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by khawkins 5y ago
The point is that the 49% eventually leave when their every contribution get bombed to the bottom immediately. Then the 49% of the remaining 51% get bullied out. Reddit's system encourages purity spirals, especially when the main topic
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by khawkins 5y ago
Instead of constantly hand-wringing about "disinformation" from the shadows, they should be desperately addressing their own plummeting credibility: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gallup-ame
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by khawkins 5y ago
I'm very confident that orders of magnitude more man-hours have been spent thinking about P=NP in the past 20 years than were spent in the whole 358 years on Fermat's theorem. The number of people in academic situations to work on
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by khawkins 5y ago
Most people are openly taught about the misdeeds of the McCarthy era in schools and in public discussions. This wasn't swept under the rug, most people agree that it happened and wasn't a good thing.
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by khawkins 5y ago
This was the original idea, that some people with genuine traumatic experiences and were currently suffering from mental illness could choose to opt-out before proceeding on to read/watch something. But the concept got wildly out of ha
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by khawkins 5y ago
The divorce rate is higher and it's easier to be comfortable living independently, both of which are stated in the article and are unquestionable. There might be other reasons, but these are definitely breaking down relationships.
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by khawkins 5y ago
Tie the ability for a student to take out a loan to go to a particular school to the ability for its graduated students to pay back said loans. Put simply, incoming Colombia film students can only borrow money Colombia film graduates have p
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by khawkins 5y ago
>We want to incentivize people to own homes and buy electric cars and a thousand other things, and we use the tax code to do that. [If we want] to incentivize... While it's true that incentivization necessitates tax code complexity,
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by khawkins 5y ago
I had the same suspicion and did the math based on the numbers below. 40,273 cases/1M pop (better than 49 states) 597 deaths/1M pop (better than 48 states) https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country&#x2
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by khawkins 5y ago
It's the natural outcome of publishing being cheap and supply of aspiring authors being much higher than the demand for novels. The money which used to be concentrated in the hands of the few who could convince publishers to do busines
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by khawkins 5y ago
Companies like Google and Facebook were running around screaming Chicken Little about how companies like Verizon and Comcast will use their monopolistic powers to dominate public speech, screw over users, and screw over startup competitors.
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by khawkins 5y ago
It certainly was at one point, but near the end it definitely wasn't. Whether it was soft censorship, hard censorship, or a declining user base, I struggled to find videos I could sometimes even find on Twitter or Youtube. Videos whose
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by khawkins 5y ago
She's still accepting the premise that more female success, as a whole, is something she values. But validating that it is okay for women to choose to be less successful in order to focus on their family is clearly going to result in l
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by khawkins 5y ago
The author makes a lot of good points until the last paragraph: >We can’t expect more women to succeed in the startup world until we’re able to talk honestly about how much harder startups are for those who want to spend a lot of time wi
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by khawkins 5y ago
> Other than that I wish more unification was done on ML algorithms and dynamical systems, just in general. There's too much crossover to ignore. Check out this work, "Deep relaxation: partial differential equations for optimiz
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by khawkins 6y ago
I think it's a bad example, but illustrates an important point he doesn't make explicit, that sometimes the variable you need to estimate is the DX itself, not just X1 and X2 to produce X2 - X1 = DX. With a sufficiently high amoun
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by khawkins 6y ago
They banned a sitting president of the United States and yet have allowed for years known despots, genocidal regimes, and terrorists groups to operate with impunity. Bad faith is Twitter's modus operandi until they show otherwise.
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by khawkins 6y ago
People are getting increasingly enraged because there is a palpable culture shift happening in the western world, creating a giant rift in fundamental principles, societal perspectives, and interpretation of current events. When we can&#x27
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by khawkins 6y ago
Banishing certain speech to less accessible realms is, in principle, the same as book burning. "It's not about eliminating ideas from history," the censor explains, "it's about protecting the simple minds of the mas
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by khawkins 6y ago
I think you're overstating how people generally feel about Zuckerberg's influence. He clearly has the most power to wield, but I think most understand the nuance that he's limited by tons of competing interests. I think that
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by khawkins 6y ago
You've presented no argument here, just an unwillingness to engage with the problem until correcting course is impossible.
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by khawkins 6y ago
"Won't someone please think of the billionaires?" Zuckerberg made his money off of building social networks. He's welcome to retire and divest, but otherwise it's his ethical responsibly to guide their development f
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by khawkins 6y ago
>The dangers of this approach soon became apparent. Facebook now has some three billion users—more than a third of humanity—many of whom get their news from the site. In 2016, Russian agents used the platform in an attempt to sway the U.
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by khawkins 6y ago
>But the main, core "Reddit experience" as algorithmically produced by r/Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It's the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So many low quality posts and comments th
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by khawkins 6y ago
I think this is a convenient narrative for an abusive pattern of behavior by Google. The company is infamous for having non-existent customer service. It's not a matter of their AI having too many false positives, it's that when t
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by khawkins 6y ago
It's hard to believe that someone advocating for the censorship of opposing arguments has any interest in a serious discussion either.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Nobody cares about the people who are "unsophistocated people who have bought into the frenzy", especially if they get screwed. Further, they shouldn't care about them because anyone who doesn't understand what's go
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by khawkins 6y ago
>The only reason Gamestop is going up is because of Tulip-mania. It's a classic bubble. Some early people on the hype train reaped eye-popping gains as more jumped on and bid up the price. A cursory look at /r/WallStreetBe
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by khawkins 6y ago
Disgusting but not surprising take from the Nasdaq CEO. A few managers with access to billions are able to coordinate their funds because they own them all, but a diverse mob of retail investors couldn't do this up until now because th
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by khawkins 6y ago
The gig economy exploits the efficiencies of a trusting society masterfully. It would have been unthinkable 20 years ago that we'd let total strangers drive us home from bars and use our houses like hotels. But it turns out that with o

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