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by tqi 5y ago
How does the accounting work for those losses? ie is $422M = (Total $ from homes sold in Q3) - (Total cost of buying/renovating those homes), or is it (Total $ from homes sold in Q3) - (Total $ from homes purchased in Q3)?
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by tqi 5y ago
I think reason he gives about gatekeeping is only weakly related to the bulk of the article. The point is that job listings shouldn't be arbitrarily specific is an obvious one that most already agree with, and was a thin excuse to show
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by tqi 5y ago
> They're all things you can do — provably — without social media. People who hold this opinion, when asked to define what counts as social media, will invariably draw the line based on "what do I like/dislike." Faceb
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by tqi 5y ago
This was pretty stupid straw-man. I doubt anyone who has used Prophet is under any illusions as to what it is doing under the hood (after all, the only input is a single time series dataframe...). Companies use it to do quarterly/yearl
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by tqi 5y ago
Facial recognition is ethically and morally reprehensible technology?
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by tqi 5y ago
What are the tradeoffs?
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by tqi 5y ago
I don't think most people conceptualize commutes in terms of distance, but rather time. So if commutes are now faster, people will move further out into areas that previously were less developed ie require new/more roads.
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by tqi 5y ago
The top comment thread from the last time this was posted[1] pretty succinctly explains why the premise of the article is wrong. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19025386
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by tqi 5y ago
That's because for many there is no consistent principle underlying their criticisms, they start with a list of companies they like/dislike or view as with/against them and work backwards.
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by tqi 5y ago
Agreed. If Ring doorbell cameras were giving bogus probable cause at the rate these dogs were, the NYT would be all over it. But because it's not novel no reporters can be bothered to write about it...
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by tqi 5y ago
The nuanced tone / takeaway from the actual interview transcript feel very different from the final article: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-papers-badge-posts-form... Reading both, and seeing how disengaged
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by tqi 5y ago
Furthermore, aligning on a definition is only half the battle. If you create some arbitrary line (100+ = public), forums will break up in into many groups of 99. Or it will switch to viral messages that are forwarded in 1:1 threads. There i
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by tqi 5y ago
That seems tautological. How does bigness harm consumers in this case?
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by tqi 5y ago
What are the problems then?
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by tqi 5y ago
I think that attitude is the root of our current political morass. The primary motivation is the desire to hurt those that we dislike/view as The Other, and we'll happily bend any logic or principles it takes to justify it.
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by tqi 5y ago
How does breaking up Facebook help fight misinformation, polarization, engagement baiting, objectionable content, etc?
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by tqi 5y ago
Yeah, the implicit tone of this article is "check out this foreign curiosity, isn't it so weird?" similar to the articles about rental families in Japan. The Guardian can fuck off.
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by tqi 5y ago
My intention was less "what about this other bad thing" and more do we have an objective/consensus answer on what content should be promoted, or is it just who/what is doing the promotion.
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by tqi 5y ago
"stop using algorithmic content discovery that optimizes engagement because it correlates so strongly with extremism" Is there a meaningful difference between what Newsfeed is doing vs what the news director at say Fox News, MSNBC
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by tqi 5y ago
This instinct to harm in the name of "punishment" is the reason the state of politics is so bad. No one is interested in changing minds or reforming people/companies/industries - they just want to inflict pain to those t
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by tqi 5y ago
But NYT article where the quote originated is from December 2020 (ie months before the Delta variant was officially named and more than half a year before it hit the US), so I don't think that is an explanation for why the number chang
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by tqi 5y ago
I think that it is a trap to feel like all time needs to be productive. Not only is it an unachievable ideal, it also makes time spent doing "unproductive" stuff less restorative.
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by tqi 5y ago
Given that the median household income trend is (relatively) linear over time, is this ratio telling us much more than median home prices alone?
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by tqi 5y ago
Most UXR is not the same as a rigorous (ie peer reviewed) study. Not every qual study is in person interviews, but based on the part about users bringing topics up unprompted I'm guessing that's what at least some of this was base
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by tqi 5y ago
I'm not familiar with this particular set of findings, but generally speaking internal research at Facebook are generally either large scale in-app surveys (which suffer from response bias) or small scale (often ~10 participants from a
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by tqi 5y ago
Wait you started this thread making it seem like it was ridiculous to equate covid misinformation and other forms of objectional content (such as calls for violence), implying that you felt it obvious that allowing the former would not mean
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by tqi 5y ago
The most cursory Google search turns up tons of sources that say otherwise. For example[1]: > Student loans are intended to pay for college, but education costs include more than tuition. You can also use student loans for living expense
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by tqi 5y ago
TBH that absolutist position feels untenable. Unmoderated platforms are quickly overrun by objectionable content, and easily usurped by moderated competitors. The only way to force this would be through legislation, and I just think there i
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by tqi 5y ago
I want you to imagine for a second that someone makes the claim that blocking links for COVID misinformation is setting a precedent. An obvious follow up in order to have a constructive discussion is to establish where the line is, ie wheth

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