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by tboyd47 6y ago
> In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of global affairs, said it had drawn up plans for how to handle a range of outcomes, including widespread civic unrest or “the political dilemmas” of having in-pe
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Do you think moderators could have adapted to the situation, by pre-filtering content instead of after the fact? Also, weren't those cases about certain types of content (defamatory or libelous claims)? Don't you think AI technolo
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I think you're identifying the difference between lots of money being made available to a team and revenue being the main focus of that team. Not the same. For example, the Fed can shower Wall St. with all the money it wants to, and
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by tboyd47 6y ago
The positive aspect of money is that people focus on creating valuable products instead of on navel-gazing / politics / whatever. Fintech kind of places the cart before the horse in that regard, don't you think? I wouldn&#x27
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I was really reflecting more about my own experience working on different teams over the years than making a blanket statement about economics. I've found that the most dynamic and egalitarian teams are the ones that focus on making mo
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Interesting. Ethics aside, do you think Google's ad-driven revenue model has affected the company culture at all?
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Those things exist everywhere people and power come together.
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Ah, I've been there. I call this "rapid bozotyping" :D Hope you find something better! What tech stack do you work in?
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That's why I'm always talking about this on HN. Trying to spread awareness on the inside :)
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Right, but we really don't know if that fear was justified or not. The CDA came very early on and created a legal shield around these companies that prevented these problems from reaching the court system. We don't know how courts
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This is why I always gravitate towards software projects that are centered around making money (within ethical bounds, of course). The closer to the bottom line my code is, the larger the sales and support team is around my code, and the mo
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It has nothing to do with consumers. Congress created Google and Facebook with a stroke of the pen in 1996. They can delete them with another stroke of the pen anytime.
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There were internet companies before the CDA came along. I don't consider actively moderated, special interest forums like this one to be dependent on the CDA for survival. Facebook, Google, Twitter, and any company with a business mod
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by tboyd47 6y ago
There are different levels of “getting rid of.” I have several smartphones but don’t use them as phones, and don’t carry them on my person. For cell service I have a dumb phone (Alcatel MyFlip) I keep on me. I’ve operated like this for year
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It is encouraging that real scientists (not just "pro-science" laymen) seem to be listening to these ideas and producing studies on them while the media ignores and ridicules them.
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> At least six studies have reported T cell reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 in 20% to 50% of people with no known exposure to the virus.5678910 I suppose if the vaccine trial studies going on now return with anything more than half the inf
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by tboyd47 6y ago
> Among the concerns expressed by many of us was that if heritable genome editing were allowed to proceed without careful deliberation, the enormous potential of non-heritable genome editing for prevention and treatment of disease could
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I wish that kind of free-market-driven correction were possible, but passengers have no control over which airplanes they fly in. You don't book tickets with Boeing or Airbus; you book tickets with Southwest or Spirit, and even if they
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by tboyd47 6y ago
When it comes to the South or so-called Bible Belt, support for Israel is unconditional. It has transcended other political topics, including Constitutional rights, and become religious dogma. Billy Graham's ministry and the "Left
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It already happened, but the fix is simple and remains possible at any time: repeal the CDA.
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How does he compare to, say, Niall Ferguson, who did get "wall-to-wall" coverage, and actually influenced policy decisions?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Very easy process to hire for all experience levels and techs: Use multiple (2-4) recruiters paid on contingency. Receive about 5-20 resumes a week from them (total, not per recruiter!) Filter these resumes to about 3 per week. Interview th
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Normally I hate any sort of artificial meat, but this I'm actually excited about. Fish these days have become too loaded with mercury [0]. And targeting sushi is smart of them; sushi is already so unique as a food that it doesn't
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by tboyd47 6y ago
I hear you. Hope you find a good solution!
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We bailed early and now do 100% offline homeschooling. Thankfully we live in a state that makes homeschooling a simple process. We registered our homeschool, it was approved the next morning, and we notified the school that day.
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by tboyd47 6y ago
"Unfounded conspiracy theories and provoking for provocation sake" comes pretty close to a description of the social environment of the whole internet.
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Perhaps it's just more complicated than the prevailing paradigm of "have problem -> take drug -> problem go away." It could be that Vitamin D deficiency is itself a symptom of an array of underlying problems, or that it
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I'm not necessarily looking for co-founders, but always interested in meeting like-minded folk.
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What about it stresses you out? Is there anything about the job that you like?
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by tboyd47 6y ago
Thank you. Perhaps my stance is too cynical.

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