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by swed420 1y ago
> there is a difference between a tracking system designed to try to sell you holidays and a tracking system used to identify political dissidents I have a feeling this assumption will age poorly.
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Um, obviously? You seem to have missed the point. People ought to be most interested in the final outcome of each example.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/stupidpol/comments/1lvoi0x/theres_a... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38242135-ai-superpowers https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id
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by swed420 1y ago
> no one in this thread is calling the tracking in this innovative I didn't say otherwise. But clearly Perplexity (and Google etc) feels there is a market fit for this, so I'm referring to those customers and whatever future cu
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It's kind of wild how the west draws this distinction: If China does it while being responsible and taking into account cost/benefits on overall human well being, it's Creepy Big Brother Communism. If the US does it and charg
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by swed420 1y ago
Many professionals also use cannabis but choose to not advertise it since misinformation is still so rampant, originating from the "Reefer Madness" propaganda days. The tradeoff of potential career damage just isn't worth it.
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And alcoholism treatment industry profits
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by swed420 1y ago
> you're going to find the best of that on YouTube and nowhere else. If the trend Jeff describes continues to worsen, I wouldn't be so sure of that.
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Reminds me of this BS https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/facebook-flags-l...
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by swed420 1y ago
> It's not even comparable, not by a long shot. There is an immense amount of the highest quality video content you can find on YouTube, and the trend has only accelerated in the past few years. Both of you need to define what you m
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by swed420 2y ago
> Based on what, your personal experience talking to stoners in college? Plenty of people smoke socially Yep. And plenty smoke privately, too. People see the public spectacles and incorrectly conclude it as wholly representative. Many pr
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by swed420 2y ago
> Why aren’t people afraid of Bill Gates? Why is it only the libertarians that scare people? Good PR and philanthropy goes a long way. For why, unfortunately most people see the philanthropy model as a generous fixing of problems instead
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by swed420 2y ago
Doesn't need to be long-term viable. Forks like LibreWolf are sufficient to fill the gap until true alternatives like Ladybird are ready.
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> Mozilla seems to have forgotten that they survived Chrome by being overtly, explicitly privacy-focused. "Forgotten" is too generous. That's like chalking up a corrupt government to "incompetence." They sold out
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by swed420 2y ago
> There must always be an owner and don't trust "the people" to be anything more than a populist's device to assign legitimacy to their supporters and other dissenters. That's a false dichotomy, especially in the
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by swed420 2y ago
> It's a matter of incentives. The profit motive is fundamentally opposed to a low-intervention platform for democratic communication. Exactly. It seems the only way to sidestep this growing problem is to create a profit free platfo
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Seriously a new low for "hacker" news
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by swed420 2y ago
I'm not referring exclusively to TikTok but tech in general. China makes SV look entitled and lazy.
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> most of us have been educated in a very competitive environment where individuals come first This is definitely intertwined with rampant individualism, but I don't think it's just our education or lack thereof that's to
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by swed420 2y ago
Yup. China has been kicking Silicon Valley's butt for some time now, and I don't see any signs of that changing any time soon. This drives the point home: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu
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The biggest flaw imo was the deafening silence around how "wokeness" is used as a tool by corporate Dems/Repubs and state agents of capital interests to distract from material issues and keep people divided over "culture
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by swed420 2y ago
Also: Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683826
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Of Course You Know What "Woke" Means(web.archive.org)
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by swed420 2y ago
Posted in response to PG's [flagged] [dead] "The Origins of Wokeness" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42683184 )
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> One day our ancestors will look back on this time "You see, capitalism was indeed a necessary and inevitable bootstrapping phase of human development. Even Marx agreed this was the case. However, by the 21st century, generations h
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by swed420 2y ago
Yes, but you implied (intentionally or not) the inverse is not true, which is the point I'm making. Any platform that uses "not decentralized" as a selling point is also political. The inverse of Political Thing is still poli
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by swed420 2y ago
Being politically conscious instead of proudly checking out to the Soma drip feed of sanitized media is not mob mentality. Though, the minority holders of the majority of capital would very much like people to parrot such nonsense.
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by swed420 2y ago
> Some choices are just convenience. > Most people don’t know they’re limiting their interaction. Sure, but they often carry political implications (even if the choice/chooser was unconscious of them) > Most people with an iP
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That a firm like them even exists is symptomatic of greater systemic design flaws. We should confront these flaws else not be surprised when endless games of corruption whac-a-mole keeps things unchanged. Ffs, we're approaching 2025 an
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by swed420 2y ago
> “Political” and “decentralized” Are not mutually exclusive. > any platform that uses decentralization as a selling point is inherently political This hasn't said anything of value, since everything is political. Limiting your i

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