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by polishTar 4y ago
I think the parent comment is referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce) . TLDR: If you have a monopoly in a market, you can't use your position to get a heads up in another distinct market by bund
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by polishTar 4y ago
Earth is not big enough to fully eclipse the sun at the L2 point, but it doesn't matter anyways since JWST was deliberately put in an orbit around the L2 point that never enters the earth's eclipse for energy reasons since the sol
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by polishTar 4y ago
Yes, the state legislature and governor of AZ are GOP, and they were the ones that pushed for this.
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by polishTar 4y ago
There's a selection bias you need to consider. Twitter investors probably wouldn't be Twitter investors if they thought it was on the decline without significant growth prospects.
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by polishTar 5y ago
Well, that'd be exhausting, but it didn't take long to find that since he became a celeb-investor in late 2015 (when the movie came out), he's made similar predictions including: a couple weeks after the movie's release
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by polishTar 5y ago
Why can't a compiler optimize that? Perhaps I'm naive, but it seems totally possible for a compiler to have some sort of heuristic that allows it to do this transformation behind-the-scenes when it makes sense
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by polishTar 5y ago
I think the idea is to align the financial incentives of the employee with the financial incentives of the company. Some companies (usually pre-revenue ones) might also do it to reduce cash expenses, but that seems unlikely to be Google&#x2
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by polishTar 6y ago
Not anymore. As of a couple months ago its been opened up. anyone (in the service area) can use it. Relevant blog post: https://blog.waymo.com/2020/10/waymo-is-opening-its-fully-dr...
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by polishTar 6y ago
I suppose. It's optional in the sense that the DMCA process is the alternative, and the DMCA sucks really bad. My interpretation of google's copyright system is that it tries to straddle the line of being both significantly less p
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by polishTar 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Google's system is optional for both the content creator and the rightsholder. If the rightsholder would prefer to use the DMCA, they obviously can. If the content creator would prefer the ri
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by polishTar 6y ago
It's a genuinely hard problem, but they do have appeal systems that creators can use that go to human reviewer queues for things like video removals and demonetization even though the first pass is done via automation, but don't t
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by polishTar 6y ago
Laws against defamation chill defamation.
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by polishTar 6y ago
Dominion will argue defamation in court which will require them to prove ALL of the following: 1) a false statement purporting to be fact; 2) communication of that statement to a third person; 3) fault amounting to at least negligence; and
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by polishTar 6y ago
Corporations also have the first amendment right to include or exclude whatever they want on their own websites. Section 230 just stops people from suing services for the speech of their users, ie you can't sue twitter for anything don
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by polishTar 6y ago
Waymo One doesn't use NDAs and users are allowed to bring friends with them, but Waymo also has an "early rider" program that's more restrictive and does use NDAs.
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by polishTar 6y ago
They of course can always do a buyback or dividend (unless of course there's some tax reason why it's beneficial to defer till later).
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by polishTar 6y ago
Nit: In November, he stepped down as CTO. He still has a part part-time role at Oculus with the title of 'consulting CTO'
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by polishTar 6y ago
A couple of things to consider: 1. There's a real social cost associated with constantly subjecting human reviewers to traumatizing content. It can lead to devastating mental health problems. (some relevant articles: https:/&#x2F
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by polishTar 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hqTnmn51Fg
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by polishTar 6y ago
I suppose I’d rather risk the 1/4 chance of getting ptsd vs the guarantee of moderate/severe brain injury if it was a choice
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by polishTar 7y ago
Yea, this is super important to emphasize. Even though surgical and homemade masks are only good at filtering out a portion of the larger respiratory droplets, that's still going to be a lot better than nothing. This is the same reason
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by polishTar 7y ago
If the slots are so valuable that it makes sense to fly empty flights to keep them, then certainly it would also make sense for a disruptor to start flying empty flights to steal them if they were left unused.
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by polishTar 7y ago
There were ways for him to communicate those same ideas less negatively. And it was more than just the "garbage" line. It was also things like "If I haven't convinced you of that by now, I don't know what I can say.
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by polishTar 7y ago
I think these types of adversarial attacks are even easier to foil than that because they're specific to one particular set of weights . Even really really small changes in the training data or model could invalidate the attack if I u
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by polishTar 7y ago
Uber is a good example in that the $54B+ valuation by Wall Street is in spite of the company's enormous short term losses. Whether or not Wall St is right about Uber's future prospects, I think it's a pretty clear (non-Amazon
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by polishTar 7y ago
If you object to the Amazon example because the CEO was also the founder, there are many other examples of extremely long-term focused companies where that isn't true. A really good example is Uber. Honestly, Uber is probably far too
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by polishTar 7y ago
> Any claims about speed, efficiency, or performance whether in comments or during the review must have accompanying microbenchmarks or they should be deleted. That's way too strict. If I want to suggest moving a statement that&#x
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by polishTar 7y ago
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/developers-console/...
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by polishTar 7y ago
Also, why would they even care about reporting high numbers? Facebook's leadership doesn't have any of the typical business pressures to please investors. Leadership (Zuckerberg) already holds majority voting power, and Facebook i
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by polishTar 7y ago
I imagine this is fairly common actually. If it is, it's not difficult to introduce a system to deal with it (and they may already have such a system). All it'd need to do is normalize ratings or at least reduce the weight of nega

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