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by matt4077 8y ago
The study’s result seem to be that users often get unique results. That’s not the same as “personalized”, and it certainly isn’t evidence of “bias” as the spreadprivacy.org-link suggests. A good faith interpretation would point to google ru
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by matt4077 8y ago
You could easily disprove this yourself. Just check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve#Legal_status_o... > However, holding stock in a Federal Reserve bank is not like owning stock in a publicly traded co
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by matt4077 8y ago
Don’t use outrage if you want to misunderstand metaphors.
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by matt4077 8y ago
There’s also a social contract about respect for the law. It’s arguably much older. It involves aspects like “following the spirit of the law”. Also “technical ability is not the same as permission”. It’s why the old shopkeeper’s waning abi
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by matt4077 8y ago
> The ultimate goal is to lay ground work for filtering/shadow banning political content. And one wonders why the serious players only roll the their eyes when “the internet community” is mentioned.
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by matt4077 8y ago
It's a joke based on the perception of crackpotishhness I got from OP's advice.
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by matt4077 8y ago
The militarism I was referencing isn't defined so much in violence, but in values, organisational structure (, and fashion). It's arguably worse for the trappings of the military (rigid hierarchy, loyalty as the core value, etc)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Yeah... Also get a lawyer, quit Facebook, and start dressing for the job you want!
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by matt4077 8y ago
That sounds very much like what they were saying. “Theoretically” is closer to “can” than it is to “cannot”.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This article might be of interest to you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18567548
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by matt4077 8y ago
You are reading this comment. The are billions of lines of text on the internet you will never read. Is this comment strictly more important to you than every single other text on the internet? A comment that includes a nonsense paragraph o
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by matt4077 8y ago
Star Trek is arguably utopian. At least that’s how it is intended and perceived. I personally abhor the primacy of the military it glorifies, and also the fashion choices.
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s good for Mozilla to take a stance, and drop the pretense that you can have the cake, eat it, and have all your other cookies left over. Circumventing paywalls is not a crime, but it is also not victimless. The crisis for journalism is
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by matt4077 8y ago
publishers don’t like micropayments because (a) they don’t work, and (b) what people read doesn’t correlate with what’s important. It becomes a lot harder for journalists to justify spending months on a subject when the business side has ha
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by matt4077 8y ago
Nope... BUT: the microbiome, as well as the immune system, are closely linked to the “physical” mother.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Depression or bipolar disorder seem like a better fit. ADHD would manifest more in “short term” issues, i. e. difficulty getting through a workday. The fact that they can, apparently, hold down a job they don’t enjoy, and seem to quit volun
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by matt4077 8y ago
Matt Levine has a fun take on this: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-11-29/watch-... (Search “raid”)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Golang Golang Golang Golang ...and nothing bad happens. Maybe Bob should have thought of a better name instead of trying to become the least successful prescriptionist since that guy insisting it’s “thou”, not “you”.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Among other things, this would open the door to the government demand access to the identity of whistleblowers. It also doesn't actually address the problem. The news media, when properly defined, doesn't actually lie. Now that st
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by matt4077 8y ago
I fear you will be disappointed... Large parts of the tech community seem to not just be blind to the consequences of their work, but to openly embrace and nurture the destruction of the fabric of society. This used to find voice in utopian
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by matt4077 8y ago
> it doesn't matter that you are a Native Fin and your competitor But for this fragment that makes it obvious, this post is a masterpiece of hiding its racism and sexism behind a veil of words the author knows HN will like. It’s alm
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by matt4077 8y ago
My submissions seem to be doing ok, you can check the list yourself. I don’t ask anybody to upvote. In fact I don’t know anybody with a HN account IRL. @danso sorry for the dupe submission here. I don’t consider it my responsibility to chec
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by matt4077 8y ago
You do get paid for books, however. So you’re just so slightly missing the point.
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Operation Argus: How a Cold-War Secret Was Revealed(theatlantic.com)
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by matt4077 8y ago
Sure, in the way that assuming all food is rotten is the only way to completely avoid food poisoning. If, however, you don't subscribe to the starving lifestyle, such blanket assumption are useless. Same for phones: do you just not use
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by matt4077 8y ago
> Content piracy has been a catalyst for change. Yet paying for content has been a catalyst for...content. > they might be incentivized to problem solve that for me. What is that even supposed to mean?
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by matt4077 8y ago
Because people reading an elaborate, richly designed, deeply researched, and entertainingly written article about a font will really be grasping for straws trying to defend their unwillingness to pay? It's original reporting, so the us
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by matt4077 8y ago
I think these comments' arguing over the "mystery" isn't necessarily the problem... It's that people can apparently read a lavish, deeply-researched article, yet are incapable of discussing it in terms other than it
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Almost tautologically, without Facebook this "auction" would have had to be done using an inferior option. Maybe it would still have happened. But in at least some cases, that inferior platform will be worse enough for the crime n
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by matt4077 8y ago
You are attacking some argument, but certainly not one anybody was making. As for the rest, you seem rather to be rather proud of karma points on the Internet. As someone with almost as many of them, I am somewhat intrigued. Do I get access

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