Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.
If I Google my problem and put Reddit at the end I usually find my answer. Without it I’m lost in SEO blogpost hell.
Please keep posting useful things to Reddit.
If I Google my problem and put Reddit at the end I usually find my answer. Without it I’m lost in SEO blogpost hell.
Please keep posting useful things to Reddit.
> Reddit is almost the only useful site left to find actual things written by humans.
The one, most important thing (the way I see it), is never actually mentioned. I'm gonna call it: "organic advertising". I will never, consciously, take any advice I see on reddit/hn.
Last time It was obvious for me, I was browsing/procrastinating throgh r/all, and somebody, a "real human" with an actual "real" account (I checked his history) posted a drawing made by his kid. Second-most upvoted comment is blatant Crayola advert (checked that guys history, every 10-15th comment he was praising $random_top_us_brand). Rest of the thread, at least another dozen Crayola mentions, by real people, who religiously believe in Crayola...
Take a lot of top threads, there's always a swarm of seemingly "real" accounts religiously promoting most American top brands. Funnily enough, usually 1 brand per thread. Somehow fans of X never see the Y threads, and vice-versa...
I refuse to believe actual people will go out of their way to defend/promote/etc their $favorite_brand. Only on reddit/hn.
He wouldn't even directly name the product. As an example, if he were selling a particular brand of boots, he would mention how great his boots performed but not mention the brand. Naturally someone will ask for the brand as a recommendation and voilà he plugs the product in the most natural fashion. It doesn't seem like an ad because he was just directly answering another user's question. But the entire build-up to that moment was manufactured to sell the product.
Maybe there's some way to have the best of both worlds, but I don't know how.
This is especially prevalent under videos discussing financial topics.
You might, but people have been getting in stupid arguments defending largely irrelevant preferences for as long as human history has been recorded. Now, various brand-PR agents certainly do fan these flames, but there are really people who think your cheap beer preferences says important things about you and will happily spend shockingly large amounts of time telling how that is wrong. A lot of people.
If their in-group likes brand A, and the out-group likes product B or C, staggeringly wasteful displays of such preference basically define fashion.
Those "Calvin peeing on Ford logo" decals predate social media
I will. It takes such an amount of effort these days to find a product that's both: a) privacy respecting, b) of sufficiently high technical quality, c) decently priced, and d) meeting all or most of my use cases, that when I find one, I will promote it to people similar to me until I'm blue in the face. Because it might save them literal years of searching, depending on the product.
Finding a product worth recommending is an exception. Some people will promote them just based on that, without expecting any compensation.
What is Facebook buying Instagram?
What is Google buying Doubleclick?
What is Microsoft buying Activision?
These may be products of a market system but they are not conducive to a free market.
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I think you will find most of the content on reddit is intelligence services phishing for info, invoking a bit of cognitive dissonance and complementing people's education to bring them up to date for what is acceptable and not in a global world.
Also surprised to see no mention of the fact that reddit is also structured so "humans" can train an AI, just like Google's I'm not a robot is an AI visual recognition training program, which everyone should be familiar with, more so if you are aware of Donald Rumsfeld's Known Knowns speech because you can apply this 4 compartment test to many things in life, including police detective work.
Searching for some certain cooking methods gives me endless blog spam that's usually not even remotely related to what I'm looking for and full of stories about a fictional childhood in a country the author has never been to. Meanwhile a reddit search will have a to the point comment summing up the method in 2 lines, as well as a bunch of people arguing about it.
P.S. For cooking I've been using exclusively wikipedia for the last 3-5 years. It's actually amazing the kind of content you can find. Next time try searching "cooking method wiki" :)
For culinary history it's definitely useful, but I haven't found much generally practical info.
Now I don't remember the exact keywords I used at the time, but I ended making: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_aglio_e_olio
So, one wiki article of two paragraphs gives me enough suggestions how to make 2x2x2 dishes (apparently, I just counted the variations).
Anyway, turns out I really like the simplicity of this, so I keep making this now every time I feel fancy! Add some red/white wine, and it's a restaurant grade dish. (notice you don't have to add any x sticks of butter or any kosher whatever, delicious :)
I believe the GP was looking for specific cooking advice, while the wikipedia article you link to as expected, simply describes a dish in relatively vague terms. It happens that aglio e olio is such a simple dish that you don't really need more than that simple description, but if you were looking to bake a cake or cook a boeuf bourgignon, I don't think turning to wikipedia for help would be wise.
1. Fry meat + <<whatever else usually grows in Europe, or in/around France>> (givin' it's a french dish).
2. Once done, smash some whatever red wine on top and get it into a shape that looks like food.
3. Add gradually whatever spices and herbs are known to grow in Europe at the 'correct' time during 1 and 2. (apparently nowadays it's popular to smash 3 peppers cumin coriander and some brown sugar all into one big pile and cook it, with a whole stick of butter, regardless of dish! wtf?)
0. Pan-fry separately either some onions, mushrooms or potatoes (I hate boiled potatoes, and carrots), with, again, whatever spices and herbs can grow in France. (personal preference, don't like mixing way too many stuffs together, they'll usually lose all taste)
FIN. Put both dishes together when serving per plate or table. Add another load of ground peppers and the same herbs on top while the food is still hot, for aroma.
Wikipedia still looks like a great resource for scouting recipes for me.
Except for cakes. Cakes are magic. haven't managed to get them to work properly for some reason, regardless of recipes. My best guess store cakes use some kind of cheap industrial grade oil/margarine which is not readily sold so I never managed to replicate them..
Apart from anything else, there's no WP:RS for a recipe; each authoritative chef will have their own perfectly-legitimate version.
Can train an AI to do what?