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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Is it true that failing to ban is the source of the divisiveness? I haven't used Facebook before, but it seems like the mechanism is the feed, which prioritizes divisive content. Even as a relatively senior employee, you may be unable
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> the business model of social media is based on generating "engagement" at all costs I haven't seen evidence that outrage driven engagement is profitable, though the statement is frequently repeated. Is it possible that d
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
What's the deal with the firmware? Will it run coreboot without a hassle?
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> The US Foreign Service still enforces mandatory retirement This is just bad strategy. The foreign service is the field where wisdom and experience count the most. The only thing new in the world is history you don't know.
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+1 A good example of this is rock-paper-scissors. Imagine playing against someone with a non-random strategy.
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List of wrongs according to author: * EFF currently takes money from Facebook and Google. Money comes from donations and strange payments resulting from litigation (settlement? judgement? case names?) * Founders of EFF were rich guys with
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I guess it depends on what you assume are mathematical "primitives". Log is an integral. Exp is an infinite series. Normal cdf (erf) and its inverse (erfinv) are implemented almost everywhere exp and log are implemented. E.g. MK
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Once you have U([0,1]) you can generate anything you want. Just take Finv(u) where Finv is the inverse CDF of the thing you want. See [1] property 5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative_distribution_functi...
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What are the good reports/journals to read if you want to learn more about the competitive landscape here?
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> There’s a lot of vitriol aimed at rich people right now, regardless of how they attained their wealth. Part of the problem is that our current property regime does not distinguish between property acquired through accession [1] and pro
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Here's a reasonable, though unsystematic take on what happens to monopoly shares after a break up [1]. A systematic analysis would probably get published in a prestige finance journal, whatever it concluded. [1] https://matt
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If you were a local corner store and you had a disruptive customer who returned repeatedly, your recourse would be calling the cops for trespass. CFAA violations come with 5-10 year prison sentences per violation. A little extreme for a tr
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> Social networks don't want to change anything, because culture wars drive engagement Is there any public evidence that outrage-driven engagement is profitable? It's a statement that is frequently repeated, but I haven't
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, but you don't grow GDP 5% per year by shaving basis points off of vacuum tube manufacturing costs. You grow 5% per year by putting physicists, chemists, and engineers under one roof and letting them invent transistors. Society at
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
They reacted to his public acknowledgement of private policy, not the policy itself. He was just parroting this McKinsey memo from 2010 [1]. R&D in the United States is dangerously neglected. [1] https://www.mckinsey.com&#x2
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GDP growth comes from productivity growth. Productivity growth comes from research and development. Michael Pearson [1], a 23 year McKinsey veteran pharma CEO, claimed that R&D was "inefficient". It is just mind blowing that
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Because we live in a society with social norms and a moral code. If anything, we should expect more morality from institutions that avail themselves of limited liability legal forms. This "corporations should be cynical sociopaths&q
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It was a resounding success in the same way that the federal flood insurance program is a resounding success. It mitigates a crisis, but sets up horrible long-term incentives.
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> If the finance industry can encompass 100% GDP There are ideologically pro-finance economists who strongly reject this assessment [1]. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/4b70ee3a-f88c-11e4-8e16-00144feab...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Abstract away all the money supply stuff. Banking systems have multiple equilibria [1]. That is one way of saying that financial crises are like floods. They are a fact of life, and happen from time to time. Who should pay for flood insur
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Currently around 12% of GDP. In the New-Deal era it was around 3%.
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You've got to be careful with Friedman's work. He's highly persuasive, but presents an incomplete picture. For example, he dogmatically asserts that "market power" is not an obstacle to market efficiency. Accordin
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Utility is actually a really useful framework, provided you've correctly specified your utility function. [1] "I've shipped my N95 production off-shore and there is a global pandemic" is the kind of thing economists le
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There is no single advisor, but I'd vote for the group of economists who drank so much of their own Kool-Aid they believed that offshoring all of our industrial capacity was a good idea.
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If you're a multi-billion dollar company with a "government relations" team, it is better to ask for forgiveness than permission. If you're a random internet weirdo who uses a public interface in an unexpected way, you f
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There's also NSA COMP 3321 https://twitter.com/chris_swenson/status/1225836060938125313
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I think they tend to be fashion critics more than anything else.
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It's really too bad that there are no scalable "proof of intellectual work" protocols for human interactions. I guess 3301 got things right with the Liber Primus.
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The original "engagement" optimizing algorithm.
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It's probably best to avoid the built-in update utilities for the first re-flash. Uboot can load a kernel via TFTP over serial. What you are worried about is backdoored firmware. If this is too much work, just buy new kit in sealed pac

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