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by DavidSJ 6y ago
You can have a balance of press freedom and privacy of individuals, and even the US does in libel and slander laws, as well as e.g. (more recently) revenge porn legislation. The issue here, though, is not whether Gawker's behavior sh
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I thought about that point when constructing that list, but despite Twitter's small size as a business , it has outsized power in the media environment. For complementary reasons, I excluded Microsoft, despite its large size. I'm
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I believe the following statements are simultaneously true, yet rarely simultaneously acknowledged: 1) The First Amendment says nothing about which content companies must produce, promote, or allow with their resources and on their platform
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
2,985,000 millionaires divided by 21 million bitcoins is 0.14 millionaires per bitcoin. The number has to be less than 1 because 2,985,000 < 21 million. (It looks like you neglected the million when dividing. I'm also not sure how y
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Bitcoins themselves are available in limited quantity, but new cryptocurrencies are created all the time. Yes, but it's much easier to create a new cryptocurrency than it is to create a social convention that a new cryptocurrency has
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I think we're close to an impasse, partially due to a language barrier, so I may give up soon, but let me give this another try. I don't think you've understood my example. We may have philosophical disagreements left over ev
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The smoking → tar causation is a red herring here. It's presumed it's not controversial. The important point is we're able to discover a tar → cancer causation by controlling for smoking behavior without doing an intervention
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The comment you’re replying to addressed your concern about the genetic factor. As I said, by controlling for smoking behavior, you sever the statistical link between tar deposits and genetics in hypothesis (2+A), hence you also sever the i
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
We're comparing two competing hypotheses to explain the correlation between smoking and cancer. Like I said, we can always introduce new ad-hoc hypotheses, but good science isn't done willy nilly, it's done with background kn
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s/suffixes/suffices/
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Note that there are ways to test causal hypotheses without intervening. For example, suppose we wish to test the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer via the main mechanism of tar buildup in the lungs, against the alternative hypothes
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R^2 of 10% means 10% of the variance in one variable is accounted for by the linear regression on the other variable. That is, the expectation of the conditional variance (the amount of variance left after using the information from the lin
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Oh, and another thing: frequently attempts to play audio from one device will be silent because the headphones think another connected device is playing audio … even though it's not.
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I've used Bose Bluetooth ANC headphones, and I can't say I've been impressed (though admittedly I don't have much to compare to). The battery life is pretty much one day's use. The bluetooth connectivity is flaky, a
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Ah, good find! It appears that the Big Sur documentation notes this right up top, whereas for the earlier OS versions it's relegated to a note at the bottom. Either way, I'm not sure this counts as a warning! It rather reminds me
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Among other problems, Safari keychain backups don’t work unless you store them in iCloud (and there’s no warning about this): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24626562
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Are there any chips like this being sold at all by AMD or Intel? Can you get this performance and power consumption anywhere else?
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Some other senses in which 1 can be thought of as the "midpoint" between 0 and ∞ come from the many common ways to invertibly map an interval onto (0, ∞), in which the midpoint of that interval maps onto 1. For example: • tan maps
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And on top of that, your TV manufacturer gets to spy on you. It’s win-win-win.
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Thank you, and I agree with your point. My comment is intended more as a step-by-step argument rather than a list.
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My longstanding explanation for this has been as follows: * Improvements to open-source projects come primarily from developers scratching a personal itch. * User interfaces are first and foremost a way for the application to communicate to
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The introduction here appears to explain: https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdfview_1/euclid.ejs/1473... Starting from the observation that the expectation of X is the constant c which minimizes the squared
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Whatever you want to call it, it's clear that the left and right disagree about actual objective facts, not merely goals or their policy agenda, and that these disagreements drive (and are driven by — the causality can run in multiple
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I don’t think the “don’t bother responding” part is productive, but I also think we have to avoid false equivalences, pretending both sides are anywhere close in terms of how much they’ve misbehaved (not saying you’re doing that, but a lot
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There are a lot of illusory ideas out there for beating the market. But I do believe there’s at least one way to do so without any special expertise, and that’s to studiously avoid being sucked into the frenzied, speculative bubbles that se
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SpaceX Crew-1 Rendezvous and Docking [video](youtube.com)
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SpaceX Crew-1 [video](youtube.com)
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Native support for keychain + fingerprint Not sure if they fixed this in Big Sur, but since Mavericks all the way through Catalina there's been a critical bug with Safari's use of the macOS keychain, such that if you don't
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by DavidSJ 6y ago
Sorry to interject this and I don’t mean to distract from your point, but please don’t say bits when you mean bytes.
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From a business perspective, this is an irrelevant distinction. The requirement was satisfied in a different way, i.e. the engineers satisfying the requirement were replaced by GPT-3, the tool which satisfies the requirement. I think everyo

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