quarkral

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by quarkral 7y ago
The reason it's difficult to differentiate is because currently media backlash is actually the only accountability any of these tech companies have for doing the right thing. For example, there's basically no government regulation
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by quarkral 7y ago
When we're talking about whether Facebook should be fact-checking the lies of public servants, we're missing the point. We shouldn't be having public servants that are lying to us in the first place. By the way this isn'
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by quarkral 7y ago
sounds easy but in practice hard. You can run ads on political and social issues that directly correlate with one candidate's campaign. What about those ads? But then you could also be running ads to push a public issue such as climate
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by quarkral 7y ago
I don't think Twitter actually hade much political advertising at all before tbh. It's like Bing traffic compared to Google.
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by quarkral 7y ago
But the answer you get isn't necessarily the truth, because humans don't make decisions based on reason. 90% of the time, decision-making is based on emotion, and the reasoning comes afterwards to try and justify why the decision
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by quarkral 7y ago
even for a consumer, file synchronization is very painful without a filesystem. I usually use Resilio Sync between my devices, but I couldn't get it to work properly on an iPad without manually copying files between apps every time I w
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by quarkral 7y ago
Yea I would like it if the author offered a one-time purchase for the app without sync functionality at say $60. I mean if you are having trouble with server space for hosting text files, then maybe you shouldn't be building your own c
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by quarkral 7y ago
Regardless of how people feel about Facebook in general, I think this is a step forward. Groups and messenger are what I primarily use, and both of those are completely in my control with no mysterious recommender algorithm deciding what I
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by quarkral 7y ago
Strange, I have yet to meet a single Google interviewer who was looking for perfect syntax during the interview. Last year I forgot the syntax for a data structure, told my interviewer "something like this," and he just said &quot
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by quarkral 8y ago
I definitely agree with this for mathematical notes. Writing LaTeX is so mechanically different from writing down actual mathematical expressions and proofs that I feel like it distracts more than it helps me absorb. On the other hand for s
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by quarkral 8y ago
Doesn't work. Spammers still manage to blind call my actual cell phone number even though I've given it to absolutely not a single person, dead or alive.
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by quarkral 8y ago
I think recommender systems are the biggest culprit in this. Most recommender systems are probably trained with a simple objective of maximizing the amount of time the user spends browsing through the list of recommended items. The whole id
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by quarkral 8y ago
I used to watch tons of Starcraft, but I feel like at least half the reason was to find inspiration for new strategies and playstyles whenever I got bored of playing standard. For example I pretty much never watched the matchup between the
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by quarkral 9y ago
"sophisticated" here could be as simple as buying a mass-produced 3d filter sized for the dual lens on the iPhone, installing a companion computer program, running it, uploading a video, and then pointing the phone at the screen.
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by quarkral 9y ago
How would you implement 2FA without making your personal phone number publicly available for anyone to attempt to authenticate with? It's not the same as your bank calling you when you already have an account with them - we're tal