KukiAirani's comments

Personally, I think the GDPR cookie notifications have severely degraded the user experience of the web. I also think it's become just another "Terms and Conditions" - something that people reflexively accept because they want to get on with using a product.

Future regulations with teeth, but don't exist yet, are things like:

- Data portability: I should be able to export my entire Facebook account in full in a standardized format and easily transfer it to any other social network of my choosing.

- Algorithmic control: I should be able to choose which recommendation algorithms are being used on me, or opt out of algorithms entirely.

- Algorithmic transparency: As a consumer, I should be able to see something similar to what Facebook's growth team sees. What specific changes caused people in my cohort to increase their watch time by 2%? Was it better button placement, which I'd be okay with, or was it an increase in conspiracy content, which might not be?

All of these things might be huge overhauls and difficult for the social media companies to deliver, but if you are pushing content in front of billions of people's faces for hours a day you should have an equivalent immense level of responsibility.

I agree with this. We have laws against false advertising, and that is not considered infringement on free speech.

During the Victorian era arsenic was known to be poisonous yet "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" were advertised in newspapers claiming that it would remove freckles and pimples. Yet no one in their right mind would argue preventing arsenic from being peddled is an infringement on free speech.

Furthermore, proving deceptive intent is not necessary under false advertising law. The deception of the advertisement is considered alone.

People who are opponents to laws like these on the basis of freedom seem to forget one of the fundamental tenets of it - that your freedom to throw a punch ends where my nose begins.

Yeah these ideas always sound great in theory, but the privacy issues are immense. Apple however does seem like a company fully committed to privacy. Of course this is much easier for them as their business model is selling hardware and doesn't rely on selling your data to advertisers at all.

Interesting, I hadn't thought about this one. I just looked it up and didn't realize that they already have an app for blood oxygen, though it isn't continuous: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211027

There is an axis of high-level to low-level feedback in the sense of society (news) to individual (sleep).

And there is another axis of high to low feedback in the sense of abstract (happiness) to concrete (heartrate).

I believe you might be conflating these two axes, but you made me think about it and I think it's very interesting to consider.

Oh wow. Fascinating. These things always seem incredibly rosy in theory, but immediately take on dark undertones when you realize it's the big bad tech companies (/s - kind of) actually building it. I'll definitely check it out though, thanks for sharing.

Despite having been in Chrome since 2016, CSS Variables seems, like Flexbox, the sort of thing which I've hesitated to adopt entirely too long, but as soon as I do, will use it everywhere and wonder why I didn't switch sooner.

Well done, the website looks solidly made. This is my first time seeing sentiment illustrated with candlesticks, I find that very interesting.

My first instinct is I want to see index ticker symbols overlaid on top of the sentiment chart to how well they do or don't correlate. Just showing periods of on/off correlation between tickers and sentiment in general would be an interesting visualization. Have you considered this?

Earnestness aligns well with the powerful idea of "Strong opinions, loosely held".

Being very convinced of ones ideas, but readily willing to change them in the face of new evidence, is a trait of a person who cares a lot but also has no hidden agenda.

This is heartening news. We are finally approaching the moment where addictive social media is handled with the same seriousness with which big tobacco was treated.

To me this is an incredible milestone. Biometric feedback for health is a simple but effective way to extend lifespans and make people happier.

A couple things I predict are coming in the not too distant future:

- Continuous feedback and monitoring of blood nutrition and glucose levels.

- Continuous feedback of mood - A real life mood ring, if you will.

- Mood data being correlated with your real life activity, guiding you towards things that make you genuinely happy and away from "empty calories" (Like mindlessly scrolling).