skylarchunk

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by skylarchunk 6y ago
Perhaps the ethical qualms could be settled if the tracing of workers were handled by a neutral third party. Being tracked by parties you are affiliated with opens a whole can of worms.
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
Not in the way that biological organisms are conscious, if that is what you mean. Though we share similar binary frameworks, the AI is not a celled organism with the biological capacity to live consciously as we are.
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
For children or for adults, the fatalist style of Tolstoy is what lends him the unmistakable charm. A part of our being, I think, will always desire to be liberated from the norm of not discussing pity or death without any moral undertone.
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
Would be cool to read about how the 6 mil was split—i.e. ratio between spend on YT ads and say, Google display, over 3 month span
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
Really, really worried about the above-law-and-regulatory-measures governance that Facebook is exercising nowadays
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
Thanks for your hard work! The tool has been extremely helpful in my political science research. I have noticed that a sort of error occurs when I try to scrape too many tweets from too many accounts at once (which I do by referencing a txt
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by skylarchunk 6y ago
As a political science student, I am compelled to point the allure of minimalism to the Greco-Athenian ideal of being self-sustaining (to a fair degree). The lack of material possession suggests, to others, that one is complete and satisfie
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
Hm, what about malware masked as ZOOM? ;-)
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
It feels to me that Apple affords the benefit of Facebook, in that users do not anticipate asking "where's my stuff". But the added benefit is the perceived security and reliability of Apple.
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
Assuming that most people would not be comfortable with walking through a city square with their email address taped on their back, how do users justify sharing personal contact information (attached to their academic and professional profi
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6647975...
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Why hasn't LinkedIn banned disclosing emails in comments?
1 points by skylarchunk 7y ago|2 comments
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
This is an interesting point. Either the government would then need businesses to disclose their "rating" (similar to movies) or businesses could opt in to show a seal (like Fairtrade bananas). The problem is, if there aren't
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by skylarchunk 7y ago
This article remarks on the shared experience of suffering from TB among the two. I find it strange how TB had been molded into a glamorous disease reserved for the middle-upper class in times when writers like Camus and Weil were public pa