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The Dubious Art of the Dad Joke

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107 points·by jamesfe·4 anni fa·118 comments

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jamesfe
·4 anni fa·discuss
This exactly. I once tried the twitter game, I thought it was important to have a big following or say clever things, whatever.

I was lightly burned by a tweet (of my own authoring) once, and I thought "I make $XYZ per year, twitter pays me nothing, this joke tweet caused me a lot of stress, the odds that being on twitter will get me cancelled will cost me $XYZ are non-zero and I don't control them"

Then I deleted all my tweets and my twitter account (8 years ago) and life has been really nice without it!
jamesfe
·5 anni fa·discuss
What you really want is NROL-11 which inadvertently revealed the classified location of the payload: https://gizmodo.com/decoding-hidden-messages-in-those-geeky-...
jamesfe
·5 anni fa·discuss
TL;DR "People watch fewer videos if they see more dislikes which means we make less ad revenue, the result of this A/B test is we will continue to optimize for ad rev"
jamesfe
·5 anni fa·discuss
Is it? How do they bill you without knowing how much data you transferred? How do they debug what went wrong with your connection without logs?

This stuff is barely scratching the surface of the data those companies collect and maintain, likely for long periods of time, just to analyze and improve customer experience.
jamesfe
·5 anni fa·discuss
I'm not sure I understand - it took me 28 keystrokes to type 13 characters. The value must come from somewhere, where is it?