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by zaroth 6y ago
You’re trying to value a company without looking at debt, so you’re missing the big picture. Total Debt: VW. $237B GM. $192B Toyota. $190B Ford. $155B Daimler.$108B Nissan. $42B BMW. $80B Honda. $42B So yo
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by zaroth 6y ago
What you’re saying boils down to, we should assume that something will happen, and therefore act to deploy our limited resources to defend against this thing, just because it isn’t theoretically impossible . Such an approach is guaranteed
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by zaroth 6y ago
A screenshot of the offending code. Can you find the bug? https://twitter.com/saleemrash1d/status/1339998265899687937?...
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by zaroth 6y ago
Where do you see that? It’s on “worldwide net worth”. That includes real estate.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Oh no, we are clearing offing the critiques.
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by zaroth 6y ago
If Trump had stockpiled even more doses he would just be called a mass murderer for hoarding the initial supply. America has enough of the first round of production locked up.
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by zaroth 6y ago
The actual study results show the vaccine is highly effective within 10 days of the first dose. Honestly a bit shocked based on the results and the number of lives that could be saved by effectively doubling the number of available doses th
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by zaroth 6y ago
The USG doesn’t have an opportunity cost the same way that you or I do. They probably see this as a form of insurance. More likely? It’s a way to funnel money around.
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by zaroth 6y ago
I wonder what is the primary intended role of Google's "Ethical AI" efforts in the first place. You could hire a bunch of leading AI researchers and task them to do R&D to identify the pitfalls of latest-gen AI with a f
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by zaroth 6y ago
It would be very helpful to point to sources for the claim that Jeff Dean's explanation is debunked, rather than just claiming it has been. The timing of the submission for review, and the deadline for submission to publication seems l
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by zaroth 6y ago
People were not shot for leaving their homes without masks. People were shot (innocent bystanders, in one case) during brawls that ensued after being confronted for not wearing masks. I don't know if anyone died from those altercatio
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by zaroth 6y ago
I think roughly half the country believes that abortion should be illegal not on policy grounds but on ethical grounds. I do think contraception is obviously a powerful tool to reducing elective abortion, as a matter of policy.
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by zaroth 6y ago
The goalposts just moved so far we’re not even on the same field. >> In 1918, several American cities jailed people breaking quarantine or otherwise putting public health at risk. And in 2020, several American cities did exactly the
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by zaroth 6y ago
> There has been zero such enforcement this time around. Totally false. > Public health powers are old, precedented and powerful. They are barely being used here. Barely? Barely?! Trillions of dollars of economic damages. Millions
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by zaroth 6y ago
After having two kids and watching those ultrasounds, I’m a lot less sure of this than I was when I was 18. Abortion is a horrible thing I wish didn’t exist. Given that it does exist, it’s a horrible choice I wish upon no one. Given that ch
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by zaroth 6y ago
>> If you take a picture of something happening on your street and write a blog post about it, you are not a journalist. > Yes, you are, and should be protected. Protected from what? Being arrested for recording a public event, sur
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by zaroth 6y ago
IMO this was part of a misinformation campaign against Zoom from several months back. Zoom is not malware and never was malware, although Zoom did so some installer tricks to help computer illiterate users get into meeting more quickly, whi
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by zaroth 6y ago
None of AirBnb listings were likely illegal in the early days, because what they were doing was not regulated. Also, I’d say there’s a big difference between the homeowner choosing to list their home against a city regulation that the homeo
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by zaroth 6y ago
I don’t understand the 4 ports issue. If you have that many things to plug in at your desk, don’t you keep them plugged into a dock that has power delivery, and just connect one wire when you sit down?
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by zaroth 6y ago
It seems the difference between this and spiped is that this has a discovery protocol (DHT) and NAT hole punching. Not sure how it compares to Magic Wormhole and the like.
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by zaroth 6y ago
Phase 1 testing had to be done. However, gambling on efficacy would have been a very reasonable approach and could have gotten tens or hundreds of millions of people vaccinated by now.
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by zaroth 6y ago
That’s how I read it as well, almost too absurd to believe. SetPassword and the parameters to the function are just username and newPassword. I guess they assumed there was authentication happening before the request would even be served (p
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by zaroth 6y ago
My personal opinion is that every single Presidential election should always be followed up by a well-funded third party integrity analysis and postmortem. I’m not talking about canvassing and re-counts, because those only look at the very
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by zaroth 6y ago
Remember when the CDC was considered the world’s absolutely top infectious disease center? Remember when they couldn’t even ship COVID test kits with uncontaminated distilled water? Remember when the FDA wouldn’t let public or private labs
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by zaroth 6y ago
The only thing that couldn’t be verified until the last minute was the unblinded results. Everything else should have been a continuous process of pre-verification up to the point the 128 positive confirmed COVID cases were unblinded. Assum
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by zaroth 6y ago
It took roughly 48 hours to develop the vaccine once China published the genetic sequence. The actual study design was nothing particularly impressive. This was by no means a “entire world” effort. I think the untold story of production and
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by zaroth 6y ago
I mean obviously this was not the case, since they announced they would definitely approve it but not for a few more days. We are talking about government bureaucrats here after all.
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by zaroth 6y ago
After the Phase 1 data was back, arguably it wouldn’t have been a bad call to give doses for free and gamble on the efficacy even if it turned out to be below 50%.
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by zaroth 6y ago
To be fair, this was an extremely basic analysis on a relatively minuscule amount of data, where the form and format of data and the method of analysis has been prescribed months ago. There was no decision that shouldn’t have been made ahea
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by zaroth 6y ago
90% of my search queries, particularly the ones I make from my phone, are really dumb.

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