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by rodonn 6y ago
They don't. It's frequently been alleged, but is not true. https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/12/28/18158968/facebook-m...
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by rodonn 6y ago
OFAC which manages US sanctions maintains a list of addresses that any entity complying with US regulations needs to block e.g. https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/... Most exchanges also u
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by rodonn 6y ago
Unfortunately this is essentially what anti-money laundering laws require businesses to do. It's illegal to "tip off" a customer of the reasons you flagged them for being under suspicion of money launder/evading sanction
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by rodonn 6y ago
Any publisher already had the option of blocking their content from being linked on Facebook and Google, they chose not to do so because the traffic they get from F/G was valuable. Ben Thompson has a nice analysis of the situation: ht
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by rodonn 6y ago
The estimates I've seen mostly suggest damages in the range of 0.5-10% of GDP https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-facts-about-the-econo... Here's a quote from the IPCC consensus report: "For most econ
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by rodonn 6y ago
What he is doing is good. He is using his platform (i.e. the fact that people know his name, journalists want to write about him, and people want to read articles about him) to promote policies that are created by experts. When those same e
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by rodonn 6y ago
Some thing very similar happened in California: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...
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by rodonn 6y ago
Seems like it will end up primarily being CSAM (child sex abuse material), pirated copyrighted materials, and other content that reputable hosts restrict. Unclear why anyone who has legal content for which they own the rights would want to
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by rodonn 6y ago
Facebook consistently tries to emphasize how large of a fraction of their advertising is "small businesses", but it doesn't seem to sink in / people tend not to believe them. Big advertisers like Unilever are a fairly sm
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by rodonn 6y ago
Suppose you have a company and you need 3 people who can do X. You interview as many Americans as you can, and find 1 who can do the job. You fill 1 position with that American, and now start interviewing non-Americans and find 2 who you hi
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by rodonn 6y ago
It does with the bit64 package, but agree that I wish it was directly supported.
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by rodonn 6y ago
I use Anki, but here are some alternatives. Mnemosyne: https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ Drill mode: https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html is an emacs plug for spaced repetition.
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by rodonn 6y ago
I use Anki, but here are some alternatives. Mnemosyne: https://mnemosyne-proj.org/ Drill mode: Not great for 3 unless you are already an orgmode user, but Drill-mode https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib
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by rodonn 6y ago
Whatsapp is end to end encrypted. Facebook is not able to see the contents of Whataspp messages.
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by rodonn 6y ago
The US financial system does not allow or encourage people who "shill" for investments. We in fact have many protections and policies that limit your ability to solicit investment in unregistered securities, which is what virtuall
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by rodonn 6y ago
I don't know the "official" policy on this yet, but anecdotally they do not decrease your existing grants (which vest over 4 years), but the new location could affect the new RSUs you will be granted while in the new locati
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by rodonn 6y ago
No, we should defer to the career antitrust experts at the DOJ and FTC as well the academics who study anti-trust and competition (a mix of mostly legal and economic professors).
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by rodonn 6y ago
I'm not sure I follow your logic. "fake" seems like a completely wrong word to use to describe actual extremists (but I completely agree they should do more to police extremist content). Coordinated inauthentic behavior descr
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by rodonn 6y ago
It's still a policy and they try hard to enforce it, but despite taking down literally billions of fake accounts each year, it is hard to stop 100% of it.
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by rodonn 6y ago
Somewhere around 0.5-1% of people who are infected with COVID die and a larger share experience very serious symptoms, some of which can be long lasting/permanent. The risks for the elderly are even higher, something like 15% death rat
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by rodonn 6y ago
They certainly don't let you work for both at the exact same moment in time (which is quite common with drivers who have both Uber and Lyft open at same moment). Also Burger King generally sets your schedule and McDonalds usually sets
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by rodonn 6y ago
I don't see how the TESLA model could work with human employee drivers. Uber is already not making a profit with their current lower cost structure. TESLA with more expensive cars and more expensive employee costs, will almost certainl
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by rodonn 6y ago
Yes, we should be skeptical of AI revolutions, but that also doesn't mean they are impossible or we should never devote some thought to updating our evaluations of the current risks.
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by rodonn 6y ago
Do you have a source for this claim? Here are two survey articles with a lot of evidence about all the different outcomes that are strongly correlated with IQ. https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2015-strenze.pdf http
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by rodonn 6y ago
No, you can't even say that. 1/3 of those who are tested are positive. But people who go to get a test are more likely to have symptoms or have been exposed. The actual rate in the population is probably lower, though sadly we can
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by rodonn 6y ago
No, that's not the correct interpretation. 1/3 of children who are tested test positive. The children who are tested are (probably) ones who are more likely to be showing symptoms or to have been exposed. The rate of infection
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by rodonn 6y ago
If ROI goes down, fewer miners will mine. When all blocks are mined, transaction fees will be the main source of incentive to mine.
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by rodonn 6y ago
Even for decentralized ones, there are legal requirements for any entity that wants to let you buy or sell. Anyone who buys or sells bitcoin from you without doing KYC is breaking US law.
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by rodonn 6y ago
A little bit of all of those.
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by rodonn 6y ago
sadly, almost all of it is based on samples around this small.

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