One more reason to for tech workers to start organizing.

Same car has grown by 5% over 15 years.

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Any qualified human review would immediately be able to distinguish and vastly improve both the false negative and false positive rates.

But because these tech companies devalue that kind of work they aren't willing to invest in it.

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It seems as though that case is still pending resolution.

For backend specifically, on the CMS team there's this job https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor... or a fun one with the cooking team https://nytimes.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Tech/job/New-Yor...

> In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, or Alibaba.

For context, Cloudflare currently handles around 10% of Internet requests.

Without a clear framework as a guide for content regulation, a small number of companies will largely determine what can and cannot be online.

On the second, thanks for the reference, haven't read that. Would be interested to hear how you think that change would lead to these effects.

And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?

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The actual reason links to studies are often left off articles (particularly in cases like this with sharp deadline pressure to publish fast before the competition) is that the software powering the editing and publishing workflow really badly needs improvement. An incredible amount of work and knowledge goes into a story like this.

Versioning rich text through many different software tools designed for writing/editing and publishing across many platforms is hard. Sometimes people copy/paste by hand and in doing so a link can go missing. The news industry needs more technologists to work on these problems. We're hiring for people to do that, by the way: http://developers.nytimes.com/careers/

(Also, the link to the study is now in.)

The desire to translate all nutritional research into diet advice is what leads to fad diets and horrific misunderstanding of what science knows and doesn't know about nutrition and metabolic pathways.