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by KMag 3y ago
It simultaneously incentivizes clicking on ads, but also increases the concentration of ad-susceptible users on the platform. Depending on the correlation between a high propensity to click on ads and a high propensity to buy once on a web
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by KMag 3y ago
Yes, I guess that's what I meant, but wasn't precise enough. Thanks for the correction.
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If you're getting the "money=speech" information from the Citizens United ruling, then you fell into the same trap I did by reading the headlines. Despite what all the headlines said, Citizens United didn't actually rul
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by KMag 3y ago
> If their establishments are open to the public, generally yes [we need to force Muslims to sell non-halal food], in my opinion, within reason. Either GP's question got reversed after they posted, or you misread their post, or your
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by KMag 3y ago
I think your proposed comparison follows the headline, and the headline doesn't actually reflect the ruling. I believe that the ruling is focused on the content, not the client. My reading is that if the same-sex couple had (for some
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by KMag 3y ago
Technically, isn't the ruling that the website designer can refuse to create same-sex wedding content? If the same-sex couple commissioned a website for a hetero wedding, the designer would be obligated, right? It's a subtle dist
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by KMag 3y ago
So... this is pretty evil... but I thought of it a while ago and I'm not that bright, so I'm sure plenty of others have also thought of it. How long until Google / Meta / whomever just starts having faster response times
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by KMag 3y ago
I believe the GP is saying that in their language, they're getting advertisements for over-the-counter cancer "treatments". Sure, if everyone is smart, well-educated, rational, and has access to affordable licensed doctors, t
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by KMag 3y ago
> I don't think it's a fallacy to conclude generally that consuming plants which coevolved with humans is safer than consuming chemicals which are completely exogenous to any stage of the human body's development. An optim
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by KMag 3y ago
Appeal to nature[0] is a poor mental shortcut. There are tons of natural carcinogens, notably aflatoxins and cycacins. Clothes, refrigeration, and Pasteurization are all extremely recent on an evolutionary timescale. They're all arti
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by KMag 3y ago
In order for the call into C to appear atomic to a multithreaded interpreter, all threads in the interpreter would need to be blocked during the call. That's possible to do, but you've just re-introduced the GIL whenever any thre
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by KMag 3y ago
A normalized data model has no redundancies. In the best cases, denormalization is caching sub-queries within the database by storing the same (or equivalent after transformation) data in multiple places. However, that requires more comple
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The analogy there is terrible and detracts from the article. Don't get too caught up in it. Analogies are like cars: they only go so far.
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I remember one colleague concerned with casting a Java 64-bit millisecond timestamp to double seconds when crossing languages (over to a somewhat TypeScript-like financial modeling DSL developed in the mid-late 1990s, where it's a bit
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by KMag 3y ago
Exactly. Dollars are fungible, and spread around the economy pretty quickly. It's just not clear the "right" way to do any clawbbacks after a few years. If not done carefully, someone who inherits $1,000 worth of stock fro
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by KMag 3y ago
Is there some referrer field in the RDP protocol handshake that I'm not aware of?
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... and avoid automated attacks in case a 0-day in the pre-authentication OpenSSH server code shows up
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by KMag 3y ago
If I understand you correctly, you're concerned about detectable electromagnetic emissions. My reading is that the peak magnetic field is 20 Tesla, not necessarily that the amplitude of the variations is 20 Tesla. Also, the reason the
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by KMag 3y ago
If I'm understanding the GP correctly, they're asserting that any "real expert" would have anticipated being exploited on iPhone and would never have used iPhone. I can see this point of view, but I feel expertise is mor
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I feel this is likely going to devolve into a semantic argument over the true definition of real expertise. A key sticking point will likely be volume of a priori knowledge vs. skill in acquiring and synthesizing knowledge.
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They knew all along it was closed source, but that doesn't mean they believed all along (or at least were confident enough in their belief) that closed source resulted in higher risk of extant exploitable flaws.
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It's commonly known, which, at least in the context of Game Theory, is different from "common knowledge". (At least in Game Theory, common knowledge means that everyone knows, and everyone knows that everyone knows, and ever
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by KMag 3y ago
It's entirely rational to have believed iPhone to be more secure in the past, now believe Android is more secure, and yet remain on iPhone: 1. At some point, weigh probabilities of exploits 2. Update Bayesian priors as new eviden
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by KMag 3y ago
Why a hotspot instead of a USB 4g modem? Concerned about 4g hardware/driver vulns but not WiFi hardware/driver vulns? Edit: yes, I guess you're concerned about sim-resident malware exploiting the modem, exploiting the rest o
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by KMag 3y ago
> but would also require scanning the tape to reconstruct the catalog. If the index consists of a b+-tree/b*-tree interleaved with the data (with the root of the index the last record in the archive), a single backward pass across t
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I'm not sure about modern implementations, but it's not actually required to remove the old index at the end. It's perfectly legitimate (and somewhat safer, though the index should be reconstructable via a linear scan of rec
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There are more efficient ways to hide malware from current scanners, and on the flip-side, the scanners that use heuristics/ML to classify the sequence of system calls made by the binary wouldn't be affected by this sort of obfusc
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by KMag 3y ago
>> Being a Zionist is simply supporting a Jewish state not everything the government does. > (and orthodox jews don't recognize the israeli government as truly legitimate anyway) Edit: a sibling comment questions the accuracy
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It's a legally mandated black box. Anti-money-laundering laws in the US make it explicitly illegal to even tell you that they suspect money laundering if they think you might be laundering money. (Source: 11+ years of anti-money-laun
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by KMag 3y ago
Exactly. I spent 11+ years in a Fortune 500 financial services company, and my annual anti-money laundering training always stressed (and included one quiz question) that if you saw something fishy, escalate to Compliance, and UNDER NO CIR

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