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Are chatboxes actually effective?

I hate them with a burning passion. They take up half the screen on mobile, hiding the content I want to see, they often have annoying sounds & animations, and they are always present on pages where I don't expect them to be. A chatbox blocker would be a killer addition to the ABP browser on mobile.

Why not create a "Chat with us" page that loads the chatbox instead of force feeding it to every user who comes to your site, wasting bandwidth and load performance?
> Remote-only cuts out the in-person experience entirely, which is problematic for building teams and culture

The people who say this are the people you never see doing any work. They use the office as a social gathering place. They seemingly have no real job, despite a lofty title and high salary. They are the bane of existence for high functioning employees.

This is one of the few hills I will die on. I've never heard of a productive critical employee complaining about not being in an office. Every single one loves remote work because they can actually get work done.
There are two business models here:

1. Community is free for members, organizers pay Openland for premium features. This is useful for businesses who use communities for volunteer management, lead generation, product sales, support, and referral programs.

2. Members pay organizers, Openland takes the cut. This is useful for various "knowledge products": premium content, consulting, coaching, courses, mastermind groups, and networking clubs.
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Whether true or not, this is irrelevant to the thread.

But worth pointing out that almost all storefronts control what they allow vendors to write there.

There is nothing illegal about this, and if this is making people bark like a seal, all retailers and all app stores do it.
Gnome 3.38 AFAIK has biometrics support.
No, the Republicans have definitely lost credibility. I think it’s a safe prior that anything a Republican says about weird convoluted plots this close to an election should be discounted.
We've come full circle. Word of mouth is all you can trust. The Internet as a great "disintermediation" medium is over.
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I too was involved in OSS wrt Government in the early 2000s and Office file formats were a huge moat that prevented a lot of adoption of OSS within government.

MS did a really good job of pushing off web technologies as threat to their platform. We are only now getting to where we should have been. Netscape was way too naive and MS saw two or three steps ahead and blocked their move.
I think all of what you are describing is a symptom of letting the "co-worker" facet of a relationship dominate all other facets. In other comments I've been using the term "work friends", but I use that term loosely because the reality is that they are first and foremost "friends", it just so happens that our friendship was first kindled through work.

For me, being co-workers is just one small facet of our friendship. We do talk about work sometimes, just like sometimes we talk about sports teams we have in common or other hobbies. But we don't only talk about work. I don't feel that my perspective is limited at all because my co-workers have introduced me to their spouses, who might be in totally different industries, or to new hobbies such as surfing or soccer, or brought me along on trips to new places or encouraged me to volunteer. All of these things have expanded my perspective greatly, and if you trace them back far enough, all of them are originating from my co-workers.

In your startup example, I have been on teams where this culture was the case, and certainly with some people I have completely lost touch after they/I left the team. But for others, even though we worked together work was not the dominating reason that we were friends. When I left the team we lost that one facet of our relationship, but our friendship still survives because we have many other facets that facilitate it.

So I think the problem isn't when someone's social circle aligns strictly with work. I think that's fine. I think the problem you are describing is when it turns into a "work-dominant social circle" rather than "a social circle that just happens to have the same employer in common".

Furthermore, I think the "anti work friend" attitude is counterproductive to this. People are saying "don't spend your time building friendships with co-workers because if you leave work you will lose your friend". But if you carry this attitude and don't build a friendship that is strong outside of work, then of course your perspective is going to be limited to work, and of course you will lose your friendship with that person once your work ends. It's a self fulfilling prophecy.
I don't think it's the sites wandering that's the problem; it's that they're all inexorably pulled from being color commenters to being refs, and once they become refs, people start to work them. It's hard to think of a way you could run a fact checking site without this dynamic playing out, because the better you are, the more people will depend on you as a referee.
Blind also has a relentlessly negative tone that verges on toxic. Sometimes it's difficult separating the genuine opinions from the trolling.
No, they take money from service providers: https://www.angieslist.com/faq/how-does-angies-list-make-mon...
This should be unlawful if it already isn't.

So I hope there are legal pursuits.

And our government should be able to act.

If that's really not possible then maybe we can create an AI that makes fake accounts and starts to write something that looks like reviews but actually just explains that Glassdoor is being dishonest and relating specific examples such as in this thread. Or maybe a link to an anti-Glassdoor website.
What burden of proof are you talking about? You're saying that a burden of proof needs to be met before what, exactly?

I am not saying they have met a burden of proof, I'm saying that we don't censor news articles (even sensational or thinly sourced ones) because they haven't yet met a burden of proof.
Look up https://nlnet.nl/ they demux big EU grants to small projects that aren't well equipped to apply on their own.

It has been solving the problem you mention very well.
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there is always the exception to the rule and i'm glad that your workplace is an environment you can share stuff like that. however, for most of us, we would get fired or condemned if we spoke freely like that.
> and we all know how that turned out.

With a bunch of Trump campaign and administration officials admitting in federal court to collaborating with Russian government?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates...
Elon Musk's immaturity may affect the perceived legitimacy of his own company, but his actions don't affect the perceived legitimacy of an entire category of the economy like such a jetpack exploit would.
Judges do not enforce laws, they apply laws to specific situations, otherwise known as interpreting the law.

“Congress shall make no law” is the text of the first amendment, which is in regard to limiting free expression, not expanding it.
I didn't make it a race thing. With all due respect, which is very little based on your comportment in this discussion, kindly find another community to flame.
I meant that playing supercollider sound effects in a web browser would normally mean rendering static files. Naturally I wasn't suggesting it can't play audio in realtime.
while that may be true, you know that all ATC meetings had this reported to them so they are all aware and on the look out for it. it only goes to make sense. if someone was developing a jetpack unit, they would need to do multiple test flights. if they were dumb enough to do it the first time, they are probably willing to do it a second time.
Nice explanation; I never thought about this in such a logical way (although intuitively I'd known the answer)
My position is that the problems exist well in advance of season 8 but that in seasons 5/6 it still felt as if there was enough runway for things to land safely.

This turned out not to be the case. Partially due to creator disinterest (by some accounts, HBO was essentially pushing to give them 10+ seasons with generous budgets) and partially due to a writing style that prioritized "big moments" over character/world building and consistency.

I think this is best exemplified by Arya's "House of Black and White" arc (light spoilers) in season 6. The arc setup is that the Faceless master tells her constantly "To become Faceless you must discard your identity completely -- become no one" while Arya secretly refuses to discard the literal symbol of her identity (her sword, Needle, hidden near the temple). This tension is then essentially just ignored and seemingly forgotten for the entire arc which ends with her being accepted by the master as a Faceless Woman (as "no one") while also maintaining her identity as Arya Stark (by keeping Needle). Nothing in her story ever refutes, upholds, or explores this contradiction. Like many other potentially interesting things, it is brought up superficially (possibly by accident) then lost in the shuffle as the show rushes to the next "big moment".
I hope we can agree to argue about spilled milk doesn't help anyone. Especially when this spilled milk is used now to basically discredit very relevant organizations in the midst of a pandemic. But maybe you can share some recent fuck ups from the side of the WHO, real fuck ups and not opinions that changed over time as they learned more and more about COVID-19.
While I agree that the liberal-run tech firms are biased against conservative news sources, I think it is only fair to point out that the list you link is compiled and presented by a conservative organisation that has apparently been under criticism for its own approach to covid reporting (see the wiki page; and yes, I think wikipedia seems often liberal-biased), and can not be considered a neutral voice in this particular discussion.

That doesn't mean the list isn't valid; but it can't be assumed it is balanced.
For the 500 millionth time, section 230 says absolutely nothing about impartiality. And about moderation all it says is "Do as much as you like, even more than the government requires. You won't be liable."

Seriously, actually go read section 230 instead of relying on Internet commenters to tell you what it is.
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The change in journalism is one of the most important developments in recent decades. While always a business the economic incentives have completely changed and thus the product has been reshaped to best profit from the new environment. Things like accuracy and objectivity are now counterproductive both increasing costs and losing revenue.

Taibbi’s book does a good job of explaining these changes but the situation is still evolving and the definitive analysis has yet to be written. Much like the news today the story has to be pieced together from multiple sources with varying biases including outright misinformation.

I’m starting to think that this is the actual “normal” information situation. It’s everyone’s responsibility to determine the truth for themselves by comparing multiple sources, getting primary information and thinking hard about what’s going on.
Free speech is factually not a civil right in the US currently. Do you know what the definition of a civil right is?
They don't sell replacements, although I've heard of people DIY-ing it. However, the far bigger issue in my opinion is that when the printer detects that the absorber is full, it throws an error code (5B00) that prevents the printer from functioning, and can only be reset by the manufacturer.

I have yet to get a full tank out of one, and very much regret buying them.
Say, for the sake of argument, that you had $100m pa to invest in open source. What/how would you do?
What makes you think I’m defending Apple there?

That quoted statement is obviously true.

How does it “defend Apple” to state the truth?
Wow. How can someone be so naive as the Reddit poster? It has been like this forever. Glassdoor in the US, Kununu in Germany, Vorkers in Japan are all company propaganda companies.

Also it's just my pet peeve but I hate it when people call this bullshit public relations. This is simply corporate brainwashing and propaganda and makes one wonder when did it become OK to use such tools as purposeful deceit (something that countries used in order to indoctrinate their population) in order to gain profit?
I read Kernigan's memoir on Unix and one of the things that surprised me is how much of the book is devoted to Bell Labs trying to get their fucking printer to work. These are people like Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Alfred Aho, and the like wasting months on the broken drivers and flaky hardware of their document printer.
I love this idea.

There are already processes and procedures in place, it piggy backs on a lot of existing relationships. NSF?
> So, my point is, regardless of the thin-client / thick-client cycle, there's a real value to this product. It isn't for everyone but there's no denying its utility, especially when you consider the fact that most SaaS tools are browser-friendly.

Oh, to be clear, my post wasn't intended as a criticism of Cloudflare! Yes, Browser Isolation looks like it could be a great product.

If I sounded frustrated—which also wasn't intended—my frustration was with the industry more generally, for moving between technologies too quickly without learning from the past.
1. That the FBI subpoenaed the laptop is sort of interesting. That usually requires a grand jury, doesn't it? But this is really weird:

>During the subsequent summer and fall, Mac Isaac said he became alarmed after browsing through the computer's files. He claims he then spoke with an associate more versed than him in the law and in current events.

>That unnamed person then contacted the FBI, Mac Isaac said.

>Federal investigators from Wilmington and Baltimore then subpoenaed the laptop in December, Mac Isaac said.

>Shortly after, they called Mac Isaac asking him to assist them, technically, in viewing the files on the damaged hard drive, he said.

>Mac Isaac admitted that the request raised his own suspicion, given that the FBI has its own technical staff.

2. This doesn't seem like the kind of thing a reputable shop would be doing with someone's property (poking around inside, sending it to Giuliani). Could it have violated the law?

3. The stories tell what we already knew: Hunter tried to cash in on his dad, while living the loser life of an addict. Won't change my vote.
> Do you remember printing in 2000? Literally every printer was suffering from constant paper jams and other mechanical malfunctions. In 2020 a top consumer or business printer will not jam on you.

A cheap consumer printer will jam on you and tear the paper to shreds, yet the drivers are still proprietary and you still get ripped off on cartridges.
> what a modern desktop OS should look like

I take this as a joke. There is nothing modern-looking about it. Geeky, yes. Not designed for touch interface. Resembles Oberon, which I would not call modern, either. Maybe, we are not ready for it yet. Belongs in the future, then. (Or, more likely, in the past.)
you can be neutral about this political party or that party and still seeks to encourage truth and goodness and discourage lies and badness, as you see it.
Yes, especially for quickly resolving support problems. It's a much more efficient way to communicate complex issues in both directions. Imagine how long a 10 message email chain takes in real time to resolve in comparison. Assumes you have responsive and knowledgeable operators though.
As blockchains are slow and inefficient databases, it's only reasonable to employ them where censorship resistance is required. If no one is trying to censor what you are doing, avoid blockchains. I believe torrents have shown their censorship resistance.

So if it's not for discovery or censorship resistance, what could it be for? Efficiency? Vertical integration of hard drives into the highest density 4u space is already open source. For instance 60 drives in 4u: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv...

Backblaze and others also use vertical integration to get better prices from all vendors for the drives, connectivity, and they even use fancy parity systems to get redundancy across machines with minimal overhead. Distributed (horizontal) scaling loses to vertical integration.

So what are you left with? Yet another token, with a proof of storage instead of proof of hashing or proof of memory hard hashing, or proof of time locking (caveat, I founded a cryptocurrency based on that last one, for inflation only, consensus is still vanilla POW.) At least one or two "usuable" things came out of the billions wasted of 2017 ICO money... I guess.
While I agree with your, let's call them reservations, about the quality of said software written by scientists who are not professional software engineers -- I still believe it would be a net benefit to the world if Congress tied all federally funded research dollars to an open source license, up to and including disclosure on hardware specifications and firmware source code.

I've got a friend on the data science/visibility team at CERN, and she has some fun stories. It's absurd to me that the reproducibility path for so much modern day research in nearly every field passes through proprietary closed source software, proprietary pre-compiled signed binaries, ditto for firmware, and then (sometimes) hardware where the entirety of the documentation consists of 'A service contract with the vendor'.

The reproducibility crisis in the sciences right now is essentially an excess of inputs and deficit of testing those inputs -- closed source hardware/software is not helping.
It's frustrating Twitter and Facebook won't just say the truth:

"This is a blatant attempt at disinformation by politicians who have repeatedly attacked our employees, and we don't want it. It's our web site, stop trying to tell us what our own rules are. Go spread your nonsense somewhere else.

If you think this is a 230 violation sue us."
The idea that Muslim women in general are wearing headscarves because their "fathers/spouses" would beat them otherwise is a slur, and has no place here.
That might have been a problem 10-20 years ago, but I'm quite willing to take the risk and win big today.

Remember we need something like this to counter the "breaking up FAANG is bad for national security" narrative.
I don't understand why this is so controversial.

You cannot reveal personal details of someone on Twitter (email, phone number etc.) The article contained unreacted personal info so should be blocked.

You also cannot link directly to hacked/obtained without consent material on twitter. The article contained screenshot of the material so should be blocked.

You CAN link to material that discusses hacked/obtained without consent material on Twitter as long as it does not contain the material. eg. Trump Tax Return story by NYT.
It's more a matter of community than of trying to get one over on God. The identity is "We are the people who follow these rules," and in particular, "others are those who don't". Compare it to Western revulsion at people who eat insects or dogs, even though they're as nutritious and safe as anything we eat.

The rules come from God because Jews consider themselves a chosen people. They don't particularly want you to follow those rules or concern yourself with the mechanics of them, because they're not about you. The fact that it doesn't make sense is perfectly fine.

Interpreting those rules in a modern context is every bit as arcane and arbitrary as the rules were in the first place. The important part is that they come to a conclusion and follow them together. That cements the society as a group.

It doesn't really matter what God thinks, either. If God had a contrary opinion, He'd say so. There is, for that matter, a famous story about rabbis coming to a conclusion that God explicitly sends messages against, but is pleased that they have used their reason.

The Jews put a lot more weight on community and a lot less on trying to please their deity by following the rules. It just so happens that the rules really are both things.
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Section 230 has nothing to do with neutrality. Indeed, the whole point of 230 is to make it easier for sites that host user content to not be neutral.
I love Spacy, but I was recently trying to embed documents with it and it seems that it uses word-vector averaging for that. Is it possible to do sentence or paragraph embedding like sentenceBert?
Sometimes, doing nothing is even illegal, eg not helping someone who is in danger when one can do so at no risk, or sometimes, not reporting an ongoing crime (I think they can be illegal, here where I am)
> Or as they use to say, we lose money on each unit but we'll make it up in volume.

I believe this is a joke, no? I.e. you can't lose money on each unit and "make it up in volume."
Adopt a pet, if you can.

My dog is my work buddy. He's always around, gives me an excuse to take a lunchtime walk, always available for cuddles when I need it. I have a family, that are with me in the evenings, but a pet during the day is a great companion.
The comment wasn't intended as "bait". I used to be in the camp that money was basically all that was necessary to drive an election. Trump's campaign proved me wrong. The establishment did everything they could to discredit him. He spent basically half the money as his competitor. He still won.

I think money is still a problem in politics, but I think the model that money is the driving contributor is too simple.

As an aside, “neither” is an option in the U.S. but too many people have been convinced a third party vote is equivalent to throwing their vote away and thus it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy
Twitter and Facebook: Spreading garbage right wing conspiracies about Clinton Assassinations, Pizzagate Child Porn, Obama Terrorism connections, and so on for the better part of a decade, and actively contributing to influencing the 2016 election through rampant misinformation

Hackernews: <CRICKETS>

Twitter: Blocks ONE similarly garbage smear piece by a political administration that has no qualms with completely lying to the entire world in every sense of hte word

Hackernews: CENSORSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You. Are. All. RIDICULOUS.
> but the fakeness of the industry as a whole

It seems to me from reading the news that this charge can be increasingly levelled at larger portions of overall Western Civilization every day. It seems like a lot of wealthy and powerful people are simultaneously forgetting the simple lessons their parents taught them (I presume) when they were growing up.

I can't think of very few famous people or organizations nowadays that I'd nominate as being trustworthy and of "high moral character", it seems like rationalizing away behavior that would previously have been considered highly unethical is like the hip new craze...and why not I guess, it yields tremendous benefits, and has no costs (to the individual or company doing it) that I can see.
Politically neutral but not neutral on truth or virtue. Also why don’t more of the people not agreeing with Twitter’s use of power push for more decentralized networks?
Agreed. I block them with https://github.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye/

Add the following URL to your uBlock Origin filter lists and most of those chat bubbles are gone:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bcye/Hello-Goodbye/master/...