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Hallo ich mache Philosophie, Technik und Gesellschaft.

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  • name a language that websites are written in that has less than a million users

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  • the problem is that even if you convince 5 million people to join your union and raise your wages, the other 295 million people in the country are then gonna take the opportunity to undercut you, which leads you to be fired as "too expensive" and other people to take your job.

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  • yeah i've made the same experience. they don't seem to actually store the fingerprint across each site visit? or they do but it changes continuously. in which case, good job firefox ❤️

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  • actually, what i've learned is that some people (probably the majority?) actually like being shown ads. that is, i believe, because many people have no inherent purpose of life. so they need to be told why they exist by someone else ("you must consume" is the message of ads. it gives people a purpose in life).

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  • I also pointed out that this was highly unethical because it’s using physiological data to manipulate someone into spending money. Indiscriminately.

    I said What about people with a shopping addiction.? Or kids using their parents credit cards. And you would be using this data to psychologically manipulate people for purchases but the data could be used in all sorts of other ways that really even more unethical.

    marketing is highly unethical in general. however, your points are kinda invalid. sure, children can use their parents' credit cards, but they can also burn the money with a lighter. children can do stupid things, and ideally such a purchase would be illegal and the parents eligible for a refund. or you would need a password to authenticate etc.

    however what is a real problem is that advertisement poisons our environment. when you step out on the street, there's ads everywhere. you can't go anywhere where there's no ads. the consequence is that your head is trapped in an eternal cobweb of "consume, consume, consume". you must consume, there is nothing else to do. that is the true horror that modern marketing has brought to us. psychologically hacking the brain to make us think about buying stuff all the time.

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  • yeah that can all (except language) happen browser-side easily

    and language, now the website knows i speak english. there's 1.5 billion people speaking english. that alone does not identify me.

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  • i agree with everything besides "it's our job to ..."

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  • yeah but now the website knows i speak english. that does not personally identify me. there are 5 billion people speaking english

    ok nvm it's 1.5 billion, still a lot.

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  • i think the word "engineer" has something to do with the word "ingenuity" ... now ask yourself, how much creative thinking do you need as a coder?

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    How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?

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    How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?

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  • matching news from more sources

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    How are you going to distinguish truth from AI, deepfakes, or just lies?

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    1. accept you don't know what's happening outside your 50km radius
    2. ?

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  • If tea tree oil and other bullshit actually worked, it would be a lot more expensive.

    hmm disagree here. i've got very effective medicine for a problem i had a year ago and it worked wonders. cost: $10 to produce, $15 over the counter.

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  • wait 10 years. worked for me. had the worst acne of anyone in the entire country. nothing worked, change of diet, antibiotics, skin care routine, etc failed as spectacularly as anything could possibly fail. it did nothing, and i mean absolutely nothing. anyone out there, reading this, saying "you should have just done x" shut up. it's not working that way.

    just wait 10 years and it will automagically disappear.

    (and i mean disappear as in "it's impossible that you've ever had acne. you have the cleanest skin that i've ever seen" type of disappear.)

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  • oh yeah, the Halting Problem: a machine that can make active decisions (such as a computer or a human brain) cannot predict its own future reliably. Meanwhile, an entity that can predict its own future reliably, has no power to change that future.

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  • Mining Energy in an Expanding Universe

    In principle, the expansion of the universe can be harnessed to provide energy. In a gedankenexperiment, energy is gained by connecting together widely separated bodies with strings. The tension and the energy generated are calculated for single strings. Mining energy in an expanding universe in this way raises unresolved issues concerning the conservation of energy. Apparently, the tethered-body experiment delivers "nascent" energy that previously did not exist in any identifiable and quantifiable form. It is argued that energy in a homogeneous and unbounded universe, in general, is not conserved on the cosmic scale.

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  • the problem of instagram is the addictive behavior, the gating of content behind you-need-an-account-to-view-this-content stuff, the neverending adware/spyware, etc.

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  • all the things you say you like are because there's no commercial incentive to get people hooked through addictive behavior. which automatically increases the platform's quality.

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  • i printed sticker and hand them out in real life

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    69 rule

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    guessing game

    answer some basic questions about the economy

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    TIL about the nuclear physics in fission (actually, just nuclear energy in general)

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    TIL about Pontic–Caspian steppe

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    humans in space

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    courier transform

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    trains rule

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    pls wait while we're updating your orb

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    rule

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    TIL about Thermoelectricity

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    it would be good to have a nice activitypub debugger

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    does linking to inv.nadeko.net count as piracy?

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    TIL that black holes were first predicted based on Newtonian physics

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    Welsh or C standard library function?