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by sfifs 5y ago
I find it hilarious that people think pen and paper voting is more secure. The introduction of electronic voting (plus security through out of state paramilitary forces) was a major factor in reducing electoral fraud in India, the world&#x2
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One of the important things to keep in mind is that the standards of evidence for safety policy decisions are not the same as those of civil or criminal convictions. For civil or criminal convictions, the "innocent unless proven guilty
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Op said they tracked 50% or so no? FB says 2X, Op was able to attribute X to Fb
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> With Facebook, they say they sent more than double the clicks Analytics tells me they sent This is largely Apple's tracking changes. About 60% of the market is iOS. In today's world with privacy changes and regulations, you&#
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In light of what seems to be this fairly in depth and data based decision by USPTO, maybe PR? :-)
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Yes and I've seen the transition happen before my eyes as i have visited China at least couple of times a year ever since the early 2010s till literally the weekend before the Pandemic blew up. I still remember the air pollution of old
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The article hints at it through the "investments" angle but doesn't come out and state the importance of political will. One big reason renewables became so cheap is because around 2008 Beijing Olympics, China decided that th
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There's a couple of different problems here - but both really are related to the question of aligning incentives. In terms of PR departments, the point is most journalists - for their own long term career/reputations - would pref
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This may be an unpopular take but the inability of a target to threaten devastating mass destruction has been definitely a factor historically in tempting ambitious rulers and their societies to attack rich competing countries that began to
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From what I can see and feel interacting with Google teams as a customer on the business side, (ie not as a consumer), it appears Product creation seems to be rewarded very well organizationally but Maintenance and continuous improvement,
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Please is there a summary of the findings anywhere? I'm beginning to lose patience with these pieces that mix narrative, character profiles and actual results.
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> Starship is incredibly ambitious but if it doesn't reach orbit before 2025 I won't be surprised. Can someone elucidate what are the major technical challenges related to Starship that can cause such a delay? Powered descent a
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Every job sooner or later is a sales job. If we're not teaching this in the education system, I'd argue we're doing a poor job of teaching morals in the education system - although the American system - at least in the better
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I'm too young to remember Hotmail launch but GMAIL did market. Their marketing investments were 1. Free Storage an order of magnitude larger that anything anyone provided at that time which was an unbeatable proposition. I'd say t
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Nowadays this is pretty much the space of either PowerBI or Tableau. There used to be a lot of good candidates in this space even just a few years ago but Power BI has improved it's product and integrations very rapidly and with its af
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First apple creates a cheap spying tool that makes it simple to break the law and then "condems" its illegal usage. How is this any different from groups that sell hacking tools? If they were really concerned about privacy, they&#
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the Tamil written script indeed doesn't distinguish th and t or kh and k and indeed more sounds. However when they are spoken, especially by the more educated folks, they are pronounced differently from contextual knowledge. the contex
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They already have EU subsidiaries. The problem seems to be that US laws seem to be able to compel US based parent companies to hand over data from their overseas subsidiaries. If you make it a EU based public company and give control to you
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A lot of this seems to be coming due to US regulations that compel US registered companies to hand over data from subsidiaries in Europe markets if asked by US intelligence and law enforcement agencies. With these various data locality regu
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Interestingly enough, both the names are Tamil who form the minority population in Sri Lanka, not from the Sinhalese majority. Under British rule, a large part of the administration and educated class came from this community who were favou
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> Electrifying US rail outside of switchyards won’t ever be practical, unless you could drive down the cost of electrified tracks with a third rail (overhead electric at this scale would be obscenely expensive). India has electrified alm
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> Especially women in shitty situation do do those tests in secret in badly lit environments. Not that I'm not sympathetic but many problems in the US that common people face seem to be either a result of continuation of either hype
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> I do wonder if there is another way to provide these assurances and comfort without having to put electronics in the thing Yes - by ensuring the education system (both school and continuing adult education) is actually capable of produ
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yeah - you're right, the analogy doesn't really convey the point i'm trying to bring across. I'll edit it :-)
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To share a contrarian view, what I have always observed is that if an organization has an ingrained culture of 80-20, then by the time something percolates 3-4 hand offs, the org half-asses the execution and more often than not fails. Organ
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The thing is many of these rankings put a great deal of emphasis on research program quality and impact. For IITs at least, the research programs are nowhere as good as many top western universities. I studied undergrad in an IIT faculty t
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Wouldn't a lemons law apply for cases as extreme as yours?
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Well current mainstream cosmologists claim they literally don't know what 80% of the universe is made up of (that's why "dark" matter). So...
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It is argued that this is an example of illegal tying arrangement to between the markets of "mobile phones", "app distribution" and "payment systems" given the market power Apple has. This space notably is the
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Actually what's needed was outlined very nicely in Starship Troopers by Heinlein many decades ago. We're not there yet of course but with faster and faster edge compute, it will get there. > Jump really hard and the suit’s jets

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