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by cwhiz 6y ago
Section 230 needs to be amended to, at minimum, forbid editorializing. Mailchimp should not be allowed to forbid content they don’t like. As soon as you editorialize you become a publisher. You’re now liable for what you’ve published. If yo
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Why is Google the only way to login? This is an instant dealbreaker for me.
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I'm sure. I just think the blanket statement is obviously not true. There was a linked study or article, but because the article is so old, the link is dead.
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Indeed. My family pays $15 for Music and $10 for 2TB iCloud. For $5 more we will get Fitness, Arcade, News+, and TV+. I bet their service revenue will see quite a boost from Apple One.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This person seems upset that NASA has a budget of $22.6 billion. Apparently he or she has never seen the US annual budget. $22 billion is a rounding error. The US spends $3.6 trillion per year on health care expenditures. If we shut NASA
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>We know that synthetic supplements are not absorbed the same way as when we get them in real food, so even though Soylent has everything, we’re likely not using all of it the same way since it’s not in its original form. In that case, “
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by cwhiz 6y ago
In order to achieve peak performance, you need a Ryzen CPU. I’m not sure how I feel about that.
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A second anecdote. I live in NYC. I've been going on walks, hanging out in the park, going out to eat, stayed in a couple of cabins over the weekend, taken ride shares, dined inside, and traveled on airplanes twice. I don't hav
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Well in this scenario I am suggesting that a placebo is a waste of time and we don't need two groups. I am not assuming the vaccine will be 100% effective, or even effective at all. But in order to get meaningful data you can't
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It is obvious from these graphs than an overwhelming percentage of political discourse on Twitter is from bots. Just eyeballing it, it seems to be at least 70-90% of inbound mentions are from bots. These bots are obvious enough that we sho
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It is easily detected. Neither Twitter nor FB have any (edit: typo) desire to remedy this. These bots are what keep the discourse going.
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Okay. I’m still having a hard time understanding how placebo helps them test for side effects.
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What you’re describing as “reckless behavior” is just normal behavior in a non-covid world. If vaccine candidates are social distancing, wearing masks, and staying home how will the researchers get the data they need? If you are following “
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Are they testing for side effects in all three stages? I thought the first two trials were for safety and the third was for efficacy. Is that incorrect?
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Can someone explain to me why double blind is necessary or useful for a vaccine trial such as this? It seems obvious to me on something like a pain medicine, but on a vaccine it seem a pointless. Is placebo an actual issue with a vaccine? I
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You might be able to on your specific laptop and desktop, but that isn’t universally true. It’s not true at all of video game consoles, mobile phones, tablets, smart electronics, and other computing devices. The percentage of “open” devices
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You could say that about lots of news that FB and Twitter allow. If FB and Twitter are strictly blocking unverified news then they would have also blocked things like the NYT tax return story. You also wade into some hairy territory of who
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I know that users flagged it. That’s exactly my point. Users wanted to bury this.
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I can’t speak for all models but I do know that the 538 model accounts for a tie.
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It is the people who want suppression of information. Twitter and FB are responding to user demand. This post has been flagged. People don’t want to see or hear about this. HN may, or may not, remove it. Either way, there are HN users who w
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On a packed train you aren’t going to hear shit.
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Well, HN commenters don’t speak for the people doing election forecasting. I think Silver would describe it as educated guesswork.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Not sure if it’s wrong to put this here, but here is a link to their election forecast. https://projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president You can compare this to the 538 model and see where these two teams and
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No one is purporting election forecasting to be scientific.
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I think Larry and Sergey fundamentally don't think Google is in the wrong in any way at all. The slow boil. I think Schmidt is just a cutthroat businessman.
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Those are supposedly going away with this update. They sometimes hide MASSIVE service changes in that sea of bullshit.
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I find this type of map to be completely unusable until you know precisely which stations you are going to enter and exit. If I am a tourist in London and I'm somewhere near Hyde Park, I would find this mapper to be an utter waste. W
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They need to just add the digital information screens to all the train lines. It's significantly better than relying on speakers. As for helping people orient themselves in the station... I have no idea. Using an app is the only way
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Google had 61% of the search market in 2008. Google used their free browser, paid placement deals, and acquisitions to further enhance their position to the 90%+ that it is now. Why do you think Google bought Android? Google panicked afte
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Google made a good browser and defaulted the search to their own engine. Then Google bought a mobile OS, bundled all the Google apps and services by default, and defaulted everything to their own browser with their own search engine. Goog

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