Joking_Phantom

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by Joking_Phantom 1y ago
Every social media platform is manipulated by it's owners and elites. There's no way to get around it, not when your KPIs are user engagement and advertising dollars. Twitter has become a particularly nasty version of it. In the b
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by Joking_Phantom 2y ago
This is the only comment you made so far that made sense, with clear assertions and references. Everything else was unfounded or inflammatory without any concrete assertion, which is why it vibed like "Fox News talking points." Wh
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by Joking_Phantom 2y ago
It seems likely that theoretical work would still be done on battleships, after we stopped using them in the real world.
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
Fraud sucks and is ever evolving. Everyone gets hit in increasingly elaborate scams, and companies with degrading services makes it easier. Some things I'm surprised weren't in the article, given that the author describes extensiv
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
This fits what I've read. Data driven decision making is the way to go, but good data is hard to come by in these fields. We have no baseline for many parts of physical health, let alone mental health. Every time a pop culture scientis
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
Not a big fan of Heidt. Way too much political, unsubstantiated and handwavy rhetoric from him. And his track record has been entirely unconvincing. The only reasonable way I can interpret his work is that of a ideologically driven puritan,
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
I think the answer is that ECS isn't supposed to solve those problems directly. It's just a framework that makes a certain class of problems very easy to solve. But big picture complexity is still up to the developer's skill
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
A corrupt Spanish organization, trying to support a corrupt Korean organization, only brings more credence to the argument that SPNP was a bad idea.
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
I'm not really into Twitter, so I'm guessing there's some drama you are referencing that is topical. But, I'm not talking about any society wide issue or philosophical treatise about trust and breakdowns in communication
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
I'm not sure if confabulate is exactly what LLMs do (though it seems closer than the implications of hallucinate). But neurotypical, neurodiverse, perfectly functional people, etc. all confabulate or do something similar on a regular b
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by Joking_Phantom 3y ago
Music from the hit 1993 video game Doom. The first level's theme. In case you weren't joking. It was quite the popular game.
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by Joking_Phantom 4y ago
It's trivial that nice communities exist on Facebook. Positive, engaged people build good communities, regardless of platform or technology. The same distributions of haves and have-nots exist on any platform. Reddit/Facebook&#x2F
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by Joking_Phantom 5y ago
The only reason why this travesty persists is because Putin still holds the world hostage with Russia's nuclear arsenal. The only future for the world lies in cooperation, peace, and prosperity. Not this campaign of self-destruction th
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by Joking_Phantom 5y ago
10% is a token number for argument's sake, not any rate based on reality
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by Joking_Phantom 5y ago
Love the final explanation for how ivermectin can be incidentally good for COVID-19 patients, even if it does nothing to COVID-19 directly. In fact, as the author cites from another researcher, the trials are a strong piece of evidence for
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
Going over the background of who did the study, the abstract, and their assertions, it appears they've made the classic mistake of correlation = causation. Nothing in their study supports their assertion of a casual link. Based on thei
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
Freedom of Association: An individual's right to join or leave groups voluntarily, the right of the group to take collective action to pursue the interests of its members, and the right of an association to accept or decline membership
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
The original report only analyzes successful exonerations. There are many times more cases out there of false convictions, victims who have not seen the light of day. Those without exculpatory evidence have basically no hope. Some of them h
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
"Plagiarism detection software" can most certainly be misused and abused - it's quite a slippery slope, difficult to administer fairly, and likely to create unwarranted chilling effects. The author was almost certainly referr
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
To reply to the actual content of the paper: Understanding the factors behind video gaming as a problematic behavior separate from addiction is quite useful. Oftentimes, video games and other behaviors are driven by needs satisfaction, rath
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
The title of this submission should be changed to reflect the content of the paper - it neither talks about gaming in general, nor does it imply that video game achievement is false. To clarify, this study focuses solely on "problemati
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by Joking_Phantom 6y ago
Seems like red hearing - why are we ignoring the criminal prosecution system whenever such crimes happen? Relying on civil cases to resolve crimes against the people is step backwards from justice. Police officers abusing authority, reckles
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by Joking_Phantom 7y ago
Does that not suggest that CEOs are worth their cost to the vast majority of companies that retain them? What companies operate without a de facto CEO?
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by Joking_Phantom 7y ago
Maybe OP meant to be... ironical. If we're being that charitable.
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by Joking_Phantom 7y ago
Not just basically - it is a hit piece. It's a website run by and for advertisers, publishers, and media, aiming to monetize content as much as possible. They are supported by advertisers masquerading as ad blockers (uBlock trying to p
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by Joking_Phantom 7y ago
I have no answer for the rest of the article, but I've been poking around school administrations for quite a while now. One of the problems with public school administrators and teachers is that staff are relatively difficult to adjust
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
I wonder if there's an underlying reason for the Fox news benchmark being the fastest. If page load time is largely determined by quality/quantity of ads, is Fox News serving the "best" ads to make their website faster?
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
Kinda reminds me of how the United States is set up. California and Alabama are composed of different populations, differ on key issues, but still share many overarching principles and laws. Group identities are key to the functioning of so
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
The 9 page Republican tax plan draft is pretty awful. Not just awful in the sense that Trump promised that it didn't benefit rich people, which it does ("It's not good for me, believe me"). The elimination of the estate
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by Joking_Phantom 9y ago
I won't comment on Snowden since there are significant efforts to continue his cause, and his whistleblowing is one part of a backlash against the overreach of US government surveillance. The cellphone meta data issue is complicated by

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