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by owisd 3y ago
It’s a myth that this happens to any significant degree, your business / home / family / friends can’t all move with you as easily, so more than enough just suck it up and that counteracts the negative effects of the few that
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by owisd 3y ago
For optional features it’s rent seeking if they’re charging much higher margins for the optional extras than for the base product.
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by owisd 3y ago
No one is forcing you to smoke either, but there’d be armies of marketing teams with huge budgets encouraging you and your kids try if it were unregulated. I can recommend Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis if you want the long answer.
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by owisd 3y ago
In principle I'm fine with all of that. I suspect there's not much mainstream appeal for a YouTube that only recommends ISIS videos, so you're not pushing ISIS videos to someone who wasn't already looking for them. I sus
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by owisd 3y ago
Draw the line on number of parameters needed to produce the ordering. An A-Z or chronological ordering is based off 1 parameter whereas a recommendation algorithm uses dozens. A HN-style algorithm needs maybe 2-3 parameters. The regulator c
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by owisd 3y ago
It's a balancing act between the negative freedom to be allowed to manufacture and sell a locked down device VS the positive freedom to install whatever software you want on the devices that you buy. I know libertarians skew very much
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by owisd 3y ago
It's clearly doing some categorisation to curate individual recommendations rather than simply showing the same trending videos to everyone.
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by owisd 3y ago
Why are they pushing suicide videos to find out which kids are interested in them in the first place?
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by owisd 3y ago
If the converse were true it wouldn't explain the rise in depression.
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by owisd 4y ago
Probably deliberate, for most a warning and a stern phone call will probably be enough to convince them not to try it again so if preventing crime rather than getting convictions is your goal then it's done its job. It wouldn't be
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by owisd 4y ago
Everything this site claims seems like an exaggeration when you actually follow the references through to the original proposal. Before a service needs to do anything at all the proposal would require an order from a judge where the governm
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by owisd 4y ago
Traders in interest rate swaps
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by owisd 4y ago
This argument only makes sense if you're only subsidising consumption, but infrastructure increases the productive capacity of the economy as a whole, so the government gets a return on its subsidy in increased taxes.
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by owisd 4y ago
Then the regulator will take them to court and case law will disambiguate the boundaries. Counterintuitively it’s the very prescriptive laws that allow companies to more easily come up with loopholes because legislators can’t possibly conc
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by owisd 4y ago
I disagree that whatever ranking system google uses will just be gamed to the same extent. If google downgraded the rank of pages with lots of ads and trackers it would substantially reduce the incentive to game the system, the reason it wo
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by owisd 4y ago
Usually as a simple menu system, see e.g. https://github.com/sokrateshayraniyim/Your-Own-Library/blob/...
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by owisd 4y ago
> On the other hand, today we have the very opposite situation: programmers not using goto when it's appropriate and abusing other constructs, what ironically makes code only less readable. One I see all the time from beginners is c
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by owisd 4y ago
They could rule against personalised recommendations (YouTube) vs while protecting recommendations where everyone sees the same thing (HN). In HN’s case I’m not sure it would matter much either way. HN is pretty heavily moderated already. I
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by owisd 4y ago
I don't think millennials all suddenly decided apropos nothing to avoid trades and take on useless degrees, they were encouraged to do so by their parents and teachers, and even then doing a useless degree is probably the rational choi
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by owisd 4y ago
My 'favourite' is that the quadratic formula -b±sqrt(b²-4ac)/2a falls apart when you solve for the positive solution using floating point for cases where ε=b²/4ac is small, the workaround being to use the binomial expans
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by owisd 4y ago
A good rule of thumb is if the derivative work is drawing sales away from the original work. Nobody is buying Captain America - The Winter Soldier to calculate the SHA256 so the movie studio sustains no losses from it being shared, so it sh
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by owisd 4y ago
The UK replaced the EU-ETS with an identical scheme : https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/participating-in-...
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by owisd 4y ago
This is part of the EU-ETS which is being rolled out to all sectors so you can’t avoid it by switching to a different mode of transport.
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by owisd 4y ago
If we accept there are better places for debating then it doesn’t matter what‘s on the list.
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by owisd 4y ago
I think the common carrier argument might work if the major platforms just showed you posts from the accounts you follow in reverse chronological order, but when they’re algorithmically promoting and recommending specific posts it’s more ak
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by owisd 4y ago
You can accept Twitter’s not the best place for debating either of these things without taking a judgment on whether they are true or false.
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by owisd 4y ago
I would also put TV execs exploiting vulnerable people for ratings in the “real” column.
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by owisd 4y ago
Was there actually a moral panic about TV in general? There was one about TV violence specifically. The general concerns about TV like reduced physical activity are still a concern and aren’t imaginary.
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by owisd 4y ago
They have done these things and it hasn't gotten more attention, hence why you've not heard of it. And hence art galleries : https://news.sky.com/story/extinction-rebellion-protesters-s... https://
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by owisd 4y ago
If you count podcasts it would be a lot less than that. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine under the right conditions a (micro)blogging equivalent of Apple Podcasts could take off.

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