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by tdb7893 1y ago
So it has been on the upswing recently but my understanding is that in the US we have been doing pretty much as much surveillance as technology (and also generally the 4th amendment) practically allows since at least WWII, and especially du
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It wouldn't surprise me if it's still a net positive, even with the downsides. Also the article says there are carveouts for health and safety, I wonder if excessive noise at night counts as a health issue (there's more than
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by tdb7893 1y ago
For context these are the questions asked since obviously this claim will change a lot based on questions. I wouldn't say it's terribly surprising based on my experiences, I've met Republicans against a lot of these things. I
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I think framing this stuff as even a protection of conservative views is going to miss the point. They seem to want a hiring preference for conservative views and seem to want to punish non-conservative organizations at universities (e.g. L
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Look, none of these criticisms are novel or unknown in the industry and it's well known that measuring the exact impact of ads is impractical but we're not talking exact numbers here, just whether personalized ads are generally ef
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Having worked for these companies some of the data is murky (e.g. did these ads they saw earlier lead to them buying the product later, perfect attribution is obviously impossible) but a lot of it is unambiguous where they tracked people st
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Personalized ads are more effective than non-personalized ads, to try to argue that personalized ads are ineffective is incorrect and the "without any proof" claim is absurd seeing the amount of specific data they collect on effec
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So firstly most scientists already aren't really activists in any meaningful way, it seems like you're implying most are on twitter/bluesky doing activism and the vast majority aren't really. Secondly I'm confused w
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Are those examples at all indicative of what conspiracy theories are anymore, they seem stuck in the last century? The only one of those I've literally ever seen, even online, is aliens (and just UFO videos). On the other hand I person
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I wouldn't undersell the harms of general conspiracy theories. Most of them become more harmful the more people believe in them and the social media that I see has a tendency to spread the more harmful types of conspiracy theories (med
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As someone who has been to the ICPC finals around a decade ago I agree that the limited time is really the big problem that these machine learning models don't really experience in the same way. Though that being said these problems ar
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Echo chambers aren't good but the large scale social media I've tried has a tendency to put me in an echo chamber (specifically one trying to wring out all the engagement possible, often with stuff to make me angry) and also eleva
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"disgusting level of violence in minority communities" -> this is so clearly an insulting way to refer to these communities it boggles the mind that someone would say it while accusing someone else of not being concerned enough
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Crime is down just based on the actual numbers (also anecdotally from someone who has spent the majority of their life in/around the city) and for most people the city is pretty safe right now. While there is violence this sort of pear
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I mean this very sincerely but I'm a little lost how data engineering is distinct from software engineering. It seems like just a subset of it, my title was software engineer and I've done what sounds like very similar work.
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We've already seen sea level rises make some islands unliveable, pretty large ecological damage, and many people dead from natural disasters from climate change and we are still in early stages of it (levels of greenhouse gases in the
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Yeah I think having engineers understand product is important as I think it's the harder to get right than the basic engineering. Most of the products I've worked on have failed for product reasons so just from a logical standpoin
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"I just found it interesting they think that the majority of Americans elected a candidate who supposedly ran on "authoritarian" ideals to be the leader of the free world." -> I mean it is obviously interesting but it
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After reading your comment I was curious whether I misunderstood what authoritarianism was but from reading the wiki that winning an election definitely doesn't make something inherently not authoritarian and there are lots of examples
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I'll have to look at the lightning transactions. My problems with crypto are generally less philosophical (I've known people who ran legal businesses that had trouble getting access to banks so I'm sympathetic to having ways
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That's only addressing one issue with Bitcoin but the issues abound. I don't know all the issues that would happen but even my rudimentary understanding of payments can see that the high transaction costs are a problem when most o
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Isn't Bitcoin impractical for these sorts of transactions (slow, high fees, no privacy, etc)? People always say Bitcoin was designed to solve this sort of thing but whenever I've looked into it it's been fairly impractical fo
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I think this is a misunderstanding of what the goals are, it's not just to go back to some arbitrary time in the past. Often reintroduction of keystone species like wolves lead to increased biodiversity and resilience of the ecosystem,
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Yeah, I've seen a lot on the "male loneliness epidemic" and I've been lonely myself sometimes but people framing it as a lack of spaces accepting of men is really confusing to me. Do people really think there's some
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"if you are real, you are likely to be recorded doing something someone somewhere on the largest stage in the world (the public web) that someone will disapprove of" -> is this a concern for many men? It's never crossed my
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'I don't believe their being or not being rich is part of the calculus for "getting into heaven" as you said' -> I think viewing that some rich people go to heaven as Jesus not explicitly condemning rich people (
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Huh, it never got tested in the Confederacy but it's interesting their Constitution might not have protected it. I'm very curious what the Confederate Supreme Court would have said if it ever had existed. I wonder if that it'
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There are some differences between the Constitutions and I'm not convinced, partially because the vice president of the Confederacy himself seemed to think that it was "unmistakably" protected in the Constitution: "I con
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Maybe I'm wrong but I always interpreted that line as they couldn't pass any laws denying slavery, which would include the states. Lots of the clauses in that article are fairly broad rights that wouldn't make sense if it jus
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I think it's good to realize that many people's commitment to "American" values is weak at best. Things like state's rights, equal representation in government, and even "freedom of speech" are often polit

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