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Language models trained on media diets can predict public opinion [pdf](arxiv.org)
3 points by wdr1 4y ago|0 comments
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by wdr1 4y ago
> It's no fun to unwittingly wake up my wife with a sudden loud shouted epithet on a Saturday morning. Mute your volume?
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by wdr1 4y ago
So much for french fries.
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Out of curiosity, what's to stop the performers from leaving & starting their own theater with those policies?
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> If tiktok is addictive, then HN is too, and largely for the same reasons. There are material differences: - HN does not have a board seat for the Chinese Communist Party. TikTok does. - HN does not have an internal CCP committee. Tik
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by wdr1 4y ago
Nit: For those saying the US uses Imperial units. It doesn't. The US uses something called US Customary Units: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units Both US Customary & Imperial derived
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by wdr1 4y ago
> We are seeing a bit of a market downturn - but it hasn’t hit Amazon pocketbook now, has it? Um, yes? Honestly, I'm not sure how one could sincerely make this statement. Amazon's net income for Q3 '22 is roughly a third
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Maybe it depends on where you are in your journey when you came across it? For me, I came across it in the early 90s, as it was the first text for my CS class in college. I devoured it and it still holds a special place in my heart. If I r
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by wdr1 4y ago
I think what you're describing would better be described a libertarianism/classical liberalism than as right wing. Libertarianism is regarded as right wing, but not everything right wing is libertarianism.
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If you, as the user, want to restrict this, you can do so here: https://myadcenter.google.com/controls/ads-data/historical-l... Advertisers are generally aware of this. They can control location & language ta
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Except that didn't happen.
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What crappy reporting. This is just regurgitating an older article from The Information about the new rating process. The part of layoffs is unsourced & pure conjecture.
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Tickets aren't fungible. You can never sell the same seat twice. You have complex business rules. How venues are laid out change. How tickets are marketed is very dynamic. Bad actors have a strong incentive for fraud. You have an
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by wdr1 4y ago
How is this not overtly racist?
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I worked at Ticketmaster as an Engineering Director for a few years. I'd be happy to share my perspective. - Selling tickets is hard. I mean really hard. By coincidence, I just hit my 14 year mark at Google. I also spent 5 years
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I think one thing we've learned is anonymity often makes things worse. Substantially so. As someone raised on BBSes & Usenet, that pains me to say. But I think 4chan, Twitter & others have demonstrated that. One thing about
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Usenet?
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> how did they come to be the main player? In the 60s, venues had to pay someone to run ticketing for them. Ticketmaster came along and said "Hey, we'll do it all for you, and you don't need to pay us a cent. All we ask
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Some artists are large enough & successful enough that they don't need promoters.
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Ticketmaster doesn't pay the artist. The tickets are owned by the promoter. The promoter is one who pays the artist. People often underestimate how risky live events are, as whey they think about a concert they think about U2, Jay Z o
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> Dynamic pricing isn't the issue here, the issue is that the extra profits generated by dynamic pricing are going to ticketmaster rather than to artists. No. This is just wrong. Pricing & fees are determined by the promoter an
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Why do you believe you'll be able to charge less in fees? At this point you lack the economy of scale, which at least seems to suggest your fees could be higher for a period of time. Could you share more of your thinking into costs &a
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https://archive.ph/bg2th
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New York Times' Lunchbox Perk Backfires Amid Work-from-Home Protest(bloomberg.com)
2 points by wdr1 4y ago|1 comments
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One of the few movies with a mathematical consultant: Leonard Adleman -- The "A" in RSA
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Am I the only one who is continually disappointed by his inability to write a good ending? He does an _excellent_ job building worlds, creating compelling characters, intriguing plots... but I've just been let down by so many bad endin
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> by creating loans 18-year olds can't default on But you can default on them. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/busting-myths-... "For too long, a myth has persisted that student loans ar
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by wdr1 4y ago
It's not about what you did in the past. It about what you do in the future.
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On the other hand, more people watch Fox News than CNN & MSNBC combined. https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/week-of-june-27-basic-cable-...
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Those are called "brands."

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