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by actuator 6y ago
I am not sure if it was this July but yeah, there was news of them censoring content around Tianamen, Tibet and other topics sensitive to CCP
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by actuator 6y ago
This recommendation algo bit looks unnecessarily hyped up, it is not as if they have cracked a new superior recommendation method. From an article that was posted few days back, it seemed like collaborative filtering with more signals being
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by actuator 6y ago
I would say the possible threat is more than FB is assumed to have been responsible for, whether it is true or not is a different story. While FB's perceived threat was(is?) targeting of users on behavioral models, for misinformation c
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by actuator 6y ago
> Trump would not have won without social media That's the most hilarious thing about this whole thing. They talk as if there is someone out to get them in Facebook, even though it seems they were most helped by it.
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by actuator 6y ago
> there's clear evidence that they have failed at adhering to those regulation, so should be broken up. If there is clear evidence of them breaking existing regulation, then I am all for taking action. If the existing regulations ar
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by actuator 6y ago
They shouldn't, the accountability should come with regulation ensuring fair competition and respect for user data, not just going ahead and reducing competitiveness of US companies by breaking them up. I will be really surprised if Go
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by actuator 6y ago
Well, you are mentioning that in hindsight in 2020. When it started in 2009 and technologies like deep learning were mostly limited to companies like Google and universities, would most investors have went with those high values knowing the
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by actuator 6y ago
I think there are plently of examples where a lot of innovation came out of already established companies as the other commenter has already mentioned. But even leaving that aside, isn't that checkbook the most important part? While VC
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by actuator 6y ago
That Elizabeth Warren tweet mentioned in the article stands out to me. She has spoken about breaking up big tech in her campaign as well. While I completely agree with regulation ensuring fairer competition; as we are seeing how much abuse
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by actuator 6y ago
As some others have mentioned, this is not true at all for phones like Pixel at least. Last I checked, I had to provide permission to each app that came in the phone. I can deny access to location to even Google Maps. I think Google largely
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by actuator 6y ago
I agree with this completely. The best security is and when we can load a custom open source OS where we can see what is going on inside. The OS doesn't control what apps am I allowed to install, the OS just takes care of the apps bein
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by actuator 6y ago
I have been using Android for a long time, I don't find this to be true. Can you qualify as to what Google collects on a standard Pixel phone which they don't ask for?
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by actuator 6y ago
I think the advice of valuing it as $0 in most cases makes sense, except if you happen to board the likes of Stripe, Spotify at a time point when they have fairly matured. Only few companies make it to the much vaunted IPO/acquisition
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by actuator 6y ago
Left side assignment is still used to us, from maths and most other programming languages, so it keeps things familar. The `:=` has been in use in other langs like MySQL
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by actuator 6y ago
Ugh! I love that Ruby is expressive but this will just add confusion when a developer moves to Ruby for the first time. It adds a mental burden to be aware about all these rules.
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by actuator 6y ago
If assignment is what we are concerned about, we should introduce something like `x := x + 1`.
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by actuator 6y ago
If FB doesn't have a play on education yet, they might want to capitalise on remote classes through video/transcripts. Possibly have a piazza equivalent built in and make it more accessible to schools.
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by actuator 6y ago
Not if you remove the inefficient conversion in the middle. The whole argument is, cattle is inefficient conversion of plant based sources into meat.[1] If instead, we just eat the plant based sources, we would need to grow less of them. Al
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by actuator 6y ago
Thanks, I just searched for that. Those are some extreme numbers[1] and there seem to be a lot of dishes in East Asia that are making use of it, not sure if the use is just as an additive. I wonder why it doesn't come up a lot in prote
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by actuator 6y ago
Are there any variants of plant based products which could compare to extremely high protein/calorie ratio foods, foods like egg white and chicken breast. The ones I have eaten/seen till now seem quite bad if you look at the overa
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by actuator 6y ago
$5/10 billion seems too less for Apple, it will feel like a slap on the wrist for them. There has to be something concrete which forces them to open their platform. No company owning a big general computing ecosystem should have this m
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by actuator 6y ago
Can't the cantonment just function like its own local body working alongside the other local bodies, with proportionate allocation of budget? I understand with the influence the defence establishment wields in the affairs, it has a gre
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by actuator 6y ago
Your skepticism is well placed, but if retaliation against your family/extended family can take place, I can see why they might have chosen to stay anonymous. Regarding the links with the other organisation, if these are really respons
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by actuator 6y ago
I doubt most sane people are asking for an invasion.
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by actuator 6y ago
Certainly seems like a pro consumer move but has there been any impact of this on sales of these products. Consumers will buy something that gives them good value at a cheap price. For a lot of products it is not even the cost factor, like
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by actuator 6y ago
Assuming your comment is in good faith, one reason a lot of this is coming from intelligence related sources is, media access is extremely restricted in Xinjiang and Tibet. Intelligence agencies have a better chance at getting in, because o
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by actuator 6y ago
I wonder why Amazon is so bothered about this deal. If I remember the time period correctly, this is a $1B/year deal. That is a low single digit percentage of AWS revenue, do they really want to anger the government and let themselves
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by actuator 6y ago
Yeah, I agree with this. The comment which I replied to which has been flagged now stated something like, "this is so misogynistic". Hence, my comment that prevailing morals were largely different then. One can choose to leave the
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by actuator 6y ago
While there seem to be ancient unis with rich literature[1], my understanding was most of the manuscripts were destroyed by invading forces, does the 40 million figure count those as well? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by actuator 6y ago
I am assuming for games at least, the market in say India is not big enough that it can cover the cost of making something high budget. Once the market becomes bigger in terms of ability to spend, there might be more content. For example Ja

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