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As a Chicagoan, I'm tremendously relieved that we're (apparently) out of the running. I had much the same feeling when we were the first ones knocked out of contention for the 2016 Olympics, for being too transparently corrupt for the IOC, which is hilarious all by itself.
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Nov 6, 2018 07:17
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Tunicate posted:Am I the only one that finds it a little creepy for google to put this like an order? probably
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Nov 6, 2018 08:47
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Tunicate posted:Am I the only one that finds it a little creepy for google to put this like an order? its really funny that the tech companies are like VOTE PLEASE!!!!!!! because in reality there isnt a single state referendum they actually want me to vote for. every single one either doesnt affect them or would reduce their power over workers. yes, i bet google and amazon really want rent control in california so their workers aren't terrified of losing their jobs lol
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Nov 6, 2018 08:48
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Larry Parrish posted:its really funny that the tech companies are like VOTE PLEASE!!!!!!! because in reality there isnt a single state referendum they actually want me to vote for. every single one either doesnt affect them or would reduce their power over workers. yes, i bet google and amazon really want rent control in california so their workers aren't terrified of losing their jobs lol they dont actually care how you vote its a token show of fake patriotism to build goodwill with their brand friendo
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Nov 6, 2018 08:50
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I'm gonna vote to nationalize google and guillotine its owners
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Nov 6, 2018 16:20
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Peanut President posted:I'm gonna vote to nationalize google and guillotine its owners The crazy thing is just how much Goodwill they had to burn through to get there. Most people loving loved 2004 Google
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Nov 6, 2018 16:23
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google should be destroyed, not nationalized.
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Nov 6, 2018 16:32
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Prav posted:google should be destroyed, not nationalized. But how can I search the inter- oh yeah, you're right
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Nov 6, 2018 16:43
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in the wake of a destroyed google, the USA decides to nationalize Altavista
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Nov 6, 2018 17:12
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Rigged Death Trap posted:in the wake of a destroyed google, the USA decides to nationalize Altavista lmao if you think it won't be ask jeeves
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Nov 6, 2018 17:13
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ikanreed posted:But how can I search the inter- oh yeah, you're right user web search is a rounding error of what google does anyway
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Nov 6, 2018 17:20
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SlothfulCobra posted:I know that every city government wants to give Amazon a million perks because they think getting the company to come there would boost their economy (and probably it'll wind up like all those cities that pay through the nose for the olympics or the world cup and never see a dime), but why on Earth is the biggest city on the planet groveling for a big company? because they want all those new Amazon workers to vote for them. Amazon HQ2 will mostly employ well-paid white engineers and managers, and whether they're hired locally or come from afar hardly matters to these local and state officials who want to claim credit Larry Parrish posted:its really funny that the tech companies are like VOTE PLEASE!!!!!!! because in reality there isnt a single state referendum they actually want me to vote for. every single one either doesnt affect them or would reduce their power over workers. yes, i bet google and amazon really want rent control in california so their workers aren't terrified of losing their jobs lol they don't care what you vote for. after 2016, they're facing a lot of criticism for their impact on the political process, so they're making a very visible show of being apparently neutral and community-minded the fact that GOTV efforts inherently favor Dems is fine for them, because Dems are madder at them about 2016, and the slim chance of a Senate flip means that even big Dem victories will likely lead to a Congress too divided to regulate tech companies in any way
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Nov 6, 2018 17:25
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Prav posted:user web search is a rounding error of what google does anyway it shows since google search has become increasingly Bollocks and Shite the past few years. Used to be able to find what very specifically what I want in a few lines of results or one or two refinements of my search Now I get bombarded with completely unrelated poo poo.
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Nov 6, 2018 17:27
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Rigged Death Trap posted:it shows since google search has become increasingly Bollocks and Shite the past few years. yeah i stopped using google years ago. not because of any issues of conscience or privacy or any other hill i should be dying on, but because they just plain stopped giving me useful results.
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Nov 6, 2018 17:31
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yeah the reason that cities are falling over themselves to pay amazon to set up shop there is because the only constituents* city politicians care about are upper-class (usually white) professionals and its dogma among these people that the end-all solution to having a good city is to have as many upper-class professionals as possible *: not including donors, landlords, and multinational firms like amazon itself here because they arent the city politicians' constituents, theyre their bosses
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Nov 6, 2018 17:32
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Nov 6, 2018 17:49
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take the war to the street(view)s!!!
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Nov 6, 2018 20:09
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Rigged Death Trap posted:in the wake of a destroyed google, the USA decides to nationalize Altavista Azathoth posted:lmao if you think it won't be ask jeeves They'll have all the control they need when they take over the most popular browser around... 
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Nov 6, 2018 20:19
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thread adjacent: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/11/what-you-have-to-fear-from-artificial-intelligence definitely a worthwhile long form article to send to people who buy into that the AI is going to save us from the algorithm quote:The Christian mom isn’t the only bot to successfully antagonize men on Twitter. Sarah Nyberg developed a social justice feminist bot that would post statements like “feminism is good,” “patriarchy exists,” “Drudge Report fans are toxic and terrible,” “nothing true is ever said in gamergate” and then, in her words, “watch desperate internet assholes rush to yell at them.” Nyberg’s bot didn’t do much to conceal its true nature. It tweeted every ten minutes exactly, the only accounts it followed were bait shops, and its handle was @arguetron. But it was “honey for internet jerks” who would “spend hours and hours yelling at it.” @arguetron would reply to every reply with simple statements like “The data disagrees with you,” “Would you like a medal for being so wrong,” “That’s gibberish, try again,” or “You haven’t said anything i haven’t heard 1000 times before from other people who were also wrong.” Yet one InfoWars fan spent almost 10 hours trying to get the last word on feminism and social justice, with indignant comments like “Typical lib, when u can’t prove something you pretend the other side isn’t making sense.” Phone has issued a correction as of 16:56 on Nov 7, 2018 |
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Nov 7, 2018 16:53
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lol if you dont think twitter bots have annihilated the turing test when people are so loving dumb dystopia content - people putting little warm booties on their little dogs is peak dystopia to me not cyberpunk tho i guess
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Nov 7, 2018 17:44
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Prav posted:yeah i stopped using google years ago. not because of any issues of conscience or privacy or any other hill i should be dying on, but because they just plain stopped giving me useful results. is there a good replacement?
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Nov 7, 2018 17:48
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Food Boner posted:dystopia content - people putting little warm booties on their little dogs is peak dystopia to me not cyberpunk tho i guess people do this in cities because the ice melt on the sidewalks can irritate their paws or poison them if the dogs start licking their paws
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Nov 7, 2018 18:40
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Food Boner posted:
If the booties connect to a canine fitness app (earn points towards PetCo savings!) then it becomes cyberpunk.
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Nov 7, 2018 18:56
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RudeCat posted:If the booties connect to a canine fitness app (earn points towards PetCo savings!) then it becomes cyberpunk. hang on brb i have an unrelated meeting with some vcs fitbit can license the dog version under the brand name fitbtch
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Nov 8, 2018 00:49
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:people do this in cities because the ice melt on the sidewalks can irritate their paws or poison them if the dogs start licking their paws also its cute as heck
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Nov 8, 2018 00:56
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when you realize those dogs are their children because they can't afford a child, it goes back to dystopia
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Nov 8, 2018 01:53
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BULBASAUR posted:when you realize those dogs are their children because they can't afford a child, it goes back to dystopia Then it swings to utopia when you realize that means less humans in the future
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Nov 8, 2018 02:03
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i cant afford a dog so i have a cat instead
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Nov 8, 2018 02:44
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quote:[CA] Found out that work was monitoring my home computer when they fired me for watching porn on my own time at home - is this legal? (self.legaladvice) https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9ux3w8/ca_found_out_that_work_was_monitoring_my_home/
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Nov 8, 2018 02:49
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lmaoing at that bots vs trolls article
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Nov 8, 2018 03:01
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also apparently those flying omnipresent camera drones from half life 2 are gonna be real
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Nov 8, 2018 03:04
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BULBASAUR posted:when you realize those dogs are their children because they can't afford a child, it goes back to dystopia nah a lot of them can totally afford it they just choose not to. hard to blame them.
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Nov 8, 2018 04:00
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jimmyjams posted:also apparently those flying omnipresent camera drones from half life 2 are gonna be real They already exist, they're called "smartphones"! *Impresses everyone a decade ago*
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Nov 8, 2018 04:03
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jimmyjams posted:also apparently those flying omnipresent camera drones from half life 2 are gonna be real i seem to remember someone built a near-literal one a couple of years ago. sure it had rotors, but otherwise it looked the same.
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Nov 8, 2018 04:16
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jimmyjams posted:also apparently those flying omnipresent camera drones from half life 2 are gonna be real im waiting for the drone swarms from cod:advanced warfare
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Nov 8, 2018 04:28
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Platystemon posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9ux3w8/ca_found_out_that_work_was_monitoring_my_home/ Hahahahaha
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Nov 8, 2018 04:44
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Shot: https://twitter.com/mogwai_poet/status/1060286856493813760?s=19 Chaser:
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Nov 8, 2018 05:30
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i think it's safe to say that we've reached a point where the ai is smarter than the researchers. which apparently wasn't a very high bar at all.
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Nov 8, 2018 05:32
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"Genetic algorithms for image classification evolves timing attack to infer image labels based on hard drive storage location" Neat.
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Nov 8, 2018 09:30
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yeah but this is how evolution actually works, it's side-effects all the way down some people spend their time doing drugs and masturbating even though the underlying mechanism of pleasure is meant to enhance their reproductive success
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Nov 8, 2018 09:54
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