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The point is that the 49% eventually leave when their every contribution get bombed to the bottom immediately. Then the 49% of the remaining 51% get bullied out. Reddit's system en…

Instead of constantly hand-wringing about "disinformation" from the shadows, they should be desperately addressing their own plummeting credibility: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/…

I'm very confident that orders of magnitude more man-hours have been spent thinking about P=NP in the past 20 years than were spent in the whole 358 years on Fermat's theorem. The …

Most people are openly taught about the misdeeds of the McCarthy era in schools and in public discussions. This wasn't swept under the rug, most people agree that it happened and w…

This was the original idea, that some people with genuine traumatic experiences and were currently suffering from mental illness could choose to opt-out before proceeding on to rea…

The divorce rate is higher and it's easier to be comfortable living independently, both of which are stated in the article and are unquestionable. There might be other reasons, but…

Tie the ability for a student to take out a loan to go to a particular school to the ability for its graduated students to pay back said loans. Put simply, incoming Colombia film s…

>We want to incentivize people to own homes and buy electric cars and a thousand other things, and we use the tax code to do that. [If we want] to incentivize... While it's true th…

I had the same suspicion and did the math based on the numbers below. 40,273 cases/1M pop (better than 49 states) 597 deaths/1M pop (better than 48 states) https://www.worldometers…

It's the natural outcome of publishing being cheap and supply of aspiring authors being much higher than the demand for novels. The money which used to be concentrated in the hands…

Companies like Google and Facebook were running around screaming Chicken Little about how companies like Verizon and Comcast will use their monopolistic powers to dominate public s…

It certainly was at one point, but near the end it definitely wasn't. Whether it was soft censorship, hard censorship, or a declining user base, I struggled to find videos I could …

She's still accepting the premise that more female success, as a whole, is something she values. But validating that it is okay for women to choose to be less successful in order t…

The author makes a lot of good points until the last paragraph: >We can’t expect more women to succeed in the startup world until we’re able to talk honestly about how much harder …

> Other than that I wish more unification was done on ML algorithms and dynamical systems, just in general. There's too much crossover to ignore. Check out this work, "Deep relaxat…

I think it's a bad example, but illustrates an important point he doesn't make explicit, that sometimes the variable you need to estimate is the DX itself, not just X1 and X2 to pr…

They banned a sitting president of the United States and yet have allowed for years known despots, genocidal regimes, and terrorists groups to operate with impunity. Bad faith is T…

People are getting increasingly enraged because there is a palpable culture shift happening in the western world, creating a giant rift in fundamental principles, societal perspect…

Banishing certain speech to less accessible realms is, in principle, the same as book burning. "It's not about eliminating ideas from history," the censor explains, "it's about pro…

I think you're overstating how people generally feel about Zuckerberg's influence. He clearly has the most power to wield, but I think most understand the nuance that he's limited …

You've presented no argument here, just an unwillingness to engage with the problem until correcting course is impossible.

"Won't someone please think of the billionaires?" Zuckerberg made his money off of building social networks. He's welcome to retire and divest, but otherwise it's his ethical respo…

>The dangers of this approach soon became apparent. Facebook now has some three billion users—more than a third of humanity—many of whom get their news from the site. In 2016, Russ…

>But the main, core "Reddit experience" as algorithmically produced by r/Popular is a complete dumpster fire. It's the noise of the entire internet, jam packed into a webpage. So m…

I think this is a convenient narrative for an abusive pattern of behavior by Google. The company is infamous for having non-existent customer service. It's not a matter of their AI…