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by tchalla 5y ago
This is not a Whataboutism. I didn't raise a counter accusation, I said Facebook + others should be looked into - not only Facebook. > but if you've got three broken companies and you fix one of them, you've now only got
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by tchalla 5y ago
I’m not sure why we should focus only on Facebook. Amazon, Google, Apple do it as well. Laws should go beyond Facebook.
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Let’s Talk about Ghastly Dishwashers [2019](aier.org)
4 points by tchalla 5y ago|2 comments
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> How about they actually combat COVID first? Like, without needing to re-take them every few months. I sense some frustration behind that comment. Two points 1) We don't see a decrease in Vaccine Effectiveness for Covid. The headli
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by tchalla 5y ago
> But the FDA can’t simply turn the documents over wholesale. The records must be reviewed to redact “confidential business and trade secret information of Pfizer or BioNTech and personal privacy information of patients who participated
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There's a reason for those so called "shenanigans". The merchant fees for EC card are the lowest amongst all cards. Pretty much all banks issue EC cards. Earlier, merchant fees could not be passed along to the consumer. Earli
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by tchalla 5y ago
There are 3 ways to cancel an O2 contract - (1) Online intimation + phone call, (2) Letter or (3) Fax [0]. Most routers (like Fritzbox) come with a fax function which you send an online fax [1]. O2 charges a maximum of 0.14 cents per fax pa
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by tchalla 5y ago
> But nowadays it’s not existing algorithms but rather data driving the decisions. There are different flavours of Machine Learning algorithms. You are referring to one of those where the learned representations are created from raw data
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by tchalla 5y ago
Yes, and this is why you don't look at one state-by-state map graphic but rely on quality research to understand the benefits of them.
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Here in Switzerland, we had plenty of lockdowns, followed the scientific wisdom and so on, and we're at 1375 deaths per million. You can compare the number of days of lockdown to deaths per million. You should also compare at what
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Even with Schengen, you'd want to have a passport when traveling within the EU You don't need any ID to travel but it is recommend to have an ID. The ID can be a passport or National ID. It doesn't have to be a passport.
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Algorithmic tracking is ‘damaging mental health’ of UK workers(theguardian.com)
3 points by tchalla 5y ago|0 comments
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> Facebook seems to be releasing a lot of news about their projects, lately. A cursory check at Facebook Research Blog will tell you that there is no connection between the Research Blog and Facebook business news [0]. If you are looking
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by tchalla 5y ago
Every time I read such articles, I replace the nationalities American with Russian or Chinese just to gauge how the reactions would be.
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by tchalla 5y ago
I am wondering when GOOG gets in the same bracket as FB / Meta. They have all the necessary ingredients and Youtube gets pretty much sidelined in the entire "FB / Meta / Social Media" discussion.
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In 2018 itself, 23andMe had a partnership with GSK > As part of the collaboration, GSK can also change the way we invite patients into clinical trials. The genetic and disease information 23andMe customers share will allow us to identify
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by tchalla 5y ago
> ere's the #1 thing you can do as a candidate to turn the interview into a discussion: Come prepared with some interrogative-led questions. Yes, the candidate should come prepared to (1) resolve Leetcode Medium/Hard problems w
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Sure, I hate it too(on either side of the table), but it's not too much to ask to prove that you can think on your feet and solve hard problems if that's what the job is. That's a big IF.
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by tchalla 5y ago
In the attempt of bias removal, interviewers now want to ask the same question to everyone and leave the effort to the interviewer. Take for example, the standard behavioural question which is expected to answer in a STAR format [0]. The qu
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by tchalla 5y ago
There's a simple way to opt-out https://europa.eu/european-union/abouteuropa/privacy-policy/...
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by tchalla 5y ago
I have two layers of filtering. Layer 1 is the "Subscription" layer like you mention. I also have a Layer 2 which is not all episodes of a Podcast are meaningful for me. Therefore, I don't listen to ALL episodes. A Podcast ap
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The Nothingness of Money(moretothat.com)
2 points by tchalla 5y ago|0 comments
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> Alcohol’s position at the top is partly the result of its widespread use, which causes greater harms to others (crack cocaine is considered the most harmful drug for the user).
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by tchalla 5y ago
> Maybe they'd be really good at other engineer positions, but if they can't get to a binary tree algorithm reasonably fast I wouldn't hire them for backend positions that require CS reasoning. You not hiring for backend p
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> I don't understand why this would give someone anxiety attack What can you do to understand why this happens?
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> By contrast, a good candidate may not be able to immediately repeat the algorithm, but can reason their way there pretty quickly. I know dozens of good candidates who can't get there pretty quickly but are really good. I also know
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> If you have an engineering position in which a high degree of CS competence is required and the candidate can't even make it past the initial layer of "regurgitating binary tree operations" then you have the wrong candid
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> Understanding the way your storage works is crucial, yes. But you ensure people understand it not by asking "Explain ACID to me" but by asking to design a certain system and observing them figuring out requirements and asking
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> Really can't wrap my mind around how everyone just goes along with FB. It's the same way people have gone along with 100s of acquisitions from Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. https://news.ycombinator.com/
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> The only way you could get me to work for somebody like Zuck (if I even had any qualifications they were after - I most definitely do not) is if he were lobbying the entirety of the US political system to advance stem cell research and

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