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by advisedwang 4y ago
Which ISPs are giving our traffic data to Team Cymru? We need them named and shamed.
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Documentaries are great way to communicate to the public, but they aren't data. If you just looked at a random 10hr of raw footage of wolves, you wouldn't be able to conclude anything. Most of it would be uneventful, only experts
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Despite media portrayals, virtually every constitutional question has at the core a conflict where different rights or different parts of the constitution conflict. In that case you can't absolutely follow every constitutional dictum b
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by advisedwang 4y ago
As well as revocation, I suppose it means if certificate lifetimes do change in future it can be done without having to upgrade/reconfigure all existing clients. Perhaps someone using ACME for internal infrastructure may want shorter l
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by advisedwang 4y ago
I'm not an aviation expert, but it's not implausible to me that the propeller is fragile enough to get bent by a stream of jet fuel traveling at fighter-jet speeds. On the contrary, a mid-air collision that just bends a couple of
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by advisedwang 4y ago
The video is 100% consistent with either the jet hitting it or the fuel hitting it. 1. We don't know the field of view of the camera, which makes it impossible to judge distances and positions correctly. 2. We don't know whether t
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by advisedwang 4y ago
A lot of the ground truth for AIs (and it's not just training data - it's also ongoing validation of quality) is coming from companies like Appen, Sama, DefinedCrowd, Q Analysts and many others. There's a lot of variation, bu
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by advisedwang 4y ago
As usual, rating agencies successfully shut the barn door after the horse has bolted.
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Surely you'd just immediately get sued into oblivion (unless musk fired all the lawyers too...)
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Or maybe the men are already being abused? Perhaps if there were working hour rules for everyone, wages would have to come up? The US has working hour regulations, but I don't hear the workers complain that they are being stifled from
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by advisedwang 4y ago
The article cites 1 billion daily active for Google and 100M for Microsoft. 10% is more than a drop in the bucket!
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by advisedwang 4y ago
That's fine. Microsoft doesn't care how many people choose Bing. They just care how many ad views they get and how many ad views they prevent Google getting.
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by advisedwang 4y ago
I don't really believe WhatsApp was bought to show ads on WhatsApp, I believe it was bought to forestall competition and protect Facebook's existing revenue. Zuckerberg was afraid that users would leave Facebook for WhatsApp, and
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Citizens United was that spending money on getting a message out about electoral candidates - "express advocacy" - is protected. That doesn't mean spending money on other topics is protected. Now I can easily see the argument
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by advisedwang 4y ago
You could just say that requiring a license to use data for purposes that aren't essential to running the service is forbidden, similar to GDPR. The GDPR pop-ups are annoying, but you can genuinely collection of data now.
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Wow, what a secret! It's not like Google has been consistently writing papers about this the whole time or anything. Oh wait: 2022 LaMDA: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.08239 2020 chat bot: https://arxiv.or
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by advisedwang 4y ago
> They should order a property tax reduction. It’s getting clear in cities like Ithaca that landlords pass high property taxes onto tenants quite directly. I don't believe a property tax reduction gets passed on to tenants. The goa
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by advisedwang 4y ago
China also sets the precedent of suppressing speech and political dissent, executing a large number of prisoners and other horrors. We shouldn't follow their precedent!
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by advisedwang 4y ago
The FBI chief is and has always been highly political. J Edgar Hoover was a extreme anti-communist and was investigating suspected communists, infiltrating CPUSA and creating blacklists at the exact same time that McCarthy was conducting hi
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by advisedwang 4y ago
TikTok is a threat in many ways: * The extent to which TikTok tailors content, normalization of over-simplified content, ease of creating content and other factors make it great for radicalization. As well as extremist groups, this applies
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by advisedwang 4y ago
An absolute majority is frankly pretty impressive. By the same calculation the last US presidential election was 37% unknown, 32% Biden, 29% Trump, 2% 3rd party. 81,283,501 for Biden, 74,223,975 for Trump, 158,429,631 total votes, 252,274,0
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by advisedwang 4y ago
solarmist is suggesting the title sounds like zoning now forbids single-family houses, whereas it actually bans requiring single-family houses (ie them being the only type of residence allowed).
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by advisedwang 4y ago
> No. of Eligible Voters:2861 > Total Ballots Counted:1721 > Votes for Labor Union:1599 > Votes Against:122 93% for, with 60% turnout. Wow! https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-308858
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by advisedwang 4y ago
There's a lot of UBI proponents who really just intend it to be a way to strip away current benefits with something that in aggregate provides less. Not all UBIs are the same. There's a similar situation with the UK's univers
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by advisedwang 4y ago
This is a reference to Florida's Combating Public Disorder Act (2021 HB1). Amongst other things it creates a defense to civil damages for personal injury, wrongful death, or property damage if the injured person was "acting in fur
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Per the source I quoted "For today, Monday, March 06, 2023, the current average interest rate for the benchmark 30-year *fixed* mortgage is 7.08%"
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Much as I think there's too much surveillance and am disgusted by DHS' many abuses, it's hard to get outraged about them doing voluntary interviews. Yeah they probably should be clear that they're voluntary, but on the
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Q1: because 7% is roughly the current rate for a 30 year mortgage right now. https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/mortgage-rates/ Q2: Anyone you see who is buying a house right now is paying that rate.
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by advisedwang 4y ago
The core of unionizing is getting the word out that unionizing is possible, beneficial and worth the risk. There are some places that tech can help, but largely it's a human-interaction problem. As an example, consider how to let some
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by advisedwang 4y ago
Not to diminish the product that QuestDB is working on, but another solution that works very well with Kubernetes is Vitess. Vitess is basically sharded MySQL, but it automatically manages this very well and has built in kubernetes support

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