colinmhayes

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by colinmhayes 4y ago
People eat chicken... People wouldn't just become vegan without GMOs, they'd eat the same food and its price would go up. The US would stop exporting all its soy and asian pork farms would collapse. Without imported food asian cou
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
In the UK they are legally required to keep the data in order to respond to law enforcement requests. My understanding is that in the US they’re not required to, but at least the ones I work with do for whatever reason.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Power 5 programs pay for themselves, it's the other sports (besides basketball) that lose money.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
> It did almost nothing on the supply side This isn't really true. Obamacare was integral to the push toward increased capitation. Health care insurance paying for services provided instead of patients covered leads to incredibly pe
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
The value these institutions provide isn't education though. The value is prestige and networking with connected peers. The prestige is artificially rare I guess, but there are only so many connected 18 year olds. Their rareness is not
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
> I wonder how did they get into poverty in the first place. Human history is basically nothing but suffering and starvation. 80% of the population was living in extreme poverty before the industrial revolution. https://ourwor
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's a legal requirement or they just don't want to upset law enforcement. I guess maybe they're just keeping the data for other reasons and then law enforcement is jumping on that. All I know is they&#x2
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Not serving subpoenas, responding to them. Police subpoena stuff like "everyone who was within x feet of this phone number or location between these times" and the telcos can't just say "we don't keep that data.&quo
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
What I'm confused by is why the telco needs twitter to get that info. I work for a data warehousing/sql consultancy and our biggest client is telco's who have to track everyone in order to comply with subpoenas. They already
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I mean that's the iOS users fault for using iMessage. Android users use third party end to end encrypted messaging services.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Any prefered sources on what the CIA did in venezuela 2 years ago?
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Why would he step aside or kill his dream? He has unlimited money and can't be fired. He's completely unaccountable to anyone. You think he cares about the investors? My understanding is that facebook added some refershers when th
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I like being able to read both screens at the same time. I can type on one while reading off the other.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Queues are generally implemented with with a vector of pointers to vectors. Nicely diagrammed here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6292332/what-really-is-a... Ring buffers also work better than linked lists
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
>> highly oppositional at all times > tech industry should not be subject to investigative coverage? I don't see how you can read his quote and come up with yours. Absolute strawman
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO2lWmgEK1Y&t=4s
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
The UK economy is doing much worse than the US economy. The recovery looks like it'll take much longer too.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Why not just collect the paycheck and chill with some open source work for a bit while casually interviewing? If you have expenses that don't let you do that fine, but the stripe severance is more than my yearly spend.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
probably game theory
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I believe bls data is generally from surveys
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
backend web dev can feel tedious/monotonous imo.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Price discrimination is good actually. Why shouldn't you charge the fortune 500 company more than the cash strapped start up? Good for your business, and lets you sell to the startup for less and still have the same revenue.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I really just think that this would mean people don't use the service. The internet has shown again and again that people will do practically anything to avoid paying for digital goods.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
It's not just a status symbol, it also boosts your posts. If I had to guess, the people likely to pay for this are power users in wealthy countries, aka the highest value users an ad platform has. Seems unlikely that they're monet
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
I think you misunderstood what I was saying. Twitter wants its users to see the garbage content, that's what's driving engagement. I'm not saying users will refuse to self moderate, I'm saying twitter doesn't want t
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Twitters revenue was 5 billion last year.
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
The issue with this is that the "garbage" posts are the ones that maximize engagement. Twitter and all the other social media sites are showing them on purpose. They're trying to maximize engagement, why would they decide to
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
You’re right to say follow the money, but you didn’t actually do it. Revenue is basically flat. Ad impressions up around 20% this year. Engagement is not going down. Meta stock is down 70% this year because mark just said he’s going to lose
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Honestly could probably create an AI that figures out high speed training, I wouldn’t call it AGI
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by colinmhayes 4y ago
Why? Meta is controlled by someone who is completely unanswerable to his investors. What incentive does he have to show any progress?

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