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by bertil 7y ago
In the video he says that his hospital and Korea use 600 mg/d and that Chinese authors mention two times 500 mg per day. He describes that larger treatment as “harder to handle” and I suspect he’s referring to secondary effects.
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by bertil 7y ago
That researcher is likely, at best, controversial: - he starts by arguing against quarantine; his point is that it didn’t work for Cholera in 1832; - he dismisses two thirds of the efforts against HIV/AIDS: understanding transmission e
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by bertil 7y ago
I have never heard of that news source, Connexion France. The language is all over the place. I’d be highly skeptical of that source. The hospital quoted isn’t one of the main institute that would have a direct mandate from the government:
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by bertil 7y ago
Can someone give money to OpenTable to support restaurant in difficult time? I wanted to help a couple of local business but there’s nothing on-line: Google Maps says that they are open (and my city in in lock-down).
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by bertil 7y ago
I’m generally surprised at how rarely a lawyer’s Bar punishes their members for acting in a way that is immoral. Acting against your peers or breaking confidentiality gets you out rapidly; having personal problems, say drugs, does to — and
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by bertil 7y ago
My and my partner regularly fly Norwegian in Europe and they are the best airline we can imagine. They are cheap; booking a flight is a breeze; you get meaningful benefits quite fast if you fly often; planes are modern. They stopped operati
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by bertil 7y ago
It is, although more XIXth-Century realism, so darker: someone who was drinking at a bar reappears as a ruined alcoholic later. Someone who got rich suddenly turned mean. A lot of the speculation on the forty-something unfinished books are
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by bertil 7y ago
Not just extremes in what he swallowed: he’s notorious for “La Comédie Humaine” [0] his dozens of novels are actually set in the same fictional world, with consistent characters across decades. You can take excerpts from several books to te
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by bertil 7y ago
I would agree if I worked at company where a majority of the users saw all of the above as a problem. In my experience (three tech companies with a 4 to 10 times larger non-tech crowd) people who care about asynchronous written communicatio
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by bertil 7y ago
We have a possible counter-example: our service is computing AB-test results (essentially reading from a database, processing totals, writing significance back). It have no non-system users, no dependencies, etc. All the test and strangenes
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by bertil 7y ago
Important step though: have a retro, many maybe and write a report explaining what was messed up and how you might mitigate in the future. It looks like it’s going to be a good one. If you can share a sanitised version publicly, that would
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by bertil 7y ago
Quora is compensating writers (at least those they deem the best) as Partners.
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by bertil 7y ago
I’m curious if the money collected promoted one idea is comparable to the money needed to compensate for the progress of that idea. For instance, I’m not sure you’d be OK with ‘Drug trafficking is OK, as long as the money goes to rehab clin
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by bertil 7y ago
Those bots are expensive and complicated to operate at scale. Some topics are there to make them look legitimate, others because you have large clients supporting a change in opinion and willing to spend social-media agencies to promote it
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by bertil 7y ago
This is a great reference but it hasn’t changed since it was published, several years ago. Anything more recent, any updated comments you’d recommend?
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by bertil 7y ago
> “well, he and I are friends.” Hasn’t Mark said in public that he didn’t remember McNamee, that he was barely invested early on in Facebook and left when they switched business model? (The whole “You know what’s cool, a billion dollars?
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by bertil 7y ago
This does sound like “the user decide” indeed. The issue is: allowing that will likely be popular among people who should know better (like me) and it puts uBO into a position to be able to do some shady things that are hard to prove. They’
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by bertil 7y ago
I would agree with you although I’m not sure what this has to do with my original comment. On Amazon’s scale, there’s a very common mistake made by people in the 11 countries where Amazon delivers (out of a possible 192): they don’t reali
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by bertil 7y ago
This is less because Facebook is big and more because it’s the largest tech company without an OS. More people use Google or Apple’s native Mail client, browser, calendar.
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by bertil 7y ago
I suspect your example would be more compelling if you used a first breach in ethics that would be less heinous. Cheating on your spouse is a common one to defend privacy of bad people; tax dodging if you want something illegal.
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by bertil 7y ago
They get to decide who can use their service, based on whether they abuse other users. That’s not controversial.
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by bertil 7y ago
It’s not that rare: breaking terms of services will get your kicked out quite rapidly. Being a little assertive with your marketing will get you a couple of warnings and temporary bans but systematic efforts, after Facebook sent Cease &
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by bertil 7y ago
Facebook doesn’t have the ability to prosecute people for War Crimes. They can (and routinely) share information with law enforcement for things that they deem abhorrent (human trafficking, notably of children). What they can do —like in th
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by bertil 7y ago
While the data scientists working for CA were reasonable people dealing with the usual bullshit from agency salespeople massively over-selling their work, the sales team (picture in that Channel 4 leaked video) are the worst -- lying about
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by bertil 7y ago
In 2009-2013 Facebook was under a lot of pressure to share their data with academic researchers. They didn’t have the resources to process information, anonymise and make those tables available and manage the relationship, the research proj
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by bertil 7y ago
You would think so but tell that to anyone advertising to say, for instance, that Greta Thunberg is right or selling t-shirts insulting Trump and they'll be outraged--claiming that this is not political but essential. More generally,
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by bertil 7y ago
Facebook and Google do that and try to limit showing ads to people who will care enough there’s a chance they’ll click it. Both have x-out options on every ad: feel free to use it, it helps training aversion models.
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by bertil 7y ago
Talk to them about “uplift modelling”. Most of the time, the campaigns will be estimated through some AB-testing. It could be a before and after test, or something even less significant like attribution. All of those have one thing in commo
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by bertil 7y ago
Not ‘hyper-targeted’. Cambridge Analytica never did that. The (non-technical) salespeople kept saying they were to impress (non-technical) campaign managers but there wasn’t anything like that. The “Do so” is a far better example of what th
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by bertil 7y ago
For what it’s worth: it’s the same here and I only allow ads from Google and Facebook. Google’s system isn’t perfect but I can x-out individual ads. I’m hoping that Google will move away from a purely embedding-based targeting system into s

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