woweoe

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by woweoe 4y ago
As someone who is a passion-related IT person, I often meet a lot of IT people who surprise me with their fixation on making money. Generally it is a hard time to be young anywhere in the world with unemployment and underemployment rates be
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I currently live in Japan but I have lived in major cities of the West as well. For big items the locals will usually do home delivery, and for groceries the norm in most of Europe and Asia is to buy them every few days in smaller amounts w
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In Tokyo it is possible to just randomly walk out onto most streets and expect cars to work around you. There are obviously a number of busy roads that would be dangerous but cars will still stop (for example if you were to misjudge crossin
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by woweoe 4y ago
I usually say that walking is the most simple/easy form of transportation. Why is walking to another room of your house simple, but walking anyway in the outside world hard? Driving is basically a second level of complexity that means
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The death rate for elderly people was attributed to poor safeguards in care homes by the Swedish Health Authority.
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Japan is one of those countries where rumors and social pressure can be worse than law enforcement. The UK is a similar country in many regards (especially in terms of social culture) but has managed to build a better social support network
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TikTok does better at not being too political though. Reddit is basically a political left wing news site, and Facebook has a lot of politics on it.
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LinkedIn would be the best replacement for a peoples directory because it has a certain professional air to it. Facebook initially was a casual platform similar to Instagram.
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Facebook was just a way to talk to your friends and replaced Yahoo! Messenger, except that you could find new friends your age in your area as well. This worked because the rest of society wasn't aware of Facebook. LinkedIn might be a
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Facebook was never a peoples directory at the start. It was similar to how instagram is now because you could only find your friends and other people your age in your area. Instagram keeps this by not being a peoples directory and thats how
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Facebook was popular in the era when it wasn't used as a people directory however. It was used as instagram is currently until older people came in and the website became very commercialized.
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Yes it does. The amplified content is just content that attracts the most engagement. It is not a reflection on how "toxic" the content is. If someone considers the post to be toxic and does not engage with it, then that person is
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And what is the code being used for? It's harder to be able to visualize something like code without knowing the purpose.
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But Reddit is by far the best counterargument to all these articles. It not only has the effect of suppressing new viewpoints and arguments that might make the viewpoints a correct (or incorrect) one, but it also has the effect of fueling r
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The algorithm is not looking for toxic content to amplify. It's looking for content that would attain the most engagement of its users. If you consider the posts to be toxic, then maybe you are in a minority.
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I think it is also partially because many people have become accustomed to having a left-leaning media that espouses a certain viewpoint. So in yesteryear the viewpoint might have been very liberal New York or LA, and nowadays it is possibl