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Mark Zuckerberg called Trump, said he was putting Facebook in difficult position(axios.com)
18 points by mandevil 6y ago|11 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
And yet Europeans roared across the Atlantic in the millions when it took >1 month to sail. Europeans colonized Australia and New Zealand, even further away (~250 days), and only about half the total number of people on board the First F
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VC Firm claimed it could get its investors expedited tests, “just boasting”(vox.com)
3 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
See, the thing is, Waymo controls the data, and certainly knows how good their driving is. If it was clearly better than the average octogenarian driving, wouldn't they be letting us all know that? Wouldn't they be announcing that
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Conservatives learned to wield power inside Facebook(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
My wife took her FMLA (unpaid) leave directly after pregnancy, then I took my (company benefit, paid) 16 weeks after that- with a two week overlap so that I was comfortable with all the work necessary. It meant that the kid spent the first
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by mandevil 7y ago
Because instead of promising to build Uber for toilets and then failing to deliver a profitable company, she did deliver thousands of inaccurate medical test results to innocent people who then potentially made medical decisions based on th
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by mandevil 7y ago
Space is really, really big. When you hear that the Sun has an Asteroid belt, you imagine that it is like Empire Strikes Back. In actuality, the belt works out to 1 extra atom per m^3 of space, because, well, see above about how big space
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by mandevil 7y ago
Yes. I am not an economist, and even if I were, there are so many moving parts to Brexit I could not begin to calculate which ones are the most important. But I do believe that financial exports (which is what the US and UK have specialized
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by mandevil 7y ago
Britain already used its own currency, so they didn't have the same sort of 'Greece and Spain suffering to subsidize German exports' effect going on. So I don't think this particular issue will be different from before B
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by mandevil 7y ago
Tornado ADV cost 14m Pounds in 1980[1]. Eurofighter Typhoon cost 100m Pounds[2] in 2006. Saab Viggen cost of 2mUSD in 1967. Saab Gripen cost something like 70m in 2006. (All four of those numbers are replacement cost, ignoring R&D overh
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by mandevil 7y ago
Leaving aside the Arrow specifically[1] basically the question is how long can Canada keep up, such that this work provides the sorts of benefits that you are expecting? Every generation of combat aircraft ends up roughly an order of magnit
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by mandevil 7y ago
I can't see how libertarians would actually work in a space colony situation. Leaving aside how self-sustaining a space colony could ever truly be (Charlie Stross has written a lot about that), in a world as fragile as a space colony w
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by mandevil 7y ago
Your google-fu failed you because it wasn't about the USS John McCain, it was Propublica's article on the other fatal 7th Fleet destroyer collision in 2017, the USS Fitzgerald. The collisions were two months apart. The article y
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Dead Doctor, the trauma of sexual abuse, and a bank in denial(bloomberg.com)
1 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments
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by mandevil 7y ago
When you illegally conspire to hold down the salaries of your employees you lose the benefit of the doubt.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Also true. They definitely asked me how much I drank per week.
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by mandevil 7y ago
I have held several security clearances of varying levels over the years. During interviews for every single one, I was asked about past drug use, in particular drug use within the past 7 years. (Note that they also ask about all psych&#x2F
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by mandevil 7y ago
Eh, real-time live debates are terrible formats for this because they encourage and reward Gish Gallops. This is why scientists stopped debating creationists, because they discovered through repeated trials that it just rewards people who h
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by mandevil 7y ago
Mormons Losing Money. (Also seen: Mom's Losing Money.)
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by mandevil 7y ago
Check out Matt Levine's Moneystuff email newsletter- it is what clarified this for me, and is amusing every day. Not even any ads or upsell to a pay-for subscription. I suspect if this is a thing you are curious about you will enjoy it
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by mandevil 7y ago
It would be insider trading if the person you purchased from had a duty to the company to keep the secret (they worked for the company and learned of the vulnerability in the normal course of their job, say). If they are an independent rese
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by mandevil 7y ago
I'm pretty sure if they were better than humans by any real statistical margin they would be trumpeting that in press releases. The fact that they work so hard to maintain such secrecy- only revealing data that they are legally mandate
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by mandevil 7y ago
This is true for strategic strike (a bomber has the space for crew rest) and an absolute godsend for the Navy (CVW have lacked real organic tank options since the retirement of the S-3- note that CVW ASW is another mission where drones coul
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by mandevil 7y ago
It is 100% legal to send mailers or put up billboards (which are not as regulated as shared spectrum for TV/radio) with the wrong election date to people, and this happens a couple of times every election cycle. Sometimes its governmen
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by mandevil 7y ago
They beat Athens only with the help of tremendous quantities of Persian gold. That was what enabled Sparta to win the war, not Sparta's military capabilities.
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by mandevil 7y ago
Errr, sorry for asking, but what exactly in this story is boosting the CIA? This is a story about the Czechoslovak counter-intelligence and the Hungarian military intelligence network a decade before the CIA existed. No American of any kind
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by mandevil 7y ago
They currently do all sorts of blocking on what content is delivered. Try and run an ad with nudity. The sorts of nudity that is routine in a European advertising context is blocked on Facebook, because they choose not to. They could easily
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by mandevil 7y ago
JFK runway construction : https://thepointsguy.com/2017/03/jfk-runway-construction-201...
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Facebook's Botched Bid to Start a New Currency(wsj.com)
2 points by mandevil 7y ago|0 comments

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