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by cbr 11y ago
From the article: Diminishing marginal returns: some tasks performed by doctors have more impact than others. If there were one fewer doctor, the highest impact tasks they perform would be given to someone else, so the to
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by cbr 11y ago
I think the email in question starts on p3 of http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangat...
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by cbr 11y ago
Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zgom088YjvKs.kz8zRB...
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by cbr 11y ago
I see the future as being one in which strong AI emerges from whole brain emulation, starting around 2030 as processing power becomes cheap enough for an entire industry to be competing in emulating brains the brute f
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by cbr 11y ago
HTTP/2 isn't really going to help here. When you request five different CSS files and ten tiny images all from one server HTTP/2 does the equivalent of resource combining and helps a lot. The core issue with ads, though, is
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by cbr 11y ago
I agree Google should return the best response to your search and not cut things out for bargaining points, but "dumb pipe utility" is incredibly off.
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by cbr 11y ago
We should do more of this kind of testing.
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by cbr 11y ago
G+ actively enforced this policy in a way that made people angry. When FB does similar things [1][2] people are similarly upset, but when they were going through early adoption they didn't force this. [1] http://thinkprogre
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by cbr 11y ago
thanks!
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by cbr 11y ago
Subresource Integrity hashes [1] should let sites get the caching and CDN benefit of using shared resources like jquery without letting 3rd parties have the ability to XSS them. Basically, you can specify a hash of what the url should poin
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by cbr 11y ago
It seems like you're marking sites down for using a cookiless domain for resources, even though that's faster and no less secure? For example, you'd mark google down for referencing gstatic.com or facebook down for referenci
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by cbr 11y ago
I work in industry too, mostly with open source software. While our go-to license is a permissive one, we use GPL software extensively and contribute changes back. (Now if you had said AGPL...)
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by cbr 11y ago
"blogger porn" and "real names" refer to two cases where Google made an unpopular decision internally and then later reversed itself: https://plus.google.com/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy http
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by cbr 11y ago
However, now with the reverse split you now only have 1000 shares. The stock still opens at $20 and still closes at $60. That's off. Why are you assuming people would pay the same amount for 8 times as much of the co
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by cbr 11y ago
Do you have an example? A crawler ignoring robots.txt sounds like a bug, and if you have details I can file a bug with the appropriate team.
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by cbr 11y ago
Chest X-ray << Chest CT scan (350x) Which makes sense, since a CT scan is basically enough X-rays that you can make a 3D picture.
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by cbr 11y ago
The main thing is the level of plausible deniability. There are lots and lots of reasons why someone might see an ad for a rehab center on your screen. Perhaps a friend or relative has a drug problem and you're reading about it. Or
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by cbr 11y ago
it's really good to own internal combustion cars where no one lives Isn't that right though? Tailpipe emissions are much worse in urban than rural areas because there are more people to breathe them in.
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by cbr 11y ago
They've switched from coloring the background to adding a yellow "Ad" marker on each ad: https://www.google.com/search?q=credit+cards
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by cbr 11y ago
Google allowed the advertiser to easily discriminate This is definitely the case: With demographic targeting in AdWords, you can reach customers who are likely to be within the demographic groups that you choose. Dem
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by cbr 11y ago
https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads No applicant will be favored or treated differently, and no one can buy their way onto the whitelist. Everyone has tocomply with the criteria and everyone has to go t
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by cbr 11y ago
The effect of this is that people who visit substance abuse websites see ads for rehab centers. This seems generally positive, though there's a risk of other people seeing the computer and asking "why are you getting ads for reha
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by cbr 11y ago
The paper talks about two main findings: 1. Test accounts that visited substance abuse websites were much more likely to be shown ads for Watershed Rehab but nothing shows up on the ad settings page indicating the change. 2. Test accounts w
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by cbr 11y ago
The analogous question is what rights you have to use a photo for which you don't have a model release, and that's where I think things are pretty fuzzy.
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by cbr 11y ago
Model releases are also a fuzzy area. "The legal issues surrounding model releases are complex and vary by jurisdiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_release
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by cbr 11y ago
s2n is server-only
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by cbr 11y ago
Why not get legally divorced (but not socially)? As long as you don't get married again it looks like that's not fraud by the IRS. Page 23 of http://www.jefftk.com/abrams2012.pdf has: "Although the IRS attem
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by cbr 11y ago
Currently marriage involves third parties treating couples differently because they're married. That requires a standardized status and seems tricky to do with contract. For example: different taxation, different financial aid, etc. Y
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by cbr 11y ago
since some sort of legal status is required for many purposes in most countries The idea here is that you get rid of those "many purposes" and treat a married couple like any other people who have decided to spend th
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by cbr 11y ago
> The ROI seems near-certain, if the article is correct. Specifically, before getting married you can (have a friend) check with the college in question to confirm that they don't require parents financials for independent students.

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