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by mindgam3 7y ago
I don't really disagree with the possibility that Apple is working on AR in the way you describe. I guess the point I was trying to make — as a longtime believer in Apple's vision with the Macbook Pro/iPhones/Watch/
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Yeah, it’s within the realm of possibility that Apple truly is that dysfunctional these days (ie MacBook Pro debacle). However I don’t think that’s the case here. You have to believe that they have their best resources working on wearables&
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Also remember how there were widely reported rumors that Apple had canceled the entire project a little while back, which made no sense given that this is the future of computing and every big tech company has been investing heavily for yea
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The myth and magic of generating new ideas(newyorker.com)
2 points by mindgam3 7y ago|0 comments
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California says Facebook failed to comply with subpoenas(nytimes.com)
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What a tour of an Amazon fulfillment center reveals(newyorker.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Link to bypass paywall: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ft.com/content/78d78b7c-fbf...
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Gaggle is one of the biggest players in today’s new economy of student surveillance, in which student work and behavior are scrutinized for indicators of violence or a mental health crisis, and profanity and sexuality are policed. Ther
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Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann Steps Down from Facebook’s Board(geekwire.com)
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Dissent at Facebook over hands-off stance on political ads(nytimes.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> I don't think there's a difference between ~10,000 residents independently complaining about theft, and Facebook (who hires ~10,000 Menlo Park residents) merely collating them. With respect - if you don’t see a difference bet
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by mindgam3 7y ago
No, you can’t force it. I genuinely loved chess, and it was still grueling. If I didn’t love it there’s no way I would have put myself through that.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> I don’t have the mental power to be crazy Wait, what? I was clearly using crazy in the Steve Jobs “here’s to the crazy ones” sense. You appear to be implying that unlike you, I do have the mental power to be crazy in the mentally ill
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I'm not going to lie, my parents pushed me really hard, which helps develop the mentality. (Probably too hard, but that's a different story) But the great thing about the "striving to be best" mentality is you don't
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> You will not be the world’s greatest writer, nor the top chess player, nor the most masterful public speaker. > It’s not about being great at any one thing — you just need to be pretty good at an array of useful skills that, when co
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I cannot praise this book highly enough. Every single person who has ever experienced depression or anxiety should read it.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I’m sorry, if we’re looking to 4chan for inspiration on how to do the internet properly we’ve already lost.
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I agree that it works from a technology perspective, but from the product/marketing perspective it's a non-starter. People who want to watch violent videos != human rights activists. There's the "blood and gore" peo
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Liveleak comes to mind as a service better suited for a public repository of this video. Liveleak, seriously? I'm not convinced that a site known for hosting gory and violent videos is really what these human rights activists are
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by mindgam3 7y ago
> Perhaps a large part of the issue is money; why bother with the expense if you can use ML, even if the false positive rate is abysmal. If I understand your position: you don't have any better ideas, and you're okay with using
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by mindgam3 7y ago
I am well aware that human moderators are currently treated like crap by Big Tech, and that their mental health is suffering as a result. When I say "throw more money at the problem", I mean, hire a lot more of them, and treat the
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by mindgam3 7y ago
YouTube could solve this problem by throwing money at it, i.e. investing much more heavily in human moderators. They are extremely unlikely to ever do so, as the market would punish them for it in the short term and Google is unlikely to pr
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Trauma in Plain Sight(slate.com)
1 points by mindgam3 7y ago|1 comments
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How Facebook Bought a Police Force(vice.com)
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by mindgam3 7y ago
This is great. Makes me want to do a similar post for chess. Whenever I try to explain to people what chess thinking involves I compare it geometry. Finding visual patterns on the board. But there’s also calculation and tactics which is ver
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by mindgam3 7y ago
My point is: using these apps to monitor people without legal consent is super not cool, obviously, but there’s an even bigger problem which is parents relying on legal-but-shady stalking apps. Parents and kids need to be able to trust each
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by mindgam3 7y ago
Good. The stalkerware problem is bigger than most people realize. Teens whose parents use Life360 to stalk them are already well aware of the issue. http://www.wired.com/story/life360-location-tracking-familie...
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by mindgam3 7y ago
“Facebook is not an anomaly in the American media system—it is precisely the result of rampant profit-seeking, lazy thinking, and a lack of civic responsibility. Of course Zuckerberg tells Buttigieg whom to hire. Of course he sees Warren, a
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Mark Zuckerberg Doesn’t Know What the First Amendment Is For(newyorker.com)
4 points by mindgam3 7y ago|2 comments
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by mindgam3 7y ago
When making up one one's mind about whether Zuck is sincere in his passionate pleas for free speech, consider that: 1) he took no questions from reporters, only pre-moderated questions from students, and 2) Facebook Live chat was scrub

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