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by vannevar 4y ago
I think the problem here is a mismatch between the idea of a common carrier, where distribution is content- and audience-neutral, and social media sites which actively analyze both content and audience and distribute the content accordingly
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by vannevar 4y ago
Once you've committed to performing an operation it becomes a goal. As the old saying goes, it's turtles all the way down...
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by vannevar 4y ago
Another related problem is the pathological economy of kickbacks that has developed on the internet. Early on,it made some sense to offer a small finders fee for referring traffic that bought something---you were connecting someone with a s
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by vannevar 4y ago
This is yet anther transformer-driven bot, right?
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by vannevar 4y ago
There are lots of fun and weird things on the internet, but SEO prevents you from seeing most of them---you end up seeing only the parts that someone is motivated to pay to get you to look at. That's essentially Google's business
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by vannevar 4y ago
The data is for online only, as far as I can tell. So the conclusion is more like, a description of a 6'0" man making $62K is more appealing than a description of a 5'6" man making $237K. I suspect that the results for i
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by vannevar 4y ago
I am absolutely speculating. But companies don't just act on current financials, they act on future projections. If they see lean times ahead, they may very well cut current expenses in order to conserve cash they believe they will nee
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by vannevar 4y ago
Tesla has grown incredibly fast, they have 100k employees, they have a terrific balance sheet and are at no risk of bankruptcy. Tesla has grown incredibly quick, all while essentially having the electric car market to themselves. That is
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by vannevar 4y ago
These are not the kind of cuts you make because you have a bad feeling. These are the kinds of cuts you make because you're seeing orders fall off a cliff. I suspect that in particular Tesla is seeing erosion in their Cybertruck pre-or
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by vannevar 4y ago
Nothing changed about the Simpsons. That was my point. Nothing changed about human nature, either. What has changed is that the people who were offended now have a forum to air their grievance, and other people can agree with them who mig
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by vannevar 4y ago
True, there is still fractionalization at the national level. And the 'cancel culture' argument as I'm familiar with it is associated with the US and the UK. But as you say, the gist is true, I just overstated the scale.
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by vannevar 4y ago
In a proper free society, you can also criticize anything. Including humor. Cancel culture isn't new, it only seems different now because the internet has created one giant market where there used to be many independent ones. When a co
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by vannevar 4y ago
Yes, and I don't think the author fully grasps the role of capital: you can create all the egalitarian protocols you want, but if there are massive wealth inequalities, capital will ultimately capture whatever communication channels ar
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by vannevar 4y ago
If that was indeed the first thing, you clearly haven't watched Monty Python and The Holy Grail enough times.
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by vannevar 4y ago
Maybe it was really stolen, or maybe it's just a way to promote the show.
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by vannevar 4y ago
My point was that it might have been easier to argue against Brexit, that those arguments might be more readily at hand. Not every debate has equal evidence on both sides; in fact, that's a rarity. Usually, it's easier to make a
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by vannevar 4y ago
It doesn't say what (if any) compensation would be offered. It could be that it was simply much easier to argue against Brexit than for it, and consequently no one was motivated to take time from their other duties to take up the work
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by vannevar 4y ago
The framing of a house is strong, too, but you can't live in it. Our society and economy are mind-boggling complex compared to the state they were in 1789. Whether you liked the renovations or not is immaterial, they serve a function.
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by vannevar 4y ago
I was referring specifically to striking down long-standing precedents that endorsed mechanisms like SEC enforcement, and interpreting a right of privacy. What we're seeing is a dramatically stripped-down view of the Constitution. If i
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by vannevar 4y ago
>It will be very interesting to see what happens if SCOTUS tries to roll back the administrative state... "Interesting" to say the least. Trying to govern a modern nation of 370 million people based on a literal 18th-century in
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by vannevar 4y ago
>The researchers found that the typical rich American is, in their words, the owner of a “regional business,” such as an “auto dealer” or a “beverage distributor.” It would be interesting to see how many people who own auto dealerships o
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by vannevar 4y ago
I think the real message here is not that metrics are bad, but that they are misused. Imagine if every time you went to the doctor with a fever and they took your temperature, the doctor prescribed an ice bath to bring your temperature down
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by vannevar 4y ago
>As a result, global production of these four indispensable materials claims about 17 percent of the world’s annual total energy supply, and it generates about 25 percent of all CO2 emissions originating in the combustion of fossil fuels
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by vannevar 4y ago
Reading this headline, I can hear Norm's voice in "Weekend Update" mode: "Meanwhile, the special he shot after he died will stream on Peacock." You know he'd do it.
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by vannevar 4y ago
>...I really don't think there's anyone involved in crypto that is deliberately "winning". I believe that bitcoin began as a straightforward "pump and dump" scheme, dressed up in a techno-libertarian narrati
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by vannevar 4y ago
I think this article is more damning of a simple two-party system than it is of re-districting. How does the math change if you simply draw arbitrary boundaries of roughly equal size but have multiple parties and ranked-choice voting?
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by vannevar 4y ago
>...exercises in surveillance... Surveillance by whom? A standup consists of the team and a scrum master, who is usually on the team because most companies can't afford a dedicated one.
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by vannevar 4y ago
>I've never met a "Product Owner" that actually understands the product they are building... This is sad. It's like a professional football player saying they never played for a coach who understood the objective of f
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by vannevar 4y ago
If I couldn't swim and had never rowed a boat in my life, I would be a little suspicious of the competence of an organization that would accept me as a crew member on a trans-Atlantic row.
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by vannevar 4y ago
Interesting! I recall being taught that it was the electromagnetic repulsion between the electron shells of atoms, but that was probably in high school. I took quantum mechanics in college but don't remember touching on the particular

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