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by phiy 4y ago
I think after the bans of certain, negative communities on Reddit fatpeoplehate, incels, thedonald They would go out into other parts of the site and be spread their pessimism with unnecessary arguments. It made the site more of an echo cha
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by phiy 4y ago
Cloudflare has both static hosting + CDN. There are dozens of CDNs and hundreds of static hosts that you could combine. GCP, Azure also exist with similar solutions
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by phiy 4y ago
I thought this paragraph was super weasely. He is specifically saying that they don't buy directly from internet advertising sources, but there are private intel firms[1] that act as middle-men. They offer an interface and tooling that
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by phiy 4y ago
It's fascinating to watch him learning in real time as he is experiments and bring his own experience to it. He has been a successful executive for a tech company before, Tesla is just a tech company that sells cars. Now social media H
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by phiy 4y ago
The anti-china sentiment is completely over the top. Especially in the last couple months. It is disinformation to say "both sides", but it is in some extent true. The real way to stop disinformation is teach information literacy,
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by phiy 4y ago
I am waiting for someone to connect these technologies. ChatGPT choosing the words for a DeepFake that can search the internet for examples of the voices of loved ones. Maybe then the FTC will start to regulate spam callers
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by phiy 4y ago
There are many genuinely insane conspiracy theories, but there are many that start as a seed then are investigated and found to be true. NSA's prism project was regarded as complete bullshit until it wasn't. US Gov adding poison t
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by phiy 4y ago
Investigative journalism is dead, and with it, the checks and balances that the first amendment was supposed to guarantee. Soviet-esque silence on important issues doesn't win confidence.
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by phiy 4y ago
What if they were using those apps for official government business? Dating apps to connect to targets. Crypto to pay assets.
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by phiy 4y ago
This disregards the business model behind the companies. There are no transactions for wikipedia or hacker news. Both AirBnB and Reddit are incentived to collect a massive amount of data on their users and to maximize the experience in any
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by phiy 4y ago
One thing that I am noticing about the round of layoffs in the last month[1] is that it seems like they are cutting a small fraction, around 10%. There are outliers of course. I don't know how to interpret that in terms of the bigger e
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by phiy 4y ago
this is pretty fascinating to think about the implications. Everyone assumes that AI is going to be all powerful and scary, but these little edge cases just completely stop it in its tracks. It makes me wonder if any of the self-driving car
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by phiy 4y ago
Generally, people don't give up their meat freely. There was a weird case in germany where a guy was dying and gave his body to a cannibal. They still arrested and charged him https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Me
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by phiy 4y ago
So much context missing. There are zero details regarding the actual case, and this appears to be a small detail in a big complicated case. Anytime the feds bring a RICO case, it can be pretty hard to prove