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by mandevil 5y ago
This needs a [2018]
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by mandevil 5y ago
I don't play, but before we got married, my wife used to play with her blind father as a partner. Whenever she played, she would out of necessity read out the cards that had been played to her blind father. When they were losing, the o
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by mandevil 5y ago
Every company I've worked for (all US based) has had corporate policies on just this subject, because they are aware that this is a major danger for them, either giving or receiving. When I worked for a government contractor we weren&#
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by mandevil 5y ago
No, this is Benjamin Button: the gimmick is he is traveling backwards in time. So when he says "since 2022" in 2016, he is living in 2016 having just lived through the period 2022->2016 in that order. So this was a prediction,
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by mandevil 5y ago
In my experience, there is no good solution to this problem- when feature X comes along and it is decided that the ongoing work on A,B,C need to be paused because X is that important, there really is no way to quickly context switch back to
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by mandevil 5y ago
Well, Facebook's own researchers wrote reports (cited last week in the WSJ's Facebook Papers articles) that said that Instagram was worse for teenage girls mental health than either Snapchat or Tik-Tok. So there are gradations of
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by mandevil 5y ago
If they were clear, open, and transparent about this, then the article probably doesn't get written.[1] But because they didn't announce what they're doing or the scope of it, they leave a lot of room for interpretation, and
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by mandevil 5y ago
"In 2020, Facebook employees and contractors spent more than 3.2 million hours searching out and labeling or, in some cases, taking down information the company concluded was false or misleading, the documents show. Only 13% of those h
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by mandevil 5y ago
Egypt? The British left in June 1956 and immediately tried to invade their way back in, October 1956. There is a reason that for a generation, "Suez" was a trigger for humiliation. India/Pakistan? Do you mean the event that c
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by mandevil 5y ago
The Facebook Integrity team agrees with you, Zuck just doesn't want to give up the cash. "Early tests showed how reducing [downstream MSI- the likelihood of creating long chains of reshares] of the algorithm for civic and health i
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by mandevil 5y ago
Facebook agrees with you, per the article. The article places a lot of the blame on the changes to the algorithms in January 2018, which at the time Zuck portrayed as a sacrifice: "Now, I want to be clear: by making these changes, I ex
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by mandevil 5y ago
I think that Facebook knows that Instagram is doing exceptional- worse than other social media services popular with teens- damage to teenage girls minds, and doesn't care enough to fix it[1]. Just saying "the algorithm did it,&qu
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by mandevil 5y ago
If you read the original article, Facebook employees felt, based on their research, that Instagram was worse for teenage girls than Snapchat or Tik-Tok. "They came to the conclusion that some of the problems were specific to Instagram,
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by mandevil 5y ago
That is not what the data researchers currently employed by Facebook said, if you read the article. "They came to the conclusion that some of the problems were specific to Instagram, and not social media more broadly. That is especiall
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by mandevil 5y ago
So, where does "dirty" in a nuclear bomb come from? The left behind remnants of fission getting mixed into dust and dirt, then lofted up into the air by the force of the explosion and coming down later downwind- that's fallou
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by mandevil 5y ago
As always, Matt Levine provides the best, clearest explanation of how finance works. His explanation for why Coinbase's Lend product is legally doomed so long as the Howey test determines the scope of SEC regulation is succinct, clear,
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Lending Bitcoins and the SEC(bloomberg.com)
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by mandevil 5y ago
I don't know the ins and outs of the relationship between FINRA and the SEC. I am rather more familiar with the similar relationship between FERC (Federal Government) and NERC (SRO), and in that case NERC really can't say "Fu
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by mandevil 5y ago
You seem to be confused about the relationship between FINRA and the SEC. FINRA is not the equal of the SEC, they are subordinate. FINRA is a self-regulatating, non-governmental organization to whom the SEC delegates some regulatory enforce
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by mandevil 5y ago
You have taken the Howey test, which defines what is a investment contract (and therefore requires SEC regulation), and replaced it with "if it's not securitized and its not tradeable it's not", which is, strictly as a m
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by mandevil 5y ago
But the broker-dealer who made the margin loan is extremely heavily regulated by the SEC- margin loans are some of the things that they have the longest history with!
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by mandevil 5y ago
Errrr, except for the people who are dead or have unnecessary surgery? All of that failure is much much more expensive!
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by mandevil 5y ago
This is why the standard practice today for detecting cancer is to use two radiologists to look at every image- to account for that sort of variability. And you can see that a small number of AI's were better than a single doctor, beca
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by mandevil 5y ago
Are you going to attach these transmitters to every deer and every pedestrian? If not, we're back to 'elevated or buried road so we don't have to worry about animals and people- why not just build a train?' or 'AI w
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by mandevil 5y ago
The US unit with the most experience in amphibious assaults in WW2 was in Europe: between Operations Hammer, Menace, Appearance, Ironclad, Jubilee, Torch, Husky, Avalanche, Accolade and Shingle by the time that Overlord came around there wa
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by mandevil 5y ago
A) Judges generally don't take kindly to be played for fools. Do this and you make a judge very very angry, which is not good for whatever you want the judge to do. B) The FBI doesn't keep logs of who accessed what because a judge
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by mandevil 5y ago
If they were actually doing that, great! Unfortunately, as TFA clearly demonstrates, they are doing a crappy job of this sort of negotiations, because their profits are generally a % of total medical spend: more medical spend, more gross pr
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by mandevil 5y ago
I think the answer is that Apple killed 3rd party cookies on their browser- which includes every single website view from an iPhone, and Mozilla is working on the same thing. So Google, even with full control of Chrome, the most popular bro
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by mandevil 5y ago
In theory, everyone who descended from George II needed approval, but a whole lot of people decided that since they were never going to actually be near the throne, it didn't matter and didn't do it. You can see the complete lis
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by mandevil 5y ago
(Note: what follows is a purely US viewpoint. I have no idea how these markets work in the rest of the world.) Well, the thing about Taxi's was that they were available, at some times, in downtown business districts. If you wanted a ta

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