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Comment · 15 hours ago
i.e. technology wont solve all our problems. Sorry if this insulted your intelect.
Comment · 16 hours ago
Talking with people on the Phone is social media too then.

I agree it needs a definition and its no easy limes to draw, but id put it around algorithmic infinite feed recommender systems.

HN has no recommender system so I dont count it in. For me, its a forum. Plain, sometimes boring and often deep & rich.

Comment · 4 days ago
Perfection doesnt exist - technology will never free us from the human condition & constant struggles...
Comment · 8 days ago
Youre absolutely right. The fascist and de humanizing content might just as well be hallucinated. /s

An email states wishes to make hand bag leather from refuge skin.

But yeah, the leak basically reports forks found in a kitchen, nothing new.

Comment · 13 days ago
A corporation so big it starts doing the job of the collective / state - interesting, whos job are they taking here? Why not pay taxes and let us, the people decide how to use it instead?
Comment · 13 days ago
Im not surprised, the Plattforms have 0 interest in kids not accessing. If they could make money from this i would bet my left Hand 99.5% of kids would not manage to enter.

FaceID works pretty good. I dont see any law of physics / math forbidding a proper biometric, privacy compliant age filter to work at scale.

Comment · 1 month ago
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Comment · 1 month ago
What? Heat kills both, sulphur pollution damages both. Its all connected, always..
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes it is still true. Sulphur is one element only that got regulated - petrol on its own is a soup of different hydrocarbons - various chains & lenghts - every one has specific burn characteristics and optimal conditions to burn.

Using this thick soup thats close to coal, the process of burning is always far from optimal for most of them. Thus black sud gets emitted - basically unburned carbon - a huge waste financially but also ecologically as its comparable to cigarette Fumes regarding unhealthy compounds. Plus fine particle dust. Chances its toxic for marine life are huge.

Those are all externalized costs no one of the polluters pays for besides the collective life on this planet.

How can this be fair?

Comment · 1 month ago
“This was a time of huge levels of creativity and competition,” he said. “If you didn’t innovate with the latest psychoactives, you were left behind.”

Why does this sound familiar? Silicon Valley, microdosing, everyone trying to be creative in finding best applications for AI (more or less creative, I must flag here)

Guess history repeats itself.

Comment · 1 month ago
fun fact - "drug" - german "droge" originally means "dried plant" - e.g. herbs, teas etc
Comment · 1 month ago
> What's hilarious is having reported an ad to Facebook, they show you that ad more because you didn't longer looking at it. Mad.

Which emotions does this bring up? For me its hate. fostering hate is what these places mastered. The data is clear - it skyrockets engagement and time-spent. The question is if we want this as a society? I mean, they dont even tax any of the "earnings" aka "mental-health-money"

Comment · 2 months ago
"just trust the llm bro, it will figure it out" - no brains used here, its staggering...
Comment · 2 months ago

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