DashRattlesnake

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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
But that assumes a lot fluency with pinyin and the prediction system. A lot of people are missing one or both.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That's won't happen. The mistake you're making is assuming that Facebook wants to "please everyone." It doesn't. It only cares about pleasing itself, and it does that through manipulating the algorithm to at
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I'd rather see Ads about things I'm interested in than things I'm not interested in. You're not going to see more ads about the things you're interested in, you're going to see ads that have a higher poten
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> someone suffering with depression had killed himself, and it was only a long time afterwards that any friends friends knew because Facebook hadn't been showing his posts. > IIRC they looked through his feed and there had been b
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
>> which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men Welcome to the cutting edge of contemporary s
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> It's very hard, probably impossible, to come up with a specific list. The list will either be incomplete (the trolls are cunning) or overly broad and spark anti-authoritarian feelings. They should put up a big banner of the questi
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> the goal is to ensure they always keep product in stock, and the "holes" are a forcing function This empty shelves thing is enough of a thing that it seems like it's not really working. And empty shelves sends such a ter
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I have recently, in Sears. Retail protip: don't be like Sears.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
I'd prefer they just put up a sign saying "sorry, we're out of bananas" and putting something else there in the interim. The employees are right: empty shelves look sloppy. Too many and the place even looks like it&#x2
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> it's up to individuals to decide what their own identity is. When an individual identifies as one thing... That's actually not true and not workable. A very obvious example is a criminal who identifies as a good, upstanding
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> The money that never exists in any form other than on some computers managed by systems built and maintained as cost centers that need to have every single possible corner cut? Those systems also probably have more humans carefully mon
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
That just looks like a website made by a hateful obsessive.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> This shows the value of actually grabbing content that you plan to use or hope to refer to in the future, rather than merely bookmarking it. And it also underscores the value of the Internet Archive. Yes. Everyone should install the W
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
It definitely seems to be loosing popularity in the US with the most profitable demographics. Facebook became dominant because it had an aura of exclusivity and successfully captured some trend-setting demographics. If it loses those, no a
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Everybody uses FB differently. Some people use it to share and read news. Others as an "aggregator" for different services (Insta, Twitter...). Others for groups. Or chats. Or to connect with businesses. I use it exclusively
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I think it is bullshit, because black and white slot machine still is a slot machine. > Turned on grayscale in macOS(System Prefs - Accessibility - Display) before googling this articles, can confirm that still receiving dopamine hi
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I wonder who's outraged by someone else saying something about their own life and feelings? It's kinda violating a social contract. Everyone's the product of thousands of people over thousands of generations who chose t
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Can confirm. I visited just after Trump left, and the air was pretty good. Also, I've heard from locals that they're starting to relocate dirty industries to nearby cities that foreigners tend not to visit. I visited one, and th
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> These numbers aren't substantially different. Both have subpar returns. After 2004, Oprah--just like Trump--could have earned more money in an index fund. You're just picking and choosing to get the comparison you want. Oprah
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I haven't seen anything supporting her running I have. More specifically, I've seen a bunch of posts criticizing the criticism of her potential candidacy, basically for ruining the good vibes from after her speech. This mi
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
Trump started out by inheriting his money, and he would have made much more by investing it in an index fund than he has by playing businessman.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> Recent example: while I was logged out, they put my picture on their “quick login” page with a little red number “2” on my photo. Well gee, turns out there wasn’t “2” of anything in my profile to see: no unread messages, etc.; no, it w
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> You can excuse their exploitative business model all you want, but it only works until there's a viable alternative. I'm not excusing it, I just want to put it in stark relief because I dislike it.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
The idea of touch screens for everything was the devil's work. The only thing they bring is an easily re-configurable UI in a small space. But if you're in a context where you're performing one or a small number of main tas
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> The trick of course is convincing anyone who isn't me to pay :) Honestly, maybe invites/sponsorships? One person who care's enough to pay $10 can bring his "social graph" (or a subset) with him.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. Real friendships aren't passive.
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> My main complaint is, people explicitly chose to follow my content and got used to seeing it... and now it's all gone. They still follow, but they don't see. They're the product, so it doesn't matter if they get wha
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> I personally really like the way the internet is. Giant monopolies that control most of it for most users?
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
He provided evidence that there was a party, but there's nothing wrong with parties. He didn't really provide evidence of anything else. It's like trying to corroborate a report of a crime in San Francisco by helpfully sayin
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by DashRattlesnake 9y ago
> If it were so obvious I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.

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