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by candybar 7y ago
You're dodging the point here - the point is that the scope of the privacy policy should correspond to the scope of the business. And the NY Times privacy policy has basically the same scope as Google's privacy policy, despite th
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by candybar 7y ago
That's not the point - the point is that this is a loophole that effectively says, third-parties can do whatever they want with respect to your private information through our website and app and we're not at all responsible. Thi
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by candybar 7y ago
This seems pretty disingenuous given the range of services offered by Google and New York Times - New York Times is a regional publication that doesn't really have any reason to know your location besides ads, while Google offers a fre
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by candybar 7y ago
From New York Times privacy policy: Some of the services and advertisements included in the NYT Services, including on NYTimes.com and within our mobile apps, are delivered or served by third-party companies, which may collect information a
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by candybar 7y ago
It seems to me that the idea of free will is used to justify horrible acts as well - the entire concept of retributive justice for instance.
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by candybar 7y ago
This doesn't have much to do with speculation - the decision to rent or not is something that every owner can make and the economics of the decision don't depend on whether your investment was based on price speculation. Generally
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by candybar 7y ago
This doesn't make any sense - real estate speculation would increase the purchase price of real estate but cannot directly impact rental rates. Speculation means people are bidding up prices for real estate beyond what's supporta
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by candybar 7y ago
Again, observational studies are going to have all kinds of confounding variables - if you're going to make an argument that one of them is important enough to reverse the conclusion, you should have some evidence and certainly more th
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by candybar 7y ago
600K / 12M = 0.05 or 5% over 10 years. This means roughly 500 deaths / 100,000 annually. According to CDC ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/deaths.htm ) the death rate in the US is 850 deaths / 100
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by candybar 7y ago
But, > only 10% of people with hypercholesterolemia received lipid-lowering therapy Wouldn't this be much higher in the UK cohort? Also, > The sex- and age- specific levels of TC in the current study of Koreans were lower than t
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by candybar 7y ago
This is the exact opposite of how things are. Due to the constraints of the monetary union, the Bank of France is not a true central bank (the ECB is) and does not have the ability to print money or otherwise set monetary policy. It absol
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by candybar 7y ago
The methodology seems highly questionable. From the actual study ( https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-pspi0000187.p... ) "Social class was measured in three ways. To indicate subjective social
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by candybar 7y ago
As someone who's somewhat ambivalent about race-based affirmative action (in short, I feel it's oversold at elite institutions and underused elsewhere) - a widespread adoption of something like this seems like an improvement over
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by candybar 7y ago
I've worked in different contexts at a lot of different jobs (full-time, contract, etc) over the past few years and my overall assessment is that whiteboard coding interviews do work. By "work" what I mean is that places tha
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by candybar 7y ago
This isn't particularly convincing, given that it's such a small and skewed sample and the effect is so small. The average CEO in this sample operates a firm of 8B and makes 8M - the effect they found was 30M for firm size and 19
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by candybar 7y ago
This isn't what the previous poster said - reach is something you can get on any of these platforms (and more), yet that was pointed out as what each has a monopoly on. Can you define a market each of them has a monopoly over? There a
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by candybar 7y ago
If you can use facebook, youtube or twitter to reach lots of people, how could any one of them be a monopoly on reach?
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by candybar 8y ago
Over the past few years, I've talked to numerous early-stage startups of various kinds and all of them were making offers where the valuation would have to be 10-20 times their seed round valuation - which is already inflated, due to l
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by candybar 8y ago
I general support workplace diversity and mechanisms to promote it but you're making it sound like it's settled science based on some PR piece by a consulting firm promoting a a white paper that almost certainly wasn't rigoro
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by candybar 8y ago
If the median is A-, that means more than half the students are not getting an A. If we accept that Harvard does have some of the best students, well at least best at getting good grades, since that is at least partially how they get in, w
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by candybar 8y ago
This is a graduate school ranking based on a survey and fairly meaningless due to how it's done: Specialty rankings of doctoral science programs are based solely on nominations by department heads and directors of graduate studies at p
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by candybar 8y ago
Not that many people who work at big tech companies moved from places like Mississippi to Seattle/SV/NYC. Lots of them came straight out of school (and top schools these companies recruit from are concentrated on the coasts), lot
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by candybar 8y ago
What tax obligations are being negated here? My assumption is that Amazon is not paying any taxes because they don't owe any - as in, they have no tax obligations.
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by candybar 8y ago
From an economic perspective, there's no difference between the sales tax that is paid by the seller or by the buyer. So it's not correct for you to take credit for the taxes paid on the transactions between you and Amazon - the
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by candybar 8y ago
This effectively removes income tax entirely for rich people. I can simply create a corporation and never take money out of it. If I need to spend money, I can just borrow (whether directly from the corporation or indirectly). Even if yo
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by candybar 8y ago
In my experience, the best principal engineers are those who think of themselves as just engineers and simply focus on the best ways to make a difference without much preconceived notion of what that entails. The worst are those who have t
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by candybar 8y ago
Maybe these are test accounts/artists created/used by Spotify developers? I don't know much about their culture but if there was an actual attack with actual consequences and these accounts were removed as a result, they wou
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by candybar 8y ago
Doesn't this mean Harvard should accept everyone? If equality of outcome is important - and I'd argue that it is to a much greater extent than most people would consider acceptable - doesn't it stand to reason that we should
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by candybar 8y ago
Most of the top employers in the market have similar types of interviews so you have to study anyway unless you want to rule out all of them and any time spent preparing for such interviews amortizes across all of them. Meanwhile, a take-h
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by candybar 8y ago
I'm all for high taxes for the rich but this particular scheme is fairly unlikely to generate that much additional tax revenue and I think it's even possible that this will reduce tax revenue. Because income in the form of unreal

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