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by citrablue 7y ago
I think people bring out the population or area size in order to explain where facile comparisons fall down. Scale matters.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Because there's already an element for that. Putting a click handler on a div is a hack. In a clean (from scratch) dev situation, when would it make sense to use the div option?
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by citrablue 7y ago
Minor nit, the feeling of awfulness from the flu is the effect of your immune system kicking in. The feeling of relief is when it kicks out, because the tide of the battle has turned.
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by citrablue 7y ago
While your tone is a little off-putting, I totally respect your decision to go this route. It's not for everyone. Do you mind if I ask what your independent success trajectory in your own business has looked like?
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by citrablue 7y ago
Because investors are paid for taking risk, that decision has to happen at the point of investment. Or, the entrepreneurs would have to be willing to massively sacrifice their upside for their vision. The exit clause is "don't ta
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by citrablue 7y ago
We built a huge dataset that we thought could be usedfor supply chain management, but the only successful p/m fit was by putting it on the web and putting ads on it. Even when we got to 5 figures/mo in ad revenue, we insisted on
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by citrablue 7y ago
What you said is correct, but I'd like to point out that controlled scientific experiments may not be the right approach for e.g. optimizing conversions on a website. The reason is that websites are a dynamic environment. All things e
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by citrablue 7y ago
My point is that I believe even though very smart and dedicated people work in the field, and research it, the "state of the art" seems to be little more than opinion anyhow. That is to say, it appears to me that even "dense
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by citrablue 7y ago
My uneducated guess is that therapy's effective mechanism is related to the placebo effect. There is a line of thought that the placebo mechanism may be related to reduction in stress, because something else will take care of the prob
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by citrablue 7y ago
Perhaps in some countries/demos. I'd bet Instagram and WhatsApp for free, basic communication are seen as much higher utility in a significant amount of the global population.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Google also sees pretty much every website visit for every website in the world, through Google Analytics.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Perhaps I am thinking too narrowly, but I think the algorithm-driven approach is much less hubris than someone at the company making a decision. These models reflect what users do -- isn't that much more democratic than employees deci
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by citrablue 7y ago
Does your reasoning apply to other companies? Coca-cola, for example, is very interested in building profiles and modifying behavior. I estimate they're much less sophisticated w/r/t building profiles (although if you think
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by citrablue 7y ago
Dumb question, but how can you assume the ranges offered are a normal distribution?
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by citrablue 7y ago
Not all that strange -- the decision was more "we have a security issue, but banning these apps would create a screen time issue". Framed that way, it made perfect sense they waited until they had a long term solution finalized.
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by citrablue 7y ago
It's because Google's constraint is number of engineer-attention-hours. This kind of thing probably just isn't a priority, when they have a billion other things they could work on. Keep in mind that Google is not a product
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by citrablue 7y ago
I think the apparent hubris is what they're referring to, and that it is a negative indicator of developer self-awareness, while humility and willingness to acknowledge past mistakes are positive signs. Honestly, if you've always
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by citrablue 7y ago
Could it also be possible that the current rate of emissions beefed up the planet's scrubbing capacity, and the climate return to pre-civ levels even faster?
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by citrablue 7y ago
it was a checkbox in a training ledger that nobody else cared about. People were passing around unencrypted csvs on flash disks, sending them to their gmail accounts via email. Parent company at one place (healthcare provider) couldn&#x27
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by citrablue 7y ago
In your opinion, have HIPAA laws been a success? I've worked in 2 roles where I was the part of the technical implementations of compliance... and man, the stories I could tell.
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by citrablue 7y ago
Humans used to resort to physical violence as well as name calling. Rome had a series of senators brutally murdered in session, even before Cesar. Andrew Jackson used to physically attack opponents. The whole Aaron Burr story. My unsuppo
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by citrablue 8y ago
Knock 5% off my insurance premium for every trip to the gym and you better believe I'm going to the gym every day...
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by citrablue 8y ago
The problem here is that who knows if your listing price was optimal. I know some real estate agents who would argue that in a hot market, you should list for significantly less in order to create a bidding war. It doesn't make sens
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by citrablue 8y ago
Regardless of the merits of your statement (although tbh it's more of a rant than a cogent argument), I caution you not to take the downvotes as a sign you are correct. The downvoting may reflect how people received what you said, but
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by citrablue 8y ago
Punishments are effective at teaching people to not get caught. They put the offender on the defensive, which is a hard place to learn the right lessons from.
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by citrablue 8y ago
There's a great sci-fi world based around this premise, called The Culture Series by Iain Banks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_(series)
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by citrablue 8y ago
Maybe they want to get in front of a possible backlash, like what happened to Facebook when it was revealed that 3rd parties you used to send messages through... had access to the messages! (gasp)
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by citrablue 8y ago
Has anyone reported that they stopped seeing ads because nobody wanted to bid on them? You'll always find a bidder if the CPM is low enough. I think if anything, you'll see more and more shady ads because you are now remnant inve
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by citrablue 8y ago
This assumes that FB is harmful to everyone, instead of a subset of people. I don't think that's very well proven. The mental health studies also have a bit of a correlation issue, similar to drug use. I think sugar is a more ap
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by citrablue 8y ago
You missed some downsides: anguish, more tests for something that isn't a problem, costs, possibly suicides. You may want to read up more on the downsides to breast cancer screenings for reference.

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