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No idea what cost that comment refers too. If you are Facebook or YouTube or Twitter or Amazon sure you need your five thousand man PAID army of content reviewers to keep the data …

Just temporary. Nature did not need to invent cloud computing to perform massive computation. The speed and data involved in computation going on in a cell or an ants brain show us…

It makes sense if you are handling millions of requests from all over the world per second and need failovers if machines go down. But...if you just want to run your own personal s…

You have to examine your own assumptions too - 1. You assume stopping "revolution" is the goal. It is not. All you have to do is look at what outcomes "revolutions" in an info satu…

Just cheaper these days to buy them from India. You could fly there, get a top quality doc/audiologist to check you up. The same top of the line aids cost around 2-3K max. Do the t…

This where I tell couples "it takes a village". In a healthy working "village" there is always someone around who will compensate for weaknesses in both partners that aren't easy t…

The fix is not complicated. I have no issue with my search data/post viewing history providing me better results or better ads. The real damaging data to people and society at larg…

I don't know about trust being the root. But the argument can be made that society is very different. And the Fred Rogers model won't have much of an impact given the environment o…

Interesting data there probably for a social psychologists/sociologist to dig into. More interesting than the amount of cheaters in a population or whether thats a fixed amount is …

Once upon a time I could find blog posts of people reviewing things, travel, software, equipment etc. Now I just find pages and pages of review aggregators. The advantage of findin…

Much more than just personal privacy. When CEOs, politicians, judges and generals use the internet too do you really want to be the guy/a company that gives them that call? The inc…

Yup good move. TV news orgs need to do this too. Next too all their flashing banners and scrolls. Especially when the talking heads of both side are raging. I'd really like to know…

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Give it some time. Kim Kardashian has a 110 million followers. After the Russians (or whoever...maybe just that "400 pound dude in the basement") get her to become the next preside…

Cause handling people and their issues is about 5000 times harder than handling code. Your code doesn't get cancer, run away with a coworker, go bankrupt, have opinions, lie, steal…

Good points and well put. The people/environment around the person going through the trauma makes a big difference to outcomes imho. And usually it "takes a village". Because thoug…

And that is why psycologists are winning Nobel's for economics these days. Tomorrow they will hopefully play a bigger role in engineering and tech.

Starbucks stores when initially designed, where intended to fill the need for a "third space" outside of home and work. Not everyone wanted to hangout at a bar. And not every city …

If the site is mediawiki based check out kiwix. They have tools to download the whole site with search index. Also tools to search/reopen and render pages from the dump. I suppose …

Thanks for the links. Needs to be reposted often. Hopefully the day will come where we don't have to become grad level psycologists to handle our new info environment. The professi…

Just wrote this 3 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17325760

Everyone these days is being overloaded with an amount of information - they will never be trained to handle that no previous generation has ever handled What we are watching unfol…

Cause now if NASA needs some extra funding they just need to convince Kim Kardashian (or whoever replaces her day after tomorrow on the top of the pyramid) of its importance. It's …

Well that's if you assume this can't be gamed to prop up the non superficial. Bill Gates or Obama constantly used influencers on social media to get interesting messages out to the…

I totally agree. The information environment we live in is extremely damaging. Back in 2006-7 I attended a conference where there was a big panel on what the future of news was goi…