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by shadowmore 7y ago
If it offsets the vast amounts of delusional people who have absolutely no concept of the real world and all its dangers, then I'm all for it. People who've been to prison are much more likely to be grounded in visceral reality an
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by shadowmore 7y ago
I guess that's the idea. Once a particular user reaches a certain density of articles from X paywalled publication per Y unit of time, they're inclined to pay for it to avoid missing out. As much as I'm annoyed by paywalls li
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Sounds about par for the course for post-Jobs Apple.
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by shadowmore 7y ago
> Cancellation does present a question about power, and who has it. Neither side has it. The people with money have it, as always. Follow the money, and you can predict who gets cancelled and who doesn't. Though there is an argument
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Was just looking for a refresher on cap tables and the like, and being a visual learner, this is great. Another tool some might find useful, which I was introduced to during YC Startup School: http://growth.tlb.org Startup growt
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by shadowmore 7y ago
The entire premise here seems to revolve around university admissions. Who measures success based on which university someone went to? Isn't that just the preamble to one's life after graduation, which is when people actually hit
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by shadowmore 7y ago
> ingrained misogyny was so common Was? I wouldn't call it misogyny, because it isn't out of hate but out of the unique social dynamics between genders, but absolutely nothing has changed except one thing: it's now politic
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by shadowmore 7y ago
I am in awe of your wordsmithing capabilities and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Oh, thank God, I'm not crazy.
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Everyone dreams, but dream recall varies from day to day and from person to person. But there are a number of ways to improve it. For instance, getting into the habit of introspecting your own thoughts the moment you realize you're awa
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by shadowmore 7y ago
This is one of those Drinking Oatmeal Through a Straw articles, where the author projects and forcefully interprets general statements to have narrowly specialized meanings.
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by shadowmore 7y ago
The traditional model in the defense sector is: - Military or gov't produce exact specifications for something - Contractors bid to create that something - The end product ends up being the result of macro-management and even sometimes
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by shadowmore 7y ago
The worst part is that they removed it but didn't replace hard press gestures on push notifications with long press gestures. So now on any phone without 3D Touch, which is all of them going forward, you can't open notification ac
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by shadowmore 7y ago
The majority of consumers, yes. Not majority of companies. Whether tech giants or smaller businesses, they all do advertisers' bidding, and the advertisers themselves have the insipid idea in their heads that having their ads show up a
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Full-blown globalists until they want something, whether less regulation or $8/hr foreign slave labor. Late stage capitalism clearly isn't compatible with actual patriotism. Most patently patriotic business (and government) decisi
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by shadowmore 7y ago
On a first principles level, this highlights the core issue of bans/blocks/suspensions being handed out immediately rather than after a series of strike-based warning messages or something to that effect. YouTube creators come to
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Only that his product, Google Assistant, has no bias. Which I assume is accurate, since it's what, mostly NLP?
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Wait, so they brought on a Google Assistant engineer to talk about Google Search and News results? And he admits he has no "smoking gun"? And also says Google Assistant has no bias? And uses appeals to authority ("I have a Ph
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by shadowmore 7y ago
Hate speech is free speech. We know this both through logical deduction and through multiple different Supreme Court rulings. The "impartial" label just obscures the fundamental problem of it being absurd to consider any speech ha
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by shadowmore 7y ago
'“Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site,” YouTube said in a statement about its decision on Mr. Crowder.' I'm sure those policies will shift stealthily until ever
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by shadowmore 8y ago
"The iPhone XR is an interesting product for Apple: It is clear that it aims to be a lower-cost alternative to the higher-end XS flagships." In what world is $800 an affordable price point?
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by shadowmore 8y ago
Not really. It'll have the same result as literally every other revelation in the media. The side completely, 100% opposed to any restrictions on speech (including "policing tone" as outlined in this presentation) will see th
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by shadowmore 8y ago
BureaucracyTube -- the creators get no support or feedback, the networks get no control over their clients, and the advertisers get played like a fiddle by the loud minority of the easily offended. Personal agency is dying, and Silicon Vall
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by shadowmore 9y ago
That used to be the case until the "limited state" was introduced specifically for videos that don't break any rules but are not politically correct or are otherwise uncomfortable or controversial, which makes them not appear
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by shadowmore 9y ago
Content platforms have no place policing content. All the algorithms currently used are utterly flawed, and they will always be flawed, both technically and morally. Technically, they'll always have false positives, especially at scale
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by shadowmore 9y ago
That's a flawed argument that has no coherent cause-and-effect chain. "Legally" is the only thing that matters and can be regulated in any tangible way. You cannot and should not enforce artificial constraints on legal and hu
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by shadowmore 9y ago
You basically have to behave as a parsing script with the media now. I find myself immediately scanning the article for links to sources and emphasized data points, especially if the headline is clearly exaggerated.
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by shadowmore 9y ago
I guess it's foolish to hope that, at least once, in a single article, the utterly unfounded "must have 50% representation" would actually be supported by some kind of argument. Or to anticipate at least someone mentioning th
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by shadowmore 9y ago
At least let me see the value proposition directly (not in a screenshot) for one movie/minute before forcing me to sign up. Is signing up even truly integral to the app in some way, be it functionally or for monetization purposes? Eith
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by shadowmore 9y ago
Medium allows you to setup canonical links. According to Google, that means the original post will be ranked highly when more than one instance of the same content is identified. Or does it play out differently in practice? Would love to se

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