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by soheil 5y ago
Why are you conflating what scientists are doing vs what civilization as a whole has always thought about the subject?
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by soheil 5y ago
For millennia people thought fish swam upstream until literally today. If that’s not sheer ignorance I don’t know what is.
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by soheil 5y ago
Completely agree that some of the comments are off the wall. But in all fairness the Ruerters article doesn't highlight the public sector part enough. To learn more you'd have to do your own research to find that PSLF has stringen
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by soheil 5y ago
Reminds me of this Veritasium video were a wind powered car accelerates into the direction of the wind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
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by soheil 5y ago
> The researchers came across this entirely by accident, and one of the questions that remains is how the trout is able to sense its surroundings well enough to intentionally take advantage of the effect. Should have been: The researcher
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by soheil 5y ago
Links usually don't display a favicon next to them only when you open the page the browser tab title does. It'd be pretty cluttered imo if random images were shown in an otherwise text-based environment.
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by soheil 5y ago
> that we ourselves consider very important I was with you until that statement. The concept of "importance" itself is also something we ourselves consider ie. you're not a monkey therefore you don't know if importanc
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by soheil 5y ago
User clicks in form of "likes" are already public so why would scroll data be so sacred?
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by soheil 5y ago
If you're downloading a playlist you could run it in parallel to achieve your max network bandwidth speed: function ytp() { youtube-dl --get-id "$1" | xargs -I '{}' -P 200 youtube-dl -i --embed-thumbnail --add-m
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by soheil 5y ago
Publishing user scrolls is a "massive hill" and a legal/privacy nightmare?
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by soheil 5y ago
> Adopting an alter ego is an extreme form of ‘self-distancing’ or self-delusion in doublethink terminology.
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by soheil 5y ago
Hmm Twitter already sells its "firehose" to the highest bidder.
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by soheil 5y ago
Yes it'd be a cat and mouse game and that's how you build an efficient and fair algorithm. Not too unlike how the market decides what the price should be for a certain instrument. Lots of buys, lots of sells and where they meet is
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by soheil 5y ago
How do you know? Where did you come up with evidence to confirm that statement? There has never been a platform as large as Twitter that opened up its algorithm.
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by soheil 5y ago
I think that's what everyone is talking about. They're just using the term algorithm colloquially.
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by soheil 5y ago
> The most contentious moderation happens via subjective human intervention rather than an algorithms. 1. Source? 2. Thought experiment: if said subjective human intervention was recorded and codified into an algorithm it wouldn't b
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by soheil 5y ago
> Oh my. Twitter, or any other platform, is not your megaphone that will amplify your opinion without restrictions Where did this sentiment originate from? I never heard of it before and all of a sudden in the last few years I hear so ma
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by soheil 5y ago
So by the same logic McDonald's should publish its secret sauce recipe. There is business value in keeping it hidden. It'd have a chance of happening if Twitter was taken private by someone with the intention of experimentation an
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by soheil 5y ago
What alternative does Elon have at this point? Is there a poison pill to the poison pill?
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by soheil 5y ago
> Twitter noted that the rights plan would not prevent the board from accepting an acquisition offer if the board deems it in the best interests of the company and its shareholders. It's more like an insurance policy, it doesn'
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by soheil 5y ago
> The board voted unanimously to adopt the plan. I thought @jack would be for Elon taking over and that's why he stepped aside a few months ago.
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by soheil 5y ago
Most OS's don't very visibly indicate whether the mic is muted or not, only the speakers.
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by soheil 5y ago
For all those saying govnt should control platforms like this bear in mind that the free market is working even in this case. A single person decided to take a massive social media private only after a few years of it being a bad actor (see
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by soheil 5y ago
Why wouldn’t said app also be able to programmatically unmute at the os-level?
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by soheil 5y ago
So you smoke pot on video and you can't be on Twitter's board? Visible run-ins with the SEC is cause for rejecting a board candidate? For none of these claims you provide references. If there is a company foolish enough to adopt t
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by soheil 5y ago
It's probably bc he demanded to turn their Market St HQ into a homeless shelter as a prerequisite to joining the board. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116
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by soheil 5y ago
Wait "contingent on a background check"? This is the founder of SpaceX a contractor with NASA and DoD and you're gonna run measly background check on him? He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.
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by soheil 5y ago
It'd be ironic if we ended up destroying our planet by using so much electricity to train models to generate a maximally optimal version of the type of content that you refer to similar to crypto mining.
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by soheil 5y ago
An edit button without reseting the likes/retweets counts is dangerous as it can be used to bait and switch or even change the complete history of a user depending on who's looking at it. An edit button that does reset the likes&#
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by soheil 5y ago
What? You literally just sent me a link to a keyword search for "Facebook" on that site.

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