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by ve55 6y ago
The mistake is when one assumes that the things they read on media outlets and on TV are anywhere close to a 'scientific consensus' in an area such as nutrition.
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by ve55 6y ago
For a comment that is this cynical, I think it's largely correct. I've been struggling to communicate how a million retail clients are going to lose their life savings (or more) in this (and what comes after it) and get burnt badl
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by ve55 6y ago
More regulation is coming for the US as well, so it's something to be prepared for. There's going to be some interesting times ahead.
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by ve55 6y ago
It may be in FB's best interest, but I would prefer we approach it by asking "Will this help consumers, users, and independent developers?", instead of "Will this help FB? Because if so, count me out".
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by ve55 6y ago
Note that it is possible for these accusations to have some merit even if the accuser has engaged in similar things on their own. There's no need to group every interaction into political dichotomies.
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by ve55 6y ago
It's a good point worth making: that Discord only exists and is as usable and popular as it is because it has a profit model and significant funding, and that's definitely a large component of why FOSS has lost users to them. St
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by ve55 6y ago
I agree, and I tried not to be too narrow in my reasoning, but it's primarily speaking from what myself and so many that I know have experienced. I initially didn't want to use it, and I know many others that didn't. Slowly
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by ve55 6y ago
When you're able to play a video game and have a large amount of users agree to use anything besides Discord, then I'll grant this objection. Until then, I'll refer to it as a monopoly (not over all communication of course,
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by ve55 6y ago
And they chose today as the best possible time to enact this ban? Really? I really think they should have put more thought into the timing of this decision; a lot of users are going to be upset and will suddenly start to realize that a si
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by ve55 6y ago
I know everyone is having an absurd amount of fun watching this and laughing (so it seems), but I think we should be more aware of the many ways in which this is bad, which definitely includes millions of retail investors losing their money
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GameStonk Rocket Rocket Rocket(bloomberg.com)
6 points by ve55 6y ago|1 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
This is 100% correct, and for those that doubt this I present the following link of a popular Reddit thread on masks from this time period, where the hundreds of commenters appear to unanimously agree that "masks work" is not only
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by ve55 6y ago
Here's a screenshot of Gamestop's ($GME) price across its entire existence , which I took near the peak today: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsluAdAXAAA_m9H?format=png&name=... WSB (r/Wallstreetbets) i
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by ve55 6y ago
While it's true that the 'new' section is pretty under-visited, one of the reasons is definitely due to the content being much worse (on average) than the front page; it's a great way to see how effective the HN system i
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Controlling GPT-3 with Logit Bias(medium.com)
44 points by ve55 6y ago|7 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
"Your account has been permanently disabled for not following the Facebook Community Standards." One problem that is less-discussed is that Facebook is absolutely not a community. It's a collection of millions of communities,
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by ve55 6y ago
I think it's relatively easy to imagine quite a few scenarios where this falls short of the rigor we'd prefer to have for such an argument.
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More Than 56.7M Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ve55 6y ago|0 comments
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by ve55 6y ago
I particularly liked the emotional end to this post, and I'm very glad he ended it with such a strong and positive tone. Online communities are able to connect people that, before the Internet, would have had a very difficult time find
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by ve55 6y ago
There's some similar sites that are currently a better use-case for that if you want to customize one on the page with live inference, check out https://waifulabs.com/
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by ve55 6y ago
The images were all generated in advnace and are served statically, so it's not done in real-time. It would be theoretically possible, but just a lot more work and money.
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by ve55 6y ago
Not everyone wants their phone number to be their primary identifier
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by ve55 6y ago
Being limited to a phone app and requiring phone numbers is severely limiting as well. Matrix is probably the current best-positioned e2e chat app that should be able to encompass more use cases, but it's difficult to convince users to
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by ve55 6y ago
>The current situation in the US is challenging. Misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories are rampant in every cohort of society. Most of the higher-quality longitudinal evidence I've seen does not show that there is
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by ve55 6y ago
I don't necessarily mean the last week or month, but more so the last many years. There's definitely too much to list at this point, but in short, Windows has significantly ramped up their user-hostile surveillance and privacy-inv
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by ve55 6y ago
That is how class action lawsuits always work though; Facebook is an obvious target for breaking the law here for many reasons, but I would say their scale (being the largest) and their ability to profit more efficiently than most other ser
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by ve55 6y ago
With how user-hostile Windows has become lately I've been happy to see gaming on Linux go from how esoteric it used to be to the more commonplace scenario that it now is. While it's obviously a small fraction compared to Windows (
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by ve55 6y ago
It isn't as much that Wikipedia is perfect, but rather than I could imagine 100 ways in which it could be so much worse. It is not perfectly nonpartisan, but compare it to the websites that are similar in popularity and you'll fin
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by ve55 6y ago
Signal is a treasure that shows us that more things than just Wikipedia can occupy the holy trio of Good, Popular, and Free, all at the same time (I would include having a user-aligned profit model such as donations instead of surveillance
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by ve55 6y ago
It should be noted that Twitter is a pretty volatile stock and has had plenty of single-day 10% swings before, this just being yet another one of them (I do think this was causal though, so at least the headline is half-accurate, the other

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