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by ggggtez 8y ago
There is a lot to be said for getting a job at a BigCo and getting out of debt before taking big risks on startups. Nothing to be surprised about what YC is saying, considering YC makes money if good people work for their startups.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
TL;DR: This is an announcement that they didn't actually do anything yet. (algorithm not yet fully decided on, just buzzword soup).
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by ggggtez 8y ago
So... what was the purpose of me reading this non-announcement again?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Have you ever considered that some people do things when they are 16-25 that they aren't ashamed of?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Oh please. "19-year-old kids" can sign their life away to the military. They can vote in elections. To suggest that we shouldn't allow people who are adults by every meaning of the word, voice their opinions publicly and attr
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The politics are not surprising. They fact that they managed to not know about radicalizing content and fake news (or not care) is more surprising. They have the data. It's staring them in the face.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I agree. The intention appears to be that if an Org funds a biased study, then the funded academic can secretly publish a counter point to themselves. That's the best case , and it means the academic published one paper that they thou
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by ggggtez 8y ago
What incentive other than your reputation is even available to ensure it's not just filled with junk science? We've seen in journals on social sciences, for example, that peer reviewers can be fooled relatively easily. By setting
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Aha, so, your solution to people uploading copyrighted content to youtube, is to force them to go back to hosting their content on their own PC, like... Napster and Bit Torrent? How exactly would that solve the problem? Is there a step 2 wh
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Let's be real, knowing people who wrote the bill doesn't make you knowledgable about it.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The issue is it can only identify things it already knows are copyrighted. What happens when a new song comes out? Does the uploader actually own it or not? It's impossible to say until after someone claims a copyright violation, at wh
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by ggggtez 8y ago
They do, that's what VEVO is for the music industry. The problem is copyright law allows for copyright of every different aspect of a performance, recording, composition, rendition, video, audio, translation, etc, all to be owned by di
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The article and the comments here make it clear YouTube is saying the cost of following the law, not the cost of breaking it, is the thing that would be too expensive. Following the law being the cost of following up on the copyright owners
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I'm sure they would have said the same thing when the Aquaduct was invented. Anyone who wants to stop companies from becoming more efficient should carefully analyze what they are trying to prevent, and fix that problem more directly.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The UI/UX on this is pretty awful. It seems like when you change the settings, it can take 15 or more seconds to take effect.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
If you prefer, as a local physical user you can also install a physical keylogger between the keyboard and computer. Or replace the executable with one that is backdoored, and read the cookies directly from memory. The point is that you pwn
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by ggggtez 8y ago
> just need to be able to execute code on their computer Hmm, so privilege de-escalation ... You can just install a keylogger at that point, so I don't see the problem.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I don't see the problem. You are adding in this extra "hold prices down" that isn't required.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Except that governments are free to create arbitrary laws. So there certainly are a number of schemes the government can use to balance these two things, though most people would claim they are "socialist" because many revolve aro
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I don't think it's fair to say that swatting was a "prank". Bad reporting. They shouldn't even pretend this narrative was ever true. >his idea of a prank For example, there is no evidence that the perp thought of
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by ggggtez 8y ago
If they found that despite the fact that a story can start happy and get sad, no story had ever done so, and it actually seemed to be impossible, well that would be quite an amazing discovery. However they only discovered that a variable ca
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I mean, yes. You don't read Neuroscience I guess. Governments do the same with self driving cars, can allowing limited experiments so they can encourage scientific and economic innovation.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Yup you're wrong, because they have a financial relationship. And Utility law doesn't affect the internet at all.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Nike sponsors plenty of unknown clubs. https://www.nike.com/help/a/nikeinc-donation
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by ggggtez 8y ago
There is an interesting tinge to this attack on screens, different seemingly than attacks on TV in the past, which is eliciting opinions from random people with 6 and 7 figure salaries about how to raise children. Let's be real: writin
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The only thing this experiment could show is that if the ratings changed, but the writers didn't, then the writers are not responsible. It can't show the reverse. Everything in the article is just properties of arithmatic averages
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by ggggtez 8y ago
To be fair, you said "There’s not really a principled way of doing this" but you were referring to cleaning up the data, not the analysis itself. My bad. That said, you started with the following prior: Simpson ratings went down o
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by ggggtez 8y ago
It's a bit confusing. The author starts with the assumption the show got worse, and assumed a causal relation with an random piece of data. This is not proper Bayesian statistics. The author claims there is no principled way, but there
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I think this is overlooking the real criticism, which is that there is no evidence that simply wanting something to be secure would make it so. For example, the parent article, the one this comment is ostensibly in response to, has nothing
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by ggggtez 8y ago
This sort of thinking is backwards. A lot of people in tech fall back on this idea that lay-people should just do research and educate themselves about computer security and privacy. But even security experts disagree about the right choice

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