[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 22 points 6 months ago

An amazing read. I can't imagine being in that situation. This is the sort of ordeal that movies should be made of.

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 32 points 7 months ago

Silly. This wouldn't explain why people still get the delay in a "clean" version of firefox, or why the delay disappears when the only thing changed is spoofing that your browser is chrome instead.

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 27 points 8 months ago

Everyone's focused on 1111.

Me: Twelvedy Twooty Two

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 169 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"Public companies...legally have to put shareholders first."

I thought this too, but it is apparently a myth.

"There is a common belief that corporate directors have a legal duty to maximize corporate profits and “shareholder value” — even if this means skirting ethical rules, damaging the environment or harming employees. But this belief is utterly false.

To quote the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the recent Hobby Lobby case: “Modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expense of everything else, and many do not.”

https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think the term is A-B testing. When a company wants to see what effect a change will have, they don't force it on everyone at once, just on a certain number of people (A), and then see what happens compared to the rest (B).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/A-B_testing_example.png

This is why you'll always get people saying, "Huh, I haven't seen that. It's not doing it for me on [browser]." They're in the (B) group...for now.

The data the company wants is to know if, do the test people like the change (or are at least willing to tolerate it)? Or do they spend less time on the site? If so, how much? If the results are within their predictions, they'll expand the testing until everyone is in (A).

There can also be A-B-C-D-etc testing, where some people who get the blocking windows would be able to close it, and some wouldn't. How many of each ended up disabling their adblock?

This also helps to "boil the frog", where they can slowly get people used to the idea that this is happening, rather than having a whole wave of surprised outrage at once.

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 83 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I was curious about why this guy had such beef with a worm. Does he think Sesame Street is left-wing propaganda or something? So I did some digging.

I found two fairly long threads on reddit, where 95% of the thread is finding ways to explain why Jordan Peterson has penis envy, psychotic break, etc. And the remaining fraction were quietly, downvotedly, pointing out that it’s an edited tweet from an account who's been applying some of his tweets to look like they're against sesame street.

https://twitter.com/marionumber4/status/1704665509747126311?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

https://twitter.com/junlper/status/1704587155362783524?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

https://twitter.com/junlper/status/1704522516494954733?s=46&t=8dp4hAZ5hfQ7uV8e9Rtfbw

This seems to be the original "Go To Hell".
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1704190095190864010

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

I see...and why is it the thumbnail on an article for a piece of computer hardware?

[-] Whatisawaffle@kbin.social -3 points 10 months ago

Okay but why is the thumbnail an erotic underwear model with her bush out?

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