Majromax

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by Majromax 6y ago
> b) negotiate in good faith, That's part of the problem, though -- it doesn't define what they're to negotiate in good faith over . Ordinary negotiations involve some kind of proprietary, property, or contract right. I
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by Majromax 6y ago
> The exposure draft doesn’t give Google/Facebook the right to opt out by “discriminating” against (ie. dropping) protected news sources. It doesn't permit digital service corporations from discriminating against protected news
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations I think it would depend on the local jurisdiction's definition of the tort. A purchase/refund scheme would not induce Apple or the vend
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by Majromax 6y ago
A 2011-era FiveThirtyEight article ( https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-liberal-is-presiden... ) looked at average DW-NOMINATE scores over time for the House of Representatives. Its conclusion was: > According
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by Majromax 6y ago
Alas, sp.rewrite doesn't quite do what I want for the slightly more complicated (with new symbol 'k' suitably defined): bar = sp.exp(sp.I*(x + k - t)) - sp.exp(sp.I*(x+k+t)) The desired output would be 2 cos(t) exp(I(x
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by Majromax 6y ago
I like SymPy as a light-weight CAS. I don't have any heavy symbolic computational needs, but it fills a gap between "simple enough to work out with pen and paper, without error" and "so complicated that it's best t
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by Majromax 6y ago
> I don't think there is an obvious solution here, no matter how much it cost. If that's the case, then it may be back to Youtube doesn't scale . > Second is the fact that moderation is a very mentally exhausting effor
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Finally, and I think the biggest issue is that a lot of facts rely on trust, since they are practically impossible for the average person to fully verify. And I think, for a variety of reasons, trust has been lost. That can explain no
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by Majromax 6y ago
That's the illusory truth effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect ), which is one of the understood cognitive biases.
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by Majromax 6y ago
See also acoup.blog's series on Polytheism ( https://acoup.blog/2019/10/25/collections-practical-polythei... ). It's obviously not a direct analysis of Judaism, but the series discusses the idea of &
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by Majromax 6y ago
This article looks like a fine discussion about the economics of hydrogen production, but unless I've missed something it skips over the immense storage difficulty. Hydrogen is a difficult thing to manage in quantity. Its density is f
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by Majromax 6y ago
> If you have a 1gig file generated from a 128bit seed, then the apparent uncertainty (1gig) is much higher than the actual uncertainty (128bit). More than that, since you also need to specify the algorithm used for the prng. Your true
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by Majromax 6y ago
> How can we reconcile this? We can say that the system is not probabilistic, but it is approximately probabilistic. It is indeed probabilistic based on your existing knowledge of the system . The idea that (say) a roulette wheel evolv
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by Majromax 6y ago
For social-science applications, I think the information-theoretic notion of entropy is more appropriate. There's no social analog to the laws of thermodynamics, but we can use the notion of entropy to make statements about information
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by Majromax 6y ago
> I think it's possible that two people can want high-quality discussion and disagree with what high quality discussion is. Without comment on any other substantive point, I think the simpler explanation is that people want high-qua
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by Majromax 6y ago
They are allowed to propose laws (and amendments to bills). However, the House and Senate leadership has control over the voting schedule. There are still ways around it (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discharge_pe
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by Majromax 6y ago
> This blog focuses more on computer gaming than console gaming, That's true, but on the other hand the article quotes a Sierra executive as saying: > “What we think of today as a computer or a videogame system,” wrote Ken Willia
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by Majromax 6y ago
> The minor tragedy in all this was not so much the end of interactive movies, given what intensely problematic endeavors they so clearly were, but rather that the latest games’ vision proved to be so circumscribed in terms of fiction, t
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by Majromax 6y ago
> This is extremely ambiguous, Perhaps we should not rush to finely parse language that has gone through a double translation: from legaleese to reporter and from Chinese to English.
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by Majromax 6y ago
Isn't this exactly the intended use-case for the DOI? Your first article has the DOI 10.1038/mp.2015.225, and the resulting link ( https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2015.225 ) properly directs to the article's pr
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by Majromax 6y ago
> They are destroying innocent bystanders lives and livelihoods; the celebrities who are egging them on are doing so because their neighbourhoods, livelihoods and lives are not getting burned down (see https://www.rt.com [...]
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by Majromax 6y ago
> What would people say if this experimentation were being done on puppies, or rabbits, or baby seals? Why are fruit flies different? Because we as a society explicitly assign different levels of moral worth to different animals. Fruit
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by Majromax 6y ago
> They had zero extra fuel on board. Nitpick: it had excess fuel on board. Even beyond any institutional safety margins, the first stage landed on the drone ship. That portion of the mission required the stage carry fuel in excess of t
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by Majromax 6y ago
> 99% isn’t good enough for truly critical applications, especially when you don’t know for sure that it’s actually 99%; there’s no way to detect which 1% might be wrong; there’s no real path to 100%; and critically: there’s no one to ho
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by Majromax 6y ago
> but transportation cost of $6k a month Per year, as per your link.
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by Majromax 6y ago
> Is it possible that Google writes code to automate the moderation (for lack of better word) of the extensions in the Chrome Store because they are trying to avoid paying hundreds of people to do it manually? Undoubtedly, for the Chrome
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by Majromax 6y ago
> However, once they consider themselves as "curators" of information with near-monopoly status They're already that. Youtwitgrambook's front-page and suggestion algorithms are forms of curation, specifically designe
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> Why would you now open a office in a smaller tech hub when you can hire someone from anywhere ? The impact of this in Canada can be huge Why not? The wage differential will still apply: why hire someone remotely from SF when you can h
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> There are roughly two views on moderators. Moderators think that moderators are the thin green line protecting the ordinary users from a handful of bad actors, letting them live in blissful ignorance of the awful things that are happen
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by Majromax 6y ago
> For a valid sudoku there shouldn't be any guessing involved? In the philosophy presented on that channel, it's not that such a Sudoku puzzle is "invalid," it's just not particularly interesting or 'beauti

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