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by nyxxie 7y ago
Ok, lets suppose that banning discussion of "toxic viewpoints" worked as this title implies (overall spread of the viewpoints declined). Now for the tricky question: who defines what "toxic" means? Is something a &quot
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by nyxxie 8y ago
For some it’s not easily achieved, so I’d suppose it’s less about dudes thinking “meh, this is more convenient” than dudes thinking “meh, I’m not getting laid anyways”
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by nyxxie 8y ago
This. I’m currently working on a project to do what OP is doing, and this is almost certainly the most painful route to go down. All of this could be done with WebRTC, and you get the bonus that it’s even p2p so you don’t even have to han
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by nyxxie 8y ago
This ethnocentric approach to censorship is terrifying. Somewhere in Facebook is a small group of people who have the hubris to say they can decide on what’s right and what’s wrong, and are enforcing these views on some 1/9th of the w
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Probably was just the product of leveraging the observations and knowledge their society had at the time to produce a novel solution to a region-specific problem. Humans don't seem to have gotten any more or less intelligent than our
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Unrelated, but I really enjoy this trend of people disclosing potential conflicts of interest relating to sponsoring at the beginning of a show or video like they did here. It’s so refreshingly honest and respectful of my natural distaste
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I don't see a problem with people who aggregate content for money. They're providing a valuable service sifting through the vast sea of potentially interesting content and presenting it in a manner that is efficient and entertain
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by nyxxie 8y ago
“Negotiations”? Doesn’t Google frequently blur out military installations on request? I’m as keen to bash big tech companies as much as the next HN commenter, but this reaction sounds overblown.
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by nyxxie 8y ago
It’s probably just politics, but it looks to me like the GPA disparity between white and minority students is another issue entirely. This article making it the primary focus felt really sloppy and forced. Can’t we just report that profes
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by nyxxie 8y ago
>Are you going to optimize your recommendation as to make them take the longest time possible to achieve their goal ? No, I'd link them to relevant videos that helped me in the past, and then maybe link them some more later on to he
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Yes, and that's one side of the relationship. The other side is that YouTube provides a free platform for anyone to upload and watch videos, and it even suggests videos it thinks you might like. Everyone here benefits. I fail to see
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I don’t think that design goal in and of itself is toxic enough to warrant the connotation of the label “addiction peddling”. In YouTube’s case, it sounds like their recommendation engine is designed to simply reccomend videos people migh
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Another small datapoint, but I’ll shamefully admit I pretty much only adopt new tech (programming languages, popular libraries, trendy design patterns) if I hear a lot of people talking about them or using them. Programming for me isn’t so
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by nyxxie 8y ago
All of the measures in this article to increase morale about work aren’t exploitative unless they’re being used to exploit workers. I don’t think the author made a really good case for this; instead they argued on the snuck premise that em
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I really wish more interviews asked these questions. They're not only good questions for the reasons you mention, but for the interviewee (at least for me) they tend to be pretty low-stress to answer. Those sort of questions are, aft
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I think the author of this guide doesn't remember the mindset that a beginner is in when they first start learning graphics programming (or really any subject). Why is someone reading this tutorial in the first place? It's likely
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I felt immense pity for the mother in this scenario, and after reading the article I agreed that FB aught to have some sort of way to indicate that such advertisements are offensive and should not be shown to the user. Ideally, I'd li
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Last I heard it can be psychologically addictive but not physically addictive. For me, I treat it similar to how I treat coffee. Good for an occasional boost when I’m in need of its effects, but I don’t personally find myself indulging of
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by nyxxie 8y ago
I totally understand your frustration here, but I’d ask how else you propose learning the skills that OP needs? OP’s approach makes sense to me. They don’t seem to expect to actually make money, rather they view the whole thing as paying f
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by nyxxie 8y ago
>This is a huge leap. Who said their entire argument is based on winning vs losing? Losing can be fun, it's not the same thing. I think this is a key difference of opinion we have here. I enjoy the challenge of trying to beat people
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by nyxxie 8y ago
What is the difference in your mind between someone who is really good at the game vs someone who is cheating? At the end of the day, my displeasure comes from being beaten, so morally speaking I don't see a difference. Does Fortnite
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Call me cynical, but I'm not sure this was about achieving anything other than political points. I doubt anyone cared about who they galvanize into disliking this genre of legislation. Out of all classes who experience unequal represe
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Missed a spot with that rebase, looks like you accidentally put it back into the repo.
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Does anyone truly believe that regulation is going to fix that in a way that leaves people the ability to freely express their thoughts -- something that is and should be a human right? I think the real issue here is that social media has m
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Better words are the ones that aren't exclusively evaluated by humans. These are things on which people can agree there exists an impartial measure of the thing. What do you propose we replace it with then? I happen to think that th
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by nyxxie 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I got my job at Google through participating in their bug bounty program. The first set of interviews you have that ask general CS questions might not care what you did last week or last year, but when you talk with the team
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by nyxxie 8y ago
> Only difference is that if you put it on the internet it's like building that shed in a public park The difference here is that code published online has no assurances of being correct or adequate to the task. Someone building a s
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by nyxxie 9y ago
Disturbing High Modernism? More like disturbing high mindedness. The author here is making claims that can be summarized to "I don't like Facebook and it's different from how we've usually done things, therefore we nee
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by nyxxie 9y ago
The usual answer is to choose the parameters in such a way that targets the largest verification time that your servers can stand. I'm not aware of a recommended minimum value. In general, though, you're making a pretty good cho
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by nyxxie 9y ago
>The basic problem is bandwidth. If you don't decentralize hosting with something like BitTorrent, then only a few large organizations have the bandwidth to safely host videos that could go viral. Video storage would be out of scope

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