mathlover2

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by mathlover2 4y ago
On a scale of 0 (hiring at Twitter is as easy as possible) to 100 (Twitter can never hire anyone again) how bad is it now that Musk fired an employee in front of millions of users, especially since the employee was calling out obvious bulls
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Twitter just turned off SMS 2FA without warning(twitter.com)
8 points by mathlover2 4y ago|2 comments
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Agreed. We are in for a period of flux, even if the article is crap.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I feel like I could write a blog post about the issues with this Vice article if I were so inclined, but my biggest problem is that it selectively casts social media as trending towards "YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, and an endless number o
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Having encountered him on the Fediverse before his ban, he's an asshole. Antinatalist of the "man should never have had children" kind, Putin supporter, thinks that old people should not be allowed to vote, thought lockdowns
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I agree with one point of exception: Saying post-Musk Twitter is using the private equity playbook assumes that Twitter is being handled according to a playbook rather than being done by an incompetent narcissistic sociopath who hyped his w
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Basing hypotheses on a single data point, let alone one whose outcome is not yet determined, almost invariably leads to wildly inaccurate conclusions in practice. As such, until we have more data, any questions about the Great Filter and th
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Recently I intentionally got my Twitter account locked (specifically via a tweet insulting Trump Jr. which had gotten my friend's account locked when he posted it originally in response to Trump Jr.) so that I could keep my page (with
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I was using an Android for years. My mother at one point was nagging me to buy an iPhone, and I relented and bought one just to get her to stop nagging. 6 months later I gave the iPhone to my sister and bought a new Android. I still use And
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Interesting, though it would be extremely hard to find records of this outside of maybe graffiti, and Roman historians if anything loved to record salacious things like this about prominent people, especially ones the individual historians
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by mathlover2 4y ago
> We are not really fit to do anything else. If you go by that logic we are only fit to live in tropical savannahs in Africa where modern humans originated. What I find supremely arrogant, though, is any Westerner who, while living in co
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I think the current economic system needs significant reform, and in many countries massive reform, but a complete scrapping of all markets (which I have heard proposed in some corners of the internet) is unlikely, unneeded, and probably un
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by mathlover2 4y ago
> One study estimates 100,000 Americans die every year from air pollution That's still a lot more deaths than commercial nuclear fusion has been associated with in the US. It's also, incidentally, a lot of deaths. > 1. Not
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Personally, I find this article ridiculous, even without the irony mentioned in the comments. I think there should be regulation of ISPs coupled with more community broadband efforts. I also like protocol-based social media. I also think th
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I'm honestly surprised this isn't trending higher, given how it's spiked over the past day.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I can see a scenario in which a "chaotic good" hacker uses a customized form of ransomware on some large corporation or extremely wealthy person in order to force them to make a donation or do some majorly positive action for the
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by mathlover2 4y ago
> Mr. Musk called the bid his “best and final offer,” adding that if his proposal isn’t accepted “I would need to reconsider my position as a shareholder.” Mr. Musk earlier this year built a position of more than 9% in Twitter. Source:
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by mathlover2 4y ago
IIRC he claimed that this was his only offer and that he would sell if it was refused.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
My comment is certainly less accurate than I originally thought. I will give you that.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
> Canada literally had to suspend the charter and due process by enacting the emergency measures act, which is unprecedented amongst western countries. Why would the government do that if no one supported them anyways? Probably because t
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by mathlover2 4y ago
In the US the division is arguably worse and the masks are coming off.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Wait, why pardon the Jan 6th people? Just because one's been mislead by misinformation to believe something false doesn't mean that they are blameless for flagrantly breaking the law in response.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Was social media the cause of the division, or did it merely allow people to exploit existing problems? Assuming that social media is a primary factor, for the sake of argument, the solution to this problem isn't regulating the platfor
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by mathlover2 4y ago
France has its own issues as well, in many ways parallel to the US from what I have heard, with a sharp urban-rural divide and a legacy of colonialism that has largely not been addressed.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
It isn't immune, but it certainly hasn't gotten to the point it has in the US. We had a failed insurrection two years ago that killed 5 people. The truck convoy was a bunch of morons thinking they could get their way by going to O
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by mathlover2 4y ago
This is the dumbest thing I have seen come from Jonathan Haidt. If social media is this powerful a destabilizer of societies, I wonder how Haidt explains first world countries like Germany, Canada, and most of the rest of the planet that ha
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by mathlover2 4y ago
Dang, you beat me to the first comment! XD With regards to hoping Twitter dies: same.
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I hope it is. Other than serving as a glorified RSS feed --- and it really should have never taken on that role --- it is not suitable for the other things people use it for. Discussion and dialogue? Use Discord or a chat application/w
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by mathlover2 4y ago
I would recommend Desmos and Python.
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by mathlover2 5y ago
Actually, even Twitter has a CP problem. I've seen it discussed before, where various accounts with CP were reported, but action on said accounts was delayed due to unknown issues on the side of Twitter. Meanwhile, the moderation on Ma

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