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by wmil 5y ago
There's a lot of pressure on Spotify to remove his podcast altogether. Rogan was worried about Youtube censorship when he negotiated the Spotify deal. Apparently there are some clauses to protect his podcast. So they can't just re
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by wmil 5y ago
This seems like the perfect time to pull out the old phrase: "All models are wrong. Some models are useful." Big 5 seems useful.
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I remember back in 2008 they were trying to push Web 4.0 as the successor to Web 2.0, because it was the web squared.
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This is just a classic example of how messed up Ottawa is. - Maintenance for 24 Sussex is under the control of the National Capital Commission (NCC). - The people who work at the NCC don't like doing their maintenance responsibilities.
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by wmil 5y ago
The Walrus is kind of a weird publication... it's a respected non-profit magazine. It's too prestigious to just use a bunch of creative commons photos. It's too poor to pay for photos from real photographers.
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by wmil 5y ago
Union organizers always want GM style unions. But really developers would be better off with something along the lines of a trade guild. Something that enforces standards on employers and employees.
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> Yes, they do, they lose members. But membership is mandatory if there is a union at that corp. A union is like a service they can't ever unsubscribe from without changing jobs. For government work especially, unions can start to t
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by wmil 5y ago
> We are all unappreciated beta testers. I've been trying to popularize "gamma testers" for years without much success.
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by wmil 5y ago
Have you done a sleep study? That sounds like sleep apnea.
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by wmil 5y ago
The video is neat, but averaging over the year is deceptive. A hot August doesn't make Ottawa's cold January more pleasant. My point was just that people move to the Russian South for mild winters, and it does have mild winters by
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by wmil 5y ago
Latitude alone doesn't determine how cold winters get. Average low °C Dec-Feb: Moscow −6.5, −8.7, −8.8 Ottawa −9.2, −14.4, −12.5 Yet Moscow is over 1000km farther north. Europe gets warm moist weather blowing in from the Atlantic. Warm
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by wmil 5y ago
> Will non-profits take them over completely at some point? No the broadcast frequency is too valuable. Right now TV stations are just holding on to their spectrum until they get a chance to sell it to cell phone companies and cash out.
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Also they can easily claim that consumer cards aren't specced for 24/7 loads, thus installing in servers voids the warranty.
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> Google is better at AI, for example let's take this sloppy search: "some joke where you can't tell if it is serious or joke" My problem there is that I don't expect or want my search engine to do that. The coun
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It's analogous to predatory pricing. Google has all the necessary tech to go back to doing good searches. They can easily pivot back in a few months. A new startup would need to dump loads of money into servers and building their own t
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by wmil 5y ago
Google has gone downhill since they started pushing searches towards approved sources. Sadly your best bet when google is failing is to try Bing or other search engines.
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by wmil 5y ago
Remember, they're not users. They're gamma testers.
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The people making the movie “Boycott” got a state senator to say that, but it's not what's driving the debate.
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by wmil 5y ago
Google maps estimates it about 35 minutes, so almost twice as long as you're thinking.
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Look into "Operation Choke Point". It was an Obama era DOJ program to control payment processors in order to block things they didn't like.
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Twitter unable to dismiss underage sex trafficking TVPRA under Section 230 [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
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There are also some well documented competence problems. In the mid 2000s the Canadian Mint was briefly stamping poppies into their coins and putting a red enamel on them to commemorate remembrance day. A CIA employee found one in his pocke
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by wmil 5y ago
Originally people were using "Wuhan Flu", which was consistent with norms. Then the CCP launched a massive international PR campaign to declare that racist. Then the CCP started domestically claiming it was from the American gover
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> A Google spokesperson reached out via email with the following statement saying that the bug has been fixed: "This morning, we made a code push that incorrectly flagged a small percentage of Google Docs as abusive, which caused th
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by wmil 5y ago
A few years back people were getting messages from Google if their docs contained hate speech. Google's response was that it was a corporate feature that was accidentally turned on for all accounts. So they certainly have infrastructur
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Right now there's a chicken and egg problem where cheap power is not near things that need it. Crypto mining will allow places with cheap power sources to build up energy production. Once that's established it's easier to bui
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by wmil 5y ago
Saying we should just rehabilitate criminals is like saying we should just cure people with cancer. Reliable rehabilitation doesn't exist.
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Politicians already have special rights and restrictions. Here's the argument. Democracy requires that politicians have the ability to contact potential voters. There are contribution limits as well as spending limits. In politics most
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He's done internal software to manage YC. YC itself was born out of an attempt to hack the hack the VC funding system. Shift things to be more friendly to technical types. So it was an attempt to improve a complex system as opposed to
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You'll get better results writing letters. As in actual formally written letters on paper sent in the mail. Written requests for information get handled better. Write to the telco, also write to your municipal and state government. Try

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