wu-ikkyu

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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There is clear envidence for a “gender pay gap” - in that women get paid on average less than men. If you control for education, years of experience, and skills there is no such gap.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
How is that different from a democracy that was founded in opposition to monarch or dictator like the USA? From the wiki on Populism: >Populism is most common in democratic nations and political scientist Cas Mudde wrote: "Many obse
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Do you have a source for this? After googling "fox news entertainment lawsuit" it appears this may be a myth https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Did he discuss news and current events on a television show? If so he can be called a news anchor, or a news presenter. Why are you stressing the semantics if not only to euphemize? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I haven't seen evidence for it as the norm. You might like Spin , a 1995 documentary composed of unauthorized behind the scenes footage of the political maneuverings of newscasters and politicians. https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>they also pretty clearly have a pretty large amount of editorial control over their shows. The case of Phil Donahue indicates otherwise.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Isn't most corporate cable news a scripted message read from a teleprompter?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Isn't this pretty much the case for all corporate media? The narrative is set from the top down, and if anyone strays too far outside the Overton Window, they're punished. Example: Phil Donahue getting fired from MSNBC for speakin
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>Secretly from whom? The vast majority of users.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I don't know how effective it is, I'd like to learn more. Here is an interesting Ted Talk which discusses an FB experiment that details how effective minor UI changes can be on voter turnout (13:40) https://www.ted.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Funny how they think spies would be more interested in leaking internal memos than compromising their orwellian treasure trove of data.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>What did leaking this memo actually accomplish? It showed that FB says one thing in public and then does the opposite in private.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>There’s something peculiarly thick-headed about the New Atheism – the parallels between its idolatry of reason and the faith of more conventional religion have become an argumentative cliche. I've always found the parallels and hub
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Does it matter if he knew it was illegal or not?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
If you look at how Facebook was founded it's clear core values and ethics were not a priority from the beginning.
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Sounds like you're suggesting we should implement a citizen social credit system based on social media data?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
The conclusion of the answer, written by a former Google employee, is composed of absurd false dichotomies and strawman arguments. >So what’s the alternative? A world where everyone uses Duck Duck Go, all email is deleted from the server
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I do not believe we receive knowledge from modern mainstream media today. Most of it is ephemeral drama that does not matter in the least. The "news" has been like that for a long time. "Nothing can now be believed whic
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Fair enough, you seem much more knowledgable of the risks (at least on an individual level) than the vast majority of users. However, have you considered the threats to national and global security that are posed by the centralized aggregat
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
None that are invulernable to an APT or an inside attack. Saying "I trust company X with my data" is the same as saying "I trust that company X cannot be hacked". "There are two types of companies: those that have b
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Do you think Google has never been hacked or compromised by an insider?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Hopefully they so take infosec as seriously as you assume they do. However, we have repeatedly seen profits prioritized over security in the corporate world with negligible repercussions when the data is inevitably compromised.
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How do you know they're doing a hard delete server side and not just flipping a delete flag?
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>I mean, of course they store everything the user does, why wouldn't they? Because their behavior fits the legal definition of stalking in many jurisdictions. Yes, the user "consented" to the stalking, but many of their fr
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
It seems these big tech companies have become de facto arms dealers. After all, their munitions ("big data") are being loaded into weaponized algorithms designed by military contractors and deployed against civilian populations. W
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
>More importantly, how different is mental manipulation compared to physical manipulation as commonly seen with dictatorship? A number of futurists from many decades ago foretold this transition of power from brute physical force to subt
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Keeping the "debate" raging is a great way to keep any substantial action from being taken, as is the case with climate change.
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FTA: "Thiel is a well-known supporter of Trump and donated over $1 million to his campaign. He is also on the board of Facebook."
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
I agree with virtually everything you have said, but I am still sensing an implicit prejudice towards men. You claim to take issue with people blowing inequalities out of proportion: >What I take issue with is people blowing the inequali
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by wu-ikkyu 9y ago
Being killed or locked in prison (where the likelihood of rape skyrockets) seems objectively worse than any of those things, does it not? Why is it that you are so eager to ignore the inequalities against men in favor of women?

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