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by bcoates 6y ago
I think you don't understand the difference between a press release and an advertisement. This is a press release, the FTC link is about endorsements (which are advertising). YouTubers would not be required to disclose this.
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by bcoates 6y ago
If Google created systems to defend against a single actor spamming their reporting system, it would be an admission that they're aware that they aren't capable of identifying and filtering that out automatically. "We don&#x2
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by bcoates 6y ago
Maybe we need a little badge for articles that are inverted-pyramid compliant and you can stop reading whenever you like
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by bcoates 6y ago
Eeeh, this kind of looks like a British apologetic that ignores the whole "hundreds of years of colonial occupation" thing they were doing at the time. Blaming the whigs for a technical agricultural policy point they were probably
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by bcoates 6y ago
You're right that intrinsic isn't really the right word, but the problem with pre-marginalist theories of value isn't that they're intrinsic per-se, it's that they're objective. It's exactly that products
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by bcoates 6y ago
The reddit post still describes an intrinsic value theory. All intrinsic value theories are discredited, not just this or that formulation of the LTV. It's fairly trivial to reason from any given intrinsic value theory to absurdities
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by bcoates 6y ago
As everyone knows, nobody propagated strange conspiracy theories before the invention of YouTube and Twitter.
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by bcoates 6y ago
It's enough for such a large effect, but obviously it doesn't tell us anything about the long-term impact of trying it as a lifestyle.
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by bcoates 6y ago
Everybody hates punching holes in walls and running new cables, but this is almost certainly the wrong solution for almost every problem, outside of the weirdest of edge cases. For starters, you're going to lose MIMO, so you've su
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by bcoates 6y ago
This acts as a controller that attaches to a conventional PC floppy disk drive (which does not have internal controller electronics like a modern hard drive). It's different than a USB floppy disk drive, which is more like a weird inte
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by bcoates 6y ago
No, 70% isn't nearly enough. A single contamination event (like a cough) is in the neighborhood of a million virus particles to stop. Think about hand sanitizers: some advertise 99.9% reduction, which is "millions become thousands
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by bcoates 6y ago
The author of the article did not say that "people should still wear masks", he said "I’m not claiming that people shouldn’t wear masks". If you want something more actionable, "behave as if nobody was wearing a mas
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by bcoates 6y ago
Anyone have a link to the actual study? The analogy with the streets makes it sound like subjects are following correct bandit-algorithm strategy because they don't know (and have no way of knowing) the variability in outcomes is truly
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by bcoates 6y ago
Could just be an artifact of unrelated(?) less unionization in the south and more in the midwest
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by bcoates 6y ago
What exactly would happen if it was a material negative impact on their revenue and they didn't fix it? If Google isn't under survival pressure to get better (and they aren't) the incentives aren't aligned for them to im
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by bcoates 6y ago
A log-reduction of around 0.5 isn't much. "very effective" would be like 3-4 which even this n=4 study is enough to rule out
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by bcoates 6y ago
But in 1918 they were using specifically gauze, presumably because it's easier to breathe through, or maybe just because it seems medical-y. The study in the NYT article is using non-woven paper masks, which act a decent barrier to bal
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by bcoates 6y ago
Is there any reason to believe that gauze masks are even slightly effective against influenza? The flu can stay viable in air for hours, and the individual exhaled airborne particles are vastly smaller than the holes in gauze -- it's &
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by bcoates 6y ago
Having end-to-end control of their topology in production is the measure they're using to make it reliable. Since they're saturating the link the receiver parameters are reasonably robust, the sender physically cannot burst any fa
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by bcoates 6y ago
Am I the only one weirded out that the author didn't even consider writing/benchmarking the obvious byte-at-a-time version (in a loop, and/or unrolled) before resorting to a nonportable/incorrect 'optimized' ve
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by bcoates 6y ago
This is clever, but can someone who knows more about Ethereum internals comment on whether waiting for nonce order is a real problem in the network? This only allows a modest amount of reordering (~dozens of tx for reasonably sized nonces?)
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by bcoates 6y ago
They're secure in the sense of being low-risk for active content shenanigans and a small surface area for vulnerabilities. Attacking a network through a .tiff of a fax is a lot harder than attacking it through an email, pdf, word doc,
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by bcoates 6y ago
You're not so much arguing that music shouldn't be capitalistic, but more capitalistic than it is today and also value (some?) musicians more. People aren't paying for music (which has been noted is about as rare as air) but
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by bcoates 7y ago
The point of these bots isn't to spread disinformation or to amplify political content (the article is wrong about this). The point of these bots is to build up an account with credible behavior that you can use to make money (usually
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by bcoates 7y ago
As far as I can tell, recent builds of Chromium have broken Google login in ways that not-chrome-at-all browsers still work? I have to log into my gmail in incognito now or it just 500s when the site tries to eat my browser.
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by bcoates 7y ago
If you're wondering why this is interesting, games that AIs excel at like chess/checkers/go are all two-player, zero-sum, perfect-information (everyone knows everything), deterministic games, so you can exactly predict your o
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by bcoates 7y ago
Am I the only one disappointed this wasn't about someone refurbishing the Dardanelles Gun?
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by bcoates 7y ago
It's not an intonation thing, the idiom is "Surely (conditionally true statement)?" and uppost was verbing for some reason
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by bcoates 7y ago
Most or all of these are ill-formed and required to be diagnosed by a conforming compiler.
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by bcoates 7y ago
maybe? I like htmlhead.dev and it actually is a fairly underdocumented corner

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