DashRattlesnake

This kind of snark is obnoxious and never adds anything.

How would you know? They have an internet that's openly censors and filled with pro-government propaganda. Many of those articles are basically cheer-leading for the technological infra structure for further control, such as paying for everything on your phone with WeChat and the planned social credit system. These articles play up the convenience to the people while leaving unsaid the surveillance and control implications. I'd also guess they're unlikely to allow Western-run surveys to be taken and even if you tried to conduct one, the people would tell you what they think the government wants you to hear.

In China most public restrooms don't have any toilet paper and you have to bring your own. If this one is stocked with free paper, they may be trying to prevent people from taking extra to use in other restrooms.

Framing, which is very important in political discussion (e.g. estate tax vs. death tax).

Capital flows to those most able to make money, which isn't necessarily by "converting it into the most happiness." You can even see it in this space: Facebook is the dominant social network and wins by essentially getting people addicted to getting mild social affirmations from a slot machine. Studies have actually shown social network use makes people less happy.

Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?

This smells like a troll.

I understand the reluctance for them release publicly right now, but it would be a shame if it was all effectively lost because of that.

Their login 2FA options are as good as Gmails, and I like their mail-rules better (though you have to drop into "power users" mode more than I'd like).

It costs $5/month if you want to use your own domain. I've pretty much stopped using Gmail, etc. and switched totally to them.

The Chinese government should certainly be judged based on rumors such as these, until they open up their archives and allow free investigation of the events.

Right now, my monitor is in my bedroom. If I let the OS shut off the monitor, it still shows a little white pulsing light to show it's in sleep mode. That's really annoying when I'm trying to sleep.

There was an bad issue with a place I cared enough about to try to correct, so I ventured into the "community" they setup to build their training set to try to get it fixed. It was such a depressing place. Hundreds of people tricked by gamification into working for free for a for-profit company, only to be frustrated and have their efforts shit upon by its half-ass algorithm.

That's a little disingenuous. IIRC, Facebook identified at least a $100k more on its platform, and they permitted finer-grained targeting than Google.

You're right that it's hard to believe stuff like this tipped the election outcome, but it's not impossible that it did. The sales pitch of targeted online ads is that they're cheaper and more effective than mass-market ads. Also, given the way US elections are conducted, the right pressure applied in the right areas could deliver an outsized effect on the outcome. Taken together the amount of money needed to sway a close election could possibility be less than one would expect.

Yep, I think that's an important insight. I know a few people who grew up in very evangelical/conservative Christian communities who later dropped that ideology for left-wing ones (e.g. feminism). Their attitudes and behaviors are almost exactly the same, except that the content of their ideas has been swapped out.

I think we totally can and should. We just need to invest in the infrastructure to identify and respond to it.

I've tried this several times (to drop Amazon Logistics) and reps say they can't do that.

True technological progress isn't going to be presented at a fancy keynote, it's going to be messier.