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by papeda 6y ago
I always rep Wikipedia's "random page" function [1]. Random page is especially useful if you are cooped up at home and can't access normal sources of randomness like close conversation with other people, the rustle of le
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What African Nations Are Teaching the West About Fighting the Coronavirus(newyorker.com)
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by papeda 6y ago
This article focuses on a delivery network powered by a large pool of cheap, unskilled labor. The role of poverty levels in India is very relevant to this topic. Your comment is also the only one that brings up caste.
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by papeda 6y ago
+1. A slow, naturalistic movie that's also conventionally entertaining. Plus, as a timely feature, one of the protagonists spends a bunch of time standing on crowded trains, sitting in a crowded office, and eating lunch in a crowded ca
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by papeda 6y ago
Thanks, this is a clearer expression of the argument I wanted to make.
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by papeda 6y ago
I agree with your statement. The comment I was responding to does not: > If anything this is evidence of Google’s search engine monopoly and Google built the selection feature into Chrome it in furtherance of that monopoly power
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by papeda 6y ago
I see. I'm interpreting the DoJ's choice as a claim that Google is the most harmful monopolist in the US, since they've chosen to go after Google (and not anybody else). That's why I wrote my original comment. However, t
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by papeda 6y ago
We seem to disagree on what the original statement is. When I talk to my peers, the original statement is some version of: "big tech is the most harmful monopoly in the USA today". Saying "what about monopolistic industry x?&
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by papeda 6y ago
I don't see this as "good is the enemy of perfect". I see federal contracting as a worse force for waste and bad outcomes than tech companies, so I suggest that targeting that industry would better improve people's lives
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by papeda 6y ago
> If this hypothesis were correct, we would have expected to see lawsuits against those other monopolies during, say, the Obama administration. But we didn't. This presupposes that the DoJ has always been a political weapon.
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by papeda 6y ago
> Healthcare has to do business with Google. Defense has to do business with Google. Can you elaborate on this? Neither industry seems to rely on ads or SEO or app stores.
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by papeda 6y ago
Hm. If I understand the cellophane paradox, it says that the "substitutes exist" does not imply "there is no monopoly". That seems different from your argument, which I understand to be "only a monopolist would make
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by papeda 6y ago
Thanks for the response. The first point makes sense, but it's hard for me to square with breaking up companies. I don't think any of FAANG has played a real censorious role on the internet. I'm just as free to spin up a rand
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by papeda 6y ago
How is your link related to antitrust?
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by papeda 6y ago
As some variant of millenial, I'm continually bemused by how many of my peers are on board with breaking up "big tech" and use "big tech" products multiple times every single day. If I bring up federal contracting,
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by papeda 6y ago
IIRC, one reason his PhD was so hard is he spent a bunch of time working in a grind-it-out field (automated bug-finding) with an advisor who was sort of an outsider in the field. That's a recipe for a ton of hours spent on the wrong st
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by papeda 6y ago
They are? Recent history suggests it's way easier for a random person to build a successful search engine (e.g. DuckDuckGo) than a successful telecom, and I have way more choice of search engine than telecom.
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by papeda 6y ago
You're saying that both "adding search engine choice" and "removing search engine choice" are monopolistic tools for Google?
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by papeda 6y ago
Not quite a sequel, but he recently gave more details on the post-phd transition here: http://pgbovine.net/one-weird-year.htm .
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by papeda 6y ago
For anybody interested in the computer science PhD process, a good complement to the featured article is Philip Guo's "The PhD Grind" [1]. It's a long (115p, but with big text) blow-by-blow account of the author's P
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by papeda 6y ago
There's a bit of a counterpoint to this: with papers, it's easier to point to your body of work (peer-reviewed and, if you're good/lucky, peer-understood-and-approved) as clear evidence that you can do research. Without
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by papeda 6y ago
This style of writing where almost every sentence is its own line is weird to me. It's like writing in all caps -- if you emphasize every single point, then you emphasize none of them. Especially when it's a long post that takes u
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by papeda 6y ago
Not only is this differentially private, it's locally differentially private, which is an even stronger privacy definition. It's "local" because the user adds randomness themselves. Generic differential privacy is a weak
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by papeda 6y ago
Is there a further breakdown between residents and workers? I didn't see one in the article, but I would guess that resident deaths outnumber worker deaths. That seems like an important distinction.
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by papeda 6y ago
> “As you can imagine,” Nixon confided in Rogers, “there’s strong feeling that we just shouldn’t, as [Reagan] said, he saw these, as he said, he saw these—” Nixon stammered, choosing his words carefully—“these, uh, these cannibals on tel
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by papeda 6y ago
Bonkers indeed. An interesting point of comparison is this "interview" with Prince, written over the course of months by the writer tapped to write his memoirs [1]. It seems that Prince and Little Richard both had an extravagant o
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by papeda 6y ago
The study in question -- outcomes for new vs. "refurbished" pacemakers and defibrillators -- sounds like a useful question. Plus, it sounds like he did a bunch of manual work matching each refurbished device use case to similar ne
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by papeda 6y ago
I read this and some of your other posts. As a native English speaker who's read many technical papers, I think your English is totally fine, full stop. Moreover, it's far from being any kind of barrier for technical writing, wh
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by papeda 6y ago
> If search engine does its job well This is the problem of blogspam. There are plenty of "popular" blogs that are good at SEO and produce little to no good content.
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by papeda 6y ago
What are these areas where "you truly have to be a genius to do it"? (Asking for a friend, I assure you.)

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