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Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by toper-centage »

nikolay wrote: post #165
bitexploder wrote: post #160

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I did have a hard time taking any of what he wrote seriously. It was not thought provoking for me and I felt it wasn’t deep or interesting. It’s interesting in the sense that it is useful to know where FB may be headed, but when I think of Facebook all I see is another advertising company looking for more ways to put ads in front of captive eyeballs.

One thing I can't understand is why Facebook is still around. But, at the same time, Twitter is still around, too. I guess people got tired switching platforms.

While I don't actively use Facebook the way I use twitter, I've kept my account for messenging because its the only way to keep in touch with old friends and family. People change numbers, names, locations. Facebook is my Phonebook, in a way.

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Post by dang »

keiferski wrote: post #218
dang wrote: post #213

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The problem is that these perceptions are very much in the eye of the beholder. As the saying goes, things have always been getting worse. If anyone can come up with an objective measure for any of this, I'd be interested. As far as I can tell, though, these perceptions are strongly affected by the fact that the things that we dislike make a much stronger impression than the rest of what we see. From my perspective,…

While I think "degenerating" is a strong word, I do think there is a noticeable drop in the quality of comments since a decade ago. I don't have any hard data on this, but I think it's fairly obvious if you dig around in the archive. There used to be a more academic and countercultural feeling to commentary, as well. Maybe some metrics to investigate are: number of words per comment, vocabulary level of the average c…

I dig around in the archive a lot, and that's not obvious to me at all. There was a lot of variance in the past and there's a lot of variance now.

Number of words per comment would be easy enough to measure, but I'm not sure length is a good indicator of quality—not everyone who goes on at length has much to say. Your vocabulary link is interesting though—thanks! I've made a note to look into that.

Edit: since you mentioned "academic", I was thinking of your comment when I noticed the top two comments in the current Sci-Hub discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22008977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22009107

To me that seems more common than it used to be, and a good sign. But it could just be sample bias.

Edit 2: here's another, randomly run across today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22012673. Not academic, but technical in an unexpected way. There are a lot of physicians posting to HN.

Edit 3: or check out the top comment of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025961

Edit 4: and of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21963509

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by mistermann »

Ensorceled wrote: post #326
mistermann wrote: post #319

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> Just disputing that a citation was required for that claim in this forum. The ask was: "Citations to your references would be appreciated ." It's true that a citation is not needed, but including one adds value , in that it increases efficiency.

Curious what wording you would have liked from me here? > Just disputing that a citation was appreciated for that claim in this forum. There is no word to replace required that wouldn't be open to your complaint; e.g. needed, necessary, Yes, a citation would always be appreciated, but it's gate keeping to ask people to always provide citations when not truly necessary.

> There is no word to replace required that wouldn't be open to your complaint; e.g. needed, necessary

Appreciated is an appropriate word, you subconsciously swapped in required.

A citation is required if the goal is to maximize constructive communication - if that's the goal, of course.

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Post by jedieaston »

gpvos wrote: post #223
CaptainZapp wrote: post #190

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Huh, I just want my heads up life display because...why not? Assuming that your heads-up live display contains a public facing camera here's: Why not! I don't like sitting in a bar (or a strip club, or in any other semi-public, or even public dodgy or non-dodgy place) and you hang there with your heads-up live display recording my image. I don't like the fact that it's uploaded to some tech behemoth' server for furth…

I thought Google Glass had some success within companies?

It currently is having success in enterprise, albeit probably in environments where everyone signed a waiver or Google said they weren't beaming data from the glasses anywhere the company didn't want it to go.

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Post by mikelyons »

saq7 wrote: post #327
arminiusreturns wrote: post #305

Ignoring his ramblings, but saying what I think will be important: Control. The problem with technological advances today aren't with the tech itself, it's that the burst of consumer users allowed people like apple to turn computing into a user prison where the user has no control. This then set a standard, and many people have grown up without ever using a free and open source piece of software. So AR and VR and AI…

The dream of open source isn't any closer to being realized than it has ever been. Open source enthusiasts tend to overlook the fact that most people don't want control. Control is difficult to handle and requires a lot more energy and effort than ceding the control to another entity. This isn't strictly a terrible thing. Anyone who has chosen to share their life with a partner gets that it is a lot easier if you div…

So then the greater holy war is to make control easier and more friendly so that more people desire it.

Re: Things that I think will be important in the next decade

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Post by Ensorceled »

mistermann wrote: post #333
Ensorceled wrote: post #326

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Curious what wording you would have liked from me here? > Just disputing that a citation was appreciated for that claim in this forum. There is no word to replace required that wouldn't be open to your complaint; e.g. needed, necessary, Yes, a citation would always be appreciated, but it's gate keeping to ask people to always provide citations when not truly necessary.

> There is no word to replace required that wouldn't be open to your complaint; e.g. needed, necessary Appreciated is an appropriate word, you subconsciously swapped in required . A citation is required if the goal is to maximize constructive communication - if that's the goal, of course.

You missed my point, I deliberately swapped so you could see how that word doesn't work. Clearly we are talking by each other on this.
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