Ivoirians

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by Ivoirians 8y ago
It's pretty absurd to ignore broad scientific consensus (which includes a pretty large number of Harvard immunology PhDs) while buying into the lies of a single authority who happens to argue what you like to hear. Cherrypicking one di
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
That was actually the one line in the article that got me riled up and caused me to start digging. >Is there evidence of actual favoritism in Google’s search engine? Well, the European Union certainly thinks so, having fined Google $2.7
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
People don't act against their self-interest unless deceived. There are misleading ads that are immoral like "payday loans can get you out of debt", but the vast majority of ads (that I see) are informational, like "stor
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Of course, I can't say for certain this is a reaction, but it seems to me like they're addressing the actual meat of the original article--third party apps can do whatever they want with your emails once they have the keys, like l
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
What an awful choice of a title. (Used to be something like "New Google policy charges devs $15k to access Gmail API") Also, this isn't a bad move AFAICT (tightening policies and access to a very important API), but it's
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
If you delete a video from your Youtube watch history, it doesn't get used for recommendations anymore. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725?hl=en
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
People keep saying it happens, but I've never seen a Google query that didn't full-match a phrase in quotes. Also, if you click Tools, you can change "All Results" to "Verbatim", and it will do what it says on
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Works for me. Link to a query?
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
I'm not arguing whether or not those services actually "make you the product", I'm just railing against this annoying rhetoric that "being free" in itself somehow makes a service exploitative.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
How much do people pay to use Linux or DuckDuckGo? This statement is parroted so much and adds so little to every discussion.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
What I heard is that we have data on plant growth on Earth (1G) and on the ISS (0G), but not at reduced gravity like on the Moon (.17G).
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
It's self-evident that a privacy-focused service is inevitably going to attract illegal/anathematic behavior. And it's possible that after enough stories like this and "terrorists coordinated on <random E2E encryption
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Technically, these aren't breaches or leaks, they're vulnerabilities. Whether you believe data was exfiltrated is essentially a reflection of how much you trust or distrust Google.
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Google model identifies restaurants that could give you food poisoning(engadget.com)
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Original paper here: http://www.umass.edu/preferen/You%20Must%20Read%20This/herrm... The explanation in the linked article isn't fully convincing, IMO. The paper speculates about several more explanations at
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
So you can't imagine a world in which our understanding of pi or e might impact or be useful to the real world? More broadly, you can surely imagine how the study of transcendent numbers might inform results in other fields? I don&#x27
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
You lost the bet, according to the last point of https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/product-updates-base...
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
If you read that original WSJ article, Google allows companies to access your email if you give them access to your email. As in, if you install e.g. Kiwi [1] and agree to let them manage your inbox, then they have API keys that they could
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
How does that show AMP is required, and not just that almost every major media site has chosen to serve AMP pages? I legitimately can't find a large media site that doesn't use AMP, so your observation is essentially meaningless.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
It's despicable, isn't it? Like, there are climate change deniers that are overly-skeptical or gullible and buy into the mountains of misinformation. And then there are those like Steve Goddard who sit down every day and work thei
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Ah, you're right, thanks for the insight.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Thank you--I think I'll start saying this in the future instead. #NotAllConstructivists, I suppose.
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Breaking news: Third parties scan full transaction histories and balances from bank accounts of users who sign up for financial planning services (e.g. Mint). The WSJ really knows how to write misleading, incendiary headlines about tech com
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
I'll admit that calling all constructivists crackpots is unfair, as there are legitimate mathematicians studying homotopy type theory and whatnot that goes way over my head. What I refer to as crackpottery is people who argue that a ra
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Re: Continuum hypothesis: the way I try to explain this is, take the statement S = "x^2 = -1 has no solutions". In Z, S is true. In C, S is false. What does it mean to say "S is true" without specifying the system? It de
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
My argument is about the rigor of theorems. ZFC may be incomplete, but every existing theorem that builds up the entirety of modern mathematics is (in theory, admittedly) built upon a rigorous chain of truth, traced back to those axioms and
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
My argument is about the rigor of theorems. ZFC may be incomplete, but every existing theorem that builds up the entirety of modern mathematics is (in theory, admittedly) built upon a rigorous chain of truth, traced back to those axioms and
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Math is built on a far more rigorous logical foundation than "this program ran on a physical computer, which proves that the statement is valid". Every valid mathematical theorem is a consequence of, and can be traced back to, a s
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
Mathematicians know about constructivism, they just tend to rightfully reject statements like "proof by contradiction is not a good idea" as crackpottery. Mathematics will continue to be done, constructivists and finitists be damn
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by Ivoirians 8y ago
That's certainly a good point--and tech companies are pumping money into teaching minorities to code (check the partners of YesWeCode, WomenWhoCode, BlackGirlsCode, AnitaB, etc.). But you don't have to exclusively treat problems a

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