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by obelix_ 8y ago
No idea what cost that comment refers too. If you are Facebook or YouTube or Twitter or Amazon sure you need your five thousand man PAID army of content reviewers to keep the data clean cause the data is mostly useless. But if you are runni
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Just temporary. Nature did not need to invent cloud computing to perform massive computation. The speed and data involved in computation going on in a cell or an ants brain show us how far we can still go on desktop. The breakthroughs will
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by obelix_ 8y ago
It makes sense if you are handling millions of requests from all over the world per second and need failovers if machines go down. But...if you just want to run your own personal search engine say... Then for Wikipedia/Stackoverflow&#
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by obelix_ 8y ago
You have to examine your own assumptions too - 1. You assume stopping "revolution" is the goal. It is not. All you have to do is look at what outcomes "revolutions" in an info saturated/low attention span/con
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Just cheaper these days to buy them from India. You could fly there, get a top quality doc/audiologist to check you up. The same top of the line aids cost around 2-3K max. Do the touristy stuff and fly back all for less than what it co
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by obelix_ 8y ago
This where I tell couples "it takes a village". In a healthy working "village" there is always someone around who will compensate for weaknesses in both partners that aren't easy to fix. Modern couples have this hig
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by obelix_ 8y ago
The fix is not complicated. I have no issue with my search data/post viewing history providing me better results or better ads. The real damaging data to people and society at large is a different set of data. It's the publicly vi
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by obelix_ 8y ago
I don't know about trust being the root. But the argument can be made that society is very different. And the Fred Rogers model won't have much of an impact given the environment of hyper stimulation/24x7 distraction that con
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Interesting data there probably for a social psychologists/sociologist to dig into. More interesting than the amount of cheaters in a population or whether thats a fixed amount is how many go on to win and influence gaming culture (bot
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Once upon a time I could find blog posts of people reviewing things, travel, software, equipment etc. Now I just find pages and pages of review aggregators. The advantage of finding a blog was didn't take more than a few clicks to figu
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Much more than just personal privacy. When CEOs, politicians, judges and generals use the internet too do you really want to be the guy/a company that gives them that call? The incentives are all messed up.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Yup good move. TV news orgs need to do this too. Next too all their flashing banners and scrolls. Especially when the talking heads of both side are raging. I'd really like to know if Coke or Apple or whoever is footing the bill.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
humanetech.com/take-control/
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Give it some time. Kim Kardashian has a 110 million followers. After the Russians (or whoever...maybe just that "400 pound dude in the basement") get her to become the next president I am waiting to see what boywonder shows up and
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Cause handling people and their issues is about 5000 times harder than handling code. Your code doesn't get cancer, run away with a coworker, go bankrupt, have opinions, lie, steal, needs to be told how to use a restroom, needs protect
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Good points and well put. The people/environment around the person going through the trauma makes a big difference to outcomes imho. And usually it "takes a village". Because though most people who care will want to help, the
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by obelix_ 8y ago
And that is why psycologists are winning Nobel's for economics these days. Tomorrow they will hopefully play a bigger role in engineering and tech.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Starbucks stores when initially designed, where intended to fill the need for a "third space" outside of home and work. Not everyone wanted to hangout at a bar. And not every city and town had such spaces. Which is why Starbucks w
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by obelix_ 8y ago
If the site is mediawiki based check out kiwix. They have tools to download the whole site with search index. Also tools to search/reopen and render pages from the dump. I suppose similar tools have been created by the internet archive
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Thanks for the links. Needs to be reposted often. Hopefully the day will come where we don't have to become grad level psycologists to handle our new info environment. The professions I was thinking about were air traffic controllers,
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Just wrote this 3 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17325760
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Everyone these days is being overloaded with an amount of information - they will never be trained to handle that no previous generation has ever handled What we are watching unfold across any and every issue, are symptoms of people breakin
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Cause now if NASA needs some extra funding they just need to convince Kim Kardashian (or whoever replaces her day after tomorrow on the top of the pyramid) of its importance. It's going to happen. Just watch.
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Well that's if you assume this can't be gamed to prop up the non superficial. Bill Gates or Obama constantly used influencers on social media to get interesting messages out to the masses. What I don't like is that the most h
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by obelix_ 8y ago
I totally agree. The information environment we live in is extremely damaging. Back in 2006-7 I attended a conference where there was a big panel on what the future of news was going to look like. Lots of newspapers were shutting down. They
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by obelix_ 8y ago
The subject you pick and the reaction of the people around you to your initial attempts makes a big difference here. People underestimate this. So pick subjects that interest you or are sure to tickle/provoke/excite the people you
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by obelix_ 8y ago
In my experience getting ppl to admit their issues isn't the way to go. Showing them a path exists to overcome the issues, without a requirement for them to admit anything is. Understanding that is love. And that's hard work. &quo
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by obelix_ 8y ago
We are still in the stone age when it comes to search. Ask Google who played the mens semifinals of Wimbeldon three years ago and Google will tell you it indexed 6 million pages to provide a link that may or may not have the 4 names I am lo
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Thanks for the link. It's good to have someone point these things out when one gets carried away :)
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by obelix_ 8y ago
Agree but there are two new issues today that I can think of - 1. Targeting is much more sophisticated. Today you can round up every lunatic who hates squirrels or whatever by tomorrow morning and influence what people need to focus on. 2.

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