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by MarkMc 9y ago
Not just less food - they produced less heat. A mammal the size of a dinosaur would not have enough surface area to get rid of the internally-produced heat.
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Facebook to Require Verified Identities for Future Political Ads(nytimes.com)
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Although usually mild-left, they sometimes publish articles which are pretty crazy-left. Here's an example[1]: You have a university professor citing research saying that the 'acting white' phenomenon exists in integrated sch
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I wonder why Facebook doesn't make deals with supermarkets to collect data on every single purchase. There's no doubt that Facebook advertising would be far more effective if it knew when John Smith last purchased toothpaste.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> My desired experience is that I want to see what my friends have to say, and don't want to see random commercial spam. Have you tried Facebook recently? These days 90% of my feed is posts from my friends.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Not sure why you were downvoted. Their daily user count is 1.4 billion: https://www.statista.com/statistics/346167/facebook-global-d...
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Do we have to throw the baby out with the bathwater? We can have regulation that bans the use personal information for political ads but allows it for toothpaste ads
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by MarkMc 9y ago
If people were to switch from using Facebook to Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp it would be hugely destructive to Facebook's market cap.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
There are two questions here: (1) Was Facebook biased in favor of the Democratic party? (2) Should the press have been more critical of the way personal data was used for political purposes? My answer to (1) is 'probably', but may
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I can't see anything wrong with the opt-out screen during Android setup [1] The option you refer to says, "Help improve your Android experience by automatically sending diagnostic and usage data to Google." There is a separat
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Are you sure that Farmville didn't have a 200:1 ratio? It certainly looks suspicious, but I don't think you can rule out the profit motive. Perhaps in 2012 Facebook's position was, "If you pay us enough money we'll
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by MarkMc 9y ago
The value of the land goes up, but the potential rental income goes down due to increase in supply. For house-owners the net change in property value will likely be positive, but for apartment-owners it might well be negative. In any ca
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by MarkMc 9y ago
OK so the debt load became unserviceable and the company went bankrupt. But why doesn't the administrator keep the stores running? The creditors would get an asset worth $200 million per year which is better than nothing
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> And then you have major auto manufacturers are also pouring BILLIONS into the space That is now. But at the time Uber made its decision to develop self-driving cars, the auto manufacturers had just gone through a bruising financial cri
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> Whoever is first to market will compete directly against Uber. That's true, but then Uber can just run at a loss until someone else develops self-driving tech and sells it to Uber.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I suspect this is simply asking too much of human driver. The human brain is not wired to be constantly alert without any ongoing stimulus. If someone else is doing the cognitive load, it is extremely difficult not too get bored and 'd
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Seems that 'not in my back yard' is a big problem. So what about a rule that says, "If you build a high-density apartment you must financially compensate nearby residents"?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Just curious: How many times has an Uber car hit a pedestrian or cyclist and NOT killed him/her? Can we see footage from those accidents?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
OK fine - the consumer pays VAT. In that case I would say that Google performs a certain amount of work and as a result consumers end up paying more VAT. I'm pretty sure that if Google stopped displaying ads in the UK then the total VA
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> VAT is only paid once by consumers for products, advertising is a company expense that simply shifts the VAT one level down the chain. It doesn't get applied at every level on the supply chain, it gets passed down. That's one
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by MarkMc 9y ago
There is already some form of taxation - VAT in the UK is 20%. Why does the UK deserve more than 20%, given that the vast majority of Google and Facebook's engineers and managers are in the US?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
My business takes credit card payment information from users. But it doesn't store that information - it just forwards it to Stripe. So if a user asks me for details of all her personal information, do I have to go to Stripe and say,
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I would be willing to pay $10 to see the advice of a lawyer about how to respond to each question in the letter. Is this something that could be crowd-funded? Edit: Why are people downvoting this?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> And yes, you also do benefit from "If our system has seen this type of transaction somewhere else, we can make a more intelligent guess" Suppose User A has a bank entry "Payment to Stormy Daniels" and classifies it
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by MarkMc 9y ago
How do they know that "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM" is a marketing expense? Do they use the fact that other users have previously classified "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM" as 'Marketing'?
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by MarkMc 9y ago
> But when your job is influencing which candy bar people select in the supermarket, you stare into exactly the same informational void Is that necessarily true? Most supermarkets have a 'loyalty card' program which requires t
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by MarkMc 9y ago
I disagree - it's not at all clear. Most people reading the statement would assume that the book they were trying to access was among the 'certain items' blocked by the court.
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by MarkMc 9y ago
This reminds me of Stephen J Gould's explanation for why men have nipples: In utero the male and female fetus initially develop the same features, and only after the nipples have been formed do males and females start to look different
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Those are good reasons to choose BorgBackup over Tarsnap, but they aren't related to your original claim about pricing. There are two questions here: 1. What are the benefits and market size of Tarsnap compared to other backup solutio
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by MarkMc 9y ago
Subway trains carry hundreds of people, so the cost of the driver for each passenger is low. Also, subway systems are monopolies with strong drivers' unions. Subway managers have no strong financial incentive to reduce costs because t

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