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by xatan_dank 9y ago
This is a great article. I remember reading this a few years ago during my undergrad- my big takeaway from it was that sometimes you will encounter bugs which you can't solve alone. I always assumed any error I came across was my fau
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
True, but what does "writing code" mean? If it means learning some basic JavaScript syntax and writing a small text adventure, that isn't hard at all. Learning the mathematical fundamentals of CS on the other hand is a grea
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I think the immediate purpose of this article is not necessarily to mobilize the average joes to collectively demand better security law. Mobilizing the average joes is less a problem of theory and more a widespread organizational effort.
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
Probably not at all. Facebook's collective desire for higher engagement and profit will likely outweigh any concern for individual or collective users.
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I think some alternatives do exist, but I do not believe an near exact clone of Facebook with less of the problems of Facebook exists. Maybe it's just infeasible to properly monitor such a massive social network? I don't know for
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I'm glad someone was able to figure out what I meant.
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
So how are you going to be able to determine when advertising is 'fixed'? It's already known that ad services track users and occasionally install malware on their machines. Will the ads simply become more pleasant-looking wh
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I'm not at all, because I'm not talking about advertising in general. I'm aware of what advertising is. I'm talking specifically about the same kind of advertising that the article posted is.
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I don't even agree with your first sentence. I don't see anything in this article about how we should collectively stop blocking ads in order to encourage better practices from publishers/advertisers/ad networks. The a
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
>How about when the service can not exist otherwise? Then maybe it shouldn't exist in the first place. If your business model relies on feeding users ad technology known to be unsafe, undesirable, and disrespectful to users' f
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
>this value is worth more to society than ads That's a bit of a lofty statement with no accompanying argument whatsoever. I think current technology has been wholly negative on society. >I don't have money to pay for every
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
I think this article doesn't go far enough with its championing of blocking certain ads. All ads should be blocked and web services which rely on them should find a better way of sustaining themselves profitably. The malicious nature
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
Being integrated with Microsoft and Google's infrastructure is not a benefit, in my opinion. I've seen these companies make a lot of impulsive, ham-handed decisions with their "environments" in recent years and I'd
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by xatan_dank 9y ago
The problem is not 'fake news'. The problem is that it's impossible to have a discussion about the news at all since everyone is experiencing drastically different content directly catered to them on the internet. At least
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Sure, but I think that is actually a very difficult problem: how do we determine whether a comment is being sincere or not? Furthermore, assuming we had a foolproof method to do this, would the site have enough funds to use it routinely an
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
I don't know if a shill-free alternative to Reddit could ever exist- I tend to think the openness and scale of Reddit (which is the whole point of it) is what allows shilling to occur. It really bums me out.
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
The people wanted a change in leadership style and the Democratic party simply wasn't responsive to it. And here we are.
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Yeah I think anyone who's been following Netflix should know that keeping content they didn't create available for streaming is actually quite difficult and not just because 'Netflix sucks' or something.
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Sure, that makes sense, but as a consumer, all that matters to me is whether they have the content I want or not. If they don't, Amazon will gladly sell me the season DVD's that Netflix hasn't been able to host. I'm no
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Same. They dropped Peep Show and that was about the only show I Liked that was still on. Plus King of the Hill and Spongebob, but they took those off ages ago.
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Besides the obvious lack of advertisements, most my the improvements would come from resolving my main issue with YouTube, which is how aggressively the service directs you towards content with ads. I feel that this was not the case many y
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
I should have been more specific- I meant to refer to their competitors in the analysis of lyrics, not just annotation. For this purpose, I feel that Genius is overall quite poor and that there are much better discussion boards and service
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
I'm someone with a lot of passion for music (especially rap/hip-hop) and its interpretation, and I can't stand Genius. I think that it isn't that people lack the depth of Ben Horowitz, it's that Ben's vision f
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
This is exactly what I've been thinking, thanks for sharing. For example, I've been so angry at how bad YouTube has gotten as of late and I feel that it's dominance is getting in the way of creating a better video service.
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
This doesn't come as any surprise to me. Over the years, I haven't found Genius to be significantly better at annotating lyrics than any of it's competitors. Genius takes longer to load and doesn't provide any more val
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
>Huh? Just see all the gmail ids. That doesn't mean people are happy with the situation nor the product. In many situations, as I already mentioned, it doesn't even mean the product is successful. I'm well aware of all t
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
I don't know how many people are totally loving the mono-culture and many of the "free" social networks are not profitable at all. Very few of them are actually succeeding. Also, you say activism is not the answer, and then
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Regardless of whether they are malicious, their actions are causing significant societal harm. Zuckerberg retains almost complete control of the company and this is occurring under his guidance. He might not be malicious, but he is certai
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
This is absolutely not true. There's so much wrong with that argument and how it applies to Facebook it's hard for me to provide decent criticism, but I'll try anyway. Facebook is not provided 'for free'. Nothing
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by xatan_dank 10y ago
Thanks for the comment- I was hoping to hear about why you prefer using a 3rd party drum machine in a DAW. For the time being, I record or find all of my samples so I'm not particularly attracted to the kits. The interface looks grea

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