparent said that Assange hasn't had to make any retractions and hasn't published any false info. This is undeniably true. They also said "like him or not". Not ever
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by malvosenior 7y ago
That's an example of "like him or not", it's not a retraction and nothing published was false.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
I think Japan has been pretty strict for some time now and they have some of the lowest crime (and cleanest cities) in the world. Not saying it's directly related but I wouldn't rule it out.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
Of course, school is literally training people to hold these types of low level roles.
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by malvosenior 7y ago
> Maybe my experience was "lucky" compared to most others here? I can't speak for anyone else, but this is definitely the polar opposite of the experience I had. School was a huge opportunity cost for me. When I think ab

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