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by marricks 8y ago
Can confirm. I tried deactivating and then cutting down but that just never works. Deleting is the way to go. Old friends you want to connect with? There’s always email and a phone number. People actually reach out to me outside of that awf
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by marricks 8y ago
And I recently remember hearing forced air is bad for air quality inside! Did I hear wrong or is there something more to the story like “forced air brings in outside air, so if your outside air is bad you’ll have trouble”?
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by marricks 8y ago
Recursive self improvement in which field of intelligence? Does getting better and better pattern matching eventually lead to human level intelligence? Does improving pattern matching accelerate our ability at improving pattern matching eve
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by marricks 8y ago
I too find the mantra of personal responsibility alluring but when people have been getting more and more obese you need to either accept people are getting “weaker” or the world is getting shittier, with larger ad campaigns for worse and w
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by marricks 8y ago
Here’s what I don’t get about people from the “personal responsibility” camp: food companies spend billions of dollars on marketing research and ads to sell their products. The products they seem to be most easy at selling are any form of j
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by marricks 8y ago
People here seem to value fat shaming so I think it’s valuable to mention it doesn’t help. Reposting a reply I made: Portugal legalized drugs and made them safer to use and... people were generally healthier and better off.[1] People have u
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by marricks 8y ago
Portugal legalized drugs and made them safer to use and... people were generally healthier and better off.[1] People have unhealthy habits because of issues in their life. Poverty, abuse, mental health issues, lack of access to healthcare a
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by marricks 8y ago
“[Stores] by date and time” doesn’t preclude having user information in there either! It’s the perfect non-answer.
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by marricks 8y ago
Replies on Facebook articles had the same style of attack on anything negative, go after the source. They probably do it because it still works. Muddy the waters, suggest there’s another side, play to people’s desire for a middle ground. Th
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by marricks 8y ago
It sounds more like Facebook has gotten away with a ton of crap and it’s reckoning day. A better question might be how did they get away with... I don’t know any of it really, for so long?
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by marricks 8y ago
I’d say the system sucks when a valid reason to exclude someone form an organ transplant is “don’t have 10k in savings to cover rejection meds”. Without Medicare for all it’s a pay to win system where the cost of life saving treatments are
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by marricks 8y ago
Uhh, you’re aware hospitals don’t turn people away who are injured and often end up with a lot owed to them they just can’t recover right? Also if everyone has healthcare they’ll get treated earlier before a condition blows up and... they g
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by marricks 8y ago
What is your experience of how employees are handling the barrage of major public scandals then? Big tech company surveillance culture is well documented[1] and the outside pressure against FB seems INTENSE. [1] https://www.thegu
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by marricks 8y ago
It’s really cool how Amazon has hundreds of cities up in arms bidding just to give Long Island such a great deal. /s I have little trust in city officials and corporations to be forthright about the deal. The bidding process is hidden
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by marricks 8y ago
Doesn’t NYC have a housing crisis already? I’m not sure they need a worse one coupled with the gentrifying forces of thousands of tech employees moving in. $1.5 billion in housing or just really anything to help people who already live ther
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by marricks 8y ago
This also jives really wel with the banking deregulation bill republicans and democrats want to pass. They used the excuse that small banks and credit unions got screwed a bit with Dodd-Frank so we need to pass a bill to fix that, and oh by
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by marricks 8y ago
That is such a false dichotomy. Consider arming police officers with tasers. We were promised it would be an alternative to guns and help protect civilians but instead police officers use tasers a ton and still shoot people a ton as well.[1
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by marricks 8y ago
His statement is a wonderful PR side step of that issue. It’s meant to convey an understanding of the moral challenges of technology but with their support of the DoD it seems, well, words are wind.
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by marricks 8y ago
Sure, because search is actually a feature people want. I don’t want one drive or candy crush or telemetry data and all those are harder to turn off then changing search to DuckDuckGo on MacOS or iOS.
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by marricks 8y ago
Shouldn’t you be more specific and say an indictment of Photoshop or Adobe? Perhaps they have a lot they can optimize but the levels of layers, masking, opacity, blending or whatever is complex. There’s a lot to be said about reduced effici
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by marricks 8y ago
I think you stepped over the other key detail “mentioning an open relationship”, I don’t think they’re all together slamming burning man
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by marricks 8y ago
Your argument is wealthy inequality has been rising universally since the birth of the USA? It’s not hard to find a chart and it was OK and exploded since the 70s, perhaps coincidentally with trickle down economics and neoliberalism. https
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by marricks 8y ago
That will certainly be compounded by the demise of the estate tax. That said it’s not like intergenerational wealth is a new thing, wouldn’t that be the case way before the 70s? It seems the trickle down economics approach taken since the 7
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by marricks 8y ago
Is that comment anything but FUD? They are able to make the cheapest batteries for cars and have seemed to be pretty successful...
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by marricks 8y ago
Didn’t Microsoft reorganize a bit ago and let go huge swaths of their QA team? Seems to line up with their public beta version to try and get some free QA. Like, it’s understandable that supporting so many chipsets is hard but it really see
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by marricks 8y ago
Not to mention those of us with deleted Facebook accounts. It looks like I’m not affected but to anyone who had an account during those dates and deleted it since, how do they find out? Yet another reason they should email affected users, g
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by marricks 8y ago
Definitely. The awfulness that I implied was meant to be mass surveillance. That people could organize and resist was great, needs to be way more of that, not less. Still, that moment has passed so people aren’t positive about our connected
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by marricks 8y ago
I think that’s the point. Arab spring, the chance of positive change around the world because of it, pre Snowden(!). It’s not that things weren’t awful then just people didn’t know what was going on or how things would turn out, so we were
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by marricks 8y ago
I agree so much. Business use this sort of hand wavy excuse all the time “government shouldn’t be involved.” Truth is they don’t want the American people to have any say in the operation. Sure, you could say we vote with out dollars but the
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by marricks 8y ago
Something beautiful about a company best known for exploiting workers, Walmart, teaming up with an expert is trampling over our personal privacy, Facebook. Safety training is a good place to start, there’s a great argument for “it’s importa

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