md224

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by md224 13y ago
I'm curious, what's your ideal political arrangement? How do you propose we provide for transportation infrastructure, medical services, police, fire departments, etc? I'm not convinced that abolishment of the state is possib
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by md224 13y ago
> Charging a subscription now, is not plausible, people will leave. From the article: > For $10 a month, people who really love Facebook (and can afford it), could see no ads. Maybe some special features too. Biz isn't suggesting
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by md224 13y ago
Is it weird that Google's mission statement doesn't describe their primary revenue stream? I suppose they could say that they're making information universally accessible and useful to individuals as well as advertisers. But
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by md224 13y ago
To be fair, the first one you cited is for Chrome packaged apps, so I feel like it's a little different than special APIs exposed to normal web page javascript. It's the difference between saying "build apps for our browser,
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by md224 13y ago
> None of the judges of the FISA court were vetted by Congress. They were appointed by a single unelected official: John Roberts, the chief justice of the Supreme Court. > Of course, this isn't actually true; every sitting FISC
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by md224 13y ago
I built a fairly basic ambient drone generator with the Chrome implementation of the Web Audio API: http://matt-diamond.com/drone.html Haven't gotten a chance to add Firefox compatibility yet (working on it!).
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by md224 13y ago
A Google recruiter actually told me that Google is "basically an advertising company." Then again, he was recruiting for an AdWords-related position, so his viewpoint may have been skewed.
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by md224 13y ago
> Nothing forces the government, or any other entity, to publicize its interpretation of law until it is challenged in public court. Okay, that's a solid legal perspective, but what about a normative perspective here? Is it a good
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by md224 13y ago
Is the only indication that it's sponsored the little "sponsored" tag in gray at the bottom? Or does it still say "suggested post" in gray at the top?
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by md224 13y ago
Thanks for the honest answer. Definitely food for thought.
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by md224 13y ago
Sincere question: do you feel that you, personally, have gained useful information from advertisements? Was it about a new kind of product or service that you didn't previously know about, or just a brand that was better than the ones
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by md224 13y ago
That's a good point to raise. Two questions: Would you agree that opinion manipulation in online reviews is already taking place? If so, would reducing the presence of explicitly-labelled advertisements result in an increase in covert
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by md224 13y ago
It's interesting that people are upset about Google being able to pay to get their content around certain barriers, when this is essentially what Google AdWords is: a system for advertisers to pay to get their content displayed in prom
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Ask HN: Why do certain new comments not have a reply button?
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by md224 13y ago
Has there been any work done from an information-theoretic perspective on the effect of sponsored information added to a page of search results? There's gotta be an academic paper on this somewhere... I'm particularly interested i
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Egypt Revolution 3.0(morsitimer.com)
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by md224 13y ago
> Of course bigger ones spend more money on advertising - but then they also invest more heavily in stock and production lines, and have a correspondingly greater need to recover their investment. Not sure I follow the logic here, but I
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by md224 13y ago
Definitely a thorny issue... I think it comes down to weighing your potential for positive influence vs. the (in)direct damage being done by your role or the organization overall.
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by md224 13y ago
This is a valid point, and it underscores the importance of being technologists in a (relatively) strong tech job market... we have the luxury of turning down jobs that we feel are part of detrimental systems. And we should take advantage o
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by md224 13y ago
I hate when comments people disagree with get downvoted, because now nobody's going to see this and we're missing a great opportunity to debate with someone who shares a drastically different viewpoint than the rest of us. > &q
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by md224 13y ago
Indeed. Engineers need to understand that the things they build may be "cool," but they have higher-order consequences beyond that. Just because we can build something doesn't mean we should . I mean really, didn't an
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The war for the free and open Internet — and how we are losing it(suegardner.org)
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by md224 13y ago
The goal of connecting people with value-providing businesses is a noble one, but the problem is the difficulty in using advertisements as reliable indicators of a product's merit. Economists have written about the prominence of advert
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by md224 13y ago
I don't claim that advertising is the only vector of influence, and I realize it is possibly the least worst version (because of labeling), but that hardly seems like a reason to consider it a Good Thing. Your argument seems to be that
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by md224 13y ago
Champagne and sousveillance? Is this the egalitarian utopia we were promised?
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by md224 13y ago
I've been doing a lot of thinking about this topic recently, so it's nice to see a discussion on HN. AdWords ad placement is determined by a mix of quality score and bid size. It's good that they're using quality of link
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by md224 13y ago
You seem to be making the case that taking drugs is in some sense "cheating" your way to a psychological experience, and therefore somewhat immoral or superficial. That's a valid perspective, but consider this: do you conside
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by md224 13y ago
> However, without a conscious soul, meaning itself loses meaning. What's the ontological support for meaning to rise on? I sort of understand what you mean here, but at the same time I don't. Are you specifically referring to
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Metasystem Transition(en.wikipedia.org)
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by md224 13y ago
"The FBI uses government equipment on private company property to retrieve matching information from a participating company, such as Microsoft or Yahoo and pass it without further review to the NSA." (emphasis mine) Is it just

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