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by traek 8y ago
I don't, really. Sure, cutting-edge intellectual property these days is more complicated and unlikely to be completely and fully understood by a single person. That's a function of the progress of technology. I don't see how
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by traek 8y ago
There’s a big difference between Google making data available to the Chinese government, which is what Dragonfly would do, and Google making their expertise at cataloguing and searching information available to the Chinese government, which
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by traek 8y ago
Source? From my read it looks like you absolutely can. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc052709
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by traek 8y ago
> Facebook puts a tax on being human, on trying to exist outside of a social vacuum. I don't know what "trying to exist outside of a social vacuum" means. I also don't know what type of "tax" Facebook puts o
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by traek 8y ago
You can choose 3-4 sources you personally trust, subscribe to them, follow them on Twitter, and get essentially the product you described. You can even follow specific feeds (eg Bloomberg Politics instead of Bloomberg) to make it more tailo
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by traek 8y ago
I'm seeing a valid cert issued to Google.
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> This would be greatly concerning because Eastern Asians from Flushing are already moving west towards Manhattan and are already encroaching on Hispanic minorities in Elmhurst and Corona. Why is it better for Hispanic people to live in
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by traek 8y ago
Because tourists tend to impose negative externalities upon the city (like getting drunk and throwing up in the streets), and long-term residents tend to impose positive externalities (like planting flowerboxes at their windows). Also becau
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by traek 8y ago
> Greyhound didn’t innovate. The buses look like they are super old. No wifi. Exorbitant prices. It’s a terrible experience. Pay a bit more and you can take a train. I don't think this is salient to the discussion specifically of Gr
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by traek 8y ago
That discussion is on Dopamine the startup, not the framework from Google. Google's framework is at https://github.com/google/dopamine and I don't believe it's generated discussion on HN before.
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by traek 8y ago
Some of the things look like they've already been upstreamed (cgroups2). Tejun Heo, the author of this announcement, is a Linux kernel developer.
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by traek 8y ago
Facebook hired the principal developer of BRTFS, Chris Mason, to work on it full-time. Edit: it looks like a lot of the projects have already been open-sourced but were developed at Facebook (e.g. PSI and cgroups2), and Facebook is now anno
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by traek 8y ago
> Across the breadth range of companies built on advertising from coca cola to chanel as far as I can see they don't use internet ads. "Coca-Cola has just hired its first chief digital marketing officer" (2016) https:&#x2
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by traek 8y ago
No, they were still incorrect for "people watching videos for 3 seconds or more." For that to be correct, the total view time (numerator in the figure in the article) would have to be view time only for those users who watched &gt
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by traek 8y ago
Brand awareness campaigns are measured (and billed) by impressions, not by "average length of video viewed," which was the metric that Facebook lied about.
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by traek 8y ago
Inaccurate, the misreported metrics didn't impact billing[0]. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-exaggerating-view-c...
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by traek 8y ago
> Most smaller countries cannot use the same method. Sure, but America can, so why shouldn’t it?
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by traek 8y ago
> It is clear that information operations and coordinated inauthentic behavior will not cease. Interesting to see them use the phrase "coordinated inauthentic behavior", which was invented by Facebook to talk about their site i
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by traek 8y ago
Prefixes, not cognates.
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Multipliers are on earnings, not revenue. A “modest 5x multiplier” on Walmart’s revenue would give them a valuation of $2.5 trillion.
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Brian advocated a particular business model for monetizing WhatsApp: > For his part, Acton had proposed monetizing WhatsApp through a metered-user model, charging, say, a tenth of a penny after a certain large number of free messages wer
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by traek 8y ago
I'd call Bret Taylor a product genius.
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by traek 8y ago
Snapchat has had video calling for a lot longer than IG.
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by traek 8y ago
> As an aside: it was interesting when the stock cratered last year to the point where the market cap of the company was lower than its annual revenue -- all the revenue in the world doesn't make up for negative margins. Yup, revenu
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by traek 8y ago
Pithy but insubstantive.
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> the court found for the plaintiff on a technicality, but they upheld the principle that disparate impact could be sufficient to support a claim. No, they didn't. The majority opinion did conclude that disparate impact is cogniza
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by traek 8y ago
> As I said earlier, it's possible to use salary etc. in good faith, but it's risky No you didn't, you said "The short answer is that it's generally [not] legal to consider salary demands [...] in the context of
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by traek 8y ago
The courts have ruled that employers don’t have to defend disparate impact based on a “business necessity,” the normal defense to a disparate impact case, which is a high bar to clear. See the Smith v. Jackson ruling, which clarified that
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by traek 8y ago
Do you know what the ADEA and ERISA are? ADEA (Age Discrimination in Employment Act) is the law that relates to age discrimination. The Supreme Court ruled that it is not de facto illegal to consider pensions, or other things that are cor
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by traek 8y ago
> Moreover, museums don't allow the donors to curate the exhibitions, and artists do not mention their patrons in their work. Portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino (1492-1519). Raphael https://www.christie

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