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by beloch 7mo ago
>“Although the findings relate to direct marketing, I see no reason why the same or similar adverse effects wouldn’t occur for gambling advertising on TV or social media.” Controlling/banning advertising for Alcohol and Tobacco resu
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by beloch 7mo ago
"This is a new form of social science. It is qualitative research at a massive scale, and we’re in the early stages of learning how to do it. Surveys and usage analysis tell us what people are doing with AI, but the open-ended intervie
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by beloch 7mo ago
I find it utterly fascinating how VR and 3D keep coming back in cycles every couple of decades, but ultimately fail to stick. 3D film was big in the 1950's, but fell out of fashion as colour film processes became cheaper and more ubiqu
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by beloch 7mo ago
"Mr. Trump complained that some European leaders were not showing their appreciation for everything that the United States had done to protect the continent." ----- Let's sum up. 1. In his previous term, Trump scuttled a deal
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by beloch 7mo ago
Perception is at odds with quality sometimes. For headphones, lighter is better even though people often perceive denser objects as being of higher quality. This is why high-end headphones often contain a fair bit of plastic, but also mak
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by beloch 7mo ago
Dealing with people who copy-paste unread slop into emails is probably not a huge issue for most of us. There's much more slop out there masquerading as blog posts, HN comments, etc.. It's not a huge issue yet, but there have de
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by beloch 7mo ago
It shouldn't be surprising that a company who might be using a scummy pricing strategy gets less blow-back than one who comes right out and brazenly says they are using a scummy pricing strategy. When the action is bad, admitting
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by beloch 7mo ago
This isn't a Vinyl vs CD thing where a clearly inferior technology lives on due mainly to sentimental reasons. There are a number of concrete advantages to wired headphones over bluetooth headphones. - They don't need charging.
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by beloch 7mo ago
It all depends on who the message needs to be secure from, and for how long.
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by beloch 7mo ago
It adds a layer of obscurity, but not real security. If somebody is looking, neither sender or receiver can detect it or know if their ciphertext was intercepted. Depending on the methods used, the cipertext might not be immediately cra
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by beloch 7mo ago
People's intuition is based on what a rack in a typical modern data centre would be like. i.e. High end server CPUs and multiple GPU's per box, which really should be factored in since they're the bulk of the power draw and
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by beloch 7mo ago
"Imagine how much power those things used. Every watt of heat they dumped into the room then had to be pumped out, so that means a corresponding amount of air conditioning to take it outside. That seems like a whole mess of juice to me
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by beloch 7mo ago
If the POTUS starts a war against the advice of the The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he should have a plan beyond "wag the dog" to distract from the Epstein files. I'm not convinced Trump actually has a plan unfortunately
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by beloch 7mo ago
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is reported to have recommended against further air strikes on Iran[1]. ---------- "Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Dan Caine, has warned that strikes against Iran coul
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by beloch 7mo ago
If I were an opponent of the U.S., my short-list of companies to threaten (regardless of ability to carry through) would be the list of donors to Trump's ballroom. In Trump's febrile mind, only chumps pay taxes but there is some
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by beloch 7mo ago
Many don't judge a company by their inhuman resources department, but probably should.
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by beloch 8mo ago
Perhaps code licensing is going to become more similar to music. e.g. Somebody wrote a library, and then you had an LLM implement it in a new language. You didn't come up with the idea for whatever the library does, and you didn't
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by beloch 8mo ago
Public investment yields private dividends.
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by beloch 8mo ago
The ceremony, pomp and reverence we pay to soldiers and the fallen are all aimed at making sure the young remain willing to do an ugly job at affordable prices. For every poem like this there is a parade, monument, wreath-laying ceremony,
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by beloch 8mo ago
"I inadvertently ended up with a paraphrased version of Shambaugh’s words rather than his actual words,” Edwards continued. He emphasized that the “text of the article was human-written by us, and this incident was isolated and is not
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by beloch 8mo ago
The breakdown probably varies according to the time of day. In the middle of the night (for North America) I'd expect to see a higher proportion of international users, although I'd also expect the numbers aren't quite so hi
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by beloch 8mo ago
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." --Richard Feynman You're far from alone. Quantum physics is tricky because it frequently doesn't agree with our physical intuition. Humans are used
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by beloch 8mo ago
The most powerful advertisement is a recommendation from a friend. Has a friend ever brought some product up, completely out of the blue, and had you ready to buy it almost immediately? The biggest challenge traditional ads have is breakin
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by beloch 8mo ago
Iraq is a fantastic lesson to heed today. In the first gulf war, Bush Sr. refused to occupy the country. He viewed it as too difficult and too expensive. In the second gulf war, Bush Jr. declared victory from the deck of an aircraft carri
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by beloch 8mo ago
People need to go back and use Win 3.1 or MacOS 7.x to realize what a leap forward Win95 was. MacOS 7.x didn't even have preemptive multitasking! The start menu and task bar made their debut and immediately anchored the whole UI. Si
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The U.S. hasn't declared war since WWII. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (I and II), Afghanistan, etc. were not technically wars in the sense that there was any form of formal declaration by congress. The U.S. constitution allocates the authorit
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by beloch 8mo ago
This may be the bloodiest "Wag the Dog" in modern history. They may create an Ig Nobel peace prize specifically for this.
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by beloch 8mo ago
Red Dwarf is an absolute classic, but I think people of all nations can agree that the American version was better off cancelled. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlnntKi2no Even the second attempt at it, with Star Trek DS9
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by beloch 8mo ago
We don't need to look to science fiction for lessons about where this will lead. Fact has already caught up. The IDF used tools like Lavender and "Is Daddy Home" to analyze communications, identify members of Hamas, and lear
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There are all sorts of algorithms in use that were once thought of as AI, but transitioned to being mere algorithms well before they entered public awareness, if they did that at all. Some are still useful and used everywhere, but they hav

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