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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Agreed! The mainstream media has no problem with disinformation, it only has a problem with democratization of disinformation. With social media more people have access and some amount of power as the $billion media entities, and the old gu
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
For those of you who follow the industry closely. Is this a prelude to Apple’s VR glasses? > Using the gyroscope and accelerometer in AirPods Max and iPhone or iPad, spatial audio tracks the motion of a user’s head as well as the device
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I made the same bet too with my very first startup (1996). We bought a clone version, and at the time was much cheap than the sun servers.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
For someone like me who uses Logic, is there a reason to use Ableton? Logic is only one $200 lifetime fee
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
They found that half of the patients who fell from the height I did – 18.2 metres Some high school physics: s = 1/2 at^2 about 1.98 sec of free fall time. v = at which gives us about 43 mph of impact velocity. There was a time I was
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Congrats on taking your first major steps on your journey. As an outsider who doesn’t know either of you I get concerned by: > Jimmy and I met at Stanford in a healthcare IT class at Stanford last year where I wrapped up my MBA and Jimmy
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
So you are okay with COVID disinformation to be weaponized to commit genocide? There is a threshold that "group chat" becomes a channel. Which is exactly what even Telegram calls them. It's no different than if KKK had a YouT
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Comparing Safari with Telegram makes no sense. As they are so different in so many ways.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
OT - Apple should have removed Telegram months ago. Telegram has been used to share some very bad COVID disinformation. My father who is older and lives in Iran shared with me this video about how to treat COVID. It was produced really nice
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Three bipartisan legislations were introduced yesterday related to this. https://mobile.twitter.com/_nalexander/status/13124054429251...
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
This is very bad news for Silicon Valley. Allow me to explain: As long as TikTok was around any talk of controlling or splitting the big tech could have been diverted by saying if you regulate or break us, China will take over the vacuum l
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I get my flu vaccine every year. That said, I agree with Zuck. I want to live in a world where we’re forced to teach our kids critical thinking skills than in a world that relies on controlling the flow of information. Let’s have articles a
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Apple's spellchecker/autocorrect is horrible compared to google's. When you type anything in google, very often with very high accuracy suggests the correct spelling. I believe the search engine data can go a long way in help
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Thanks! Added to wishlist.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I love hand writing and note taking and been eyeing ReMarkable for a while. However, each time I think about buying it, I have a hard time justifying it over an iPad Pro with a pencil. It feels like an iPad will give me more bang for a buc
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I was in Yosemite photographing when they were trying to film the Yosemite scene from the “Tunnel View” perspective. The cinematographer had left his light meter in the van that was in the valley. I used my camera with long lens and histogr
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
On “journalistic independence”, NBC told Ed Schultz not to cover Bernie Sanders and why Schultz and Cenk both left the network [1] Im sure we can agree that ratings are one of the key drivers and pushed by management. Here’s how cable medi
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Highly likely. Keep in mind, Comcast owns NBC as well. So probably we’ll get a lot of negative coverage of Elon Musk on NBC and MSNBC in the process. It’s much easier to lobby against a public villain than a public hero. So every tweet by M
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
> the reliability of distance estimates using Bluetooth signal attenuation Take a look NOVID [0] the app CMU professor and graduate students built. It uses ultrasound to be accurate within 1m. It also approaches the utility of contact tr
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
At least with corporate TV news, we have to remember there is no "one side over the other". It's mostly one side if clustering them by their economic goals. These are business entities that can quickly create short segments (
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Propublica has done some of the best reporting I've read recently. Example the story with the USS Fitzgerald [0]. I don't remember anything as good in recent memory. However, that doesn't mean everything they do has the same
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I’m becoming weary of all these Facebook scare tactics. This types of misinformation has been on Fox and the rest of cable networks. Not to mention radio talk shows of the past 20-30 years. IMHO, additionally this kind of data investigation
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Until they are put into asleep with lethal injection
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Harold Lloyd lost part of his hand when one of those comedy era bombs blew up on him. In all his later movies he has a prosthesis.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
I agree. Fitness is not something you just buy, it's a lifestyle. You really need to find a way to enjoy it and look forward to your fitness session.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Am I the only person who has a problem with this headline, "Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing" am I overreacting here or others feel the same? For me at the face of it's not incorrect, but it feels to me a certain deliber
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
Does Patagonia have influencers or ambassadors on Instagram? If so, this is a bit of virtual signaling as they're still advertising on FB but not directly. Facebook/IG ads is one of the best ad placements left on the market, IMHO.
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
very cool and simple. If you don't have a perfect pitch how do you know which notes you are playing? Should I assumed the first column is the middle C?
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
> Changing company policy to be aligned with the Bay Area’s political inclinations seems to me to be very short sighted. I'm 100% with you. I actually think Zuck is showing incredible leadership and vision under all these pressure a
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by salimmadjd 6y ago
OT - lets face it. Half of the country wants to see Trump fail and another half want him to succeed. For covid we should hope 100% of country want to see him succeed. The problem is, part of that half is entire media enterprise (BTW, next a

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