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On Elon Musk’s Vision of Twitter as a Hive Mind(techpolicy.press)
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by tqi 4y ago
Super interesting, thanks for sharing!
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Oh awesome, would love to ask a few questions about your experience: 1. What did it feel like day to day as a person working in the industry during that time, and did it differ from the "bubble" period prior or more "normal&q
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Def, I meant more moving up the timeline to get it into this new cycle.
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Did these companies accelerate planned layoffs because they figure Twitter layoffs on Friday would help take the spotlight off of them?
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Something tells me you're the kind of person who considers both people who prioritize safety more than you and less than you idiots...
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I think high value spam (ie scams that involve impersonating a high profile user) will find the lowest price country and get verified there. Lower value spam will continue to operate as they have been, and the replies to most tweets will st
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Is the blue checkmark supposed to help/protect the person tweeting or the people consuming the tweets?
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> In the first half of 2022, productivity — the measure of how much output in goods and services an employee can produce in an hour — plunged by the sharpest rate on record. Given the sharpness of the drop, the timing with wonkiness in a
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TBH I don't think clustering on social groups is the panacea that you hope. Misinformation spreads insanely fast on WhatsApp, even after limiting Group thread size and # of forwards. We'll never get back to the way things were bef
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It could also have easily meant "you" as in the person evaluating the application, "you" pedantic ass. If it doesn't change you chance of admission then what is the applicant supposed to be infering from your crypti
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> I view "test optional" as a signaling exercise. In brief, how closely can you read the instructions and infer what you are not being told? Sorry, what does that mean - who is the "you" in that sentence, and what are
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It's orthogonal because as the article clearly states, you can have wage fixing with or without sharing wage info. The agreement (ie collusion) and or competitive harm is the crux.
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Cultural taboos are hard to overcome, but taboo or not, you absolutely have the right to discuss wages. If a company is telling you to keep your wages secret they're breaking the law: https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb&#x2
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> Privately communicating with direct competitors about pricing is invariably the first step of an illegal price fixing conspiracy. Sure, and having a drink is invariably the first step to drunk driving. That doesn't make having a d
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I can't tell if you're agreeing or disagreeing with me. My point is that sharing salary band info is orthogonal to wage fixing (which you seem to agree with) > If everyone brings their salary info to a secret meeting and writes
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Isn't that because wage-fixing requires collusion? ie in a world where salary bands were required to be publicly available, company A and company B independently deciding they want to stick to around the median would not be collusion&#
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People could also learn to do a lot of stuff they choose to buy instead, like sew their own clothes or build their own furniture. What makes housing so special here?
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While protectionism is certainly a plausible root cause, I don't think would be unreasonable for Florida to think that its climate is unique enough that a roofer from say Maine might not be qualified to understand what is/isn&#x27
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I think it's helpful to keep in mind that with most of examples that get shared around, the choice for the author was not a string of tweets vs blog post, but rather a string of tweets vs not sharing at all.
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The fact that the Math scores are the ones that changed between the classroom and national tests is surprising - I would have assumed that these exams would have the most "objective" right or wrong answer.
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From the article, the comparisons were made between classroom exams (graded by the teachers) vs national exams (standardized grading), not homework assignments.
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Long distance phone calls were like $5/minute so yes and no
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I dislike this mentality. Sure, there are a lot of things that were "more fun" when the internet was new / smaller, but losing the "intimate and cozy" aspects was the cost of bringing the internet to the masses. The
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> journalism exists to report happenings largely uncritically Journalism exists to sell newspapers, and "just a little thought would have made this a non-story" is the reason the headline is the way it is.
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> They say it is a dangerous example of 'technosolutionism': turning to technology to provide quick fixes for deep-rooted discrimination issues that require investment and changes to company culture. I definitely agree with thi
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Actually the inability to deal with obvious issues like this one seems more like the death of San Francisco: https://sfist.com/2022/10/13/glen-park-rat-infestations-bein...
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The author also ignores the obvious fact that only 1% of candidates being "diverse" is the root problem being addressed...
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As someone else pointed out, there is an unavoidable tradeoff that had to be made here between account security, accessibility, and privacy. Reasonable people can absolutely come to different conclusions, but I think it is arrogant to belie
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Or the line between researcher and malicious actor is not super clear (Aleksandr Kogan was also a third party researcher after all), and its "easier" to have blanket rules against it?

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