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by prohobo 6y ago
You have a point, but it's not entirely that. For one, the boomers are the ones who still own everything, and they've never given over leadership roles down to the next generations. There's a combination of a certain subset o
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by prohobo 6y ago
The title of the article is bad, but the actual suggestions for action against extremism are quite good. We do need research to fix social media, and we do need transparency. Firefox is generally good; they have some identity politics, but
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by prohobo 6y ago
They were dismissive enough of retailers that it didn't even enter their feeble minds that they might need to be able to cover the costs of a real market manipulation, the kind that institutions do all the time without having these kin
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by prohobo 6y ago
To be honest, it doesn't really matter. This isn't about whether Robinhood technically must or must not do what they're doing, but that the system is setup in such a way that all these claims of "supporting the people&qu
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by prohobo 6y ago
That only happens if they are engaged in healthy discussion. A flame war separated into two columns isn't that.
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by prohobo 6y ago
Exactly, that's how this works. They take all of our freedoms away while you cheer them on. You know, this isn't the first time it's happened. People aren't just pulling this out of thin air. There's a very long his
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by prohobo 6y ago
I for sure didn't misunderstand the article itself, it says multiple times that everyone using it should be concerned. It seems like the article isn't very good though.
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by prohobo 6y ago
What? For years I've been trying to get my teams to start using Elasticsearch and Kibana. For any project that relies on logging data and events, ES is a godsend. You can log file system changes with filebeat, process logs from a distr
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by prohobo 6y ago
I don't think there's a point in arguing about these things anymore. If people still don't get it, then it's unlikely they'll change their minds now. We're riding the wave whether we like it or not.
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by prohobo 6y ago
I'm guessing this is to stop him from leaking info about COVID 19's origins, or his supposed final attack on Big Tech? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/01/13/us-report-covid-... https:&#x
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by prohobo 6y ago
Sorry, I don't have an answer but this is an interesting problem. For one, kids haven't been taught to teach themselves - and most kids aren't interested in learning anyways because they don't see any incentive. Schoolin
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by prohobo 6y ago
One heuristic for the quality of a language is to literally ask "what is it good for?" Just off the top of my head (I'm skipping a lot of categories and languages): C/C++/Rust are great for systems programming, game
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by prohobo 6y ago
Freenode (IRC) can still be very good for a lot of topics and technologies, but it's slowly withering away now. Discord is where everyone is, but it's so awful just trying to ask a question I almost never get anything out of it. Y
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by prohobo 6y ago
My solution is freelancing and online entrepreneurship. I quit my last job right before lockdown, and since then I've been building my own products and doing freelancing to stay alive. While it's arguably more stressful, it's
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by prohobo 6y ago
Haha, apologies... At least it's only soft totalitarianism, or inverted. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism I think it's encouraging that there's a way to categorize what's
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by prohobo 6y ago
To anyone reading these threads who is disconcerted by all the apologists, rationalizations, and blindness: Hello, this is what modern totalitarianism looks like. The whole point is to shake the foundations of your principles, and make you
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by prohobo 6y ago
Considering China has bought up a majority of gold in the past decade, and they're the global leader in production, I'd say CryptoYuan will have the best chance of winning out. I assume they're keeping their designs under wra
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by prohobo 6y ago
This seems more like it's questioning cryptocurrency itself, and putting it at odds with fiat currencies and states. As for states, they're rolling out their own cryptos. The Chinese have CryptoYuan, the EU central bank is releasi
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by prohobo 6y ago
You learn from players who are better than you, not players who are as good as you (or worse). Matchmaking ruined the competitive aspects of gaming for me, since I either get dragged down by team mates or I get stuck playing the same games
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by prohobo 6y ago
That's exactly what we're talking about, isn't it? Fragmentation of reality on the internet. There's no way around it because someone will just deny someone else's reality and substitute their own. With intellectual
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by prohobo 6y ago
This tacit acceptance of a "newsfeed flooded with false/defamatory information" when it happens to support one obvious partisan side is, frankly, something embarrassing to have to see. I have no interest in defending the Trum
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by prohobo 6y ago
Regardless of your view on "misinformation", this sounds like a stupid idea that's meant to cover Twitter's butts in the short-term. The goal of any social platform should be healthy engagement. Where is the research tha
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by prohobo 6y ago
No, but that actually sounds like a good idea. If there are a lot of people using this data along with WikiData, or if there's a kind of standard for "big" encyclopedic data, then I'd definitely like to support it.
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by prohobo 6y ago
I was just being cheeky. Their articles don't get pulled into the data, but I'm sure there are plenty of other bad sources if you look around.
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by prohobo 6y ago
It's all from GDELT and HTML meta tags. Also, this doesn't have any article content, just metadata extracted from the content.
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by prohobo 6y ago
I can't say specifically which algorithms are run on it, but GDELT runs sentiment analysis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentiment_analysis ) on each article, and they have a new data set called GKG which is all a
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by prohobo 6y ago
Thanks! There are a lot of issues with GDELT data, but the things that come to mind recently are: - Missing keywords. Huge topics like "brexit" won't be found, so you need to extract those yourself. - Dirty titles. You need t
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by prohobo 6y ago
Yeah, Rapid API is quite good in itself, but there are a lot of trash APIs on there. I see it as a good way to test the waters. If people are interested in it, I'll eventually move it off of Rapid API for direct access and use Stripe
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by prohobo 6y ago
Tone is the author's wording of the article that conveys their feelings towards the subject. The lower the tone/sentiment score, the more negative the article. These scores are averaged for each spot on the map, showing the associ
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by prohobo 6y ago
I don't know what to say except: apologies. It is on there, and you can drag the map around horizontally, though that feature isn't very apparent currently.

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