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by Maro 8y ago
Re "Facebook sold API access to Cambridge Analytica": it was free, CA didn't pay any money to FB, they simply had an app on FB. Re "they have proven they will fork over user information wholesale if it means continued co
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by Maro 8y ago
Re "Facebook has wholesaled your information": FB does not sell user data (it doesn't need to, it makes so much on ads). CA gained user information on people who installed one of their FB apps whose purpose was to specificall
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by Maro 8y ago
Eventbrite probably wants to sell tickets to every event on the planet [and take a cut]. That doesn't sound so un-sexy from a business perspective. (I don't know anything about their numbers, just saying.)
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I have a great time on FB/Messenger. It's a tool, it's up to everybody to use it in a way that is a net positive for them. I have friends/acquintances in 10+ cities, and it's a great way to keep in touch. As you men
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by Maro 8y ago
People are in charge of their own diet. People are in charge of their own time, how they spend it, on the Internet or offline. Blaming big corporations and capitalism is a sorry excuse for making bad decisions.
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by Maro 8y ago
Re regulation: I think regulation wouldn't help Snapchat, as any regulation would also apply to them. Actually, you could even argue that it's harder for a small(er) company to comply to regulation. (And btw. regulation is good, a
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by Maro 8y ago
Based on my brief time at FB (in 2016-2017), FB is not evil. MZ is trying to do the right thing, overall. Using this as a major piece of positioning/propaganda is not going to work for Spiegel. Also, if they ever want to make money, th
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by Maro 8y ago
Are you sure that the problem is programming itself, and not stress itself? Ie. if you were a biology major or whatever, and you were stressing out over interviews for pharma companies, would it be the same? If yes, then you're kindof
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Lexus President Says Electric Car Push Is Happening Too Soon(insideevs.com)
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Million dollar question :)
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Off-topic: were you able to retire after that decade?
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SQL is declarative. There's no sense in which functional is higher-order than declarative. When you write map/reduce, you're doing a mix of functional and probably imperative down the line. Putting syntactic sugar aside, it&#
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> When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as "never heard anything like this ever" using what Musk tweeted as "scrap we had in warehouses" to
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by Maro 8y ago
Surely you're joking: not a physics book, it's about Feynman's life, it's a way to get you inspired and into the mindset. Feynman Lectures on Physics: freshman level course that Feynman taught at MIT. Lots of material, w
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by Maro 8y ago
> I bet most people who study physics had their interest piqued by such fairytales. Okay, but that's the education use-case for young people. For them, a 300+ page book that talks about the arrow of time and costs $25 is not the rig
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by Maro 8y ago
My initial comment was probably too much gut-reaction. There is good popular science that is useful. For example, maybe the designers of Mario Kart read about QCD and the strong force: this is a weird force, which---unlike electromagnetism
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by Maro 8y ago
I respect your point of view, but I don't really agree. A popular science understanding of BHs, BB, QM is not really an understanding. It's just some fairy tale level understanding. To be clear, I'm not being elitist, using Q
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Disclaimer: I'm a physicist who didn't finish the Phd and went to work in the tech field instead. I wish physicists would stop writing these bullshitty popular science books. A lot of the books are popularizing unverified / u
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Why? In this one she has the deep voice, no?
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What’s Next for Elizabeth Holmes in the Theranos Fraud Case?(nytimes.com)
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I played and loved both Diablo 1, 2 and 3, SP only. At 37, I still play D3 sometimes (SP). Can somebody explain why D3 is not the "spiritual successor"?
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I feel you, I also get stressed out during interviews and perform worse than normally; it was the same for me during oral exams at Uni. At one point I interviewed at a couple big ones and got into FB, where I also did a fair amount of inter
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by Maro 8y ago
The reasons RMS has for not liking Github have nothing to do with the recent MS acquisition. If you read into the thread, it's quite non-sensical, RMS eg. says Github is evil because the license picker doesn't push his license str
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by Maro 8y ago
I think 99.99% of people would go with the $10B. It's not like you have to kill babies for it... It'd be dumb to hold this against the WhatsApp cofounders. I just think the parent comment saying MZ is somehow evil for this is not
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I read the article based on your comment, but I disagree overall. I do agree that it was---in retrospect---unfortunate and optimistic of MZ to promise too much freedom and independence from FB. But it seems FB _did_ give WhatsApp a long run
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I have a degree in CS and one in Physics. For the first 7 years I worked as a "programmer", ie. writing code, a lot of C++, and of course web stuff. About 6 years ago I (accidentally) became a "data guy". I do a lot of d
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Not strictly related to this discussion, but perhaps worth sharing. I worked at a smaller tech company, and we kept saying "Correlation does not imply causation", and trying to come up with ways to separate them, etc. We spent&#x2
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Even at big tech companies, a lot of those ML models are fed by nightly jobs, so updated once a day. If the targeting occurs on an outside property, there may be more delay. So if you make a purchase on day X, you should expect to see the a
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by Maro 8y ago
"1.5B people rely on Hack every day [because Facebook runs on Hack]." http://hacklang.org/
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China Ecommerce Firm Jollychic Gets Investment from Sequoia at Unicorn Valuation(chinamoneynetwork.com)
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