charlesarthur

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by charlesarthur 6mo ago
You need to read up about XY 5-ARD (the condition Caster Semenya has and Khelif surely has). Being XY with active SRY means you're male. Khelif has admitted having the SRY gene (in an interview with L'Equipe). Males have very sign
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by charlesarthur 4y ago
Not that I've seen (I've read a lot of chess books, and a lot of Go books). Go is a bigger game - you can't teach it in the way you can chess. The problem of deciding what the biggest move is in Go goes way beyond the challen
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by charlesarthur 5y ago
Absolutely agree about Open. It's without a doubt the very best tennis auto biography ( written with an NYT writer) I've ever seen, and I've seen a ton of them. (Jack Kramer's The Game is pretty good too.) "Shot and
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by charlesarthur 5y ago
"the fact that I can get better interest on US dollars by depositing stablecoins on some defi platform".. There was this guy called Madoff. He was able to get better interest than the markets for quite a while too. Those stablecoi
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by charlesarthur 6y ago
"the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell" No, it isn't. There's a significant backlog on providing tests and significant backlog on analysing tests. The BBC's More Or Less r
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by charlesarthur 6y ago
Not quite accurate. It's not "basically identical". The "moonshot" proposal is that you'd be able to walk up to, say, a cinema entrance and get a PCR test right there which would instantly tell you whether yo
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by charlesarthur 6y ago
There's absolutely no evidence that the NYT intended to publish Carlson's home address. You only need to think for a moment to realise it's completely not what it does - what do you think the reporters are, walking around wea
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by charlesarthur 6y ago
The NBER paper that you point to in a subsequent comment doesn't have any detail on the popularity of social media; we explicitly can't make any determination on whether social media is having an effect there because the data is m
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by charlesarthur 7y ago
You need to cite your good authority because I know WGA screenwriters and it is definitely not anything like 30%. On a $10m film (tiny) that would be $3m. On a $100m film (pretty blockbuster-y) it would be $30m. Stop a minute and think abou
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by charlesarthur 7y ago
Hello, article author here. You wrote: "There's lot of focus in this article on failure. I enjoy Apple bashing as much as the next guy, but one has to assume in the same 20 years Apple's head of design would have had as many
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by charlesarthur 8y ago
If the Galaxy Tabs are considered "mid-range", who's making the high-end ones, and what are they? I thought Samsung was meant to be the contender here.
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Never mind the iPad – where are the full-time Android tablet users?(medium.com)
7 points by charlesarthur 8y ago|2 comments
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Android users can get adblockers by sideloading, and Chrome users on iOS are a tiny minority. The reason why the mobile web version is less sucky on your battery life is because it doesn't get the chance to break out of the browser to
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"Last time I used it, it still didn't have a media library and dumped tens of thousands of songs into a flat list." In the "Advanced" tab, which I'd expect any self-respecting HN denizen to go to first, there&#
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
You install WhatsApp, like a billion other people.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"I attribute that mostly to the quality of Google Maps severely degrading in recent years." Seriously? I can't see how that would happen unless you're living somewhere prone to dramatic road rebuilding. Or do you mean th
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Apologies if this sounds rude, because that's not the intent. How can you be sure that people whose screens you've replaced don't then get an "error 53" when they later come to do a software upgrade? Because that&#x
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Possibly you're stretching for Hanlon's Razor, except you've got the wrong end of it. Hanlon's is the one that says "never assign to malice what can be assigned to stupidity". This feels like a screwup. The rea
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
I see (and get) lots of apps which are free, with limitations so that you can decide whether to buy the in-app purchase - which is effectively "the app". And I see full-featured ad-supported apps with an IAP to end the ads too. Tr
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"Android dominate iOS by a huge margin, and I think it is ahead even in the high end segment." Every piece of data I've seen on this - for phones >$400, which is generally reckoned "high end" - suggests that&#x27
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"This is why people have to ask "do you serve coke or pepsi?" at restaurants." OT, but this is why news anchors have to say "the obesity rate in the US has risen to its highest level ever, scientists reported today.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
The fact that you disagree with someone doesn't per se make them wrong.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Ooops, left out the link to Gartner. It's this: http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/windows-10-does-no...
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
The figure given came from Google's Amit Singhal in October 2015.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"The author needs to clarify what portion of total revenue Google derives from ads, and then to break those ads out by service (Youtube, Gmail, Sponsored search), platform (desktop vs. mobile), and geography." The author (me) woul
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"I know _ad hominem_ is generally uncalled for, but" Thus neatly showing how comment threads turn "pretty toxic". If you have better analysis of the data, that would be great to see.
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
I've responded to your comment there. Obviously, the data is open to lots of interpretations. I tried to use models that seem reasonable and reflect what we know about internet behaviour - particularly the Pareto distribution of most a
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
"In other words, he's saying that half of all users don't do ANY searches at all, whereas all that he can say is that on some days, some users don't do any Google searches on their mobile device." From the article:
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Thanks for your comments. #1 Android tablets are an interesting one. Do we think people are more active in terms of Google searches on Android tablets than on Android phones or desktop? I'd suggest they're less active (in searchi
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by charlesarthur 11y ago
Yes, the interviews clearly come from prebriefings. What parts of the article do you think aren't independent or neutral?

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