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by czzr 6y ago
Advertising existed before detailed tracking, and can exist perfectly well without it. Perhaps it will be a little less effective, but we do not need to optimise our society to increasing the effectiveness of advertising.
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One argument that I think deserves extra scrutiny is the idea that extra app stores can be “optional”. The reality is that developers would have a strong incentive to go to the most permissive App Store, and users will follow. Users will al
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The location of your Corporate headquarters is different to the physical location of your company.
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Summary: hydrogen iceberg theory questioned as the expected lifespan of a hydrogen iceberg is likely too short, given the distance Oumuamua would have had to travel.
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In an interview on Fox Business Network, Trump explicitly noted two funding provisions that Democrats are seeking in a relief package that has stalled on Capitol Hill. Without the additional money, he said, the Postal Service won't hav
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by czzr 6y ago
It’s the internet - people invest time in all sorts of things, arguing their beliefs high among them. I’ve now read the actual comments - frankly whether you agree with them or not they seem perfectly reasonable arguments to consider and I
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by czzr 6y ago
You want to shut down someone making, in your words, “cogent arguments”, because you disagree with their point of view and because other people seem to agree with them?
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I wish I could see the original of this - this quote “As with previous posts, I picked the best responses, but everything after the bolded prompt is by GPT-3“ could mean anything from a minor improvement to this being essentially human writ
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Patient compliance is considered by the bodies that assess the value of medication.
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It’s actually about a quarter white, but that aside - why do you think that blacks make up such a large percentage of the NBA?
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I hope that true, but how would you know?
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Apparently yes: A transaction of the type the president envisions could also prove more expensive than the one Microsoft described on Sunday. Trump said Monday that part of the amount paid to buy TikTok would have to come to the U.S. Treasu
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by czzr 6y ago
I’ve read this story many times, it’s hilarious (and could happen to anyone). Thanks for filling in that background - HN is so great for these kind of moments!
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by czzr 6y ago
Yes, I would have exactly the same reaction. I’m also not American.
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This is so, so stupid. The world has a limited number of fragile, deeply flawed but utterly necessary coordination mechanisms. To throw one of them aside in a fit of pique is the act of an angry toddler, smashing things he doesn’t understan
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Thanks for the link. You’re right that Forer effect material was written by humans, but the point is more that there is a failure mode in our thinking that can be exploited - mostly intentionally by “psychics”, unintentionally by automated
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by czzr 6y ago
This is fascinating to read through. It’s so hard to avoid a variant of the Forer effect, though - where we unconsciously discount the errors, and selectively focus on subsets of the output and impute meaning to them. Designing objective qu
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by czzr 6y ago
Calling the market is a fool’s game, but that valuation makes no sense to me at all. Remember this is supposed to be the expected value weighted across up and down scenarios. The down scenarios are clear, so in what crazy world are the up s
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by czzr 6y ago
I was trying to show the absurdity of talking about a group of people like that, admittedly sarcasm is always dangerous in comments.
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Indeed, let’s extend this. Plenty of documented cases of discriminatory behaviour from white Americans from Southern states - we should be incredibly careful about hiring them or letting them into any positions of power.
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The three weeks that changed everything(theatlantic.com)
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This is the key point - even if all these claims are true, they don’t add up to any coherent argument about the substance of climate change. At best they seem to be arguing against some cultural sub-trends, such as those who argue for “orga
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by czzr 6y ago
Yes, all benchmarks right now are highly questionable. Still, it’s understandable everyone is curious - we’ll just have to wait and see.
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by czzr 6y ago
Optimizing for a test is an issue if the test is not well correlated with the desired outcome. By and large that doesn’t seem to be a big issue for crash tests.
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Buries the lede. They’ve chosen to drop support for Facebook login rather than also support Apple login. So working as intended!
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by czzr 6y ago
So I just asked an 8 year old as an experiment: “it’s... like if you have to do something and you just fail epically, that’s pathetic” Thought that was pretty good - so not too difficult.
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No. It’s a real thing, only current quantum computers are too small to do anything serious.
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> On Android (by modifying the OS) I’m genuinely curious how you can imagine this is a realistic solution.
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Dangerous experiment. Must have found at least a few illegitimate children, if it is done routinely.
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Where does scihub get the papers from, in this scenario?

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