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by ivancho 5y ago
Oh, man, such a shame about all these laws.. [checks notes].. protecting users from predatory company behavior. Things would be so much easier if we didn't have those laws - we could all start web startups.
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by ivancho 5y ago
> The new rules for so-called gatekeeper platforms, derived from years of antitrust enforcement in the digital economy, include restrictions on combining personal data from different sources, mandates to allow users to install apps from
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Communication in Times of Russian Invasion(docs.google.com)
3 points by ivancho 5y ago|0 comments
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by ivancho 6y ago
Not according to some very well-paid lawyers, so I guess no.
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by ivancho 7y ago
Because one of those lies carries massive legal and financial penalties, and the other one doesn't?
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by ivancho 15y ago
right, except for the bit where they suggest that we should encourage drinking to boost earnings. It is the absolute definition of the correlation/causation mistake. They also got a positive coefficient on the Divorced variable - I guess we
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by ivancho 15y ago
Why should the causality go this way? Perhaps rich people drink and go to bars because they can afford it. I'm quite unimpressed with their logic
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by ivancho 15y ago
So you didn't find a story of a legit game manifacturer commiting multiple felonies just to embarass those darn pirates a little .. implausible?
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by ivancho 16y ago
perfect example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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by ivancho 16y ago
Hey, why stop at passive predicting - if we set up a few boxes with a hundred thousand twitter bots pushing "calmness" updates, we can probably make the Dow keep on going up forever (or at least 87.5% of the time) . Think about all the happ
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by ivancho 16y ago
well, welcome to the American Dream, where you too can become a billionaire, as long as you start from a position with massive capital and a large hedge fund happy to take you back if you fail.. This is the stuff that motivational speakers
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by ivancho 16y ago
The bullshit is strong in this one. Look, I have 4 data points, 2 each in some very psychotic societies. We are going to extrapolate to the entire world and then try and add some psychoactive substances to their water. Seriously, I've been
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by ivancho 16y ago
well, no, the math involving Hilbert "systems" and entropy is not esoteric as such. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem I agree that Ars should have tempered the sensationalist headline.