MarceliusK

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by MarceliusK 8d ago
A phone is a pretty bad proxy for what someone is actually doing with their attention
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by MarceliusK 8d ago
The first rule reduces platform power. The second potentially requires platforms to build even larger classification and moderation systems. I'm very much in favor of the first, but I don't think they belong under the same concept
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by MarceliusK 16d ago
And the incentives are arguably worse than QA: you get little credit if the result replicates, and potentially a lot of grief if it doesn't. Novel results build careers. Checking them mostly doesn't
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by MarceliusK 16d ago
I'd be pretty wary of stretching wire fraud law to cover this. Prosecutors deciding whether scientific results are fraudulent sounds like it could create its own set of ugly incentives
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by MarceliusK 16d ago
At this point the surprising part isn't that another Ariely result has problems, it's that some of these datasets apparently went decades without this kind of basic scrutiny
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by MarceliusK 21d ago
I'm really sorry for your loss. There's not much to say to something like that except that I hope this treatment came too late for fewer people than it did for your sister
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by MarceliusK 21d ago
If molecular glues keep working like this, I wonder how many other "undruggable" targets are really just targets we've been trying to attack in the wrong way
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by MarceliusK 21d ago
Pancreatic cancer is one of those diseases where I've gotten used to reading depressing numbers, so seeing 13.2 months vs 6.7 months actually made me stop for a second
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by MarceliusK 23d ago
This is the classic difference between testing whether the software works and testing whether the system works
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by MarceliusK 23d ago
That does make the 10 million figure more meaningful but I still think it is doing a lot of work rhetorically
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by MarceliusK 23d ago
Without the total number of attempts, number of failures and ideally how those failures are distributed, it tells us almost nothing
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by MarceliusK 23d ago
I mostly agree but I think the bar for the software still has to be unusually high when the failure mode is "you are not allowed to enter the country you legally live in"... The human fallback is essential, but it shouldn't b
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by MarceliusK 23d ago
"Known issue" and "you may not board the flight home" really shouldn't appear in the same system. If a database error can effectively invalidate your legal status at the border, there needs to be a fallback that doe
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by MarceliusK 29d ago
IKEA Poland missed an opportunity here
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by MarceliusK 29d ago
This is exactly why the names work
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by MarceliusK 29d ago
I always assumed the names were mostly random Swedish words picked for the vibe. The fact that there's a taxonomy behind them makes it much funnier somehow
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
So it is less "England has a program and the others don't" and more that each NHS is pursuing the same WHO goal independently, with different reporting and timelines
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
My guess is that devolution makes these programs and statistics look more separate than they really are
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
The downside of that model is that "be proactive" assumes people know what they should be proactive about
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
A disease that can stay silent for years, but is also highly curable once detected, seems like exactly the thing you want to screen for more aggressively
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
There is a pretty striking contrast here with the infected blood scandal. The NHS went from being responsible for one of the worst hepatitis C transmission disasters in the country's history to potentially becoming one of the first hea
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
The problem is that one essential app being unavailable can outweigh the other 95% of the phone working perfectly
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by MarceliusK 1mo ago
The frustrating part is that security increasingly means proving you are using an approved device and software stack, rather than proving that you are actually the account owner
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
The distinction still matters legally and administratively
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
If it lets the US use that identity to query European databases and retrieve associated information, that is a much larger change
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
It changes the nature of the scheme quite a bit
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
Fond memories and a slightly terrifying electrical inheritance
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
The image of him in the home shop with the radio playing and people still bringing him supposedly unfixable things is wonderful
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by MarceliusK 2mo ago
There is something pleasantly backwards about a school teaching people to repair objects that were designed to last, while so much of the rest of the economy is optimized around replacement
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by MarceliusK 3mo ago
If people follow your direction, it is usually because the argument made sense, the trust was already there or you did the unglamorous work of aligning everyone beforehand

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