jon37

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by jon37 3y ago
This is a weapon.
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by jon37 4y ago
The concern is not about disagreeable ideas, it's about abuse and threats. Not all censorship is de jure.
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by jon37 4y ago
"Bad Faith Communication: discourse that is intended to achieve behavioral outcomes (including consensus, agreement, "likes") irrespective of achieving true mutual understanding" I would argue that nearly all advertiseme
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by jon37 5y ago
he also has a vested interest in the fear of hyperinflation.
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by jon37 5y ago
The actual EFF headline is, "15 Universities Have Formed A Company That Looks A Lot Like A Patent Troll". Why was the number "15" omitted from the HN headline? It seems to imply that universities in general are guilty
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by jon37 5y ago
I see HN still has a policy of deleting all political content except for political articles whose thesis is "the left is anti-free-speech."
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by jon37 6y ago
This whacks one mole, but there are many others. As long as Facebook continues to recommend and target user-generated content based on engagement metrics, it will reward the sort of engagement generated by vicious deceptions such as holocau
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by jon37 6y ago
Consumers want a lot of things with negative externalities - goods that cost less because they're produced with slave labor, transportation that emits greenhouse gases, etc. Their preference shouldn't trump the obligation not to h
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by jon37 6y ago
By growing as large as they have, and by building automated systems to amplify content to mass audiences, they have acquired that role. It is unfortunate that their control over their responsibility is unilateral and undemocratic. But at
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by jon37 6y ago
The classic rebuttal to free speech arguments which I'm sure you've heard, is that the first amendment doesn't apply to private companies, and that your right to free speech doesn't entitle you to a megaphone, etc. I thi
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by jon37 7y ago
Yeah that particular date certainly had a lot of uncertainty, as any 50 year projection must. My "this" was ambiguous; what I was trying to refer to was, the issue of warming's effect on economic growth generally, regardless
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by jon37 7y ago
From the conclusion: "At a 3% per annum growth rate of CO2, a 2.5℃ rise brings world economic growth to a halt in about 2025." I wonder if attempts by the scientific community to persuade world leaders of the severity of this prob
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by jon37 8y ago
Most businesses don't require real time forecasting, but I would speculate that Uber likely uses it to decide when and where to activate surge pricing.