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by mkmk 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
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The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds(theatlantic.com)
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Luminescence Dating(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why Alan Shepard Carried a Dollar Bill on His Mercury Flight(airspacemag.com)
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Are you perhaps confusing the Nobel Prize with the Pulitzer Prize?
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Nice catch, thanks!
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DNA study finds rare gene variants that protect against obesity(sciencemag.org)
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Using novels to predict the next war(theguardian.com)
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Project CETI: attempting to listen to and translate the communication of whales(projectceti.org)
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Isn’t that just a generational thing? Presumably this is an intentional communication choice designed to appeal to younger users. So, even though it doesn’t match your own preferred communication style, it could actually be seen as a sign o
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There’s a lot of truth to that. When done in house, though, it can be a useful additional check on spend allocation. Of course it still becomes political if channel owners feel like their career progression depends on growing share of budge
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by mkmk 5y ago
You might be interested in Media Mix Modeling — a regression-based approach to finding relationships between marketing spend and sales performance. A good primer is here: https://github.com/mecommerce/ThirdLove-Tech-Blo
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Hn.premii.com used to be a nice two column implementation but now it can never load article content.
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Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama(battleofgettysburgcyclorama.com)
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One element is probably that the of the function and utility of religious practice has been replaced by other entities in our society. For an example of this, see this interesting opinion piece in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com
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Ancient people fell in love with bread, beer and other carbs(nature.com)
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Wikipedia claims: “Eliminates excessive marketing to young adults. Consumers under the age of 21 must prove that they have an independent income or get a co-signer before applying for a credit card. The Act also prevents credit card compan
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by mkmk 5y ago
You’ll be happy to learn that the CARD act of 2009 limited credit card companies’ marketing activities on college campuses.
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Why Alan Shepard Carried a Dollar Bill on His Mercury Flight(airspacemag.com)
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Reminds me of this wonderful stamp on a similar theme — the 2017 solar eclipse stamp. Initially showing the eclipse, the image on the stamp changed to show the moon when you warmed it with your finger. Was pleasantly surprised to see someth
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This article, from 2019, suggests that it is Zoom itself that would do the tracing. https://venturebeat.com/2019/01/22/zoom-is-bringing-ultrason... Perhaps as an enterprise service?
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Besides the content of the leak, it’s interesting to think about the mechanics thereof. If I recall correctly, Zoom calls are fingerprinted ultra-sonically — I wonder if this poses a meaningful challenge when leaking a recording to the pres
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https://turquoise.health/ is one notable example.
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"First, according to the FTC, MoviePass’s operators invalidated subscriber passwords while falsely claiming to have detected “suspicious activity or potential fraud” on the accounts. MoviePass's operators did this even though some
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MoviePass Agree to Settle FTC Allegations That They Limited Usage(ftc.gov)
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Seeing as how lotteries are normally a government monopoly that makes poor people poorer, it's nice to see an attempt, at least, of using the same structure to make people healthier.
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Hm... I guess lots of times I feel like it takes too long for a statement like this to come out, and when it comes out it equivocates more than this one. But I would agree with you that this _should_ be par for the course.
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Whatever you think about the engineering environment that allowed this type of error, you still have to acknowledge that this type of speedy communication is exemplary.
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Parachuting Beavers Video [1950s](youtube.com)
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In NYC at least, most crime reports in the app also come with comment sections full of overt racism.

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