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by kmlevitt 3y ago
People keep trying to make this about wokeness gone mad, but it was Ilya,the white guy most involved in their biggest technological innovations, that instigated all this. Basically, it’s a nonprofit organization, and so they picked people w
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Obviously it’s better to own up to a mistake right away. But the point is if they are willing to backtrack this quickly, it removes all doubt that it WAS a mistake, rather than us just not understanding their grand vision yet.
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
What matters is what investors think, and by majority they seem very unhappy with all of this. Speaking for myself, if they had framed this as a difference in vision, I would be willing to listen. But instead they implied that he had commit
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Masayoshi really is dumb. PG is smart but he’s a venture capitalist, and so is Sam. His strength is in helping building multi billion dollar ventures and that’s how he ran the company, so I can see how he could run into ideological conflict
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by kmlevitt 3y ago
Right but if the true issue was with a major and unambiguously bad transgression by Sam and Sam alone (e.g., there was a major leak of data and he lied about it, etc), why would they go after his ally as well? It makes the whole thing look
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by kmlevitt 4y ago
Can’t find the link at the moment, but some economists in Japan think it would have a real impact. Tourism has been a major industry for Japan in the last decade, and all those tourists buy up lots of yen for their trips.
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by kmlevitt 4y ago
Small class sizes are better precisely because the class can then become more than a lecture. I am a professor, and if you give me a hall full of students I’ll give a lecture, because that’s all that can really happen under those circumstan
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by kmlevitt 4y ago
>” 5. Low power usage that unnecessarily sacrifices performance is undesirable in a desktop computer.” This is a temporary matter. For notebook computers, Apple made the obvious decision to optimize for power usage. But in interviews t
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by kmlevitt 4y ago
Yeah I just tried it to see what the fuss was about, and it works just fine as usual.
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
Why couldn’t they have prevented the systemic collapse simply by bailing out the individual homeowners? If they had gotten bailed out, so would have their banks.
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
We’ll what you’re ignoring there is: 1. People can and do get places off campus. 2. The University already has lots of conventional dorms with windows. 3. This building costs the school nothing to build and adds massively more units than a
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
Well it isn’t the only option. In fact currently nobody there has this option at all, it’s still being discussed. If this is built, people just get more options. I live in Tokyo, where they solve housing crises by just building more stuff.
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
>I cannot imagine living 9 months of my life in a room with no actual window. Why would you be spending a literal nine months of year in your little windowless dorm bedroom, though? Were you a shut-in in college? The whole point is you s
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
This argument for caution against boosters is badly flawed. They are using pre-delta data to argue it’s inconclusive if boosters are needed against the delta- https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/143808839
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
> What I could see immediately in their eyes is the knowledge that they can just do that. There are no repercussions. There is nothing anybody can do. This works. The bully just lashing out because of his own issues is a myth. These two
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
> To be fair, the only reason he got pinched was because he ripped off some very wealthy and powerful investors/partners in a ponzi scheme. And barely even that. He lost/used their money and then paid it back before they even n
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by kmlevitt 5y ago
It’s not just about raw numbers though, you need to consider the experimental design, which looks really tight in this case. It’s a repeated measures study and from the looks of it all subjects spent time in each of the four treatments + co
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
The problem is this extremely dangerous research is bound to lead to a leak eventually, because in fact there have already been hundreds of lab virus leaks around the world in the past, and the stakes get higher as the viruses they engineer
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
> I was thinking if a virus was first spotted in New York City and it had a virus lab, would that be immediately blamed? To answer your question: If NYC had a virus lab that actively mutated bat coronaviruses so that they could become in
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
Right, that’s the classic neutral source model: report what the person on the left thinks, report what the person on the right thinks, and expect the informed reader to make their own decision, which will probably be somewhere in the middle
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
I’m talking about their editorial content. There’s nothing about “objective journalism“ that obligates them to run an opinion piece defending China‘s actions in Hong Kong, for example.
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
I got a subscription to the NYT for a special price, but I don’t think I’ll renew it at the end of the year. Compared to the Washington Post it seems oddly bereft of any real editorial identity anymore. They are trying to be all things to a
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
I used to daydream about what I would do if I woke up in my 17 year old body as a high school senior, complete with all the knowledge I had gained since. What would I do differently if I knew then what I know now? Getting married and having
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
How healthy/functional are the institutions you have worked in, though? I think healthy institutions find and reward the best people, and so this model fails in them. But the author’s assumption is (perhaps accurately) that most compan
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
To answer that, let’s look at what his rate would have been during America’s greatest expansion of prosperity, when possibly more people of humble means were pulling themselves up from their bootstraps than at any other point in history. Le
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
I really don’t get the point of averaging two different dose regimens when only one of the two will be used in practice. The real news here is 90% efficacy, plus it will get even easier to mass produce because it will only require a half do
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
Looks like you may have been right. Oh well, I hope it at least helps people at the early stages of the disease.
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
I think there’s an outside chance it could happen. Jerry Seinfeld has a deal with Netflix. Netflix has been exploring interactive television technology, for example that choose your own adventure black mirror episode that came out last yea
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
Actually no we wouldn’t, because real clinical trials with thousands of subjects take a long time to wrap up, even when researchers are working at breakneck speed. FWIW The anecdotal evidence from doctors and patients who have managed to g
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by kmlevitt 6y ago
Eat well, sleep well, exercise keep your stress levels down. The most important things people can do if they’re worried about getting this virus.

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