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Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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They're not real, they're Twitter chat bots. That Amazon thinks this was a good PR move is truly astonishing.

It’s astonishing people are so confident these are bots. No real evidence of that and it’s more likely they’re real. Occam’s razor.

What about the initial guy that says he has a grandchild when he's like a young guy from the phillipines?

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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post #31

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It’s astonishing people are so confident these are bots. No real evidence of that and it’s more likely they’re real. Occam’s razor.

The evidence came a bit further down with one commenter posting a picture of one being male in one post and female in another.

That's just evidence that multiple humans share the same account for whatever reason.

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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post #101
post #31

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It’s astonishing people are so confident these are bots. No real evidence of that and it’s more likely they’re real. Occam’s razor.

What about the initial guy that says he has a grandchild when he's like a young guy from the phillipines?

There does not exist a 1:1 correspondence between Twitter accounts and individual humans.

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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Can somebody explain how to parse the page linked here? This seems like deeplinking Intl the middle of a conversation. Side note: it feels like Twitter specifically has done immeasurable damage to the discourse. Why does the communication have to be presented so confusingly? To an outsider it seems like it’s to create maximum outrage/confusion/dopamine response. That’s much scarier to me than a customer service team.

Came here to ask the same. Twitter is utterly unreadble to me. Since they are linked to quite often, I once wanted to give them feedback that their website is pretty bad and _really_ annoying to use with a browser since they nag and nag and nag about using their app instead (just like reddit). Well, that was fruitless since they of course wanted me to have an account for that... The web is not as good nowadays unfort…

So when something of interest (to someone) happens on Twitter it should what? Be ignored? Be summarized without including a link?

You are not required to read every post on HN, and you can see on the front page which ones go to sites you don't like.

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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post #62
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Can somebody explain how to parse the page linked here? This seems like deeplinking Intl the middle of a conversation. Side note: it feels like Twitter specifically has done immeasurable damage to the discourse. Why does the communication have to be presented so confusingly? To an outsider it seems like it’s to create maximum outrage/confusion/dopamine response. That’s much scarier to me than a customer service team.

You scroll up, and then read each tweet. I refuse to believe HN users are this genuinely ignorant about such a basic website. It's really nowhere near as hard to read as anyone here makes it out to be.

The first tweet when I scroll up is an answer in the middle of the conversation. The actual start isn't visible. And if I need to scroll up in order to understand anything, why not load the page from the top instead of jumping to some random place? It's almost like any basic website does this better.

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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In my experience being in a union (against my preferences) it’s not implied, but a fact. Unions have sued their own members for speaking with managers about grievances.

My guess would be that it would be because the member is trying to cut an individual deal on a group problem. This is how the capitalist class practices divide and conquer.

What is the "capitalist class"?

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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post #15

Can somebody explain how to parse the page linked here? This seems like deeplinking Intl the middle of a conversation. Side note: it feels like Twitter specifically has done immeasurable damage to the discourse. Why does the communication have to be presented so confusingly? To an outsider it seems like it’s to create maximum outrage/confusion/dopamine response. That’s much scarier to me than a customer service team.

Scroll up and read downward. The UI allows you to link to a particular spot and then scroll to the top to read rest of context in chronological order.

Re: I feel like im talking to the borg

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post #62

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You scroll up, and then read each tweet. I refuse to believe HN users are this genuinely ignorant about such a basic website. It's really nowhere near as hard to read as anyone here makes it out to be.

The first tweet when I scroll up is an answer in the middle of the conversation. The actual start isn't visible. And if I need to scroll up in order to understand anything, why not load the page from the top instead of jumping to some random place? It's almost like any basic website does this better.

Because a user chose to link to a particular section?

Do you also complain when you get directly linked to a particular line of code in github or a readme?

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