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by vl 6y ago
Annoyingly IOCP didn’t cover everything as well - for example, CreateFile of all things!
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by vl 6y ago
It’s actually antitrust at work - United Aircraft and Transport Corporation was split in 1934 into Boeing for airframes, United for airline, and holding called United Aircraft Corporation that owned Pratt & Whitney for engines.
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by vl 6y ago
On iPhone it was $1, since it was easy to take the money. On Android, where most users didn’t have payment setup, it was free with the promise to eventually charge $1 in the future, which they never did. Then Facebook bought them for $19B.
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by vl 6y ago
This is interesting how and why reasonably credible stories instead of being investigated get ignored by mainstream media all the time, recent example being NY Post. In this case Bloomberg comes back with the vengeance, but we need to see i
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by vl 6y ago
If you sell Bitcoin on Gemini for dollars, you can instantly wire dollars to your checking account at your bank. (Haven’t tried Coinbase, so can’t say).
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by vl 6y ago
But the problem is that for any rock large enough it will require a lot of energy and time, thus expensive and gives advanced warning.
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by vl 6y ago
No, I used this estimate as simple way to calculate TNT equivalent. Of course energy of collision is proportional to delta-v. In solar system it’s tricky (or rather very energy-demanding) to achieve delta-v with Earth exceeding 30km/s.
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by vl 6y ago
(Roughly speaking) Kinetic weapon has as much energy as you spent getting it on orbit from surface, thus fuel in the rocket provides useful estimate and comparison point for energy available. To get from orbit to surface you actually need t
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by vl 6y ago
Not even close! An easy way to make upper boundary estimate: let’s say you use Falcon Heavy to deliver your kinetic weapon. Falcon Heavy burns around 500 tons of fuel. This is upper boundary for energy of your payload (since most of the ene
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by vl 6y ago
They retrieved the second device by flying there! Why not to place it on the mountain by flying there in the first place instead of climbing?
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by vl 6y ago
With the wing they would fly in the horizontal orientation, but there are jetpacks that work without wings.
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by vl 6y ago
No, it turns that if you optimize for immediate watch time, people watch a lot at once and then didn’t return. It’s more profitable if people watch a little bit everyday for the rest of their life.
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by vl 6y ago
Google offices are hilariously so badly organized for such an “enlightened“ company - my guess there is no obvious metric to track and “own”, so it falls through the crack.
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by vl 6y ago
> and told them they would be free of censorship Of course they never really said it for simple legal reasons, when you sign the employment contract you actually agree to a lot of censorship.
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by vl 6y ago
Article is just incorrect: few years ago, YT realized that optimizing for watch time decreases engagement, which is obviously most critical for life-time profits, and switched to optimizing for life-time engagement. I.e. watch less today, b
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by vl 6y ago
I’m repeating this comment here over and over - the trivial fix for this is to edit your watch history.
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by vl 6y ago
Just edit your watch history, and recommendations will become instantly better.
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by vl 6y ago
The most simple way to adjust recommendations is to delete videos you didn’t like from your watch history.
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by vl 6y ago
First of all, article is incorrect: for a long time now YT optimizes recommendations not for watch time, but for life-time engagement. YT probably has the most advanced QT ML in the world. Second, it’s trivial to re-adjust recommendations:
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by vl 6y ago
Judging by the sonar image in the article linked in the top comment it’s 40 feet deep, which is trivial depth for scuba diving.
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by vl 6y ago
> Some people here are saying they shouldn't be praised for the retraction because retracting an error is merely doing what a publication should do. We should be praising five-year-olds for brushing their teeth, but from adults we e
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by vl 6y ago
BTW, Gemini has different fee structure on ActiveTrader accounts vs regular accounts.
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by vl 6y ago
Well, it looks like they started to build up narrative for another military deployment once new president is in power, who cares about specific details?
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by vl 6y ago
> Meanwhile, I've only met one person who has been able to use cigarettes occasionally Well, there is also selection bias: you assume people like this just don’t smoke. I enjoy smoking, but I don’t smoke, and there was no problem fo
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by vl 6y ago
Interestingly, if you consider it at all, it means that you need to move out now: otherwise you are going to be caught in the huge wave of moving people and will be unable to realize all benefits, i.e. you might have to take the loss on the
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by vl 6y ago
The point is that if many organizations developed vaccines in the same timeframe it’s not really a “record”.
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by vl 6y ago
But also, is it really a “record” time? For example, Russia already has 3 vaccines: two of their own, and one Chinese.
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by vl 6y ago
I worked there in 2010s and almost nobody was utilizing it anymore since general incentives were not aligned: it was hard to cut out time from your main project, and on top of the you had to pre-justify your 20% project as useful, which is
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by vl 6y ago
If they were “said so by their doctors”, how come they still were injected by the doctors? Also, most people carrying epi-pens don’t know full severity of their allergies since there is no way to test it.
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by vl 6y ago
Two mice are chatting at the water cooler: “Are you going to take COVID vaccine?” “What? Are you crazy? It hasn’t been tested on humans yet!”

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