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  • AI als stemadviseur? Chatbot haalt VVD en PVV door elkaar

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  • Ik vermoed dat >90% van de mensen de stemwijzer niet goed gebruikt

    1. Het verschil tussen "neutraal" en "overslaan" is niet duidelijk aangegeven
    2. Meestal zijn er standpunten waarop de partijen met vergelijkbare onderbouwing tegengesteld stemmen. Als je op zo'n kwestie eenderwelke mening aankruist (inclusief "neutraal"), vertroebel je enkel de resultaten (want een willekeurige selectie van partijen krijgt dan meer punten)
    3. Veel stellingen zijn onbeantwoordbaar voor de meeste personen. Ik kan je echt niet zeggen wat de macroeconomische gevolgen zijn van (vraag 12 van de afgelopen Stemwijzer) het recht introduceren voor sociale huurders om hun woning te kopen, dus het enige juiste antwoord is voor mij "overslaan". Natuurlijk kan ik vanuit de onderbuik zeggen "meer rechten hebben klinkt wel goed" maar als ik eerlijk ben heb ik simpelweg geen idee. Waarom is de overslaan-knop zo klein en half doorzichtig? Het zou waarschijnlijk de meestgebruikte knop moeten zijn als je enkel onderwerpen invult die je niet lukraak gokt
    4. De stellingen zijn iedere keer weer anders, terwijl we echt niet steeds compleet andere problemen hebben. Het ecosysteem waar we van afhankelijk zijn gaat nog steeds naar de knoppen, er is nog steeds discriminatie, mensen die hardste werken verdienen nog steeds niet het meeste (en andere loonkloven)... er zijn natuurlijk ook nieuwe relevante thema's, maar het resultaat wordt uitsluitend berekend op basis van wat nu de media beheerst. Als daar toevallig een voor jou belangrijk onderwerpen bij zit, heb je geluk; anders moet je zelf alsnog gaan zitten kijken en rekenen wat het werkelijke resultaat zou zijn als jouw aandachtspunt wel een optie geweest was
    5. Expert-opinies worden niet belicht. Als bijvoorbeeld het CBP een mooie berekening maakt van hoe de verschillende programma's uitpakken (zelfs al is dat een grove schatting: ik ken niemand die het nauwkeuriger kan, dus dit is de beste beschikbare info), vind ik het wel relevant om mee te wegen hoe mijn doelgroep uit de verf komt. Geld is niet alles, maar het is voor veel mensen wel degelijk relevant

    Alsnog gebruik ik de stemwijzer steevast, maar ik ga er voorzichtig mee om. Na de eerste keer invullen begint het spel: welke van deze vragen hebben de partijen misleidende antwoorden of onderbouwingen op gegeven? Zijn er nog onderbouwingen waar ik me duidelijk in kan vinden (en die bij een fact-check waar lijken) voor vragen die ik initieel had overgeslagen?

    Bijvoorbeeld: vorige keer was vraag 6 of Nederland CO2-opslag onder de grond moet aanleggen. Je kan zeggen: ja klinkt goed, dus ik stem op "eens". Dan komt de SGP (de bovenste partij die ik kreeg bij willekeurige antwoorden aanklikken) met als antwoord: CO2-opslag is goedkoop en een goede optie, maar er zijn nóg betere opties dus we zijn het alsnog oneens. Je wilt in feite hetzelfde doel bereiken (minder CO2 in de lucht) maar je krijgt een 180° tegenovergesteld resultaat. SGP krijgt dan op die vraag hetzelfde aantal punten als een "klimaatopwarming bestaat niet"-partij zou krijgen

    Dit soort onzinnige tegenstellingen schrijf ik op, en die vragen sla ik dan of over bij een tweede ronde, of ik denk er handmatig een puntje bij/af. Het is echter wel een hoop moeite voor een systeem dat ook fundamenteel beter aangepakt kan worden

  • What's the best paid search engine?

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  • By free, I assume you mean that you pay with attention for advertisements? Or is it donationware or something else?

  • Why do iphone users still see their phones as a status symbol

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  • Every TWO years, as a best-case scenario?! What parallel universe do you live in

    I don't think I've owned a phone for fewer than three years. That was an Apple device at work and it had dead touchscreen pixels for half the time, a bad battery from day one, and software bugs galore (couldn't reset an app, for example. It kept b0rked data between reinstalls and it's not like there's a way to go into the filesystem and actually delete it yourself, so I just couldn't use the app at all and only had the work calendar on my laptop. Very convenient at events. "It just works" they say, but if it ever doesn't, you're screwed)

  • Why do iphone users still see their phones as a status symbol

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  • Can't unlock bootloader :(

    Otherwise I'd be typing this comment on one right now. It's the only otherwise-perfect device that I could find earlier this year. Why did they go out of their way to modify AOSP and lock everyone out of their own device...

  • Hotfix

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  • And here I thought it was referring to the small print on the inside. Then it hit me.

  • What do you do when homeless folks ask for money?

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  • Like ten years back, in a Finnish abandoned soap factory turned into hackerspace, I jokingly asked if I can pay by card for something silly. My jaw almost dropped as this private individual whips out a legit card reader and says yes. The devices are somewhat common now but that was my first interaction with it

    Idk what hoops they'd require you to jump through, maybe you need to be incorporated depending on the country or so, but I'd not be too surprised if they start supporting this sooner or later

    Think I've also heard about proposals or trials to transfer from phone to phone. What will be hard to not sound like a lie is that I don't have any sort of banking app on my phone... The future is bright ^^

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  • Looking at other comments, clearly I'm in the minority that I simply feel watched when there's a camera that I know is aimed at me right now. I can't know if someone's watching, or watching it back later. I'm not doing anything nefarious, not more than picking my nose perhaps, but it's not like everyone's given a feed of all cameras that exist either. Clearly people don't want to just be watched insofar as it is avoidable

    Most of the time I don't know that a camera is filming me and ignorance is bliss. And obviously facial recognition and license plate scanning, as mentioned in other comments, goes even further. But I'm also simply not super happy with the ubiquity of cameras on every street and every publicly accessible place and vehicle you use, even if I see their benefits as well

  • What is your absolute favourite track from a video game?

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  • There it is... now I've got Tetris tune stuck in my head! Thank you good sir for this great gift! x)

  • Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it?

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  • Publicly-funded media is great and all, but that's because its bias is obvious and upfront, not because it is unbiased.

    And here I again wonder where your from to have such a mindset

    These people aren't politicians...

    a "centrist" bias where multiple extremes are presented as being equally valid.

    You've not seen Dutch news. They don't talk about hate speech as an equally valid option to our constitution the way that you'd expect with the current voting patterns and government composition if your statement were true. This uninformed opinion on what news can and must be, without having seen anything but english-cultural standards it sounds like, is what I mean...

  • Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it?

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  • I'd be curious what country/ies the downvoters are from. This is also how I see it but nobody online ever agrees. I suspect it's a culture thing: most people online aren't from the Netherlands and I can't say if this type of news also exists abroad (Tagesschau seems okay but I haven't looked at it in detail or talked with enough germans about it to say that with any confidence whatsoever, and I've got even less info on other countries)

    In NL we of course also have some loonies who call the general news channels leftist propaganda, but overall I don't have the impression that places like NOS spin things one way or another. It's also government-funded which, going by the banners google now shows on publicly-funded youtube channels, probably means American readers of this message think I'm completely brainwashed by my government? Who knows, but then I'd be curious to hear what types of things they ever represented counterfactually

  • Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it?

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  • So if everyone would just do as the parent poster said, we'd not need to waste time reading the nonsense spins just to be prepared?

    Somehow this doesn't make me want to read spins but I applaud those who do with the goal of keeping everyone else sane

  • Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it?

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  • Consider whether your trusted sources would advertise it without getting paid to do so

  • Do you have a "GroundNews" subscription, and if so what has the experience been like? Would you recommend it?

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  • Thanks, now I want to spend the afternoon playing Ragdollsoft games with Dimrain47 as soundtrack. (I have a Windows XP VM with Flash Player and offline SWF files)

  • How long does a decent USB stick last?

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  • Did you see a lot of hardware failures among USB sticks as an IT technician or what makes you have this professional opinion?

    Presuming that OP doesn't lose their backup drive constantly the way that I do USB sticks. I'd probably take better care if it actually mattered

  • What kind of climate do you prefer?

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  • What'd that be in Kelvin? Asking for a lord friend

  • What kind of climate do you prefer?

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  • 25 AVERAGE?! So like 15 at night and 35 during the day is considered not "heat" where you're from?!

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  • Not fully, no. My understanding is that the available data of countries with and without general-citizen gun ownership, all else being equal, shows that normal issues (crime, personal conflicts, ...) becomes gun-involved issues a lot more frequently so apparently it does help

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  • Fwiw, there's knives and there's knives. What you describe is a category that's afaik generally allowed. What's not is the kind that extends with the push of a button (spring loaded, as I understand it; I'm not a weapons person). Opening it from the state you carry in need to be a two-handed process, presumably to make it less accessible to go for as well as giving the would-be victim a second to get the hell out of there or call for help or whatnot

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  • Dutch police aren't always I think (but often yes), and I seem to remember that Icelandic police almost never does. I don't know for most countries but afaik it's not as uncommon as that for them not to wear guns