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vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It's hard, these apps are built by a huge amount of people to maximize attention hogging and addiction. Fighting addiction without going cold turkey is nearly impossible. Awareness usually doesn't help. Further more, it is hard teaching people to think critically while their faces are stuck to their phone.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I don't get why they don't use lotteries. Have a grade cutoff, then choose at random. You should get unbiased results. The remaining bias is grade bias which would reflect poor schools and their corellation with ethnicity. Which will give a clearer startegy for intervention.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Mean while corrupting and wrecking other countries healthy(ish) national health systems? No thank you.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

The issue isn't fakes, it's the fact over medication is a real problem. Thank heavens that where I live drug advertising is illegal. After a visit to the US and encountering the brainwash machine of drug companies I realized just how important this law is.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

So they'll drop it on the driver?! The whole setup was an accidental waiting to happen. Uber executives should be held responsible or this will happen again and again.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

But it's not just studying a phenomena. "driving desire" is an intervention and usually a neutral way of describing massive exploitation of human cognitive failings for purposes of monetary gains. Money is supposed to be a proxy measure for value, but these "desire driving" strategies are optimizing for the proxy. It's the ultimate manifestation of Goodhart's Law. You can very easily stop providing real value and still make money. Mind you, I'm not a communist and I see the advantages of a free market. But its failings stem from this problem. The only way to overcome these failings is by being critical. Like articulating distate for "desire driving" loudly and clearly. Hopefully this would lead to self regulating economical players which would allow us more freedom from actual formal violently enforced state laws. I do agree that teaching these strategies, critically, to high school students is a very good idea.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I wonder if this shipping fees asymptote is the reason Amazon never shows me shipping rates until the last possible moment in the checkout process. That drives me crazy. They don't even show me if the item ships to my country until I try to pay for it... Arghhh

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Why is this an AMP link and not a direct link?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Why do you consider 170000 law abiding citizens as potential suspects? That's an extremely paranoid approach to law enforcement, especially when according to basic criminal law, these citizens are supposed to be considered innocent by default. Mass automatic surveillance of this reverses the idea of innocent until proven guilty without actually aknowleding it. That's scary

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

It seems Google is more sensitive to false positive than false negative because of their very good compensation and the relative high demand for Google jobs + the unbalanced high costs of a false positive. At their scale they can afford playing the stats and not be bothered with individuals. Further more any promising rejected engineer will be asked to try again every six months which alleviate the false negative problem. seems reasonable from this perspective.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Which malicious actions by telegram? Providing their customers with private communication not eavesdropped by the russian government? A government linked with the murder of political oposition personalities? If the Russian government decided to ban Amazon and make law abiding Russian businesses suffer the responsibility lays on the Russian government,not Amazon. I personally think that if Amazon would ban telegram and succumb to the heavy handed Russian policy it'll hurt the law abiding Russian citizen ability to express any dissatisfaction with their government and decisions. This would directly lead to a government that governs for the sake of its own existance and not for the betterment of its citizens. How could it if it doesn't allow the citizens to express their wishes and plights? But that is an internal Russian issue which I believe the Russians should deal with however they like. My interest in Amazon not succumbing is the effect it'll have around the world. I would not like my government to get such ideas because it directly affects my rights.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I think the problem is market economy. Media organizations are businesses which are organisms that focus on the bottom line. I.e. making as much money as possible. Usually the only way to fix these market failures ( I consider this dissonance between monetray value and actual long term value to be a market failure) is with formal regulations or non formal moral regulation. The former is tricky and the latter is requires cohesive cultural values and structures. Sadly (imo) the most effective coltural structures are religious.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Thanks

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I don't see anything about nationalistic sentiment in that wiki page.

Still I have no idea why you replied to my comment in the first place. It had nothing to do with what I posted.

It's good for you that you like genz, but maybe next time tell it to someone that's interested in that fact.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

That's pretty Orwellian. It completely muddles the water and make it very hard to separate opinion and fact. Sounds dangerous to me.

Anyway, let me get it straight. you didn't mean that Gen Z is a real thing i.e. its existance is based on facts. Just that you agree with the supposed opinions of this hypothetical construct?

This makes your original reply even more baffling to me as it really has nothing to do with my comment. I guess I should've been more explicit.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Claiming something is based literally means it's based on something. That something is usually expected to be some fact or some research. If that something is just your opinion, than it's misleading to use the term based. The whole point of my original reply to the OP was seeking citations for his claim. Why did you even reply if it was just to add an opinion?

Why are you still on the whole global government thing? It has nothing to do with this discussion.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I never said sovereign states aren't a good idea. I believe they are, but I also believe the nationalistic sentiment is a double edged sword. But all of this has nothing to do with my comment. The point was, You fire off with unbased claims that are tainted by paranoia. As a joke I referenced similiar type of claims. I guess It was a mistake since it gave you an easy out from actually substinating your claims.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

I believe the title is clickbatey. The article clearly states that only 2% of affected devices were in Iran, while the Lion's share was in the US. Could someone fix this?

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Let me guess, it's well funded by Goerge Soros and a cabal of old Jews. But seriously, non of what you said is "well based" you should at least provide some sources when you use this term.

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

> Given the recent surge in nationalistic sentiment among young people in the tech community in the last decade

What?