intopieces

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by intopieces 6y ago
>paying taxes to, or simply being a member of the US (or almost any country) is contributing to a platform that is directly responsible for human harm. I agree with that. But I also assert that people have an ethical obligation to opt-ou
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by intopieces 6y ago
I can't say for sure, since I don't know every site. But I would posit that ethical operation is inversely correlated with user base size.
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by intopieces 6y ago
>And again, you run into the problem where nobody wants their website to work like that. Cancer patients don't want chemo, but it's better than dying, some might say. >Other sites like Hacker News, Reddit, youtube, and vario
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by intopieces 6y ago
> But the problem doesn't go away when you shrink the size of the social media site. The same people will still try to post disturbing content. In fact, you're giving them more places to post that content, so potentially more p
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by intopieces 6y ago
Size is not the determining factor. It's a single factor that highly influences the value in posting damaging content. It's clear from the rise of influencers on YT, IG, Twitter, etc -- as well as the prolific use of these pla
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by intopieces 6y ago
> What specifically is the reason you consider those particular platforms to be unethical, and what is the solution. These platforms are so large that they require hundreds of thousands of moderators in order to remove vile, illegal cont
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by intopieces 6y ago
HackerNews is a limited-focus link aggregation and comment platform. It doesn't require the kind of moderation that larger scale, broad-focus social media platforms do. I don't envy the work that Dan and Scott have to do in the sl
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by intopieces 6y ago
Every time you use Facebook, see an advertisement there, or click it, every time you share content on Facebook and get others to engage with that platform, you are contributing to a platform that is directly responsible for human psychologi
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by intopieces 6y ago
>Though I don't fully understand their ridiculously long trousers. As others have pointed out, they hem them for free. This is a clever bit of optimization for them, for two reasons: (1) Fewer SKUs to stock. Each type of pant only v
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by intopieces 6y ago
India banning TikTok creates a fourth Internet.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Chaos in the sense of instability, of constant change, of randomness. Earlier ecologists like Frederic Clements thought that ecosystems tended towards a stable climax, but this theory has been largely disproven by more rigorous data analysi
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by intopieces 6y ago
As much as I agree with Lovelock's sentiments about the environment, Gaia is more wishful thinking and certainly doesn't have its foundations in science. That is, the world does not tend towards stability. Ecosystems tend towards
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by intopieces 6y ago
It’s important to consider not your specific implementation, but the common implementation that is Android. And that implementation is chock full of spyware/adware/malware. Android is open, and therefore exhibits the classic tensi
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by intopieces 6y ago
Were rioters looting private homes? I don't think it makes sense to buy a gun to defend your local Wal*Mart.
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by intopieces 6y ago
Do you have a history of suicidal ideation, either in you or in your family? Consider this when you get a gun. 60% of gun deaths in the US are suicides [0]. [0] https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/16&
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by intopieces 6y ago
While I agree in principle, I don't think this is manageable given how diverse the content is on the Internet. What sort of thing are you going to sell me when I'm reading a news article about wars in the Middle East?
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by intopieces 6y ago
There's the law, and then there's the law's practical application. These rarely line up, especially for foreigners. Iran isn't really interested in making world news by executing foreigners.
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by intopieces 6y ago
>where being member of Groups A, B, and C means you must hold Ideas X, Y, and Z because those must be the views you hold as a member of those groups. This was never more obvious to me than when I was in college. As an out gay guy who stu
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by intopieces 6y ago
To the earnest speaker, many abhorrent things are both unorthodox and true. So, I can’t see that as a uncontroversial qualifier itself.
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by intopieces 6y ago
This article seems to praise people for not being "conventional minded," as if being unorthodox in itself is something to be cherished and rewarded. That is too low of a bar to clear. There are lots of opinions and viewpoints that
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by intopieces 6y ago
I know that it would be a bridge too far, but having worked at a business (movie theater) that had prices only ending in 0.25, 0.50, 0.75, or .00, I would love for the whole country to just have quarters and be done with it. Though, since I
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by intopieces 6y ago
If you're a fan of customization, BTT-GoldenChaos [0] has made the Touch Bar indispensable for me; I don't like using a laptop without a Touch Bar because of this app. [0] https://community.folivora.ai/t/golden
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by intopieces 6y ago
That was not my intention. Could you clarify how your statement: > If congress doesn't change something, then that means they have determined no change is necessary. Is not accurately reworded as: >this lack of specific consensus
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by intopieces 6y ago
It does indicate a consensus is not met, and merely that; the GP claimed the this lack of specific consensus on action is actually a form of broad consensus on inaction, a leap in logic that is unfounded because it ignores the political gam
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by intopieces 6y ago
> If congress doesn't change something, then that means they have determined no change is necessary. This not accurate. Congress failing to act due to deadlock does not indicate that either party agrees that no change ought to be ma
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by intopieces 6y ago
Queer people are typically not present in traditional histories. This raises the awareness that queer people existed then too, albeit in different circumstances.
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by intopieces 6y ago
>Which civil rights? Whose? Maybe the Rohingya? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...
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by intopieces 6y ago
>For $20,000/year we'll put you up in a spartanly furnished apartment and with a servicable car and you'll get your staple foods and toiletries delivered every other week. This would be amazing, and I would subscribe. It s
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by intopieces 6y ago
Even better - if you think universities are leftist and want to defund them, this deprives those universities of tuition.
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by intopieces 6y ago
I asked about the privacy practices of the company and 66% of your answer is about the founder and not the company. I specifically wanted information about DDG, not the founder. This kind of response makes me more suspicious of the outrage.

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