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Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by sjg007 »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #119
gaius wrote: post #15

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McDonalds is still a viable business. When Facebook goes, it will evaporate like MySpace did. And not a moment too soon.

Don't know why this is so downvoted much. Just because Facebook evaporates doesn't mean the very concept of "social graph" will go down altogether with it. Facebook will probably be replaced with more flexible identity and social graph architecture that's more decentralized. It's different from McDonald's because humans have to eat, and McDonald's can always pivot or acquire other companies to provide the type of foo…

How would it be decentralized? You and your webpage on your box gave rise to yahoo and then google.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by sjg007 »

filoleg wrote: post #96
tw1010 wrote: post #75

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I think we've had enough ads about how books make you smart and tv makes you stupid to know that whatever is cool and enjoyable is more likely to win in that crowd, no matter what well meaning parents and teachers and PSAs try to tell them.

I think the "TV makes you dumb" propaganda worked just fine over time, and in big part because it was honest and non-aggressive (as opposed to something like DARE). I know it is just anecdata, but out of the people in their 20s that I know, very few have cable, and those usually do it because with their provider it is cheaper to have it bundled as opposed to internet alone.

Well it’s now YouTube that makes you dumb.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by pcmaffey »

Fnoord wrote: post #58
gowld wrote: post #35

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Install a chess app?

Can recommend Lichess [1], the puzzles are a lot of fun! I can also recommend Wordfeud (a Scrabble clone), and Duolingo (an interactive language-learning tool by professor Luis von Ahn (creator of reCAPTCHA)). But I can also recommend mindfulness, or listening to music which makes you relaxed such as classical or ambient music. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lichess [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo

Self-plug: I built a 5 minute word game for this very reason (diffuse mind time) that fits right in with your list of options.

www.esoterica.io

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by anonytrary »

People don't stop using horses until they can go out and buy a car. So, what's the product? I read their site, it seems to just complain about all of the downsides of social media. Is this just for awareness? I like some of their ideas, but I don't really understand how they aim to change things.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by voltagex_ »

twothamendment wrote: post #84
IntronExon wrote: post #79

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Sub to what? Their search engine? I’d rather use DDG most days without Google trying to charge me. To something like YouTube? How is YouTube Red going?

YouTube what? I guess I just made your point.

Counterpoint: I subbed to YouTube Red because I watch hours of content per week (pretty much replaced all OTA TV for me) and I didn't want to see ads any more.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by DenisM »

fma wrote: post #28

With smartphones being ubiquitous, and we all have a few minutes here and there to spare...we just need to come up with a better and productive way to kill those time where you are idle. Any suggestions? Right now I'm waiting on my wife to get ready before we head out and spending it here on HN, but still, it's not productive.

Flash cards. I’m learning my music notation.

Unless you can just chill, then chill.

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Post by brahj123 »

platz wrote: post #103
Chathamization wrote: post #48

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I wonder how much the push back against McDonald's is class based. It's not healthy, but the same can be said for a lot of the food we eat. A lot of fast casual burgers, which seem to hold a higher position in the public perception, have more calories. Of course, overall health is more complicated than just calories, but it's worth pointing out since that's one of the main complaints against McDonald's (including in…

Is an egg-mcmuffin with no cheese and no hash-brown really that bad for you? It's literally an egg on bread.

it's not real egg and the processed bread-resembling muffin isn't very nutritious either

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by DoreenMichele »

metavrsl wrote: post #86
stryk wrote: post #83

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It might be a mistake asking this, but what the heck is a 'chav' ?

It’s an English word for rougher lower class young men. People look down on them, it’s partially a class thing and partially how they dress and how they’re just boisterous. Don’t know what the equivalent word in the USA is but in Australia we say Bogan which is similar.

Bogan seems to be roughly equivalent to hick from what I gather.

Re: Early Facebook and Google Employees Form a Center for Humane Technology

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Post by throwa_way_ »

brahj123 wrote: post #128
platz wrote: post #103

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Is an egg-mcmuffin with no cheese and no hash-brown really that bad for you? It's literally an egg on bread.

it's not real egg and the processed bread-resembling muffin isn't very nutritious either

How exactly does McDonalds make eggs that aren't real eggs> I don't believe that.
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