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by obelix_ 8y ago
My feeling is the kind of pandering a leader used to do to get into a seat of power has changed thanks to the internet and the state of info overload we live in. They are much more aware of who to target and what that group wants to hear. A
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Idk I think US has bigger problems than whether it's semiconductor tech gets stolen. Social media and the news media have created such a dysfunctional environment that I am finding it increasingly hard to believe constructive debate&#x
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Do you think that's working? Once you take this position, and from the outcomes we see all around us, its very easy to reach a conclusion that the edu system is failing as a large part of the population can't parse what they are b
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by obelix_ 8y ago
All you have to do is ask Google - did inequality increase under 8 years of Obama? Look at the results that pop up. You will see articles filled with charts and data that tell two totally different stories. Every other link will dutifully f
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by obelix_ 8y ago
I'll qualify that with - only if you know what you are doing. If someone is struggling in the deep sea, dive in to help only if you have experience swimming in the deep sea. This stuff is not simple and can have lifelong negative effec
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by obelix_ 8y ago
The programmers who implement these systems don't even know that their upvotes mechanisms can have a down side. Only after they acknowledge it as an incomplete and incorrect social signal and that they are out of their depth in control
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Most definitely it does effect the HN users. Every site that uses the upvotes mechanism as a signal to the group about what they should think or focus on is producing both positive and negative consequences. It's used not because the g
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by obelix_ 8y ago
It can. The root cause of a lot of problems Facebook creates is the like count next to every utterances, article or behaviour on the net. This has to be regulated much more than private data/friend graphs/location data/what y
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by obelix_ 8y ago
I meant they make a difference in comparison to non-targeted ads. It's easy to measure. Both have low conversion rates but the difference is not negligible or ignorable depending on what you sell.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
That's the customer point of view. Spend sometime with a sales or marketing team esp when they are rolling out a new campaign or product. Targeting makes a big difference even though the conversion rates maybe low. I think personal inf
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by obelix_ 8y ago
"It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" is a very popular mantra among the boy wonders of Silicon Valley.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
That is pretty good :) I can't find it right now, but some very similar phrase was used after the Deep Water Horizon explosion and oil spill, which caused the BP CEO to get fired, to describe the role of the leader in such situations.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
It probably is, given the type of characters proped up by the attention economy. China hasn't produced a Trump yet. Meanwhile the US has laid the foundation with the attention economy (that props up people with the largest view/re
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by obelix_ 8y ago
China just executes the CEO. Mindless ambition. Mindless consequences.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Yup Trump, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, the 2008 meltdown, Zuckerberg turning the internet into his private sewage factory etc etc are all shining achievements of western wisdom and deep thought. The poor unimaginative illiterates of the Orien
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Yup pretty sure instagram will produce the next president. FB produced Obama (thanks to Obama every politician on the planet got onto social media). Twitter produced Trump. And since attention spans to read text have gone down the tube, th
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Well done. Great logic. The majority can also prop up a Kim Kardashian and Trump who met in the Whitehouse today and took a nice selfie. Those two idealists are taking your majority for great ride pal.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
On the internet of 2018 sites like Reddit/FB/YouTube/Twitter are perceived to have VALUE to users for just one simple reason - instant validation of whatever bull is flitting thro their minds. The like/upvote/view&#
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by obelix_ 8y ago
No difference. Just that mindless consumption culture turns people with brains into ants running an ant hill. So there will always be opposition.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Interesting. I'd like to hear more about this "entrainment" concept mentioned. How does the brain know what the "envelope" is? Sounds like magic.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Social network scaling is not a technology problem. Technology has imposed scaling on societies and patted it self on the head for the unintended benefits derived, while burying its head in the sand on the unintended consequences. The roman
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Democracies once upon a time, in theory atleast, were for the people, by the people, off the people. Post advertising funded internet/24*7 news we just have a system for propping up attention cravers, by the attention merchenants, off
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by obelix_ 8y ago
No balls involved here. They know the number of users that will blindly click accept to whatever policy change popup appears. So it's standard mo to show users shit, get the clicks, then use the numbers to justify how much people love
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Bad example. Einstein wasn't exactly a 'life is worth living' advertisement by the time he reached old age. I doubt he would have taken the offer. Source - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zpTUjb-iKf4
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by obelix_ 8y ago
If think the point being made is Amazon didn't suffer the same fate as Yelp wrt to book reviews because Amazon had a better product than whatever Google produced.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Thanks! Looks pretty useful. Will be checking it out soon.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
I see something about uploading the CSV file. Not clear where the sqlite dB is being created. Is it local? Does the browser create it? Ideally I would like to run this locally when I am playing with data. What's been the largest file t
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Plus this particular boy wonder very confidently stood up in front of everyone and said fake news is BS right after the elections.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
My 2 reasons - Libraries are designed specifically to be distraction free environments where one can focus. The internet might have all the info ever produced, but it is also the most distracting place ever created. And as more and more peo
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Well Intel has faced Nokia and Kodak moments literally 6-7 times in the past and survived. Granted not always because their tech was better. But survival has nothing to do with just cheaper prices and better tech. Evidence of that is all ov

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