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by matt4077 8y ago
I'm quite sure if you add up all the unique people who read an article on nytimes.com, or watched one of their videos, they are still slightly ahead of most youtube stars. I also tend to discount arguments that the NYTimes has shifted
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by matt4077 8y ago
Far more than 3.8 people actually read the NYT. First, because it is often handed around in families/at work, or left in a subway for the next passenger to read. And everyone else gets to read or hear about the Time's work the nex
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by matt4077 8y ago
The "other side" consists of: - a select few with good reasons to avoid their address being widely known. Because stalkers etc. - All those infsec bros with their "attack vectors" and their "threat landscape".
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by matt4077 8y ago
This seems to be one of those ideas everyone has had at some point, but that are hard to successfully implement. I’d love to see it succeed. Don’t let the gratuitous negativity in this thread get to you.
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by matt4077 8y ago
There's really not enough information in the article to judge its validity... Some comparisons between devices, as but one example, could support the idea that AMP affects conversion rate (AMP is only shown on mobile). As it is, I have
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by matt4077 8y ago
0% -> 5 people is actually ∞%, not 500%.
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What You Found in 3M Russian Troll Tweets(fivethirtyeight.com)
2 points by matt4077 8y ago|0 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
HN seems to have some macho fascination with nuclear power. Or at least that's the only reason I can think of why people would advocate for it, considering nuclear power is simply far too expensive. Yes, maybe the population at large
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by matt4077 8y ago
That would miss the point entirely, and arguably be morally dubious. The Macbook hardware is pretty excellent, and prices are comparable to the (few) competitors of similar quality. In absolute terms, they are not outside the range that the
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by matt4077 8y ago
They wouldn't allow it to happen to a state. But to Puerto Rico? Yes, very much so. To Detroit? Sure!
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by matt4077 8y ago
Controlling for confounding factors is required when such factors exist. To use it as an argument to attack the study is rather bold, considering not correcting would actually be statistical malpractice. If you believe confounding factors m
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by matt4077 8y ago
There's a somewhat similar mechanism which underlies all learning. It's "what fires together, wires together", meaning that neural connections with correlated activity patterns tend to get strengthened over time. While t
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by matt4077 8y ago
That's like €25 per person. It's basically meaningless. Meanwhile, Germany's annual net contribution to the EU is €220 per person. I'm not pointing this out to complain–the EU is worth far more than that, and seeing the
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by matt4077 8y ago
The European Central Bank is controlled by its board of directors, who are appointed by the European Council. The European Council is just the assembly of the EU's heads of governments. It's basically the same system as it is for
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by matt4077 8y ago
She has a "long history of very racist tweets" in the same sense that BurningCycles has a long history of writing "I am a misogynist", i. e.: if you wilfully ignore context. ...but the linked article, and the NYT's
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by matt4077 8y ago
There was/is an effort to get Jeong fired from her new job at the New York Times by an online mob best characterised as either the overlap or union of "Gamergate" misogynists and alt-right trolls. This may actually be the rea
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‘Lies My Teacher Told Me’ and America’s Post-Truth Era(theatlantic.com)
109 points by matt4077 8y ago|69 comments
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s something completely different, and invoking the term for unrelated concepts is bound to muddy the waters and doom the fight for actual net neutrality.
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by matt4077 8y ago
"Consolidation" says more than "shrinking" – the latter just concerns itself with the easily visible headline number, while the former implies the mechanism by which that number has changed. Because mergers and acquisiti
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by matt4077 8y ago
It’s a factual statement, but false. As but one example: removing net neutrality only serves established players who can afford to pay for access to each of their customers. Just try to start a business when it requires separate contracts w
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by matt4077 8y ago
Cash flow was -$528M Jan-Jun, i. e. Q1 and Q2, yes. But it was only -$128M in Q2. Tell us why you chose the longer time frame for your prediction, exactly? Your math also has some basic problems, because $2.2 billion / ($1.27 billion &
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by matt4077 8y ago
I don't think it has an explicit "goal", as in someone wondering "How can my code appear more humanizing?" It's just that people somehow enjoy this new new dimension of expression in text-only media. It has lon
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by matt4077 8y ago
I can't really see how emojis are "vague", or ambiguous. And even if: ambiguity is a great feature in any form of communication, by allowing us, for example, to express criticism early and subtle, defusing social problems bef
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by matt4077 8y ago
That really depends on what you measure by "frame rate". In a single-threaded setup, maintaining 60fps is likely impossible. You may think of "just deleting a few lines of code" as trivial. But syntax highlighting alone
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by matt4077 8y ago
"If you believe a society's future is endangered by a few companies not willing to be accomplices to anti-semitism, misogyny, racism, and fake-Rolex spam, you have understood neither freedom, nor Chomsky" – me
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by matt4077 8y ago
That's just a (rather cynical) conspiracy theory. While there are severe (and problematic) limits to judicial oversight of these programs, the CIA et al are subject to oversight by the executive (i. e. the presidency). While there were
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by matt4077 8y ago
Linus Torvalds comes to mind... Although somehow the tech community seems to think his juvenile rants are supremely brave and honest.
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by matt4077 8y ago
If you're so certain, the US could just point at the location of the wreck without actually giving you any new information.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Wasn't a Linux laptop with hibernation, sound, and wireless working at the same time one of the UN's Millenium Goals?
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by matt4077 8y ago
Most corporate malfeasance is dealt with in civil law, not criminal. The EU specifically has almost no role in criminal law anyway, because that power remains with the nation states. The reason is mostly that the corporation also got the pr

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