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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/30/youtube-algorithm-changes-negatively-impact-google-ad-revenue.html
YouTube was literally incentivized to keep its algorithms pumping junk to the top of people’s feeds so people would keep watching and the ad dollars would keep flowing. A devastating Bloomberg report
earlier this month showed that for years YouTube executives ignored warnings from their own employees that the misinformation and nastiness on the site had gotten out of hand.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Get woke go broke. Heaven forbid you allow an open forum and rake in the cash.
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IMO, it's been completely out of hand for at least the last decade.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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I respectfully disagree. YouTube provided an open forum and letting people use that for all but clearly illegal things is a good thing in my estimation. One of the greatest things about genuine free speech is that you can hear from even the nuttiest people and make your own judgements. Rather than hear the claims of what a particular person believes, anyone can find out for themselves. Isolating them also means they can't be confronted with a counter argument.
Most importantly, how do we trust the censors? One problem with YouTube, Twitter and Facebook is that a tiny minority--even one person--can block content based on objectively false and/or misleading accusations. This problem is avoided by not bothering with censorship (which doesn't have clear, mostly legal, boundaries.)
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Who watches the Watchmen? 
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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That's fine, so long as the search algorithm isn't allowed to be subverted to display such content when I am clearly not looking for it. I've seen some very creepy things recommended as "next" for my viewing after I viewed a video of something along the lines of the theme from the old "Rawhide" TV series. That's nothing to do with free speech.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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Yes and no. Google allows its search algorithm to be gamed which allows someone to silence another person. (I saw this recently with a dietary supplement which appeared to be a scam--whoever was in charge of their search did an excellent job of ensuring that the first hundred or so results were all their scammy positive reviews.)
That said, I have no problem with Google enforcing accuracy with tags, though my biggest complaint is that videos I've already watched show back up again in suggestions. OTOH, sometimes I've gotten off-the-wall suggestions, which have resulted in me subscribing to a new channel.
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One of the major mistakes people make is that they think manners are only the expression of happy ideas. There's a whole range of behavior that can be expressed in a mannerly way. That's what civilization is all about – doing it in a mannerly and not an antagonistic way. One of the places we went wrong was the naturalistic Rousseauean movement of the Sixties in which people said, "Why can't you just say what's on your mind?" In civilization there have to be some restraints. If we followed every impulse,we'd be killing one another. -- Miss Manners (Judith Martin) ... Freedom isn't free,,,
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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#realJSOP wrote:
Jeeze, dude. Put the links in correctly...
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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Astronomers developed a mosaic of the distant universe, called the Hubble Legacy Field, which documents 16 years of observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. The image contains more than 200,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to just 500 million years after the Big Bang. Because you need a new wallpaper for your home screen
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Jokes on them; there are 265,001 galaxies.
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200,000 galaxies in a field of view approximately equal to the size of the full moon. Mind boggling. when you realize what a tiny fraction of the observable space that actually is.
Latest Article - A 4-Stack rPI Cluster with WiFi-Ethernet Bridging
Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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If we were able to increase the magnification 100x, would we be able to find 100x more?
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I think it's more a matter of exposure time.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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It is also linked to magnification, and the smallest 'pixel' we can capture. 100x magnification may not result in the discovery of 100x more galaxies, but it will be quite a lot more than the 265,000.
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I'm not a physicist so take anything I say with a grain of salt. But I've always wondered if the universe has an infinite shape. This would lead to some interesting ideas... such as some of those galaxies in the Hubble mosaic being be our own Milky Way galaxy from different angles.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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When I was a kid and learned about atoms I wondered if stars could be the nucleus of atoms on a celestial scale, and if everything together made a giant mega-person. It is still a fun thought, along with the way they did it in Men In Black with the gem on the cat's necklace.
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Today we're excited to announce the preview of three new extensions for Visual Studio Code that enable seamless development in Containers, remotely on physical or virtual machines, and with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Containers! Containers! Containers!
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I still don’t know why vscode even exists.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 3-May-19 8:49am.
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University of Queensland researchers are investigating the use of maggots, locusts and other alternative proteins in a range of specialty foods. I think I'd rather eat scientist
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Yeah, who wants to eat politicians?
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Humans already do. I can afford chicken, so I don't.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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This reminds of the movie "Encino Man" when "Link" catches the fly and pops it into his mouth and Pauly Shore's character says, "meat group."
Exactly what are they investigating? Humans have been eating those things for thousands of years.
The best way to get people to eat stuff like that is to make sure they don't know what it is when they first try it. We did that with our nieces. We knew they wouldn't touch calamari if they knew what it was so we had them try it first and after they said they liked it we told them what it was. They turned up their noses a bit but continued eating it. For many people, if not most and I am included, the idea of something can turn them off more than its actual taste and smell.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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So it's true: There's no news like ridiculously old news.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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