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by rbecker 6y ago
That point has been reached: https://outofthecave.io/articles/merriam-webster-modifies-wo...
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The American Dream Is Alive. In China(nytimes.com)
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It is amazing to watch the article omit the beheading of the teacher when it talks about Macron's "attack" on the Muslim community, or the shooting spree at Charlie Hebdo, when it talks about the "widespread anger and ou
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One would expect the rate of police killings to be proportional to the homicide rate, since that is what is supposed to drive dangerous police encounters. Looking at police kills per 10M, divided by the homicide rate per 100k: Australia
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> white supremacist groups were responsible for 41 of 61 “terrorist plots and attacks” in the first eight months of this year, or 67 percent. So about the same as the share of the white population. Or do we only normalize by population n
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The Majority of American Babies Are Now Minorities (2015)(bloomberg.com)
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> disproportionate Disproportionate to the share of the population, or of the homicide rate?
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Could you elaborate?
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An even stronger, still accurate phrasing, would be to say the volunteers are telling the researchers what ads they see on Facebook. The browser extension is just a tool, doing the bidding of the volunteers, to make that sharing easier. Fac
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> intent to download copyrighted music Even that intent would be protected as fair use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Unive... .
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That's a good point, and the distinction is subtle. I think it lies in using "their data" to describe both what pages they choose to look at, and what ads Facebook decides to show them. These two types of data should really b
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Once you download a video, you don't need their service anymore to watch it again. But they want you to remain dependent on them.
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Twitter labeled the pictures as "potentially sensitive content", despite it being just screenshots of the Google Translate text boxes. How on Earth does Twitter make these decisions?
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Teaching white privilege as uncontested fact is illegal, minister says(theguardian.com)
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> On other occasions, Sunstein has suggested that it is “disturbing” that academia does not have more Republicans for “viewpoint diversity” (just as chemistry departments need a few more phlogiston theorists). From https://nat
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by rbecker 6y ago
So you can exhaust your monthly data in 2 hours and 14 minutes of fully using your connection?
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Is it lying? Do we have so much faith in Discord that we'd let them judge that even for private communities? For example, would they have labeled claims that the harms of fat are exaggerated due to a conspiracy by the sugar industry
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Discord starts shutting down communities for “misinformation”(reclaimthenet.org)
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Study on twins suggests our political beliefs may be hard-wired(pewresearch.org)
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That's a misconception worth clearing up, but the article is about taxes on wealth (i.e. assets), not profit.
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> The purpose of this restraining order is simply to prevent the sharing of confidential information. How can information gathered from examining a publicly available product possibly be confidential?
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> Mother Jones was singled out as one that would suffer, while the conservative site the Daily Wire was identified as one that would benefit. Implicit is the assumption that the baseline, before these adjustments were made, was "cor
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That's conflating disclosing what evidence Google used to determine the offense, and what the offense even was . If someone was gaming the system, they'd already know which parts of the ToS they were breaking, so they'd gain
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Los Angeles County votes to pay $14M to former immigrant detainees(washingtonpost.com)
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It's more than just not ideal - it measures the wrong thing entirely. Yet finding a better measurement is difficult. This 2015 survey claims conservatives are less likely to share their unpopular views on Facebook [1], and this 2020 re
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A top 10 list is not an good measure, because it's vulnerable to something like "splitting the vote". E.g. how Muhammad is the most popular baby name in the UK, despite Arabs not dominating UK society: https://www.
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France declares anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism (2019)(independent.co.uk)
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Trump’s Last Stand for White America(nytimes.com)
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> consumers What about the companies that Google killed with underhanded tactics? Actually, what about the consumers whose choice in smartphones was reduced because Google contractually forced phone manufacturers to include certain fea
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> 2. we're turning off our apps in California In places where Uber/Lyft are absent, other apps quickly fill their place. All they have is network effects - they're not nearly as irreplaceable as they'd like you to thi

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