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by bertil 5y ago
I’m very curious if that clause would be challenged by this judge or another one — because that’s the linchpin. That decision changes register my Netflix account, that I don‘t remember doing, nor do I remember what interface I used to do it
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by bertil 5y ago
I love of the Ig Nobel are an asterisks on the scientific method where you talk a big game about hypothesis, documentation, falsifiability, reproduction*, peer-review, etc. * Well, reproduction _except_ if that earned someone the Ig Nobel p
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by bertil 5y ago
4 km/h on average, less in Paris, more during floods. If he swims four hours a day, that’s 16 km or 10 miles. That’s comparable to a good swimmer. That’s why this part felt interesting: > if he could maintain an average of 10 miles
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by bertil 5y ago
I wanted to note that GQ spent the time to separate the motivation of the feat, distinguishing a call for autonomy, sport and environmentalism. With the local context, it’s too easy to project one image while there’s much more of a Terrence
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by bertil 5y ago
Degrowth arguments is not lowering your consumption is enjoyable or popular; some might have written effusively about rediscovering vegan cuisine but I’d blame cookbooks usual enthusiasm for that one. Greta Thunberg was quite candid about h
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by bertil 5y ago
Yes, pretty much every company first data person runs Cost-per-action (CPA) analysis to estimate how many sales can be attributable to ads vs. other ways of raising your brand. It’s an imperfect science (just use the word “attribution” to t
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by bertil 5y ago
The issue rarely is whether the content can be interpreted properly, or at least hadn’t in the last few years. There are contractors flagging edge-cases, issues around nuances like photo-realistic first-person shooter video game footage (co
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by bertil 5y ago
I remember recent conversations (in June) about search engines recently: there was a debate about how Bing, _and_ DuckDuckGo, had confusing responses to “tank man” (not the imagine that Google shows and people suspect the Chinese Communist
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by bertil 5y ago
Does your friend work with User experience researcher? I know it sounds ridiculous to delegate “this looks creepy” to an expert, but that’s where those people are valuable: they can enrich an impression with detailed feedback. Also, if your
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by bertil 5y ago
I don’t think this response is dismissive: it’s a technical explanation of what is happening. Understanding it helps us find a solution. Netflix (of Facebook) rates content along embeddings, and highlights content along embeddings that user
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by bertil 5y ago
There were tools to help answer your question (predictably called “Why am I seeing this?” after the button copy). Those had so little engagement they were not worth maintaining.
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by bertil 5y ago
I’ve worked on similar experiments (starting about Stories) and we included long-term holdout experiment to measure the compounded impact of sharing. The fear at the time was more about professional content (with millions of views) vs. your
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by bertil 5y ago
Any document on what they plan to do with all that heat afterwards? Warm water for the lavatories?
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by bertil 5y ago
It happens, especially between closely related species, in both genetic and physical proximity, like monkeys and humans, but it’s rarer between further apart groups. More importantly, it follows patterns (first a few opportunistic infection
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by bertil 5y ago
I’m not a biologist but as I understand, viruses very rarely go from being common in one species to another. It has to do with mutation and how you want many hosts with high viral load to stumble on an effective change. There are cases wher
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by bertil 5y ago
> What if I have a problem with where I live being one of those places? > Or another question in a similar vein, what if I don't have a problem wearing a mask but my neighbor does? Smocking raised the same questions.
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by bertil 5y ago
You argument is in bad faith: because something is effective but not perfect doesn’t mean we should get rid of it. If people are not wearing a mask properly, we should explain why it matters and how to do it — not throw out a good idea. Sam
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by bertil 5y ago
That’s an argument for alternative measures than vaccines (isolation, disinfection) but not against population-wide vaccination. If you can’t identify all cases, you want as many people as possible vaccinated to limit the overall spread.
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by bertil 5y ago
> Some of those feel strongly enough about vaccine mandates Is it more or less than scientists arguing against man-made climate change?
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by bertil 5y ago
> You've presented a false dichotomy here - mass vaccination and masking will not necessarily prevent overwhelmed hospitals. That’s a very disingenuous way of presenting things: we can’t extinguish the house fire so we might as well
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by bertil 5y ago
I believe that a lot of people did opt for a video-conference family events in the last 18 months. That was to prevent millions from dying. I don’t know how many people you or everyone expect will die from global warming, but I believe that
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by bertil 5y ago
For things like gas in cars, I’d agree with you: making electric cheaper is the way. But aviation is seen as a luxury and a corporate expense, not something for which people would go to the mat. Even the most authority-defying actors have e
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by bertil 5y ago
All those are good examples, especially for HN readers who can leverage their work experience and investment portfolio. I’ve done that with the mindset that if those investment don’t work, I wouldn’t have a world where to retire so those ar
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by bertil 5y ago
I know, it’s awesome. The best part is that they are trialling the commercial options where I am (Northern Sweden) so I should be able to fly soon in one of those and go to Stockholm under one hour without polluting.
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by bertil 5y ago
Individual projects? No idea. But Poland has a lot of mines, so a lot of room for gravity-based storage. My suggestion is to build: * 1 GWh capacity of those gravity-fed; and * 1 GWh of concentrated solar heat storage — it won’t be as effe
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by bertil 5y ago
I agree with you for cars, which is why I think the appropriate approach is to: 1. tax flying, or rather shame airlines who do not compensate aggressively until they all do, and monitor compensation schemes because at the moment, too many a
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by bertil 5y ago
The altitude thing makes it a little more complicated than that, but… yes, essentially: 1. any flight that could be a train journey, make it so; if anything, luxury high-speed train is so much more enjoyable that whatever flying allows at t
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by bertil 5y ago
I take it you haven't talked to any medical professional recently.
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by bertil 5y ago
> I will assume "code red" is hyperbole, something that the IPCC is not entirely known to shun. I'm not sure that’s the case and I would encourage you to dig into what the worst or medium range scenario would mean. As I un
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by bertil 5y ago
> "bunch of energy storage" is 100% unfeasible to provide power from renewables without blackouts Telsa’s prototype in Australia was able to prove you can stabilise a grid at scale, profitably and with simple enough technology.

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