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541.
by zo1 3y ago
Everyone here keeps using that word, and I'm sitting here confused. Can we sit down and define it, or are we to forever just throw it around as a convenient "bad people"?
542.
by zo1 3y ago
I recall a lot of it was driven by Kotaku, as well as the whole gang of cancel-culture twitter journalists. It may be wrong, or right, but that is the narrative in my head around this. So it's probably the same in a lot of other disgru
543.
by zo1 3y ago
It doesn't have to be quantifiable and easily-defined for it to be true in some abstract sense. I'd compare it to multi-dimensional clustering analysis.
544.
by zo1 3y ago
If it was cheaper, we'd pay someone to rake and broom the leaves around. But we decided human labour is worth more than that, so hey the free market found a solution for you. Maybe you should add a leaf-blower tax to fix that? Maybe si
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by zo1 3y ago
I just see it as the system reaching equilibrium on some meta level. You have to do better than the norm to break out of the norm. And if everyone can do it, then it's the norm and not what you want. Now, whether that's right or i
546.
by zo1 3y ago
It's very confusing how consent is super important everywhere but immediately put aside when it comes to government. Could we not do consent and government at the same time? Possible but it would be highly inconvenient and people would
547.
by zo1 3y ago
I unfortunately watched first-hand a company come up with a mediocre "app" that had barely any content. Think short-form content and random videos moderately glued to some topic written by a bunch of low-wage "content writers
548.
by zo1 3y ago
The OP I assume picked it because it's a number slightly greater than 0.25 which he read was quoted by AI CTOs on Twitter.
549.
by zo1 3y ago
So grown ups in a country where children aren't allowed to be home schooled generally believe that their children "belong to society"? At what point do we call it culture and "difference of opinion" as opposed to ju
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by zo1 3y ago
People get the choice all the time with loyalty and reward points cards. It's pretty much a unique identifier that people carry in their pockets and handover willingly every time they make a purchase. It's more obvious and in-your
551.
by zo1 3y ago
A lot of people simply don't care about "having your privacy invaded". I've yet to be convinced, and I'm even a technical person. Even the words words "privacy" and "invaded" are such loaded and
552.
by zo1 3y ago
Not OP, and I agree that research needs to get access to DNA for medicinal, personalization and drug-development research purposes. What I'm more worried about is this sort of data being used to train a neural network that maps genes t
553.
by zo1 3y ago
I seriously don't get why we can't have some sort of licensing authority for this type of thing. Maybe they issue you a secret key to include in email headers, or put your entire domain on some sort of whitelist. And complaints ge
554.
by zo1 3y ago
Install an ad-blocker with annoyance block lists and stuff. I agree with you on the same things, but this site had Zero popups for me. Edit. Not even a newsletter, or cookie consent banner. Awesome.
555.
by zo1 3y ago
Not sure what you need a specialist for specifically, but for ~$300 you can get an appointment here in South Africa for any specialist you want. If I want to see a specialist, any specialist, I call their office, book, and X amount of time
556.
by zo1 3y ago
Society structures itself in such a way to achieve equilibrium in all things, eventually. There is an abundance of "free time" so things, hobbies, culture, politics, sex, everything has slowly waddled into a zone that seeks to ful
557.
by zo1 3y ago
It won't work as long as you have HTTPS preventing any large scale interception and analysis of traffic. This is why Google was so quick to promote and switch to HTTPS. I bet you my left nut right now there is some random ex Googler wi
558.
by zo1 3y ago
This is the kind of thinking that happens when consultants, smart people, environmentalists, statisticians, and politicians get in the same room to write a report to save the planet. Planting a tree to save the environment is not simply abo
559.
by zo1 3y ago
I guess it adds weight to the whole "natives own this land and colonizers didn't bring anything to this land", notably as push back against the other side which is "natives are backwards and this land wasn't all tha
560.
by zo1 3y ago
I'm a really capable and well-read English speaker and I missed that subtle detail. No wonder people distrust the legacy media.
561.
by zo1 3y ago
I find it highly disturbing that so far I've seen Zero Uber devs on this thread adding any sort of context/info or just confirmation. Wtf is this, the NSA? KGB? Can't they just list/dump the names of said 4000 services,
562.
by zo1 3y ago
I was referring to Google in general. Youtube is one slice of what they do. And it's also infected with the same perverse and subtle incentives when it comes to advertising.
563.
by zo1 3y ago
Or this as a good time / excuse to ditch YouTube, even if uBlockOrigin resolves it. Additionally, I'm honestly half-scared that they'll block my account if they notice me breaking their "Terms of Service" by blockin
564.
by zo1 3y ago
It's odd how we blame the market mechanism but not the people that "don't give a damn". Ironically, it's almost as if you (the person complaining about the market mechanism) don't want to boycot those people
565.
by zo1 3y ago
How about in-between: Not provide a citation until a claim is disputed, then go into a "let's weigh and vote on the citations that support A or B, and go with the one that has the most". My big problem and theory of what will
566.
by zo1 3y ago
Then they should have started easing off spending "6-8 weeks ago" if not sooner. Cancel contracts, stop dev projects, get rid of non essential personel, sell off unused assets, maybe even start laying off people, etc.
567.
by zo1 3y ago
I've worked at 1k employee-sized companies. The CEOs definitely know what's happening, who shits on who, who's hired/fired, what each project is going through at a glance, etc. So I would attribute this 100% to either ly
568.
by zo1 3y ago
Having more grads coming out of university unprepared and expecting even more handholding (this time in the form of devcontainers in the cloud preconfigured and "ready", etc) really does not bode well for the health of our industr
569.
by zo1 3y ago
I think a bag of cement would go a very long way for making mortar for a rock wall. Why make bricks when you can just use rocks and stick them together with a little bit of cement. Bricks were made for uniformity so you could have it as a k
570.
by zo1 3y ago
Because Google has conditioned users and the web content creators according to its UX and content standards. It's a vicious cycle.

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