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by fatjokes 6y ago
They didn't reject it. They just sided with drugs and drugs won. Long live drugs!
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Can you elaborate on the "new partners must invest capital" part? I've heard of this, notably in the TV show Suits where when the lead character got promoted to partner, he was asked to contribute a lump sum of cash. Sounded
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: I like technical interviews. They at least enforce some form of a standard hiring bar. I feel this way because I've seen hiring for non-technical roles, e.g., project management, etc. They basically end up being fr
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Asbestos. Saved you a click.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I presume there are legal safeguards, but what would prevent ByteDance from #yolo and turn the entire platform into an overt anti-Trump/Republican advertising network for the next 90 days? I mean, what's the gov't going to do
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by fatjokes 6y ago
With no data backing this up, I feel like people would be happier with quotas. If Asians were told that at most X% of school Y could be Asian to save room for other ethnicities for social reasons, they could probably accept that better than
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by fatjokes 6y ago
> Facebook launches its TikTok clone, Instagram Reels FTFY. I'm being facetious of course. The real clone here is being done by the US gov't, who is copying the Chinese playbook: keep out a foreign company by political means, t
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by fatjokes 6y ago
> willing to kowtow to an authoritarian regime It's not about kowtowing. It's about sticking to principles of free trade and the rule of law. It use to be the good guys vs. the bad guys, now it's the bad guys vs. the at-le
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Is it just me, or has there barely been a peep from the CCP about TikTok? When it came to Huawei or ZTE, China's gov't regularly engaged foreign gov'ts, but it seems that they don't care much for TikTok. If that is the c
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by fatjokes 6y ago
maybe he's well known in the data science community but for the Telegraph's audience he is definitely little known. I'm in the tech industry and I've never even heard of him.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
The problem I have with FB and to a lesser extent, IG is that you can't get away from politics. The issue with that is that in addition to data scraping, it opens users up to political manipulation (i.e., vote hacking). How is it on Ti
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by fatjokes 6y ago
1.5 years isn't even that much? I mean you can probably find that variance within any cohort so I doubt it was the acceleration that caused any psychological repercussions.
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by fatjokes 6y ago
"I will make it legal." -- Senator Palpatine Sorry, in all seriousness though, I'm sure there's a legal pathway for any action the gov't wishes to take here [1]. [1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3&#x2F
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by fatjokes 6y ago
Nope, not buying those. Perhaps I should have defined "downside" with "for whom". > Increasing housing prices are a long-standing policy in the UK (and many other Western countries, as evidenced by low credit rates an
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by fatjokes 6y ago
I'm super curious to see how this will turn out for the UK. A lot of the comments here mention HK's relative high education, English proficiency and wealth. If those are true: the upside will be easier settlement into the UK, mayb
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by fatjokes 7y ago
I think the main issue is that the Internet ( especially reddit, and to a lesser extent, HN) is just not a good place for nuanced discussion. China = totalitarian = bad. Any good results are either by luck or a lie. USA = democracy = good.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
I think GP was probably being hyperbolic. Speaking with temperament sadly doesn't work well on the Internet.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
There are assholes in a 1B+ country. Shocker.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
This article feels like it was written out of panic and anxiety. The analogy feels pretty weak.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Avoiding infection was never the goal. "Flattening the curve" so as to not overwhelm the fragile health infra is, and it's already been shown to be working.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
I don't think you've misunderstood, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that South Korea is all "sunshine and roses". However, given that it seems that the American gov't hasn't earned its citizens trust
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by fatjokes 7y ago
The conversation is dominated by the fear of gov't abuse. So few point to how successfully South Korea has leveraged their vast surveillance infrastructure to tackle this problem while maintaining a vibrant democracy. (When's the
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Morbidity aside, this must be an exciting time to be an epidemiologist.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
I think people and small businesses are going to need a bailout, similar to the banks during the Great Recession. I wonder a) would the gov't do it and b) what will be the financial impact. W.r.t. (b), the banks were able to pay back t
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Agreed. In fact, Yang's platform isn't so much stop-the-robots, but rather to make our culture (social and corporate welfare systems) align closer to a world that is friendly toward robots.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Why would drug cartels prefer this over existing cash? I'm phrasing the question facetiously but the underlying intent is there: how is there more anonymity, usability, etc.?
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by fatjokes 7y ago
"Users of xHamster upload about 7,000 videos a day". "300 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute!" [1] I think that's the real reason. [1] http://videonitch.com/2017/12/13&#x2
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Actually I suspect it's more because of the push in the research community for improved reproducibility.
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by fatjokes 7y ago
Is this the state of journalism in this day and age? Is there any surprise that a real life CEO carefully coached by PR and lawyers is less interesting than his doppelganger in a multi-million dollar Oscar-targeted movie backed by a team of
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by fatjokes 7y ago
tl;dr: "The railroad anticipates the change will save it about $2 million a year."

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