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by netcan 6y ago
Without Google, people would find different ways to reach news content.
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I was responding to the problem as framed in the comment, which like ads & spyware gets explained with the (imo totally false) assertion that it's because people want free. I also commented regarding hard journalism, pointing out t
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by netcan 6y ago
An aspect of this, in much of the west, is political demography. The voting population is getting older all the time. Politics increasingly serves their interests. Often these are directly orthogonal. Labour vs capital. Real estate values v
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by netcan 6y ago
This is my point. Paying for something does not mean that you are not being spied on or advertised to. I'm contradicting the (harmful) trope that the reason ad centric data monopolies spy on us is because we refuse to pay. This just is
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by netcan 6y ago
There is a practical aspect to it, but a lot of it is pure drama. Yes, Brexit affects us. Brexit was also extremely dramaful. I agree that it depends on social circles, but IMO, Boris or Trump animate much stronger & livelier opinions t
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by netcan 6y ago
This is only just the beginning. Think credit scores, but lot more far reaching. EG qualifying people for jobs, school entry and such.
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by netcan 6y ago
This isn't a theoretical question! There have been many large fortunes made recently. They prove the point. Facebook/Google are the obvious example. Companies that are selling stuff for money (spotify, netflix) are bending over
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by netcan 6y ago
Exactly! It's even worse than that, because even if your parents did know how to install an ad blocker it would not solve the problem. Data monopolies are fighting blockers, and the more they're used, the harder they fight. Pointi
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by netcan 6y ago
Totally disagree. First, if users could effectively block advertising and spying, then the problem would be solved regardless of paying. The data monopolies (and would be parts of those monopolies) are actively and effectively combatting bl
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by netcan 6y ago
...and the article seems to directly contradict this point: "Whether he meant saying no in the investment sense is not so important; what is important is that his advice, in whatever context, can apply to anyone arriving at the crossr
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by netcan 6y ago
The obvious method would be to have more children.
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by netcan 6y ago
It's partly related to economics: 2 generations of extremely rapid growth followed by a generation of stagnation. It's partly demographic. An aging population. It's partly cultural phenomenons that seem pathological, particul
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by netcan 6y ago
The problem of "users expecting free" is a trope. It isn't the actual problem. You get advertising whether or not you pay for a channel. You even get ads at the cinema. You get spied on when you buy a phone, echo, when you us
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by netcan 6y ago
I agree, but I think adopting the American viewpoint is neither here nor there in terms of dealing with local issues. The reason these issues are different in different places is history. "Racism" in the states, as a political iss
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by netcan 6y ago
American cultural influence has always been substantial, but since Trump and the hyper-interesting reality TV politics of recent years... it's on a hole new level. Here (in Ireland), the Brexit show (slightly receding) and Trump show h
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by netcan 6y ago
Yep, but if he was still around he'd still have to have articles about how he has rooms full of little dongly things and doesn't want any more. He was one of us. Believed problems like these could be solved. It turned out that the
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by netcan 6y ago
Douglas Adams on Dongly Things: http://douglasadams.com/dna/980707-03-a.html Spolsky on Martian headsets: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2008/03/17/martian-headsets/ It turns out th
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by netcan 6y ago
This is why I think it is trite to go on saying " if you're not paying, you are the product. " On paper, sure. You are right. Free makes any business model other than surveillance capitalism less viable (though I definitely w
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by netcan 6y ago
Is the problem actually "free?" I mean, if Disqus or facebook had been offering these as paid services, would we expect them to be respectful of privacy? When buy an android phone, amazon echo or whatnot... When we order stuff on
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by netcan 6y ago
"The music was new, black polished chrome / And came over the summer like liquid night / The DJ's took pills to stay awake / And play for seven day" Jim Morrison. I always thought that song was prescient, con
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by netcan 6y ago
This sort of position is part of the reason why monopolies are such a hard problem to address. At one end, it's all inherent in capitalism. We can't address anything without transcending capitalism, the nation state, etc. At the o
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by netcan 6y ago
>Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we just said "that sucks" and required a full postmortem instead. I think this way of thinking is crucial. Ultimately, these projects start to take this shape at conception...
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by netcan 6y ago
You are missing the point. If I say that "poisoning birds of prey on your farm is unsustainable," that is not a claim. The meaning of the term is not " cannot go on ." "Can go on" is another definition of susta
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by netcan 6y ago
I think I disagree at the fundamental level. There is no dividing line between artificial and natural. Artificial means made by people. Language is always made by people. Language evolves naturally. It's very hard to control and thus n
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by netcan 6y ago
I guess you're right. In practice, a lot of people are just putting one foot in front of another, much of the time. Myself included, probably. At least humanities courses teach students to write. They're basically essay writing cl
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by netcan 6y ago
International relations is an actual subject area. It's true that we don't need that many diplomats, and that people might be just studying it out of interest... or because it sounded better than something else. Most business cour
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I would say this happens every time someone chooses one word over another in a sentence. Language is intentional and rhetorical by nature. "Cow rape" is a good way down the spectral extremity, but choice of words is always like th
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by netcan 6y ago
Exactly the opposite. This is how human language works. Our brains are specifically designed to work out these ambiguities. That's why NLP is hard. It's what the "L" means. This is why you did not have any trouble unders
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Betterment means all of these. What it means to you means what you think is better. Anyway, why should a hobbiest be asked to subsidize your career progression?
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It's not really an interpretation. This is what the word "sustainable" means. This is the way the author is using the term sustainable. When she says " a key independent labeler of sustainable seafood... " she'

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