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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Search is essential infrastructure for the internet and should not be monopolized. Exactly! What a mess to have Google Marketing farting around with the world's information spigot. It's a good thing opportunities are
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Google didn't exist for the first decade of the web. When they came along, their innovation was minor and incremental: slightly more accurate search without paid results (funny how things change). They then did a version of Hotmail wit
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Give me a break. Google hasn't been a net positive for the internet in nearly a decade. And cry me a river about their "free" search. They're worth over $600 billion, much of which they acquired by selling out their user
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Google doesn't bother showing the user results for his/her actual search terms anymore, and stuffs most of the page with AMP links and paid results... but it's not them , it's you . But if Google AI were really as bad
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I don't follow. Why draw a distinction between the "mode" of speech, and its "content", and what exactly is the difference? With apologies, it sounds like a "no true Scotsman" position, where censorship is
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Those are our only two choices? Bummer :)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Indeed. If we didn't slavishly imitate the language of people around us, we'd have no languages at all. Even as things are, it takes a decade and a half for most people to master their own tongue.
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Jeffrey Sachs: The History of Globalization(youtu.be)
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I don't share many of the views in Paul's essay, but there was one point he made with which I emphatically agree: like Paul, I too believe anyone who disagrees with me is just too small-minded to understand my argument.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
My prophesy is that someday we'll wake up, some day in the near future, to news of a massive breach of Gmail data, and it will be the death knell for keeping personal data "in the cloud." What we are doing as an industry now,
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I'll stick with my $5 thumbdrive.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Right you are. It's been a while since I last read The King of the Rings.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Neither Youtube nor Facebook currently are able to filter all these incidents. This happened after Christchurch: https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1853804/mass-sh... I could swear there was als
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Give or take a live-streamed Christchurch massacre?
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by uniqueid 6y ago
If I had to come up with a system, it would be some sort of reputation hierarchy, with a small number of paid employees at the top. Each level is responsible for auditing the levels under them. > What real agency does the system yo
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> "The" fifth dimension is a scifi concept, > not a real one. I'm confused now. How Is it possible for a dimension to "not be real" when a dimension is just a way to relate multiple points toge
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> they want to see zero of it, ever Many want that, but very few (probably nobody at all, by this point) expect it. > When the goal is to prevent users from > seeing this content, crowd-sourcing moderation
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Can we build better AI Nope. That's what the people in charge of our social media companies keep trying, over and over, and it doesn't work at all. AI-moderation is like the Ring is to Golem for them. They can'
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> Cancel culture are witch hunts organized > over social media. I can't take the teeth-gnashing over the "culture" aspect of "cancel culture" seriously, though plenty of people I respect do (eg:
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> But "identifying which universe something is in" > is not the definition of "the fifth dimension". Is there a difference? Lets say we have a bunch of film strips, laid one on top of another, only e
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by uniqueid 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
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by uniqueid 6y ago
My numbering was off. 4th is time. 5th adds the direction going between one universe and a variation of it, both at the same point on the time axis. I also notice in my example I start with zero dimensions. All in all, a reminder that I sho
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> That is simply a solid with a time value in > the future, which is the same four dimensions > as the preceding example. My train of thought (not to say it's original) is: You can't move a solid without
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I think a point, in the sense I was thinking about, maps to a boolean: it either exists, or does not exist. It's not even a line which can have a distance, so there's nothing else for itself to relate to.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
I didn't understand the article at all, but it did make think about about how many dimensions are required for humans to understand how objects in life relate to each other. I counted: a point, a line, a plane, a solid, a solid at a po
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by uniqueid 6y ago
There aren't a tonne of environments on the internet today, though: there's effectively one. It's generally: normal people thrown into a garbage dump with a few psychotic basket cases, some attention-seeking ten-year-olds, so
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by uniqueid 6y ago
> When this forum dumps on Reddit, it walks away with an > impression of superiority that could not be further > from the truth. It could be further from the truth.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
One device I haven't found, but wish existed, is a keyboard that doesn't accept input from the "wrong" finger. I'd even be fine if it required the operator to affix a little decal to each fingertip. My touch-typing
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by uniqueid 6y ago
...and so young Raxxorrax set off into Google's vast, dark labyrinth of Privacy Settings, never to be seen again.
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by uniqueid 6y ago
Good point. Maybe it means "only we can see this data from now on, instead of the user , and/or our contractors and partners"

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