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by sandoooo 6y ago
again, if you look at the whole system in aggregate, the existing practice is for GooFaceTwitBaba to farm out their moderation works to subcontractors, while also bending backwards to prevalent political headwinds to preserve their sharehol
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by sandoooo 6y ago
>The government, scientists, experts in various fields, people who have proven to tell the truth in the past, etc. But how has it been implemented in practice ? If you look at the raw numbers, generally we rely on the lowest bidders amo
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by sandoooo 6y ago
How about this one: Critics agree that Mr Obama's middle name is Hussein and he is likely an islamic terrorist. The first part is obviously true. For the second part, I am fairly certain I can find two people on 4chan who agrees with
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by sandoooo 6y ago
I am in wholehearted agreement on a tax on lies so long as I get to decide which articles are lies.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
hah, if only it were that easy. The paywalled stuff is bullshit too. Plus, they know they have a micro-targettable audience of suckers who are willing to pay .
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by sandoooo 6y ago
The problem is that a lot of potentially viable content falls by default into the marginally-profitable category, where the small amount of utility they provide to the end-user is offset by the incessant user-monetization impulse. A price f
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by sandoooo 6y ago
What it would do is put a price floor on content. People's willingness to pay, say, $5 instead of $1 for a piece of content is a strong filter, I'm pretty sure low-quality content that's purely CTA wouldn't survive.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
If all you want to do is make money off of stock speculation, it doesn't matter much who's going to win between the FAAAs. You could just split your investment evenly or by market cap. Even the losers are going to hold their val
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by sandoooo 6y ago
> https://github.com/jkarlin/floc this is the one I mean, yes.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
it's for market segmentation for advertisers. This way they can sell aggregate data and ad impressions that's targeted to a very specific and profitable segment. Like google's 'flocks' concept, but maybe less movin
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Are the members-only content higher or lower quality, in general? The incentive seems to be for lower quality, because the vast majority of time and effort is spent on the free part that convinces you to pay. It's a reverse iceberg.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Evidently some creators can make it work somehow, since there is more content than ever. It is difficult to convince people to pay more for stuff they're practically drowning in. Maybe we should go in the opposite direction: tax the c
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by sandoooo 6y ago
For me, the only reason I'd be willing to pay $5/m for a single creator is because of information disparity: it is difficult to find content I like, because the signal-to-noise ratio is so low. If I have to spend a lot of time lo
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Far as I can tell, the government has several levers that they are pulling/not pulling here (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just getting this out of news articles, not primary sources): - they are partially directly su
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by sandoooo 6y ago
This sort of thing (updates as backdoor to get telemetry from people who explicitly opt out of telemetry) is becoming more and more prevalent. GitExtensions also does it - ostensibly a bug, too, but no hurry to fix it of course. On the oth
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by sandoooo 6y ago
So, how does this square with all those ads asking for 5+ years of industry experience in their very specific stack?
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by sandoooo 6y ago
You'd have to work out the human cost linked to the cost of economic losses from lockdown, though. Unemployment increases death rate and shortens lifespan. I'd love to see somebody do this too, but it's a mountain of work.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
The government thinks $10M per life is about the right number on the margin given US's economic situation and the slack they have in the annual budget. Obviously if there's a nuclear war tomorrow, or something else that drastic
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Given a complex economic situation pitting the green revolution and the need to feed a billion people versus the sustainability of local ecology and scarce groundwater resources, the article offers this pithy insight: >Given enough time,
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by sandoooo 6y ago
perhaps they are wealthy but they expect the much-more-taxable middle class to pick up the tab. Which is in fact the most likely outcome.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Part of figuring it out is figuring out how to implement it starting with the limited resources you have. Nobody gets an unlimited budget.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Think about streaming a live video from Youtube inside your browser. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on underneath: layers upon layers of compression, error correction, buffering, etc. Many ugly, crazy hacks to squeeze the s
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by sandoooo 6y ago
last few times we tried this lots of people starved to death. Let us know if you figure out how to do it properly without that happening.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Computing saves millions of lives on a regular basis. Can't run modern agriculture or medicine or government without it. Griping about the evils of the current gripeable is a lot of fun, though. One may even argue it's the more
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Civilization is a surrogate activity factory. Language and literature makes people's lives more hollow, less connected, less human, but in exchange, gives them the illusion that they are living principled, meaningful lives, living in c
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by sandoooo 6y ago
The article doesn't say what you think it says. >One of the most common questions about the Federal Reserve is this: Does the Fed print money? >There are really two ways to address this question. In terms of the actual, physical
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by sandoooo 6y ago
Let's say I have a hyperparameter optimization task where I have to tune a simulation to some spec by varying 2-4 input parameters, and the output is a single number. I have no analytical gradient, though it's probably OK to ass
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by sandoooo 6y ago
The feds printed trillions of dollars. Much of it ended up on the stock market, especially since there is a dearth of other viable investments and the interest rate is low. Also the developing world is suffering even worse downturns and i
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by sandoooo 6y ago
the page contains a redirect to a page telling me to turn off adblocking. Evidently this is because my adblocking didn't go far enough. It goes away if I disable scripts on the page altogether.
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by sandoooo 6y ago
I'd say much of this board disproportionately lives in places where $700k is the going rate for a normal mortgage, though. My definition of 'rich' would mostly include people who don't need $700k mortgages.

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