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by tqi 5y ago
Assuming this is an unusual spike, I think it's good people are self sorting into companies based on whether or not they are embracing WFH. It seems clear from data and the conversation here that there are several different camps of pe
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by tqi 5y ago
Work / Life separation doesn't mean "Work life" is devoid of social aspects, and while "Work life" is different from "Life life" it can share many of the same activities.
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by tqi 5y ago
Well the issue with CA was that users who installed the quiz not only shared their info, but also content shared privately by their friends.
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by tqi 5y ago
> Citizen Browser consists of a paid nationwide panel of Facebook users who automatically send us data from their Facebook feeds. Is this much different from Cambridge Analytica's "This Is Your Digital Life" (other than be
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by tqi 5y ago
What is this belief based on?
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by tqi 5y ago
Might be slightly tangential to all of this, but what is the distinction between activism and journalism? Based on the various threads I've seen about this today, I think it would be fair to say there are more than one reasonable inter
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by tqi 5y ago
Excuse me, "kowtowing"? Where did you pick that up from, a yellow peril poster?
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by tqi 5y ago
This article is pretty light on what evidence this is actually happening, or how often. To me, this sounds like something that seems plausible on the surface, but in practice would make no sense. Teams are almost always short staffed, so ha
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by tqi 5y ago
"Media coverage, meanwhile, has swung from cheerfully overselling the (now disputed) health benefits of wine to screeching that no amount of alcohol is safe, ever; it might give you cancer and it will certainly make you die before your
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by tqi 5y ago
Yeah its really important that athletes answer the interesting questions like "You are often compared to the Williams sisters. Maybe it’s because you’re Black. But I guess it’s because you’re talented and maybe American too. We could h
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by tqi 5y ago
> You are saying that we shouldn't give all the attention to a few arbitrarily selected writers. No, actually what I'm saying is we no longer need some Oxbridge Harold Bloom knockoff to select those few arbitrary writers for us
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by tqi 5y ago
> The elevation of an undifferentiated mass of online voices has instead resulted in a large-scale manifestation of what American critic Elizabeth Hardwick, in 1959, referred to as “a sort of democratic euphoria that may do the light boo
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by tqi 5y ago
If you're referring to tv deals, those networks make money by selling ads against the events, not by covering the storylines. If the latter were the case, I think one would expect the sponsoring networks to negotiate exclusive post gam
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by tqi 5y ago
This isn't about keeping up public interest, this is about sports "reporters" protecting what is left of their control over the narrative. Athletes already generate way more public interest in their sport by engaging directly
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by tqi 5y ago
That probably helps here, but I don't think moderation works once you get beyond the point where one moderator can handle everything.
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by tqi 5y ago
Hacker news is social media. Most of your suggestions aren't implemented here. Yet the discourse is generally ok. The only thing that matters is the size of community. Beyond a certain scale, it always breaks down. Ultimately, the prob
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by tqi 5y ago
It feels like Tesla's pitch for it's current iteration of self driving is that it is akin to spotting someone who is lifting weights. Sure you are paying attention the entire time, but it's much less demanding that lifting th
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by tqi 5y ago
I think a fundamental question is should an "Offensive Tweets" detector be global, or tuned to an individual user's sensibilities? Also what is the outcome metric an algorithm (or even a team of human reviewers) be optimized
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by tqi 5y ago
If you stay, you're a gentrifier. If you leave, then it shows you were never committed to this place anyway. Why wouldn't you stay?
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by tqi 5y ago
Confirmation bias. Honestly, IMO most of economics "research" is just a random assortment of bullshit viewed through a lens of confirmation bias. Results don't match your priors? Make adjustments to your model assumptions unt
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by tqi 5y ago
$0.15 of every dollar given would also go toward defense spending, which some find objectionable...
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by tqi 5y ago
Interesting - as I understand it, one of the big tech innovations from Disney's The Mandalorian was LED projected virtual sets that solved the lighting issues from green screens (see ~2:10 mark of this video: https://www.you
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by tqi 6y ago
Hm is there a difference between hiring a person and telling them to mow my lawn at 2pm vs choosing a person who is only available at 2pm?
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by tqi 6y ago
I think it's less clear than one would expect. What does set your own hours look like? If I hire someone to mow my lawn, and want it to happen while I'm at the store, am I setting that person's hours? What does decide how you
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by tqi 6y ago
This is like being pedantic about usage of the word "literally"... Just because this usage of "unable" doesn't match your strict personal definition doesn't mean they are wrong. People generally agree and under
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by tqi 6y ago
Suspending this student for this action was a gross overreaction by the coach, and the AD / school administration should have stepped in to intervene before this reached the point of legal action. It seems basically impossible to me th
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by tqi 6y ago
"We could very easily save your life with a transplant, but we won't because you did not choose to be an organ donor" is not something I think people in this country have the stomach for. This would be like if we didn't
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by tqi 6y ago
> and I can get an idea of concerns people have, though they might be concerns left unsaid im polite society. That's an interesting point. How do you tell if something is a real concern that is left unsaid vs just a fake concern? Or
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by tqi 6y ago
> The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document describes as “inflammatory” postings What exactly constitutes "monitoring"? This sounds like some agents spent a few hours using
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by tqi 6y ago
Annecdotally, I've seen a few posts complaining about the quality of the posts in the sub as new users have flooded in. But I haven't been paying attention long enough to know how true it is.

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