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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
> The sad part is that it's not just authoritarian countries that are doing this, but also the democratic ones Which democratic country has blocked a major messaging app because it is used by political dissenters?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Unlikely, although they do probably keep a listing of accounts not to restore. And of course you'll age out of their backups over time as well.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Note that they'll also have no avatar if they never set an avatar, and further if they deleted their account in the past, before the latest hoopla. So this way of estimating the number of people who have deactivated lately necessarily
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Same here. HN has a bit of an outrage bandwagon issue, and this seems to be an instance of that. I have no doubt that counterfeiters are present on Amazon. What I doubt is the size of the problem as filtered through the echo chamber here.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I guess the prospect of outside meddling will seem sufficiently unlikely that juries will not view it as much of a hindrance. After all, even with a chain of custody, there are innumerable opportunities for evidence to be planted. You just
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
This is helpful historical context, and indeed a much better article. My thanks.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
There are a lot of ways to slice the data, and each of them tells a different part of the story. Suppose two countries have the exact same number of fatalities per km, and the same population, but one country drives twice as much. It is sti
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
> But an apprehensive US official turned down the request and told Kalam: “Sorry Dr Kalam, we will give you good lunch and dinner, but no Craig computer.” > Kalam came back empty-handed, but went on to develop the Pace Plus computer
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
The bits about dial up ring a bit hollow when this page clocks in at >700kB and more than a hundred requests.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Every time I use a tagging-based system, I become more convinced that tags are what I want for almost all things, not just files.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
If that were all it was, then why are the investigators surprised by his decision-making?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
The report seems to suggest that his decision to drive where he did was baffling, even with the information he had available. All his officers were telling him to do otherwise, multiple times.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
My big takeaway from all of this is that, given the choice between driving your boat into a hurricane and doing something else, something else should be the default.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
For many, the current actions of our military weigh much more heavily than good things it did half a century or more ago. Of course, each person's morality is their own, so you may feel that working in favor of the military is justifie
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Unless they controlled for it, this seems like the obvious primary cause of the observed effect. Especially since this was mostly a pre-ACA period where many more people were uninsured. I don't see any indication that they did control
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I'd guess not? They seem to have patented a particular approach to doing this on-chip, which may or may not have prior art.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
> Let’s not set up any false moral equivalencies. Speaking of which, can we stop equivocating between "selling that data" and "selling ads which are targeted partially based on that data," as you did in your post?
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
They said in the article that a previous study had shown that players also prefer newer violins.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
That would kinda seem to be the point of it.
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So they have an advantage against other hedge funds, but . . . most hedge funds underperform the market. So all you're doing by doing research is closing the deficit.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
What you say is undoubtedly true. In a better world, we'd have a better mayor. That ideal mayor could always give the optimal public-serving answer no matter how they are approached. If the mayor were in the habit of listening to my ad
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I make the similar mistakes all the time in my personal and professional life. It's an easy one to do.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
But it didn't work, right? He turned your attempt at preemption into a distraction from your point. I don't know how best to handle these things, but what I might have said is something like, "<Why it's important that
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I can kinda understand why he wasn't happy. Your initial phrasing was very hostile. I am not sure what he would have said if you had phrased your question more neutrally, but your tone definitely gave him the opportunity to partially i
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
My status on this is that the model could be a good model, but that hasn't been established. You cannot reason from "the outcomes look like reality" to "the parameters and mechanisms in the model are the same as the pa
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
Be that as it may, this blog is about a specific paper and the strength of its claims. I don't really think puritanism has anything to do with whether this paper's model or inferences are sound.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I guess the average person doesn't have very much life insurance (<$100k on average per person). Looks like about 100 people have died from earthquakes in the last 30 years in CA, so maybe that gives you $10M in life insurance expen
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
What's mind-boggling to me about this is to take such a risk over such a paltry (for a C-level) amount of money.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I imagine that most of the losses in an earthquake are property losses. These don't seem like they'll be significantly mitigated by a one minute warning.
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by sdhgaiojfsa 9y ago
I wouldn't say so. I'm distraught by it, actually.

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