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by creato 6y ago
I wouldn't trust strava estimates. They are (or were, I haven't used it in a while) all over the place for me.
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by creato 6y ago
I suspect this mission might actually end up being controversial. It's quite possible that the fundamental mission of facebook is simply a bad idea. Maybe the world is better when it's not so easy to form communities solely based
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by creato 6y ago
I don't think C++ ever really had a bad rap except among ideologues and evangelists of other languages. In my experience, people like this are very rare in the real world outside of maybe Rust conferences.
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by creato 6y ago
You could start by just calculating the potential energy of the volume of the tank you are considering, and the difference in elevation between the reservoirs (volume x 1 kg/L x gravity x elevation difference, plug in the units of your
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by creato 6y ago
Maybe they aren't in quite as high demand as they were a year ago? I would be surprised if there wasn't some softening of the market in the pandemic.
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by creato 6y ago
I can't stand all the talk about this as a problem of moderation and suppressing "dangerous" content. That's a distraction and leads nowhere good. I think the problem is that FB forces everyone into gigantic mosh pits of
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by creato 6y ago
> regardless of the severity of your crime, your ability to go home and see your family is determined by your financial status? Bail is in fact supposed to be a function of your financial status, and the severity of the crime. What do
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by creato 6y ago
The point of bail is to put the defendant (or someone close to them) on the hook to pay the bail if the defendant doesn't show up in court. Bail bondsmen offer a different deal: pay us a fee (smaller than the bond), we'll pay your
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by creato 6y ago
From the article: > While they are not employed directly by Google, many of them work as analysts on Google Shopping. I highly doubt these were workers with great working conditions and benefits.
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by creato 6y ago
> An example could be climate change. If Coinbase is doing nothing to make energy more green (even if that's just writing amicus briefs or blog posts), then they are effectively saying, "The way things are is fine." You th
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by creato 6y ago
If twitter didn't stand up for their dishonest users, a whole lot of the outrage bait they depend on to keep people glued to their twitter feeds might disappear.
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by creato 6y ago
A lot of the pro-union push is coming from largely the same set of people that are big activists on social issues/politics, and the union push feels in part like a power grab to gain leverage on those issues. I simply don't agree
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by creato 6y ago
The main country that feels threatened by google and the play store does in fact ban them.
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by creato 6y ago
Do these alternatives scale at a cost that people can afford? I tried googling for permaculture information (like cost per unit of food) and I only found absurd cult-like propaganda or people complaining about the myths of permaculture.
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by creato 6y ago
10 years ago it was probably less like a "small business" and more like a lemonade stand, so neither youtube nor the creator really cared about having a strong agreement or understanding in place.
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by creato 6y ago
Does Google run a social network? There was plus, but that's gone. Youtube is kind of a social network I guess? But I don't know anyone that uses it as anything other than a one way means of communication.
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by creato 6y ago
This is an absurd characterization of coding interviews. I've been on both sides of big tech interviews, and I've been at a few companies. I've seen two extremes. At one end, the company had pretty lax interviews, and I rarel
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by creato 6y ago
I think an equally big problem is that a lot of "scientific evidence" like this doesn't pass sanity checks, and definitions of "net economic benefit" can vary and might not preclude strongly negative impacts to the
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by creato 6y ago
How many of those cases were traced at all? The denominator of this analysis should be the number of positive cases traced, not the whole population.
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by creato 6y ago
Your suggestions are still independent of personalized advertising. The thing your suggestions would reduce is engagement, which would reduce revenue from any kind of advertising, not just personalized ads.
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by creato 6y ago
> CO2 is obviously our major pollutant but Sulphur dioxide (SO2) is a major green-house gas contributor. SO2 appears to actually have a negative greenhouse gas effect: https://www.carbonbrief.org/sulfur-emissions-may-hav
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by creato 6y ago
Yes, PGE did cause a fire through negligence. That's a problem. However, what is the appropriate penalty for this? In my opinion, it is the average cost of a fire, most of which are small and don't cause much damage. That this p
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by creato 6y ago
It depends on what "back in the day" means. Modern computers are absurdly capable compared to what might have been available to these engineers "back in the day".
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by creato 6y ago
Why would they do that when they can just use a horse or a wheeled/tracked vehicle?
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by creato 6y ago
Who are ARM's actual customers? Most people don't buy anything from ARM directly, they buy from a company that builds a product with an ARM product in it. I'm sure there are companies like that in the EU, but how many compare
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by creato 6y ago
Is it really? FAANG jobs are outliers. Some professional fields seem to do OK (medical), but others are atrocious on average (law). Most people see science/engineering jobs as a path to a cubicle for a while with an OK salary before be
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by creato 6y ago
Is there any evidence of this stuff? I googled one of the examples given. This seems to be the most substantial reporting: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/06/the-newest... > In June 201
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by creato 6y ago
> Reciprocation, for what? For censoring their own citizen? It doesn't matter why they are banning every other means of communication. The fact is, they are banned. It's not a matter of spite. In every other area of internation
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by creato 6y ago
> You want to put up a barrier between yourself and your Chinese friends on the odd chance that 0.1% of your conversations might be about Tiananmen, and you can't be bothered to move to another platform? This kind of thinking is exa
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by creato 6y ago
I mean, the issue literally is that the option exists, it just doesn't work. It doesn't sound intentional. But then again, it was reported 9 months ago. It should have been fixed by now.

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