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New comment by mdanger007 in "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me"

mdanger007 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:21:37 +0000

Absolutely. The public doesn’t care what word games you play or what rights you allocate yourself in a terms of service if you pull off something shady you deserve all the bad publicity you get

New comment by mdanger007 in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

mdanger007 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:13:47 +0000

I think we basically agree on the need for long-term positions and cultures to develop things like CRISPR and Quantum. What my original post refers to is that the average FAANG employee stays at the company for a little over a year these are the free agency moves that hurt technology in innovations like the ones you mentioned..

New comment by mdanger007 in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

mdanger007 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:26:34 +0000

That’s the point

New comment by mdanger007 in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

mdanger007 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:18:21 +0000

I appreciate your response, but I just don’t think any of the technologies you cite come close to the foundational technologies they rely upon like information theory or wire message transmission. Foundational technologies require time, culture and investment not just an influx of VC cash, and a few months of clever experimentation

New comment by mdanger007 in "More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD"

mdanger007 — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 16:13:38 +0000

Street fight videos, where the guy recording is Hooting and egging people on are disgusting

New comment by mdanger007 in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

mdanger007 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:47:47 +0000

Good call!

New comment by mdanger007 in "The NBA's Problem Is Economics, Not Basketball"

mdanger007 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:32:58 +0000

Tech companies have the same problems as the NBA. there used to be career stars like Claude Shannon developing cultures of excellence out of teams like IBM, but just like Larry Bird and the Celtics, the free agent market and stars chasing the dollar has diminished the culture and thus the product.

New comment by mdanger007 in "Feds help health insurers hide their dirty secret: denials on the rise"

mdanger007 — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:23:30 +0000

America is the land of stand your ground laws in which a citizen may legally take a life if they feel endangered. Let's not forget the 1000 or so police kill every year.

New comment by mdanger007 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

mdanger007 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 10:45:21 +0000

We amateur criminologist assume intent in every clue. But Luigi, just like Roskalnikov, probably was a mixture of guilt, incompetence, and mental breakdown, as the reality of his situation and its hopelessness took over his thoughts.

New comment by mdanger007 in "Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages"

mdanger007 — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:34:31 +0000

Not what I’m reading. People on my timeline are asking why we’re forced to pay into a feudal system in which health coverage is not guaranteed leaving them with hospital bills in the tens of thousands of dollars for minor procedures after their claim was arbitrarily denied. Others are asking how in the wealthiest nation on earth 1 million people go bankrupt from medical bills when guys like this CEO are making $56 million a year

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mdanger007 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:23:04 +0000

Yes! This is the nuance I’m looking for. There are issues with corporations exploiting our private lives and data but if one were to find someone’s family photo album left sitting around it doesn’t seem horrible to me to take a look.

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mdanger007 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:20:14 +0000

I don’t know if you intentionally take my point out of context, but the man was arguing that it ruined his day because there were such things as sex in these random clips.

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mdanger007 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:18:32 +0000

If your issue is the unwitting use of people’s images for corporate profit I think we can agree that especially irksome when it’s children. But does it ruin your day or seeing especially exploitative to see a child at a petting zoo or celebrating their birthday like maybe one in a dozen clip show or is there room for nuance?

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mdanger007 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 19:21:35 +0000

Are we watching the same YouTube clips?

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mdanger007 — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:21:54 +0000

Ruined your day? Although it is undoubtedly tech voyeurism the fact that these observations occur in every day life and don’t violate people’s privacy I would just like to invite you to get out more.

New comment by mdanger007 in "Review of "Statistics" by Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (2017)"

mdanger007 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:46:34 +0000

Common sense is overrated. Shakespeare, Neumann, Da Vinci… great thinkers didn’t think common common sense caught up with them

New comment by mdanger007 in "Brits are scrolling away from X and aren't that interested in AI"

mdanger007 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 00:36:08 +0000

The web in general sucks for quickly finding information. from the essays that proceed a recipe or a news site which autoplays an irrelevant video on every story. It not only wastes time it waste your phone data. The ChatGPT search feature has eliminated the junk and gives me the info I’m looking for.

New comment by mdanger007 in "'PDF to Brainrot' study tools are an iteration on a TikTok trend"

mdanger007 — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 12:45:10 +0000

Begs the question, innit?

New comment by mdanger007 in "Python’s Preprocessor"

mdanger007 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:25:53 +0000

Tied with Coq for best name

New comment by mdanger007 in "Low-income homes drop Internet service after Congress kills discount program"

mdanger007 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 00:42:15 +0000

Get real dude. You try getting out of work and then driving to a library for internet to do some work. Now have someone drive you to the library and pick you up cuz you don't have a driver's license. And pack yourself a snack because you're going to be hungry and after school. Cancel all engagements with your friends. Your library closes at 6:00. But you need to finish this report and it's going to take all night... Should I go on?