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If It’s Not “Cancel Culture,” What Kind of Culture Is It?
Another long week in the all-stick, no-carrot revolution
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The most popular blog posts about society, policy & culture on Hacker News. 13,066 posts.
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The future of GNOME
Having just returned from GUADEC and now having the desktop as my job focus I been thinking about where we are going and what to do next. Benjamin managed to get quite a bit of press for his abysmally negative post, but I think his mis-stated the situation quite badly. As Dave Mason said during...
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SF author Greg Egan reviews Avatar
Avatar Review by Greg Egan
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Against All Applications
Imagining better ways of picking people
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New Texas Abortion Law Likely to Unleash a Torrent of Lawsuits Against Education
In addition to the drastic restrictions it places on a woman’s reproductive and medical care rights, the new Texas abortion law, SB8, will have devastating effects on online speech. The law creates a cadre of bounty hunters who can use the courts to punish and silence anyone whose online advocacy,...
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Thrun pivots Udacity toward vocational education
Internet applications and technology and their implications for individuals, organizations and society
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Xi Jinping’s War on Spontaneous Order
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a letter I wrote to their editor in response to Kevin Rudd’s exposition on Xi Jinping’s “Common Prosperity” campaign:
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Is Social Media Worthless?
The Voice of the Customer (VoC) helps businesses understand who they are selling to and what they expect. Use the following tips and best practices to better understand what the Voice of the Customer is and how you can implement a successful VoC program.
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Travel locally, where you are
Many people dream of traveling to faraway places to experience new cultures and sightseeing.
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How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet
When children turn 13, they age out of the data protections provided by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Then, they become targets for data collection from data brokers that collect their information from social media apps, shopping history, location tracking services, and more.
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Baiting the bot
LLM chatbots can be engaged in endless "conversations" by considerably simpler text generation bots. This has some interesting implications.
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Ends, Means, and Antitrust
Google is a monopoly, and almost certainly a bad actor: shopping, though, is a terrible example that shows how regulators can go wrong.
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Why American Mothers are Superior
I really did not have time to write this today, but two articles I read made me drop what I was doing. First was the Wall Street Journal article by a Yale law professor who says Chinese mothers are superior because they produce more mathematical and musical prodigies.
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Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship
The German government is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship list.
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Student challenges prof, wins right to post source code he wrote for course
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