Phaedor

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by Phaedor 3y ago
This guy is accurate to a degree which I didn't think was even possible before seeing it. Here he is guessing locations based on just grass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOCR73U8t6E The scary part of this being poss
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by Phaedor 3y ago
A research team led by Charlotte Chang, assistant professor of biology and environmental analysis at Pomona College, found that in the six months following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter—now known as X—nearly half of Twitter users identifie
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by Phaedor 3y ago
Norway has a "tender" system (not sure if that is the right word) where the public entity create a list of requirements and firms bid on getting the contract. Doing some research it seems that there were few bidders and in the end
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by Phaedor 3y ago
Norway has recently changed our health software to Epic and it has been a huge failure. Pretty much everyone using it seem to be very unhappy. One of the many complains is that it just doesn't fit the Norwegian system since we have fre
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by Phaedor 3y ago
I actually think it might. My experience is that the people who pay to get their replies to the top do it either because they have something to sell, or because they agree with Elon's politics. So the result is that every tweet I view
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by Phaedor 3y ago
One thing he has done is push the paid replies to the top of every tweet. So now every tweet is full of low quality replies at the top and you have to scroll to find the higher quality ones below.
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by Phaedor 4y ago
His family origins? You mean being the son of a politician who was staunchly against the vietnam war? To the point that he was honoured by the Vietnamese post war? https://vietnamnet.vn/en/ex-foreign-minister-of-norway-
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by Phaedor 5y ago
Its a result of a lot of trial and error and finding better way of doing things. I dont think anyone likes it, but its byproduct of moving fast and of requirements changing. Personally I think the web-frontend ecosystem is getting closer to
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by Phaedor 5y ago
I am a self taught programmer who first learned python and then learned Haskell. A lot of concepts in python were difficult when I was new and the same is true for Haskell. I found the Haskell community to be very welcoming and very willing
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by Phaedor 5y ago
It often makes me very mad that so much gatekeeping has been sown into programming circles through the invention of pointlessly-obfuscated terminology for everything. Programmers are really arrogant most of the time, they dont want to teach
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by Phaedor 5y ago
So you would say the same for programming in general then? Should programmers not use the word "function" because that word is foreign to non-programmers and might push them away?
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by Phaedor 5y ago
Like how hydroxychloroquine was suppressed in mainstream channels? Like ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine also had some initial positive studies, but when large scale studies were done it was shown to actually cause more deaths than not taking
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by Phaedor 5y ago
> Better though would be to make it in Brazil's interest to protect the Amazon. We all benefit from it being intact, so we should all chip in to create an economic incentive for the county of Brazil to maintain it. Something like th
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by Phaedor 5y ago
One adjacent example of this is the case of Sirous Asgari, the Iranian scientist who refused to spy on Iran for America. What happened to him is really a disgrace and something one would think could not happen in America. https:/&#x2F
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by Phaedor 5y ago
So you are actually saying that the reason that Taleb has "destroyed his credibility" is that he shared a stage with Craig Wright, it has nothing to do with anything he has said?
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by Phaedor 5y ago
And so what? I haven't watched his talk, but by the summary of it it seems like his talk was consistent with his previous statements. Did Snowden destroy his credibility when he "shared the stage" with the scammer in this vid
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by Phaedor 5y ago
As someone using Evernote for ~10 years, it has been terrible for me recently too. I have been getting a "Sorry, we’re having some trouble loading Evernote Web." error about 80% of the time I open their web app for the past 1-2 we
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by Phaedor 5y ago
I dont use TikTok, but its pretty clear to me there are some unique creations coming from it. Its absolutely not only about "lip syncing over existing songs". Here are some great examples of the remix phenomena: https:/&#x2F
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Please explain how the wikipedia page says the opposite of what I wrote. Here I will spell it out verbatim from the article: - By 1916, the Ford Motor Company had accumulated a capital surplus of $60 million. The price of the Model T, Ford&
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Because people equate capitalism with America, and "fuck everyone, get money" is literally required by law there. In 1919 Henry Ford was sued by minority share holders because he wanted to increase wages. "The Michigan Suprem
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Sure, almost any system can be exploited so at some point we just have to compare the advantages with the disadvantages. I am not aware of any abuse of this system. Everyone knows that their tax and income is pretty much public knowledge so
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Everyone have pretty much unlimited access in practice so I dont see that the press have any special advantage. The press have guidelines that they should only publish the tax of public figures and I have not seen them abuse this so far. We
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Arbitrary businesses cannot access it no. However the press can gain special access for a small fee. This means that when the lists are published there are always a lot of news articles about how much various public people earn. There are l
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by Phaedor 6y ago
Everyone have access but you have to log in with your ID and the ones you check can see that you checked them. You can check 500 people each month. Your scenario seems pretty far fetched to me since this information will be published in Oct
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by Phaedor 6y ago
And this is why as a European I think that we should take a long and hard look at our dependency of US technology. Its becoming more and more clear that US is not a stable actor. I think it would be prudent for us to force alternatives to a
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by Phaedor 6y ago
That is not really relevant though. The point is that while its true that there are some american companies who are not allowed to operate in China, there are many more that are allowed to operate and have a large amounts of revenue from
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by Phaedor 6y ago
American brands are way more prevalent in China than Chinese brands are in US though. 15% of Apple's revenue is from China. 17̀% of Boeing's revenue is from there. China only has a few big brands and it seems like America is quick