prancer_or_vix

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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
is it still profitable?
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
Suggestions? Where do you find them?
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
Legit question: what's going to happen when bitcoin is no longer produced? Like, there's a finite amount of bitcoin that will ever be mined, and after that, why would anyone keep running their mining operations? How do transaction
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
> developers who work for big companies will get jealous and they will reject you. If you're very good, you need to pretend to be mediocre and above all; compliant. To add to what another poster said, it's not jealousy. Big com
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
2 questions: 1) What would you expect be implemented to reduce/eradicate doom scrolling? 2) What would making the algorithm public do for us? I'm not an ML engineer, but presumably their algorithm isn't just an algebraic equa
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
> Philip Morris doesn't make money every drag someone takes, that's exactly my point. It's different. I see. You're right that it was an imperfect comparison. Philip Morris makes _more_ money by addicting its users.
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
> engagement with social media doesn't directly create value for Facebook. Yes it absolutely does. They get value by showing ads. If you're staring at facebook for 4 hours a day, that's a lot more ads than if you log in fo
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
> I personally ran analysis like this to detect high and unexpected latency on people with cheaper cell phones (disproportionately minorities in the US). The results of my analysis led to changes that reduced this disparity Something tel
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
I think you're overlooking the role that rapport plays in this. If you don't have a rapport (it's a new relationship, for example), one doesn't have that to rely on (this describes a significant portion of online interac
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
The political divide is because the institutions of power are winning. It will be and always has been the goal of those with power to deflect attacks directed at them, usually to other groups who are attacking them. For all of his faults, B
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
Wow, glad someone else caught that. I read that comment a few times because it seemed almost exactly the opposite in intent of the general intent of the PR (as explained by the twitter thread).
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house" -Audre Lorde
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by prancer_or_vix 5y ago
That article is really interesting and something that, as an academic scientist, is pretty obvious. In theory, we have peer-review to keep ourselves honest, but as the article points out (maybe unintentionally), bad science gets through tha