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again, if you look at the whole system in aggregate, the existing practice is for GooFaceTwitBaba to farm out their moderation works to subcontractors, while also bending backwards…

>The government, scientists, experts in various fields, people who have proven to tell the truth in the past, etc. But how has it been implemented in practice ? If you look at the …

How about this one: Critics agree that Mr Obama's middle name is Hussein and he is likely an islamic terrorist. The first part is obviously true. For the second part, I am fairly c…

I am in wholehearted agreement on a tax on lies so long as I get to decide which articles are lies.

hah, if only it were that easy. The paywalled stuff is bullshit too. Plus, they know they have a micro-targettable audience of suckers who are willing to pay .

The problem is that a lot of potentially viable content falls by default into the marginally-profitable category, where the small amount of utility they provide to the end-user is …

What it would do is put a price floor on content. People's willingness to pay, say, $5 instead of $1 for a piece of content is a strong filter, I'm pretty sure low-quality content …

If all you want to do is make money off of stock speculation, it doesn't matter much who's going to win between the FAAAs. You could just split your investment evenly or by market …

> https://github.com/jkarlin/floc this is the one I mean, yes.

it's for market segmentation for advertisers. This way they can sell aggregate data and ad impressions that's targeted to a very specific and profitable segment. Like google's 'flo…

Are the members-only content higher or lower quality, in general? The incentive seems to be for lower quality, because the vast majority of time and effort is spent on the free par…

Evidently some creators can make it work somehow, since there is more content than ever. It is difficult to convince people to pay more for stuff they're practically drowning in. M…

For me, the only reason I'd be willing to pay $5/m for a single creator is because of information disparity: it is difficult to find content I like, because the signal-to-noise rat…

Far as I can tell, the government has several levers that they are pulling/not pulling here (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, I'm just getting this out of news articles, not prima…

This sort of thing (updates as backdoor to get telemetry from people who explicitly opt out of telemetry) is becoming more and more prevalent. GitExtensions also does it - ostensib…

So, how does this square with all those ads asking for 5+ years of industry experience in their very specific stack?

You'd have to work out the human cost linked to the cost of economic losses from lockdown, though. Unemployment increases death rate and shortens lifespan. I'd love to see somebody…

The government thinks $10M per life is about the right number on the margin given US's economic situation and the slack they have in the annual budget. Obviously if there's a nucle…

Given a complex economic situation pitting the green revolution and the need to feed a billion people versus the sustainability of local ecology and scarce groundwater resources, t…

perhaps they are wealthy but they expect the much-more-taxable middle class to pick up the tab. Which is in fact the most likely outcome.

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Part of figuring it out is figuring out how to implement it starting with the limited resources you have. Nobody gets an unlimited budget.

Think about streaming a live video from Youtube inside your browser. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on underneath: layers upon layers of compression, error correction, bu…

last few times we tried this lots of people starved to death. Let us know if you figure out how to do it properly without that happening.