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by bjt 5y ago
If you're trying to optimize for engagement AND avoid rewarding divisive content or misinformation, then yeah, that's complex and maybe impossible. But as Haugen points out in her 60 Minutes interview, they don't _have_ to op
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by bjt 5y ago
> A few years ago, some bad actors were successful in convincing Congress of a crazy conspiracy theory that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction ... They used a platform called The New York Times to spread their lies. Citation
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by bjt 5y ago
Not sure how you get reinventing the wheel from my comment. What I described would move us in the direction of the countries you're talking about. I have lived in the UK, and seen doctors through the NHS. I have bought cough medicine
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by bjt 5y ago
I guess security researchers feel compelled to do this career-wise. It's not enough to just report a CVE. You need a marketing site for your exploit to get it picked up in the tech press and establish your reputation. Starting to fe
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by bjt 5y ago
Not all health care is heart attacks. "Health care" is a huge bucket containing everything from buying a bottle of cough syrup to the heart attacks you mention. For life threatening emergencies, I'm with you. Let's fun
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by bjt 5y ago
Invite-only and self-hosted are different things. Discord is invite-only but not self-hosted. Maybe that would work for you?
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by bjt 5y ago
This looks better than typical ORMs, but still not giving me what I want. I want query objects to be composable, and mutable. That lets you do things like this: http://btubbs.com/postgres-search-with-facets-and-location-a..
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by bjt 5y ago
Dating myself a little, but LXC came along well before runc. It predates Docker, and was actually wrapped by the first versions of Docker. I learned about LXC, and used it, after doing some research on how to build my own PaaS at work (pr
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by bjt 5y ago
chroot just isolates the file system. A "container" (whether Docker or LXC or Podman) is a bundle of isolations that includes the filesystem as well as processes and users, and constraints on memory, CPU, networking, and kernel ca
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by bjt 5y ago
I agree with the sentiment that designing a product for mainstream appeal can make it seem bland, but I don't think that goes all the way to "Over time, everything converges into mediocrity." There are so many things today th
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by bjt 5y ago
My hypothesis is that this is mostly about so many people going remote. With location no longer constraining either recruiters or job seekers, everybody's got more options now, and the increased competition is working to the employee&#
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by bjt 5y ago
What's the basis for saying they're "crickets" on such scams? Those shady operators tend to be much smaller and less newsworthy than Facebook, so you don't read about them, but that doesn't mean it's not
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by bjt 5y ago
At first, yes, I agree. But folks could say the same thing about phones, cameras, GPS, etc. years ago (now all in one device). Or multi function printer/copier/scanner/fax. Over time, things improve. Who knows if that wil
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by bjt 5y ago
Fair use is more complicated than that. I see no hard line rule from the courts saying that a whole article couldn't be shared under fair use. https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
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by bjt 5y ago
> ... masters students at corn row colleges. First time I've heard the term "corn row colleges". Google's not bringing up anything that looks relevant. I suggest picking something else. Given that "cornrows&quo
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by bjt 5y ago
I'm guessing you don't remember all the errors in the initial launch of Apple Maps.
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by bjt 5y ago
The last 48 bits should do it. " node: 48-bit pseudo-random number used as a spatially unique identifier Occupies bits 80 through 127 (octets 10-15)"
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by bjt 5y ago
The Media Bias Chart puts Quillette at about the same level of reliability as FiveThirtyEight. A bit higher than CNN. A bit lower than The Atlantic. https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
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by bjt 5y ago
How is that not possible in the exchanges + queues model that Rabbit has supported forever?
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by bjt 5y ago
I think different people read "Go concurrency model" to mean different things. If we're talking about green threads (goroutines), I'm a huge fan. Having had a lot of success using Gevent in the Python world, it was grea
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by bjt 5y ago
The Cinemarks near me did this during COVID. For $100 last summer I was able to rent out a theater and see the original Jurassic Park with my extended family. Rather than a minimum number of people they had a max of 20 (because COVID). Lo
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by bjt 5y ago
See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/06/defensive-patent-licen... I did some work on this years before the article, while in law school. Seems to be defunct now.
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by bjt 5y ago
In the language proper, the Go authors have made very clear commitments about backward compatibility. (See https://golang.org/doc/go1compat .) What's notable about this situation is seeing that their compatibility
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by bjt 5y ago
> The language appropriate tool for writing SQL is SQL. Anything else is a mess... It sounds like you're pretty set on that opinion, and that's fine, but I suspect you just haven't run into the case where the raw SQL is fa
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by bjt 5y ago
> What's the alternative? Not sure the parent comment would like it, but there's a middle ground between ORM and raw SQL that I consider a sweet spot. It's more of a "query builder" library that gives you langua
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by bjt 5y ago
That's not addressing the parent's point about a challenge trial though. A challenge trial could greatly accelerate measuring that effectiveness.
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by bjt 5y ago
The US corporate tax rate is already 21%. Agreeing to "at least 15%" should not be a tough sell.
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by bjt 5y ago
So that invites an obvious question: Why isn't the competitor available on that next street too? Some streets are more expensive to dig on than others. Perhaps prices are higher and competition is lower there for that reason. Don&#x27
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by bjt 5y ago
I don't think the "usual" patterns of solar will hold in the future. The article's example of a solar farm in the Australian outback, with undersea cables running to Singapore, pretty dramatically undercuts your second
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by bjt 5y ago
"Vote with your wallet" depends on several micro-economic assumption holding true, that don't hold true here. One of those is the assumption of perfect competition. Electricity is far, far from being a market with perfect co

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