Youtube "recommended" videos, if you open it in incognito mode are very revolting to me. This is why. The quality is so atrocious. The video recommendation in my google profile are not as bad, but every now and then it will recommend me a picture of The Donald making an ugly face.
YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
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#52Has anyone else noticed how much this min-maxing is effecting all different areas of the world? I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops! I find th…
Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.
We're looking for someone with 5 years experience in driving a 2016 Toyota Corolla.
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#54Alternatively, it serves as a pretty good filter for content I will actively try to avoid. Playing a video and immediately hearing that "HEY GUYS" voice makes me click the back button instantly, and block the channel.
I do this for written articles that begin with https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22technology+has+become+...
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#55Has anyone else noticed how much this min-maxing is effecting all different areas of the world? I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops! I find th…
Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.
And what you'll find is that the most rewarding raids, and jobs for that matter, are the ones that people take a chance on you and you perform better than expected.
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#56Has anyone else noticed how much this min-maxing is effecting all different areas of the world? I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops! I find th…
Your WoW observation reminds me a lot of my current job search experience.
I thought people would make that conclusion!
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#57Channels that specialize in reviewing virtual reality content are especially fun. Since the head mounted display obscures the eyes, they must make up for the loss of expression with terrifyingly exaggerated gaping maws.
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#58Minor correction at:
> YouTube, a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet, Inc. — formerly Google, Inc.
YouTube isn't an Alphabet company, but still part of Google itself.
Re: YouTube Face is clickbait, attaining human form
#59Has anyone else noticed how much this min-maxing is effecting all different areas of the world? I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops! I find th…
I feel like the unfortunate part is that the most visibility-optimised content isn't often the same thing as the best content. So if you just set out to make a Good Thing it gets lost, unless you also do other things that are seemingly unnecessary (like adding a silly face to your YouTube preview).
this is my point exactly - I find the same thing with the arts (people optimising for grants or to get on a label rather than their best work)
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#60This post made me want to re-read "You Are Not a Gadget." One of Lanier's points in that book is that technology can both augment expression and bound it. The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up, whereas a simple textbox would let you note whatever you want about the content (text is also harder to monetize and analyze and…
> The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up
People do write replies, but I feel the conversation is much terse these days. I enjoy HN because in general the crowd here is more mature and willing to invest in an informative thoughtout reply instead of just witty one-liners for karma (which I'm glad people here downvote).
But yeah, I wonder what if we took away the "likes". We had an internet and community without them before.
PS Thanks for the book recommendation.