olewhalehunter

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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
Digital capital is still capital, if it's gonna be regulated as such, it needs to be made as clear as a credit card bill to consumers when their digital capital is bought or sold.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
That failure wasn't due to skill, it was due to demand. That discount store has a high volume low skill patronage that needs toasters, if 100 engineers collectively wanted to make 100 of their own toasters for less than 5 dollars a uni
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
That doesn't solve the problem of the growing politicization of healthcare, especially given new life extending tech and augmentation, and it may make it worse in some ways: Year 2090 and an elderly bureaucrat can afford to be more pro
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
Keep in mind US healthcare costs are almost %20 of GDP Cutting the fat from that may mean a lot of folks lose livelihoods (and THEIR healthcare).
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
>Does a billionaire's understanding of the world really affect anyone at all? Yes!??!? That same infrastructure and userbase could be used for more constructive goals than selling personal info.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
Infowars and Alex Jones regularly criticized organizations such as Google and Facebook that collect massive amounts of information capital from people well before the elections and the fake news headlines.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
You make it sound as if facebook didn't know exactly who the kinds of sites that would end up being flagged would turn out to be, and the only claim that I made was that, coincidentally, they also happen to be sites that criticize Face
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
I didn't claim that, what I claimed was that coincidentally, the same sites that criticize Facebook were also being labeled as fake news.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
They are also one of the only big news organizations that regularly criticizes Facebook, so I guess the answer to the original question of why more people don't criticize Facebook is that the only demographic that are interested in tha
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
No but giving away massive amounts of monetizable information capital to private corporations for free sure is.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
When you are interviewing the entity that can throttle visits to your articles, it's a bit more complicated than that. Coincidentally, many of the "fake news" links they knocked down were sites that also criticized Facebook.
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
That's great, but why shouldn't this be extended to computer displays? If we're going to acknowledge determinism, and that people's behaviors can be steered by triggers and feedback cycled through both ads and browsing
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
The idea of something like a Right of Neural Sovereignty comes to mind, which brings up issues with advertising. Physical assault is illegal in the modern legal system, so why not ban assault on the visual cortex? Advertising is designed to
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
Doesn't Netflix and EPSN already do this? In contrast, have you ever encountered just how "paranoid" about these issues a cannabis user can be?
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
>gold, which glitters, is not gold that's the poetic point "All that glisters is not gold— Often have you heard that told. Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold. Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
current mainstream liberal mobilization is on identity politics or local catastrophic efforts like Flint/environment/ICE raids
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
not only that but it highlights the costs associated with human cognition, automated systems don't need to spend time making the buttons they click visually pleasing or ergonomic
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
btw thinking this threat excludes engineers and programmers is delusional
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by olewhalehunter 9y ago
It's not a democracy if a party can import voters.
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
because good music, games, journalism, and useful algorithms didn't arrive in humanity until the invention of (EDIT) intellectual property law
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
?
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
that selective enforcement happened because of his views
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
That difference lasts only as long as it takes for federal interests to infiltrate that corporation under the guise of normal employees and board members.
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
Most human intelligence is used to solve problems created by other humans who are doing tasks that can be automated.
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
Also the author Matt Ruby is a circuit comedian and vlogger: professional complaining is his own personal form of brogramming: he has no actual solutions provided, he hasn't organized any communities, and the advertisement promotions o
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
>meritocracy rooted in the notion of genetic supermen Always funny to see phrases like that here, however if someone was force sensitive and had a zero midichlorian count they'd want them anyway, the order was never bred for their a
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
>They didn't build it to sell. except they totally did people and businesses had no intention of actually pulling paper-based systems into computational ones, and thus all Steve Jobs had to do was reproduce office-quality typography
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
or herald of a dark age of network technology (in no way am I insulting Shannon) there are problems that come up in web development that were solved by electrical engineers 100 years ago
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
this critique seems to be of the kind of lisp you find in introductory textbooks on scheme most lispers like to play around with syntax, doing that in haskell usually results in write-only code
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by olewhalehunter 10y ago
original French name was "la Pierre de Rosette", so it's Rosette not Rosetta

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