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If you know how to solve the network effect that would be great. Otherwise we might just end up trading one master for another.
Selective choice of inaction and complaints about that all play into the same tune, that facebook is the one doing the policing (sometimes). That's the root problem. If facebook were not the ultimate arbiter this article wouldn't have to exist in the first place.
The whole concept of "community standards" for a worldwide communication channel strikes me as newspeak for centralized moral policing.

Imagine the leading social network weren't facebook but vkontakte or weibo and they imposed their own standards on billions of people communicating with each other.

Filtering should be a tool available to individuals and delegatable to groups that are aligned with their own standards. As long as we don't get that there should be zero surprise about strain between differing standards.

If it's related to the thread scheduler yes. If it's related to compiler flags then the big sites probably have their own optimized builds of the encoders already.
Re:Nvidia Unveils Quadro RTX, a Raytracing GPU on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:08AM (#17756246)
enough photons to make you feel that momentum will also carry enough energy to vaporize you.
Any wins they make in interconnect efficiency could either be used to boost the power budget of existing cores or add even more cores.
Re:Alcubierre drive on Monday August 13, 2018 @07:40AM (#17749347)
Black holes and possibly topological defects.
Re:Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness on Thursday August 09, 2018 @12:34PM (#17725722)
Check the spec sheet of the bulbs, specifically the color temperature in kelvin. Ignore the "warm white" and similar marketing terms, they are too fuzzy.

A LED with low color temperature and high CRI should have pretty much the same spectrum as incandescent. If you want really low temperatures look for some retro filament style LED lights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature#Categorizing...

Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate on Thursday August 09, 2018 @11:00AM (#17724734)
But you could still do that without amp.js. Google would just have to push a validator that checks whether a page is the AMP-subset of HTML and CSS, doesn't do any sync loading, etc. etc.

And then the engineer could point at validator results.

Re:Six Months at Riot Games on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:46AM (#17724094)
> There is no valid reason for this.

Provoking an opponent into irrational behavior seems like a valid game strategy. In other words the language is not necessarily used for its face content but for its psychological effects.

Re:Six Months at Riot Games on Thursday August 09, 2018 @07:38AM (#17723267)
Most nasty things are rooted in group stereotypes, historic conflicts and the like. If it weren't divisive in some way it wouldn't be used as insult.