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by 40acres 8y ago
Facebook would not be where it is today if their programmatic advertising tools were not friction-less, it's going to be interesting to watch them balance ease of use for customers while securing their system vs. bad actors.
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by 40acres 8y ago
I like to travel but hate overcrowded touristy places. There are some popular spots where the overcrowding actually seems to be a part of the experience (Time Square for instance) but I will probably never go see the Mona Lisa or Sistine Ch
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Talking About Money(kalzumeus.com)
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by 40acres 8y ago
I think there are (at least) two parts to evaluating a creative product. The aesthetics and the context around it. I think AI will do a wonderful job of generating aesthetically pleasing art, but could an AI generate something like Guernica
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'd buy art (and listen to music) generated by an AI, but I'll admit that I think some creative products lose a bit of their essence when not created by humans. We know math and science can be found within art: measures and half m
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by 40acres 8y ago
I agree with her, diversity is more than just race, sex, sexual preference, etc. However I would say that I think these things as a top level attribute DO correlate with different lived experiences that you want in a diverse workforce. Comp
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by 40acres 8y ago
Just one question, why? Google is a company that has explicitly stated its ethics over and over and over. Obviously they have been under fire for the rumors regard a censored Chinese site, and their AI contracting with the government, but f
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by 40acres 8y ago
Simple advice but difficult to execute: make a plan, follow the plan, only adjust when absolutely neccessary. I'm in the middle of completely reviewing some fundamental math concepts: linear algebra, calculus, etc. Once I found the res
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by 40acres 8y ago
Great numbers and congratulations to Tesla. If we as a country are going to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels companies like Tesla will need to lead the way. Just a side note that Tesla received a ~$500m loan from the US government back
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by 40acres 8y ago
This is not just a problem among "elites", every class in society down to the bottom rung shows the shame characteristics of the elite that Giridharadas lays out. The clearest example you can see is with NIMBYs, especially those i
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'll admit I'd be very interested in a data broker system that would capture my data and sell it to interested parties that I then can profit on. The amount of data each person generates grows and grows per year, even a small doll
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by 40acres 8y ago
At this point it seems like we've lost the "war" against intrusive data collection. Between my google searches, credit score, bank transactions & location data, you could build a really accurate model of my life, probably
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by 40acres 8y ago
According to Wikipedia from 2010-2016 about 200 new drugs were introduced that were partly funded by the NIH, of these drugs about 80 were significant in the fact that they worked via previously unknown mechanisms.
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by 40acres 8y ago
There seems to be a pretty simple solution to high drug prices: the Bayh-Dole Act. The background to the law is this: previously if a private institution used federal grants to develop a new drug, the federal government retained patent righ
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by 40acres 8y ago
My general feeling is that no one involved really wants to know how the sausage is made. Recent events have highlighted Saudi Arabia as a major investor and that's caused more focus but deep down I don't think engineers, executi
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by 40acres 8y ago
Taken by itself I don't think population growth is a positive or negative statistic. People are living longer, death by disease is down, childhood mortality and death by pregnant mothers is down. These are all good stats. How populatio
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by 40acres 8y ago
The high end government contractors (Northrup, Raytheon, etc.) all have quality engineering, and those who work for these companies know what they are getting into. I don't think most Googlers join the company with AI weaponry in mind.
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by 40acres 8y ago
We need to be smart about where we want to invest housing in. People are living in cities now and Columbus has been bigger than Dayton for quite some time. Columbus will hit 1M people soon. Columbus has a diverse set of industry and is more
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by 40acres 8y ago
It's hard not to see the overall solution to the housing crisis in some North American cities as simply building more housing. A speculation and/or vacancy tax makes sense in cities with a high number of foreign buyers like Vancou
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by 40acres 8y ago
Governments in general do a terrible job at PR. I remember a "controversy" during the Obama administration which was caused by the phrase "you didn't build that" which was basically him trying to promote the stabili
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by 40acres 8y ago
I wonder how pragmatic and realistic today's parents (and yes, I think it's mainly on the parents) and kids are with respect to college. My family was lower middle class, I used FAFSA and PELL to pay my way through college. I paid
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by 40acres 8y ago
Yes but we also have an instution that controls interest rates, The Federal Reserve! As a poster mentioned earlier, the US also gets really good rates. Turns out being a superpower helps your credit score. There has been lots of ink spilled
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by 40acres 8y ago
For a long time I couldn't wrap my head around why defecits matter to the US when we print our currency. To be honest I still don't fully understand the hand wringing over a balanced budget and reading more about modern monetary t
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by 40acres 8y ago
There has been a clear trend for decades now showing that the defecit grows under Republican presidents and shrinks under Democratic ones. Aside from cultural issues like abortion the Republican agenda seems so far removed from what their c
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by 40acres 8y ago
Snake wasn't lying when he said "War has changed". Mercenaries are as old as war itself but this type of operation seems like its on a completely different level. Post WW2 it seems like most conflicts are being fought via gue
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by 40acres 8y ago
Hindsight is 20/20, but with so much cash flowing around in VC land there was obviously a lot of "dark money" involved. Whether it's funding from sovereign wealth funds of nations whose actions go against the overall bel
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by 40acres 8y ago
Wow, great write up. Excellent example of computer science fundamentals being used to tackle a novel problem. I recently had to use the concept of table doubling to improve a system where rough estimation was being used to determine the siz
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by 40acres 8y ago
Increased polarization has caused the legislative Branch at all levels to grind to a halt. As a result the majority party, in many cases Republicans, have used illiberal means to consolidate power. As a result are heading down a path of mak
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by 40acres 8y ago
Students for Fair Admissions is a front organization designed to find cases that will hopefully reach the Supreme Court and make affirmative action unconstitutional. Their president, Edward Blum, has stated so on multiple occasions. The Asi
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by 40acres 8y ago
I'm worried and it's given me cause of action to prepare for interviews at companies that I know pay more for SWEs than my current company. To me, I see rising trends in terms of cost of healthcare, cost of buying a home, schoolin

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