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by ucaetano 8y ago
> see semi-random headlines from a variety of source to increase my exposure to stories I might not have seen otherwise Isn't that exactly personalized news? But you can just load it on incognito or signed out and not have any p
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Relevant link: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=surfaced&year_...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
I don't think those phones ever had Treble.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Also, my analogies act to highlight the morality of what companies are doing, which you are evidently disturbed by. You're basing your arguments on your own private morals. Your argument is essentially "this is wrong, because
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Again, that is your interpretation. And you could interpret it to mean pretty much whatever you wanted, including preemptively killing someone who could pose a threat in the future.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
No, you have to define if YT is a public forum like a public square, or if it is a private community that can set it's own rules. You can't have it both ways, or pick the definition that you prefer each time. It has to be one or t
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You can cover your ears, and you can leave the AA and go somewhere else. But you didn't answer my question: if you create a private forum which is open to the public, can you keep out people who don't abide by the community guidel
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by ucaetano 8y ago
You used several different analogies, that would result in very different outcomes for an online community. Which one do you think online communities should be classified as? - TV makers? - Telephone companies? - Public squares? - Private f
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Again, if it is considered socially acceptable to censor pro-2A speech, we are a social regime-change away from justifying the censorship of pro-4A or 1A speech, or practically anything else. Let's say you run a discussion group i
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> especially when the reason is based on matters of belief or identity. Yes, and that's why I talked about the protected categories in my post!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Really? The way I see it used most often, I see it as a call to have a soft totalitarianism of social media mediated social approval. Not the way I'm using, and it doesn't even have to do with social media. A TV station doesn
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> If a company wants to maintain the legal immunity for user generated content, then it MUST be content neutral. Sources, please? Can you show me a court decision ruling that such companies can't have content policy? So, no, they do
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Self defense and self determination are human rights. I don't see "owning a gun" there, which just makes this just your interpretation, nothing more.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> a culture where gun ownership is legally a human right? Oh, easy. Even if owning a gun were actually a "human right", it wouldn't mean that everyone must be forced to allow you to speak your mind about this. The 2nd amen
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Yet every day there are stories (such as this article) showing crypto becoming more deeply ingrained in mainstream circles. They're selling shovels.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I seriously doubt that Tesla would make a misstatement in an earnings announcement given the massive penalties that would incur... Not really, a lot of the statements are covered by the safe harbor "forward looking statements&quot
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Maybe Musk would have been better off just focusing on their high end cars and get all the processes ironed out. Tesla would never become a mainstream car maker focusing only on high-end cars, and would not justify the market cap.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
"Tesla also expects to achieve full GAAP profitability in Q3" This is essentially saying "we don't expect to go insolvent". But no company would announce that they expect to go insolvent, so the statement is mostly
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by ucaetano 9y ago
This too! I've seen in happen as well in my quest to delete a couple years ago. The UX is useless by design to make it really hard to bulk delete, the backend is shitty and you can't see your content on friend's walls that di
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by ucaetano 9y ago
Oh, here's the fun part: you can only delete what you can see. If you posted something on a user's profile who disabled their account, you can't delete it until they enable their account again. So even if you delete everythin
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> and reaps the fees AFAIK Google does not have a monopoly on .app registrations: https://get.app/
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> they have cameras to see and a computer to do rigorous processing. We can compare this to a human, who uses their vision to perceive the outside world while driving My phone also has cameras and a processor. Are you implying that my ph
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> All Model 3's DO have the HARDWARE to support full-self driving, even if the software is not there. Please provide evidence. Given that the only full-self driving system out there is Waymo's, which uses completely different h
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by ucaetano 9y ago
"The fact that Tesla can simultaneously demonstrate brilliance and incompetence in the same vehicle is not surprising, considering it is a high-tech software company trying to master complex manufacturing processes that took establishe
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EU sets new standards on transparency and fairness for online platforms(europa.eu)
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by ucaetano 9y ago
I don't know about Instagram, but on FB they definitely aren't. You can still access the full size image, but when you download all your data, they only give you the 800x600 version, "conveniently" stripped of all exif d
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by ucaetano 9y ago
I wonder if they purposefully downsized the resolution of the images to give its users a big "fuck you" for leaving, like Facebook does (all FB images from the "data download" option were downsized to ~800x600)?
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by ucaetano 9y ago
You can compare this with Google Maps, since IIRC Google Maps also uses WebGL, and renders all of Manhattan with far more detail and without a snag.
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> Out of curiosity... forgetting rates for a moment and just checking on numbers of people, aren't there more white people in abject poverty than black people entirely in the USA? Yes, but that is irrelevant. Poverty rate is 9% for
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by ucaetano 9y ago
> In my opinion there is a clear line from redlining, blockbusting, white flight & loan discrimination to the massive wealth gap among races we see today Yes! And due to inheritance, wealth propagates within racial lines. White famil

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