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by bertil 5y ago
It could make Northern parts of America, EU and Asia closer but not the Southern parts.
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by bertil 5y ago
No, it’s hard because it involves imagining a lot of ways that potential users are blocked, prioritising them, explain the product and simplify it. I’ve work for a dozen social media company and none saw itself as a zero-sum game.
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by bertil 5y ago
The information is in the original papers. If they wanted to give relevant information, they’d have to give twenty to forty numbers: one for each country, upper and lower bar, for previous generation and the current one, in currency (and th
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by bertil 5y ago
A lot of people criticise the Growth efforts are social media company —and they tend to do some shady things— but their work leads to large groups of people being active and findable on the same platform. That’s hard, requires a lot of effo
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by bertil 5y ago
I'm not sure that many people would want to share what they put on social networks with their local computer enthusiast. Talk about hobby, neighbourhood questions, lost child—sure. But a lot of conversation on there are gossiping, priv
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by bertil 5y ago
On twitter, the correction should have the roughly same audience as the original — unless you stop following the author. People who amplified the original still share that amplification. My point still stand: I have not seen an epidemiologi
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by bertil 5y ago
If you mean that Delta original advance wasn’t hindered by the vaccines, but Nu will be… it’s not clear that the vaccines will be very effective if it spreads. The spike protein looks quite different.
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by bertil 5y ago
This is still a handful of cases (10 total, the only comparison curb I've seen is on three cases in Botswana; there could be one on six other cases in South Africa). We’ll know more soon, and hopefully, local health authorities will co
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by bertil 5y ago
The only reference to a forecast in that article is a "chair of the department of medical ethics", not an epidemiologist, on a television program, not a tweet that they can comment.
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by bertil 5y ago
So far, not much: it appears that there are very few cases confirmed (10 so far). If all those people isolate and don’t contaminate anyone, that could be the end of it. But one of them just flew on an intercontinental flight, so… yeah, thin
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by bertil 5y ago
> there's zero accountability. If this entire thread ends up being wrong -- as so many of these Twitter hot takes have been proven to be wrong from last year -- no one cares. It is true in many cases, but I feel like anyone who has
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by bertil 5y ago
Do you have any recommendation for all of those practices: books, talks, external vendors? Buy vs. build?
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by bertil 5y ago
For what it’s worth: I’ve been considering trying out Masterclass because their content seem great, but worried that something will come up and I’ll be locked into a yearly contract or something, so I never tried. Your comment made me confi
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by bertil 5y ago
It depends on the area of Netflix, but for most recommendation that can fit on a list, Netflix seems to use interleaved testing: * they create two recommendation lists based on distinct principles or parameters; * they pick a first (with an
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m curious whether there’s a big overlap between people that the FBI is interested in and people who care about grammar. That’s not a flippant response: I’m genuinely curious if that is part of a shift towards white collar crimes (which co
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by bertil 5y ago
It’s a very small thing, but ~I suspect that~ “Unix timestamp” means they actually send the epoch number, without even bothering to do the conversion to Gregorian data format. PS: I didn’t notice the attachement. Yup, that’s _exactly_ what
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m not sure that Assange broke any laws: most apply to government employees and contractors (he’s never been either) and in general only to citizens and residents of that country (same); international laws are rare, and I can’t think of an
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by bertil 5y ago
It’s very likely that some employees were worried either for their employment or their stock grants. It’s easy to dismiss most tech workers as financially comfortable but some make commitments (buying a house being the obvious large one) ba
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by bertil 5y ago
The reason they are using it might be for legal reasons: many employees sign an NDA and it seems like they would be breaching that contract by sharing those. The Whistleblower status was meant when breaking laws like Official Secrets Act, s
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by bertil 5y ago
> Also, we aren't necessarily doomed if we were willing to actually try anything. I maintain that, given how the majority of tax rebates and financial aid is still going to fossil fuels, unless we kick people out of that option for
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by bertil 5y ago
It’s interesting how scientific journals are emerging as a source of information and ethical discussion (as they were originally) after being seen as transcripts of any scientifically relevant observation with a p-value below .05 More inter
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by bertil 5y ago
Big debate around that, apparently — and one vs. more locations, etc. I should remember the exact area after having to draw so many version of the interaction graphs, but not on the top of my head — did check: Bed Nucleus of Stria Terminali
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by bertil 5y ago
My partner is defending her PhD on using Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) i.e. a comparable device with constant current, to address severe OCD next Friday. Results are impressive (and published) on a small sample of ten patients. There’s at le
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by bertil 5y ago
Near Arctic regions like Lappland where I live fit the bill: * plenty of hydro power (which is why there’s data centers and battery recycling); * agriculture isn’t possible outside with no sun and meters of snow; there’s greenhouses, includ
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by bertil 5y ago
What was the control for that observation? Before and after engagement or arriving on a highway with and without Auto-pilot?
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m very tempted to agree in general, and I’ve seen a lot of bad takes that cured my Gell-Mann amnesia but on this particular take, I think they are sensible. I would know because all this was my job in 2015. It’s partial because it’s based
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by bertil 5y ago
Not really: ads have a budget of attention within an envelope that Engagement (the team whose work is described here) is trying to maximise. There’s detailed estimates to how much ads take away but it’s minimised and isolated from that conv
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by bertil 5y ago
I would blame the developper who built the payment system — although, I’m sure if they don’t include that, they loose the sale of their solutions to restaurants. I’m surprised that Apple didn‘t mandate the hashed email solution that they ad
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by bertil 5y ago
> a market for another payment system that has easy cancellations but charges ~5% instead of 30%. I’d happily pay for such a system if I could *trust* them to continue acting in my interest by not leaking my details or interest and actua
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by bertil 5y ago
Apple doesn’t ban sales of eBook, but claims that those are software and would apply a 30% processing fee to them like on all virtual goods. They also demand the price to be comparable to other sources, so Amazon has to decide between 1. ta

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