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by tedivm 5y ago
Most of these platforms start off trying to be content neutral and end up adding more moderation as a result of how badly it ends up hurting them. There's only so many times advertisers are willing to have their brand shown next to chi
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by tedivm 5y ago
> The medical industry is internally highly dysfunctional and trying to work with practicing doctors can be extremely politically difficult. The hospital bureaucracy often actively tries to prevent practicing doctors from working directl
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by tedivm 5y ago
That argument is exactly the one made by my former company, Rad AI. Rather than focusing on trying to "solve" radiology they're focused on augmenting radiologists. Their main goal is to reduce the amount of time a radiologist
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by tedivm 5y ago
This is actually why it isn't ideal for AI to tackle. The fact is there's no market for the product. Right now much of the mammogram reading is extremely straight forward. Radiologists can fly through those exams with high quality
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by tedivm 5y ago
> my wife who works remotely overnight
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by tedivm 5y ago
As they say, "“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." If I worked at a company like this I would spend my time doing visible work that bumps up the metrics regardless of whether that was what really brou
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by tedivm 5y ago
There's a classic Ken Thompson talk about Trust where he shows how a compiler could essentially propagate a bug forward even after the source code for that compiler was cleaned up. http://cs.bell-labs.co/who/ken&#x
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by tedivm 5y ago
Even open source operating systems have closed source components, and unless you're in charge of the entire distribution chain you can't be source used to compile it was the same that was shared with you. On top of that most devic
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by tedivm 5y ago
The 14th amendment is pretty open when it comes to granting freedom and not allowing discrimination. > No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall an
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by tedivm 5y ago
Yeah, bleach does affect prions. Most of the studies I could find were tested on metal, not just someone's thumb. It looks bleach doesn't do a great job of penetrating tissue so the hope is to destroy the prions before they get in
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by tedivm 5y ago
"But our customers have to tell us who they target! It's in the signed contract! And I'm sure the people who lured a journalist into an embassy and murdered him are totally honorable people who would always disclose this to u
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by tedivm 5y ago
It's pretty explicitly written that they mean for this to apply to the specification, not just the documentation. > You may not use or adapt this material for any commercial purpose, such as to create a commercial database or databa
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by tedivm 5y ago
Backblaze completely lost my wife's data several years ago due to a bug in their platform, then their support tried to gaslight her into thinking it was her fault. The actual issue is that their dashboard stored cached data and said fi
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by tedivm 5y ago
It's a combination of factors. If your farm depends on water, and it's a drought, it's hard to think of the long term when your may not financially survive the next few years. Droughts and other natural disasters have also oc
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by tedivm 5y ago
Gwynne Shotwell is the coach in this hypothetical, while Musk is just the mascot.
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by tedivm 5y ago
Gwynne Shotwell deserves far more of the credit for SpaceX than Musk does.
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by tedivm 5y ago
There's a huge difference between what we all did over the last year and a normal remote working situation. A lot of the worst part of WFH for most people really is a combination of WFH and pandemic pain, rather than purely being a WFH
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by tedivm 5y ago
It is actually possible to be an ethical person and pay the bills, it just takes a bit of effort.
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by tedivm 5y ago
You're acting like people couldn't opt out of phone books, but it turns out that was actually a very common thing to do.
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by tedivm 5y ago
The whole point of it is to correlate it to other data using the same fingerprinting method. Google is often a first party and a third party, so they need a way to line all that data up.
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by tedivm 5y ago
This is a great point- there were a ton of ways that this could have been handled that would have left all parties happy and better off, but the CEO went directly for the lawyer power play.
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by tedivm 5y ago
The 2019 macbook ironically had better heat dissipation than the previous generations, but it's still pretty bad. We can blame Apple for using chips that are too intense for their laptops, and we can blame Intel for making garbage chip
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by tedivm 5y ago
Google has proven before that they can't be trusted this way. Even when accidents happen their first instinct is to cover it up. > Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and t
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by tedivm 5y ago
I 100% agree- I'd rather see a small company with various security policies than see a company like Google with the data.
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by tedivm 5y ago
My last startup does this as well, but in our experience deidentification is not nearly as robust as the companies using it claim it is.
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by tedivm 5y ago
HIPAA lets companies share data with other companies as long as it meets two requirements- 1. The company that collects the data (the covered entity) has to have a Business Associate Agreement in place with the company they're sharing
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by tedivm 5y ago
It's always the "freedom of thought" people who are trying to police other people's thoughts.
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by tedivm 5y ago
That's not exactly accurate. When working with sync views FastAPI dumps them into a threadpool. It basically converts them to async on the fly. To quote the docs- > When you declare a path operation function with normal def instead
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by tedivm 5y ago
There are a ton of companies hiring right now that are allowing ongoing remote work. If your company won't let you find one that will.
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by tedivm 5y ago
Investments and funding can come in a variety of packages, some better or worse than others. Even something as simple as the government providing or backing loans can go a long way. The Energy Department's loan program has helped speed

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