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wh1t3n01s3
Joined 7 years ago
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Comment · 6 years ago
Hydro cannot be the future due to excessive damage to the environment
Comment · 6 years ago
I strongly disagree. They lied to themselves and to the world believing the notebooks have been misplaced and not stolen. The ‘no lie’ approach is clearly a part of the problem.
Comment · 6 years ago
This specially true for Cluster Headache (the worst kind of all):
https://clusterbusters.org/
Comment · 6 years ago
Pfizer stock popped 12% on monday, more than enough!
Comment · 6 years ago
You can ban or tax (heavily) single plastic use production, simple as that.
Comment · 6 years ago
I personally think Homo Sapiens killed to extinction all the other ‘human’ species, and the megafauna as well. (That’s sad, I know)
Comment · 6 years ago
The algoritthm is driven by engagement, wich is driven by misinformation, because that’s what people click more. So then a lot of more misinformation is written to feed this need. Clearly a lot of money is involved
Comment · 6 years ago
100% this.
Comment · 6 years ago
And with IG and WA they make 3.2B out of 3.5B, ~93%
Comment · 6 years ago
If anyone is interested in this, or wanna refresh your memory, you should watch the docufilm Zero Days (2016) by Alex Gibney (most of his ‘movies’ are quite interesting)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5446858/
Comment · 6 years ago
Misinformation is spreading because social networks (and Google search) AIs are tuned to improve users engagement. This causes exponential confirmation bias. So misinformation is created to feed the ‘idiots’ engagement.
Comment · 6 years ago
Fake news websites, misinformation and conspiracy theories are now mainstream, and democracy is failing. This is caused by big tech AIs focused on gaining engagement. So it is right for me that, in theory, the same tech companies try to stop this big mess. But personally and practically I don’t think this purpose is achievable without tossing the whole algorithms behind the engagement thing, and milder counter reactions like this will cause in long term only more drama and nothing useful....
Comment · 6 years ago
With Brave browser it’s trivial to stop the
crookies
, even for the average user. Problem is, no average user uses Brave.
Comment · 6 years ago
the Belarus government is very popular in Russia ;-)
Comment · 6 years ago
In Italy you cannot fire anyone. Like a marriage. And taxes on wages are the highest in Europe. This is why they cannot easily compete globally.