blsapologist42

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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Is there evidence they are 'useless' for evaluating actual humans? No one is going to actually have GPT take these tests for real
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Agrees with my own experience. The more you have to proclaim your own competence, the less of it there likely is. As Shakespeare said, "the lady doth protest too much".
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Maybe in the boom times. Now with the market attrition rates are more in line with 6-10 yr stints.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Meta has to follow all the EU regulations around data privacy. Does TikTok?
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Ctrl+F "sell" doesn't have any matches on that page. It seems like FB was using Onavo to spy on people for its own competitive advantage. That's obviously extremely shady and unethical but it's not the same thing as
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
My friend works there. In 2021 they made $1.5 million. Last year it was less I guess with the stock drop, but still, I can't fault them.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
To be fair, it's common for people to want to 'undelete' their account, so that's why they have a 30 day grace period. I can easily imagine the opposite situation where someone says deleting with no delay is 'user h
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Why? He probably loved it
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
They tried to make their own phone but it just didn't work out. So they ended up releasing something just so they could show something after all that investment. Of course teh company was much smalelr then.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Costs went up a lot, primarily from increased payroll. That's why they did a big layoff, although I believe they still have more employees than end of 2021 even after that.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Revenue increased (very slightly) on a constant currency basis
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
How much money did you make by doing this? Talk is cheap...
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
It's the classic "bootleggers and baptists" strategy for passing regulations. It's worked for hundreds of years.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Freedom of speech doesn't mean consuming content. Indeed there appears to be no such right in the constitution. The only protections would be for the publisher of the content, so I suppose Bytedance could challenge this law on free spe
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
It could certainly be true that a modest harm to 80 million people is comparable to a serious harm to a smaller number. Of course fentanyl is pretty clearly a more serious issue but I think it's plausible they are in the same ballpark.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
The vast majority of users are in the <25 demographic, which means they basically don't vote. Also only a minority of Americans even use TikTok. It could easily be more popular to ban it (I have no data though).
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
TikTok is suddenly a human right now? Someone better tell the UN.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
What other platforms has the US banned exactly? Apple is not a social media company so it's not a good comparison.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Probably >50% of consumer purchases are imported so it's hard to argue it doesn't benefit them. Imagine suddenly not having access to 50% of the things you buy (or at least having to pay substantially more).
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
On page 7-8 they explain how "social media company" is defined. It's common for laws to have some examples along with the general rule. It doesn't mean it only applies to TikTok.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
How exactly would the US enforce any such regulation? It seems obvious that Bytedance simply would ignore it.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Yup. One person I know is getting around 10 months of severance(!). Actually seems like a sweet deal.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Not true that "most" bootcampers are gone. Please don't spread misinformation.
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
AFAICT from people I know it's a mix
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
The Meta layoff has many engineers affected. Probably at least ~2000
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by blsapologist42 4y ago
Zuck already doesn't get any salary or bonus.
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by blsapologist42 5y ago
If it was intentional shouldn't it have some kind of fade animation?
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by blsapologist42 5y ago
Like Alphabet
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by blsapologist42 5y ago
It's not the job of the judiciary or the FTC to create new laws. If Facebook is not violating current laws there's nothing for them to do, it would require new legislation.
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by blsapologist42 5y ago
Cars are included in the CPI. Don't spread FUD. https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/new-vehicles.htm

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