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by rbecker 6y ago
Digital feudalism. The predictable result of letting someone else have control (which goes for both users and developers).
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Myth 6. App Store’s 30% commission is in line with what other platforms are charging. A point not raised regarding this, but should have been: This isn't a justification at all. It just shows the problem of middlemen extorting mon
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by rbecker 6y ago
Do we really want to live in a society where putting a roof over someone's head is valued more than optimizing ad placement?
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by rbecker 6y ago
Automation makes UBI more politically and economically feasible. I.e. no-one could reasonably call for UBI when 95% of the population were farmers.
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by rbecker 6y ago
But the example in the article is clearly unethical based on the client's requirements alone - it doesn't take an ethicist to see that. In fact, a world where companies are so very ethical it takes a professional ethicist to spot
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by rbecker 6y ago
But none of that hostility made much of a dent in any immigration statistics I was able to find. In fact, legal immigration under Trump even increased by a few percent compared to under Obama: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration
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California proposition to allow racial and other discrimination(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|1 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> ban either government from demanding companies [..] disclose algorithms So what happens if a company such as Amazon is accused of anti-competitive practices by privileging its own products in search results? Just give up and go home, b
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by rbecker 6y ago
> In 1939, Minneapolis Journal photographer David Dornberg went on a “Camera Safari,” as he called it And only a single photo in the entire article...
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Credited to Black users of Twitter, cancellation has been said to share a lineage with midcentury civil rights boycotts, insofar as it enables those with little political power to litigate perceived injustices in the more accessible fo
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by rbecker 6y ago
The fabs will probably keep being used for a long time to come, even if Intel exits. There's a large market even for non-cutting-edge nodes.
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by rbecker 6y ago
A few comments in that thread are guessing that it could be because the 1955 study might not have polled minorities. But they forget that even if that was the case, the US was only 11% non-White in 1955: https://en.wikipedia.or
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Kurds fear forced demographic shift in Afrin (2018)(web.archive.org)
2 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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by rbecker 6y ago
> UCLA professor Safiya Noble wrote an article for Bitch magazine describing how searches for “Black girls” regularly brought up porn sites in top results. “These search engine results, for women whose identities are already maligned in
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by rbecker 6y ago
There's no reason to assume lower birth rates would continue all the way to extinction. Even if they don't rise again naturally, they could be raised through explicit policy. In either case, we're a long way from having to wo
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Everyone is programmed with racist attitudes from the culture-at-large. We can't blame it all on culture when even six month old babies exhibit racism: https://www.utoronto.ca/news/racial-bias-may-begin-babies
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Facebook is still a place where it’s too easy to find hate, bigotry, racism, antisemitism and calls to violence. What an odd claim, coming from Mozilla - it's ultimately Firefox that displays all that hate and racism. If they thin
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by rbecker 6y ago
Developed countries consume the most resources per capita, so their populations could do with a drop - there is no 'need' to keep them steady, but just the opposite.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> They aren't the same type of control at all, implying it is deeply disingenuous I implied no such thing. I nor the parent post didn't even mention traditional media. And I freely admit, it's not the same type of contro
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by rbecker 6y ago
Your analogy assumes the problem is overconsumption of social media. But what about concentration? 3-4 companies control ~90% of global social media. I don't think people would be as worried if that control was spread more evenly acros
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by rbecker 6y ago
If you read the article, you'll find that the 'bias' was because Facebook used the same criteria for hate speech no matter who the target was. For example, if you substitute 'White' with 'Black', and it lo
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by rbecker 6y ago
Probably people worried about the chilling effects on journalism, where every fact you record can be pressed into service of the surveillance state. Try to imagine they were reporting on the Hong Kong protests instead.
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by rbecker 6y ago
Tolerance is not support. That's why we have different words for it. For example, you probably tolerate the marketing of sugary drinks. Does that mean you support Coca Cola?
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by rbecker 6y ago
In an effort to be neutral, the company’s hate speech policies treat attacks on white people or men in exactly the same way as it treats comments about Black people or women [..] Employees said that this policy means the company’s automate
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by rbecker 6y ago
To give people a sense of how such capabilities are likely to be used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSMA-Notice : In June 2013, a DA-Notice was issued asking the media to refrain from running stories on the US PRISM s
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by rbecker 6y ago
If it has, the results probably weren't released. E.g. https://gizmodo.com/the-eu-suppressed-a-300-page-study-that-...
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by rbecker 6y ago
What a diverse set of opinions. Some believe it should be capitalized so as to make it more difficult for whiteness to maintain its power, while others believe it should be lowercase, so as not to legitimize white identity.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I neither said nor implied that. But yielding to that pressure doesn't show backbone.
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by rbecker 6y ago
> It's been encouraging to see companies grow a backbone and crack down on harassment and hate campaigns Grow a backbone, or fold to public pressure?
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Some of these metrics of untrustworthiness, such as affiliation with hate websites [..] make sense. Others appear to be more subjective. It "makes sense" for giant corporations to pry into people's politics and cut them

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