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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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?

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

What?

It's really weird that an app so lacking in security has a reputation for good security and privacy. In Israel there's a huge phenomena where the illegal weed trade went telegram (they call it telegrass) people actually have to give their identity (photo of themselves holding their ID) to potential dealers so the can buy some weed. Somehow people think it's reasonable to pass this sort of information because telegram is secured and encrypted.

How is that legal? Microsoft took on antitrust lawsuits for bundling its browser with its OS. This seems much worse.

Huh? In what way is it biased? I'm sure that if China wants talent to come, then they should be happy about this free publicity.

Is there any example of this assembly style of programming in Lisp?

Very nice explanation for the initiated. Thanks!

Fun to be a corporate under Trump. Big surprise

I don't get why should people be tolerant of bullies?

What about the crazy idea of nationalizing this? If it's a cartel and very hard to open to competition, and reap the benefits of centralization and not only the disadvantages.

This seems like a prologue for something interesting, but where the actual mass? It ends very abruptly. Too bad, i'de read more of there was any.

This is wrong. So wrong , money really blinds. The idea of for profit prisons is an abomination, giving incentives for increasing the amount of incarcerated people is crazy and sad. It is also asking for corruption.

The American version of freedom allows its people to hear multitudes of opinions and voice dissatisfaction from the system. So while the American and western model of government is flawed it has the potential to improve while minimizing violence needed to be employed in the process. This is why although I have much grievences with the current manifestation of the "American way" I still would rather have the American ideals prosper.

(I am Not an American, and I very much dislike its culture)

I'll answer here but it's relevant to most comments I got. True, we can have friendships which are not in meatspace as someone said here. And it's also true that even people you don't meet much could be meaningful friends. It's also true that Facebook presents it's self as a social network for connecting with our friends and this.might be seen as a failure in that respect. All that said, Facebook is a product, as a user you have the responsibility to use it wisely considering it's obvious limititations (i.e. nothing is perfect). If we consider we (the users) and Facebook to be in a customer-provider relationship , then they failed. But not morally, just professionaly, meaning, they provided a not perfect product. I just dont think we as users are Facebook's customers, we are the product. Even if we were, I still think the overall responsibility for our relationship with our friends is ours. I think what irked me the most was the use of this Facebook-algorithms-hurts-society template when it really isn't appropriate. No algorithms wouldn't change the outcome of this event. Without Facebook OP would still don't know about her friend's condition in real time,ormaybe at all. Usually this template is used to show effects of Facebook's algorithms on society that would never have happened if not for it's algorithms tuned for profit. If anything, this mindset that finds blame in Facebook s algorithms for an unfortunate but non novel event, is a much more interesting social effect. Meaning, the total natural delgation of responsibility to a company that uses you as product is pretty mind-blowing.