metrokoi

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by metrokoi 6y ago
Exactly, people don't visit Facebook to get unbiased news. They don't want unbiased news. People go there to see news that interests them (and talk to friends and whatnot). The only reason to be against Facebook having a feed ba
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And if you curate news, you likely create a propaganda section selected by individuals or a small group of individuals. It's not as if an unbiased AI hand-picks which stories are of factual merit and representative of the current world
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Are you equally concerned about left-wing activist lawyers trying to murder four cops with a molotov cocktail?
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>It is clear that news can't be chosen based on engagement and that Facebook can't change. Why can't news be chosen on engagement? That's what people want to read. Must Facebook control what news people are reading? W
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That's assuming people go to the Dollar store specifically to buy food instead of going to the grocery store, which is certainly not the norm. People go to the Dollar store to buy food containers, snacks for a road trip, batteries, too
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by metrokoi 6y ago
This is not correct. No one has a right to bail. It is perfectly legal to hold a defendant if they pose a flight risk or danger to the community. They are not criminals, but they are defendants. >Although the Eighth Amendment protects ag
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by metrokoi 6y ago
>But because of constant security freezes and transfer limits imposed by PayPal and its mobile payment service Venmo, the group is only able to bail out around five people— $20,000 worth of cash bail—per week. Quite the incendiary headli
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Most Americans buy their food at the grocery store, and there's nothing in them that wouldn't be found in any other country. Most Americans make their own meals with their families, which usually consist of meat, pasta, potatoes,
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The additives are there for a reason. More bread with more additives is sold because people prefer that type of bread, whether for convenience, price, or they simply prefer the flavor and texture.
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by metrokoi 6y ago
It's expensive to make good bread. Not in terms of raw materials, but in terms of labor. A machine cannot make a quality loaf of bread, you must gently knead it and let it ride with human hands. There is also a large cost in the right-
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The greatest potential benefit AI has for humans is the ability to act as a life-long personal mentor: to collect, filter, summarize, translate into a form best suited for the individual, and communicate that information. Especially as we e
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Does anyone use LCD drawing tablets for taking notes? I don't like using paper that much, and for anything important I prefer to have it digitized so that information can be sorted, copied, and recalled. I wonder how important it is to
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It may be dangerous to blindly trust that a language is good based on a company's success with that language, but a large company deciding to heavily invest resources and take a risk on a language is also evidence that the language has
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Sometimes we have to be reminded that technology can not solve all of our problems. I find one of the issues with my relationships is that I try too hard to help solve their problems. Of course I have good intentions, but focusing on trying
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Lower body fat is correlated with higher testosterone, so that would make sense.
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It's easy and safe to disclose networks of states that have no power over you. The information operations that are not disclosed are the ones you really need to worry about.
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by metrokoi 6y ago
I often have to specifically search for a Wikipedia article in Google to get the result for it. For example, if I search for a pharmaceutical molecule, I will get pages of "health line" type pages listing side effects and uses. Fi
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Why is it wrong to kill animals (humanely) if you don't have to? A cow will live and die blissfully unaware that it's purpose is to be eaten by humans. Is a death by a captive bolt gun worse than death by coyote or disease? Of cou
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Another implication is that ethical consumerism is profitable, which is debatable. Most "ethical" products are chosen because they are healthier, such as organic food or green cosmetics, not because they are more ethical. Remember
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The commenter seemed to have explained why they see the phrasing as "weasel words": >They don't explicitly say it's not risky - because that would be plain lying, it is obviously risky - but they are saying they are n
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by metrokoi 6y ago
The problem is not that they took a political stance. If a group of doctors wants to come out in support of Flat Earth, so be it. The problem is they potentially compromise the health of the public at the expense of their political message.
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The freedom to practice religion is also a very fundamental right of our democracies, yet it is still illegal in many places due to the lockdown such as California. Yes, the frequency that people attend protests is on average much less, but
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Just think: every single ounce of dirt and stone that comprises that structure was picked, carried, and placed with only human calories expended, likely in baskets carried on backs. I wonder what the amount of total calories expended to com
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If their personal ethics cause them to produce statements which are contradictory and may cause less rational people to engage in hazardous behavior (such as not wearing a mask or attempting to distance themselves from others at a protest),
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by metrokoi 6y ago
>Where'd they "tell us there is no risk from these protests"? In this quotation: "we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission". "As risky" seems like a very specific choice of
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I don't think we should have to be constantly reminded to be kind and discuss in good faith. Maybe it is necessary for some, but I expect better of HN users than to need their hands held. The regulator of HN behavior should be the user
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Quoted from a letter from 1,000 health professionals on the virus and protests [0] >However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission. We support them as vital to the national publ
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by metrokoi 6y ago
I don't see how this method of note taking is better than just writing note linearly. Sure, it is good if you want to recall information for writing a book, but it doesn't seem like it would actually increase your retention and im
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Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave? Developers may be the least humble type of engineers. There are many great things that we do, but we need to be taken down a peg every once in a while. Many developers are forced in
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by metrokoi 6y ago
Speaking from my experience, I write about my opinions not for validation, but because you must write about your opinions to be seen as a "real" programmer. People who quietly do their work and create things generally do not flour

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