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by t_mann 4y ago
Yeah, the parent left us on a bit of a cliffhanger there re China.
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by t_mann 4y ago
I have a feeling that from Meta's perspective, that is the right metric. It's probably also a decent metric for that guy, because his influencer business depends on people wading through his content.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Followed the link to the Miss Excel story, it's pretty wild overall, but this just stood out to me: > whenever I run a sale, it’s usually $297 typically, but when you cut it in half, it looks nice at $149 When asked why her courses
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by t_mann 4y ago
Btw, since this is a common misconception: the cost for repairing / replacing corroded metal actually increases GDP. It's not clear from the article what they mean by 'costs' (they could also mean how many other goods
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by t_mann 4y ago
But the transaction info has to be transmitted by the touch terminal - unless the recipient is set to a fixed value in the card machine, that should at least make it possible to re-route all of McDonald's revenue to some arbitrary reci
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by t_mann 4y ago
Trying to limit this to channels not mentioned here or in other comments yet: Math: Mathologer (university-level math explained with visualisations) https://youtube.com/c/Mathologer Black Pen Red Pen (calculus problems
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by t_mann 4y ago
It's similar. Two issues with Numberphile videos I can remember: Their video on 1+2+3+... = -1/12 was so bad that another Math channel (Mathologer, which is highly recommendable btw) did a whole 40min video tearing it apart: http
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by t_mann 4y ago
The paper actually explicitly addresses this: > However, all intervention categories and domains apart from “finance” show evidence for heterogeneity, which implies that some nudges might be effective, even when there is evidence against
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, nudging is an extremely well established concept, all the way from theory to policy - there's a Nobel (memorial) prize for the theory, and the UK government explicitly established a 'nudge unit' (the Behavioural Insights
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by t_mann 4y ago
Nice. In older versions of xlsx they used a weird hash function with tiny hash space that could be brute-forced in <1s. There were some VBA code snippets circulating and in my old team where we had to deal with a lot of such files we all
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by t_mann 4y ago
> How about a bridge towards geth for Uniswap trading? "Should be easy". It is actually easy with some tools.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Would be interesting to see stats from that time how many people were working on search engines and how it turned out for them. Did they end up getting acquired, at least funded for a while, exited, or just bootstrapped themselves until the
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by t_mann 4y ago
Less surprised about this outcome than that the guy was a Google engineer in the first place. Their hiring standards seem so high from the outside, yet this guy comes across as barely computer-literate, the kind who would have fervently dem
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by t_mann 4y ago
> Today, it is available in every food store, often looked down on as cheap, poor quality and low status. > It would be of huge benefit to the safety, quality and sustainability of our food system if the snobbery surrounding canned pr
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by t_mann 4y ago
Haha, yeah this is missing a taps head meme. But we don't even need multiple time dimensions for free will to exist! I've heard more than one physicist argue that quantum uncertainty alone is enough to get us free will.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Dear quantum physicists, when will you stop messing with our minds? Just when we'd warmed up to superpositions over 2^n qubit states, you had to introduce extra time dimensions? Tbf, the quasi-periodic pulsing explanation is a lot more
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by t_mann 4y ago
Nutrition and regular movement. Don't worry, you'll be fine, had a similar thing a few years ago, all gone. Be careful about surgeries, last time I checked the consensus seemed to be converging on that in this case they're la
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by t_mann 4y ago
Yes, anything is always up for critical inspection (pretty much), as far as I'm concerned. If you show me a thorough analysis showing that their content is systematically biased, I'd have a look. Or if you show me that a particula
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by t_mann 4y ago
Interesting, I know of a place where the same law had pretty much the opposite effect: every company pretty much just posts sth like "The minimum salary for this position is 35k/year, but we will overpay based on qualification&quo
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by t_mann 4y ago
How do you do the turning down? Just curious, doesn't seem like there's an obvious way that's also guaranteed to be fun.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Reminds me of a question I've always had about game AIs: suppose you have a really good one (like this one, or in chess eg), how do you make the easier difficulty levels? Just throwing random noise into the decisions would probably lea
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by t_mann 4y ago
> questioning why certain people + orgs want to push/parrot a self-fulfilling narrative > Stop pretending like this is "science" The organization in question is literally called the American Association for the Advanc
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by t_mann 4y ago
So what is it then that explains the success delta between Intel and ARM, between Apple and Grundig, between Facebook and studiVZ, if it's not necessarily the business-friendly environment?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Take off your tinfoil hat, Science is one of the most respected academic journals in the world, and it is a US-based publication (its twin is the British journal Nature , together they form the pinnacle of academic achievement). This spe
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by t_mann 4y ago
So actual hard talent plus wanting to build business success is enough you think?
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by t_mann 4y ago
Thanks for responding, that is some cool content! As I mentioned, I've also been thinking about putting up some related content- feel free to reach out, my email is in my profile.
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by t_mann 4y ago
Nokia smartphone success was so underwhelming commercially (tech-wise they were a decade ahead) that most consider the smartphone era to only have begun with the iPhone (that came almost a decade later). mp3, which is just an audio code f
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by t_mann 4y ago
In the short run at least, this might hurt FIDE more than Magnus. He's already the biggest brand in global chess by far, at this point becoming successful at the 'influencer game' (his podcasts, other content like the poker a
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by t_mann 4y ago
Minitel, Nokia communicator smartphones, mp3 - I'm sure that's a non-exhaustive list of really cutting edge European technologies that weirdly failed to become big until something similar came from the US. Kind of strange, what is
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by t_mann 4y ago
And Microsoft. And Google. According to the parent.

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