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floodleon Non-Consensual Personalization

> machine learning on Youtube must have added at least $100B to its value

I would argue that the share price really doesn't capture everything we value in society.

Case in point: oil companies are destroying the planet yet have excellent share prices.

And then there are stock market bubbles. Who knows if a price rise is stable or about to pop?

floodleon I wrote a script to automatically apply Grammarly corrections

Considerable improvement

floodleon State of the Web: Static Site Generators

I'm confused by what your baseline is here. What are you comparing JavaScript framework SSGs to?

floodleon Study finds 82% of avocado oil rancid or mixed with other oils

Thanks, that really confused me

floodleon Surprises in the Bitcoin blockchain and how they are stored (2014)

My immediate thought is that this can be abused: to store revenge porn, inflammatory comments, defamation, and so on, in a way that is more "permanent" than the way this stuff is usually stored online.

Is that a valid concern, or no?