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by tavavex 11mo ago
Oh, are we talking about bad YouTube UX? How about the "feature" where the right and left arrows seek the video 5s forward and back, while the up and down arrows increase and decrease the volume? That is, unless the last UI elemen
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by tavavex 11mo ago
I honestly think that at some point, there will be no recommendations page. You'll open YouTube and it'll start autoplaying the video that they (or the advertisers) think you should see. You'll be able to skip to other videos
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by tavavex 1y ago
They do neither of those things because, unlike you, they don't care about improving the user experience. They care about making money through any possible means. 1. Making the system lean means that you'd have to exclude all the
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by tavavex 1y ago
> It's not that people are unimpressed with AI - they're just tired of constantly being bombarded with it, and it sneaking its way into where it's not wanted. Does anyone here know what this arguing tactic is called? It&#x
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by tavavex 1y ago
> You run a merch store. You want to share with your suppliers order data so that you can get the right number of sizes/colors/etc. Is this PII under GDPR rules? Technically, yes! Not only is there information on gender, but al
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Your vacuum cleaner example is ignorant, blockchain is humanity's last way to resist censorship. You're missing the same point. I was pointing out that the conversation was about hype, not best-case scenarios. The point is th
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by tavavex 1y ago
There is nothing inherently bad about LLMs, and there is nothing inherently good about blockchains. What matters is how the technology ends up being used. I thought it would be obvious to someone who loves one of these modern technologies e
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by tavavex 1y ago
I wouldn't say they're at the hellscape stage yet. They need money, but they still haven't locked in enough customers to start outright abusing them. So they use middle of the road approaches like their quests, stores and cos
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by tavavex 1y ago
He defined what "capitalism" meant, did he not? Just using the word isn't some fringe rhetoric, it's mainstream economics. Neither is categorizing ideologies after they happened - of course new ideologies would frame the
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by tavavex 1y ago
> “Thank you the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation” I pasted this into Google to see what you were referencing, and was met with this full-screen, front page, all-important "AI Overview" (that of course t
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by tavavex 1y ago
Interesting! I've seen this happen a few times, though I've never witnessed something as extreme as a 10+ minute wait just for the off-ramp. I still maintain that it seems dangerous regardless of the situation, because while someo
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by tavavex 1y ago
Despite its age, this encyclopedia is an amazing window into North Korea - or, at least how its government saw it. I love niche media like this. But what I'm itching for most is to see the contents of the entire CD, rather than just a
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by tavavex 1y ago
If you want to cause trouble for Loblaws, don't shop at Loblaws and other chains of theirs. Willingly giving them your money, and then performatively "retaliating" by making the life of the minimum-wage employee (who would be
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by tavavex 1y ago
If laws were loosened up and littering was no longer punishable, would you begin littering? Is hypothetical legal recourse the main thing that would motivate you not to act in a certain way?
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by tavavex 1y ago
This is closer to a variant of the broken window theory than something that's US-specific. Where I am, people who don't return carts are clearly in the minority, so they probably choose to do it because they think it benefits them
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by tavavex 1y ago
> But WHY do I do it? Why do I feel like I HAVE to do it? Am I actually experiencing any benefit in life over those who don't? If I try to dig in deeper for why I also feel that way, I guess it's not about coercion or fear of j
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by tavavex 1y ago
> People are busy, some people have kids Unless you're "having kids" in the sense that you're about to give birth to one, saving 30-60 seconds isn't going to make a difference in your day. It's like trying t
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by tavavex 1y ago
How? I'm curious because the numbers are so specific ($5000 = 1 human life), unclouded by the usual variances of getting the money to people at a macro scale and having it go through many hands and across borders. Is it related to trea
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by tavavex 1y ago
Saudi Arabia is one of the world leaders by number of death sentences. They have no qualms with putting you to death or giving you life imprisonment for all sorts of things, including "wrong-speech" in the form of leaving the stat
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by tavavex 1y ago
> What I posit is absolutely symmetric, so you are just making this up. What I said was followed by three paragraphs of me discussing why exactly I posited what I did. > I don't understand why the way the government body is elect
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by tavavex 1y ago
It does if your reference point is Saudi Arabia.
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by tavavex 1y ago
This equation is extremely reductionist in ways that end up giving the Saudi government's stance as much merit as possible, while denying it to the UK every step of the way. The implication of what you're saying is that the struct
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by tavavex 1y ago
What does that matter for, though? The people in that wealth bracket tend to borrow against their assets (or use more convoluted schemes) rather than use those assets directly, and someone with $300B is still bound to have a lot more borr
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by tavavex 1y ago
At the very beginning of the article, the author immediately states that they're not using raw net worth (and explains why they chose to do so). The actual metric is > the amount of money someone could bring to bear on a problem if
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by tavavex 1y ago
These things would be positively correlated with income only to some bare minimum level. Most drugs seem to be relatively cheap, so it doesn't strike me as odd that someone with an utterly miserable life would be more likely to use the
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by tavavex 1y ago
Monopolies don't need to be granted by someone, they're innate to a system that targets endless growth and centralization. Governments, despite being partially corrupted by undue influence that lets monopolism seep back into our s
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by tavavex 1y ago
What you said is impossible to argue against. "I said you were envious, so you are. Anything else is just you trying to cloak your envy." You already decided that everyone must secretly want to become a billionaire above all else,
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by tavavex 1y ago
> Fascism (which is merely a flavor of Socialism) Hitler and Mussolini, the infamous socialists. What an insane idea. Its only claim to fame seems to be famous American conservatives who want to cleanse the image of the far-right by writ
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by tavavex 1y ago
It's even more annoying when you consider that most proposals that gain any type of traction can't even ever approach the "I have everything now so I'm not going to work because I'm so lazy"-type abundance that
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by tavavex 1y ago
To me it's still insane that education (the implied reason for your debt? correct me if I'm wrong) is so absurdly expensive in the US. Mind you, I'm saying that from another country where education isn't free, but most p

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