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by mmiyer 3y ago
Worry far more about the sun: "Hence, a cell phone cannot transmit more than 0.125 Watts of energy to your head, while sunlight will transmit 43.8 W. This means that sunlight heats your head 350 times faster than a cell phone. In fact,
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by mmiyer 3y ago
Personally I signed up for threads and have been liking using it so far even though I never really used twitter. I think it has lower startup cost than Twitter because the algorithmic feed really works well without having to manually follow
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by mmiyer 3y ago
You use Uvalde as an example, where the police infamously did not do anything to save the kids and in fact prevented parents from saving their own kids.
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by mmiyer 3y ago
What about images in tweets?
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by mmiyer 3y ago
I mean this doesn't actually solve the issue: 2Z and 3Z are the same size under this definition.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
Twitter had many profitable quarters before Musk bought it, and lots of cash on hand with a lot of runway. It was not dying in any meaningful sense. His changes have only destroyed profitability by substantially reducing advertising revenue
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by mmiyer 4y ago
Less Musk's caustic image and more the lack of moderation due to the layoffs meant a rise in content that advertisers did not want to advertise next to.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
Bitwarden also allows you to generate a random passphrase, which is pretty nice for those situations where you want to be able to manually type in the password.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
You can set it to use FaceId for purchases.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
I think we first mandatory PTO at the federal level before we can ban "unlimited" PTO.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
True of Citadel, but Jane Street is supposed to have a solid wlb, and because of the high pay and the few companies willing to pay at that level, people generally stick around there. These kind of finance companies also do better in volatil
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by mmiyer 4y ago
ChatGPT says "Boston is a city located in Massachusetts, United States. It is not possible for Boston to be a distance away from itself. If you are asking about the distance from one part of the city to another, it will depend on the s
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by mmiyer 4y ago
They definitely have incorporated their impressive papers into their search engine. They've integrated BERT, a state of the art transformer model, into search engine, and it is used for almost every query now [1]. Google also has best-
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by mmiyer 4y ago
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD?location... As the World Bank dataset shows, Germany has in fact had GDP per capita growth - the 26500 figure you cite is in 2015 dollars, so it is already adjusted f
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by mmiyer 4y ago
I agree - currently a lot of farmers have essentially unlimited water rights, and they should pay the true price of water.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
A lot of inedible feed is going to be stuff like alfalfa, which is specifically grown as feed and whose farming has massive negative effects like starving the Colorado river of water [0]. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/envir
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by mmiyer 4y ago
97%[0] of cows are finished on feedlots, i.e. get a substantial amount of calories from corn and other feed. Other animals like pigs are exclusively fed feed. Animal factory farming already consumes a terrifying amount of resources, using
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by mmiyer 4y ago
586.2 Cr is correct for net profit ("The net profit was higher by about 23.9 per cent at Rs 586.2") which is what the original commentator said. 5,593.8 Cr is revenue.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
All those flashlight buttons are actionable, you just need to press and hold. I suppose this proves a point about discoverability.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
Amazon's internal tooling has everything described here. I can't say if it's better or worse than Google, but every team uses the same internal tooling for building and testing, code reviews, deployment, issue tracking etc. A
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by mmiyer 4y ago
That Wikipedia figure is vandalism from a couple weeks ago that I reverted.
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by mmiyer 4y ago
More likely it is the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by mmiyer 5y ago
Funnily enough it looks like Roblox actually uses CockroachDB https://corp.roblox.com/careers/listing/?gh_jid=3363389
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by mmiyer 5y ago
Chromebooks are very popular in education.
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by mmiyer 5y ago
Health insurance and other benefits add up.
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by mmiyer 5y ago
97% of cattle is grown on feedlots, not grass [1]. So massive amounts of corn and soy are wasted (as the original article notes growing soy for cattle feed leads to massive amounts of deforestation) 1. https://www.nrdc.org/r
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by mmiyer 5y ago
Their books don't look that good per this article: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/08/24/1032308/is-ginkg...
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by mmiyer 5y ago
In the thread it's mentioned that Apple apparently asks employees to use the same iCloud account for work and personal use.
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by mmiyer 5y ago
Also they help ICE deport uncodumented immigrants.
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by mmiyer 5y ago
If f(p) = cp^2 then f(p^2) = c(p^2)^2 = cp^4 which is square the running time, ignoring constant factors.

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