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by freyir 5y ago
“Quite a few activists and researchers were fired for asking Google to be a bit more ethical” In the examples the author cited, those activists and researchers were fired for reasons going beyond “asking Google to be a bit more ethical. And
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by freyir 5y ago
Anti-vaxxers tend to be Republicans too. Finally putting their money where there mouth when it comes to smaller government.
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by freyir 5y ago
It’s not nice to trash the art and entertainment that other people enjoy, but man, I hated that book.
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by freyir 5y ago
Seems a bit far-fetched that the guy creating Bitcoin was also building up a global criminal empire. I’m sure Paul is a very talented guy, but there are only so many hours in a day. The article’s author even admits it’s a stretch by the end
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by freyir 5y ago
It falls to the bottom because it lies about the facts (vaccines were never declared 100% safe and effective) and reaches an incorrect conclusion (if one vaccine is determined to be safer than another, it doesn’t follow that vaccines are ob
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by freyir 5y ago
It’s a poor comparison. Stripe Press can effectively show a dozen books like this. Amazon can’t show 30 million books like this.
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by freyir 5y ago
Not a substantive critique by a working physicist, a rant by a blogger who thrives on controversy.
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by freyir 5y ago
My phone has a setting to not ring or vibrate unless it’s a recognized number. That alone has largely solved the issue for me. Fortunately I don’t need to answer calls from unrecognized numbers my job.
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by freyir 5y ago
It may be an outcome, but it certainly wasn’t ”designed to boost disinformation.” If you watch a pro-vaccine videos, it will suggest more videos portraying the vaccine positively. My take on things as time has gone on? It’s depressing but
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by freyir 5y ago
Yeah, it’s just a bunch of cheap (and some not-so-cheap) knockoffs.
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by freyir 5y ago
Tech companies dumping their self-driving R&D divisions seems like a stronger admission that full self-driving is unlikely to materialize in the near future.
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by freyir 5y ago
Just because you weren’t tested for the flu at your local doctor’s office, that doesn’t mean that the flu isn’t systematically monitored or that infection rates haven’t plummeted. The headline is hyperbolic (the article says it’s dropped to
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by freyir 5y ago
Yes, and then they too moved to the US to study or work. Look at any top US university’s STEM faculty? What percentage are native born? It is shockingly low.
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by freyir 5y ago
Your “cut” is having a place to store, view, and share your cat photos online. The web only has two business models: users pay for a service or advertisers pay for a service. I’m all in favor of paying for services, but it turns out most pe
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by freyir 5y ago
Is this really a case of “tooting one’s own national horn”? Or is the interviewee just discussing historical global factors that gave US universities an edge over the past centuries? These knee jerk reactions whenever anything vaguely posit
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by freyir 5y ago
Leetcode interviews are exactly how I, as someone from a non-traditional background, got a job at a tech company. I didn’t need to know 4+ years of CS curriculum, which I never would have learned on my own. I just needed to spend some time
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by freyir 5y ago
Yikes, that sucks. I’m fine with the walled garden of my iPhone and Apple’s App Store. But I had hoped there was an alternative for those so inclined.
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by freyir 5y ago
> The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Here he understates his own point. The rich are getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer. The people getting poorer the fastest are the middle class.
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by freyir 5y ago
What prevents the Epic store (or any alternative store) from gaining more traction? Is it just that users prefer the default store that ships with the phone? Or are there other barriers?
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by freyir 5y ago
It’s a simple policy: a percentage of revenue from games hosted on the platform goes to the host. When that revenue is labeled “donations”, it doesn’t make it not revenue. > “you are not permitted to ask for donations to support your fre
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by freyir 6y ago
It’s not the gambler’s fallacy since they’re treating each flight as an independent event: Probability of dying on one flight: 1/10,000,000 Probability of surviving one flight: 1-1/10,000,000 = 9,999,999/10,000,000 Probabilit
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by freyir 6y ago
$700k is the median. The average is even higher, and especially so in “outlier markets” (where outlier here means the cities and surrounding suburbs where most people live). Also, more Americans live in California than any other state. So i
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by freyir 6y ago
You might be mixing up Annie’s with Amy’s? I don’t believe Annie’s has frozen foods.
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by freyir 6y ago
It also describes the most populous US state. The median housing price is now over $700k in California, while the median household income is around $80k.
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by freyir 6y ago
You study, you learn the algorithms, and in return you get a high-paying job and excellent benefits. It’s a good deal for many. You complain about studying unpaid, but who gets paid to study? Many pay tens or hundreds of thousands to study
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by freyir 6y ago
San Francisco also applies rent control only to older buildings. The effect is that developers only build top-of-market “luxury” housing (often cheaply constructed it rented at luxury rates). This helps them recover their development costs,
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by freyir 6y ago
For the last decade or so, since I first became acquainted with databases, the HN crowd has said “Use PostgreSQL.” And every few weeks there’s a company blog post mentioning that they use MySQL. Why is this?
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by freyir 6y ago
Dumb question: Do browsers actually notify websites when the user is in incognito mode? Or is it just presenting the user as a blank state with no cookies or other local season data? I’ve always assumed the latter. So I’ve never assumed any
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by freyir 6y ago
Nobody talks about how difficult it actually is to commit mentally ill people in many places. Case in point, San Francisco, where severely mentally ill homeless people abound, many of whom who cannot look after themselves, and are left to s
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by freyir 6y ago
Not enough.

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