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by naravara 5y ago
> As far as the signal-to-noise ratio goes on Twitter, depending on the quality of people you follow, you will also get exposed to many amazing long-form articles. I suspect having large follower counts of Twitter seems to induce some so
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by naravara 5y ago
> Anonymity is important because it allows you to have discussions purely based on the arguments and opinions, without the bias of who youre talking to. I often find myself having a wonderfully deep discussion with someone online, and wh
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by naravara 5y ago
> Everyone can now play an active part in the conversation with barely any barriers at all. There are barriers. What people will actually see are mediated by algorithms that favor certain styles of presentation and types of content. It t
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> Observe kids playing games in real life, they are very rarely as vulgar or sadistic as on online games. Kids are actually rarely vulgar or sadistic when playing online as well. The toxicity of online gaming communities is a self-reinfo
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by naravara 5y ago
The profit-maximizing algorithms are ad-supported, which means they maximize profit by maximizing engagement time and attention. This means things that don't maximize around those things will inherently be disadvantaged against the man
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by naravara 5y ago
Because Maryland doesn't want DC and DC doesn't want Maryland.
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It's a little dicer in the cases where we can pretty much infer that they're trying to get to a specific thing and would have happily used a direct URL to the page if they had the wherewithal to do so. In this case the ad placemen
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by naravara 5y ago
> The main problem here is that if Williams Sonoma was not advertising on that search term, Lodge and Food52 etc etc would, and then those companies would be above the Williams Sonoma organic placements. When you put it that way this sou
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by naravara 5y ago
> As much as I loathe the "facebook is a private company that can do whatever they want" argument, I have to admit it applies here. If I owned a store, and some guy kept coming and showing customers how to not spend any money i
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by naravara 5y ago
Don't forget "tech companies" that are basically just thinly veiled excuses to engage in regulatory arbitrage and skirt employment laws.
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Moreover, warnings are useless if people can't vote with their feet. So if you want to actually affect change in the dynamics of the market you need to make services compete on quality and value to the customer rather than engaging in
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by naravara 5y ago
Car shaped cars are a welcome respite from everything being a lifted, oblong spheroid now.
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by naravara 5y ago
They could easily let you accomplish this by just giving you an option to actively seek out this content by giving you a "What else is like this?" button that takes you to a 'related videos' page. The problem when it jus
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by naravara 5y ago
I gave up after 10 minutes, called the credit card company I had the subscription on, and asked them to refuse all charges from NYT. I had to do the same thing with the Economist.
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by naravara 5y ago
I don't think trust can be reliably built with elements of gamification like this. The deal with gamification is that people learn to game it out, which erodes the kinds of sincere or honest interactions you're trying to cultivate
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by naravara 5y ago
I think the parasocial element of engagement on Twitter and Instagram have a big effect as well. A cover model in a magazine has an air of inaccessibility. She’s clearly an aspirational figure and held above “normal” people. The way the inf
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by naravara 5y ago
The article makes it seem like people at Facebook have ideas on how to potentially thread the needle, but Zuckerberg (and probably a handful of other senior executives) keep putting the kibosh on it. We know there are some people with prett
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by naravara 5y ago
> With this I just want to say that I know it's a difficult task but presenting it as a lost battle/impossible seems to me wrong. The thing is, we made headway in the battle against smoking by disallowing people from doing all
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by naravara 5y ago
Also scammers will want to redirect people to alternate methods, as well as those who engage in not-quite-scam-but-still-unsavory-business practices. Games aimed at kids are the biggest offenders, possibly using this as a way to circumvent
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by naravara 5y ago
> Honestly a lot of colonial rule feels pretty awful too, and with a similar flavor. I suspect what makes colonialism feel less shocking is that most of the cruelty happens "out there" and the day-to-day activities that promulg
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by naravara 5y ago
It's not an 'article' it's a transcription of a book. There are multiple pages. https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/1/
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by naravara 5y ago
If seen this pattern happen where people get into little gossip circles where they ruminate on slights and offenses so much that they become magnified in their minds. Looking at it from outside that circle things seem pretty mild or not lik
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by naravara 5y ago
> So, the source does not support your claim in any way, by your own admission? You could just read it yourself and see that it does say he was there to wipe out the Kshatriyas. What's up for interpretation is what "burdened&qu
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by naravara 5y ago
It's in a variety of commentaries on the Puranas. This from the Srimad Bagavatam is just an example: https://vedabase.io/en/library/tqk/17/ The reasons why the Earth was "burdened" is up f
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by naravara 5y ago
It also seems a little cynical in places about how that specific conception of “Kshatriya dharma” plays out. Most of the central conflicts of the tale revolve around people being trapped by certain obligations stemming from hardline adheren
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by naravara 5y ago
Oppenheimer’s quote is, while not quite a mistranslation, incomplete. The original quote would more properly translate as an incarnation of “time” rather than “death.”
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The story itself is extremely layered. The “comic book” layer with the epic heroes and battles are certainly valid and get people hooked young. Then you can get into the character studies, the sociological theories, the philosophy and metap
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Technically speaking, no there isn’t. It’s just a little bit if metadata you’re sticking on an already long tail of metadata that they’re doing as they index.
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by naravara 5y ago
I was about to say it needs about 7 or 8 additional ads inserted into the text of the article. Ideally they would load at random times and displace text out of the way as you're trying to read so you keep losing your place. Also, the a
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by naravara 5y ago
What arguments do people have for resisting it?

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