georgeglue1

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by georgeglue1 3y ago
Given the sensitivity on 5G, I'm not really sure Apple or Broadcom ever really had a choice. Various regulators probably wouldn't let Apple use 5G components produced outside of a [TBD democratic ally of the US]
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
Human migration (under various situations / stresses like famines) has been studied in economics, sociology, etc.. There are also studies about generational poverty, medical literature on helping people recover from traumatic condition
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
Are there any licenses that are generally permissive, but prohibit certain programmatic, law enforcement, government, etc. usecases? It'd be interesting legal territory if someone has tried this already.
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
If the ads systems still actually work, Twitter could theoretically be pretty profitable without much headcount. IMO there's no way those profits last more than a quarter until everything breaks. But yeah, maybe it is technically profi
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Russian Poem(oversightboard.com)
1 points by georgeglue1 4y ago|1 comments
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to remove a Facebook post comparing the Russian army in Ukraine to Nazis and quoting a poem that calls for the killing of fascists
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
My understanding is that Alameda was a market maker, which should have less exposure to down / upswings. What kind of bets was Alameda making? Why would it need so much leverage? I understand why loaning money to Alameda could be ratio
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
I wonder how many CIA employees work at any of the top 20 US companies. Ex-CIA employees probably also work at every tech / industrial / health / oil company in decent numbers? This seems like a potential red herring.
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by georgeglue1 4y ago
I think we have to tolerate a certain amount of irrationality from shareholders. If you bought a $100k home which then dipped to $80k during Covid, would you accept an unsolicited bid of $90k? It's reasonable for some people to take th
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
Independent != Unbiased! Facebook, of course, can hire biased independent fact checkers. At least Facebook is not 100% determining truth of everything on their own.
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
Theoretically, the main point here is that Facebook has an independent fact checker program, and some of those fact checkers rated Russian media posts (which would lead to a big scary overlay and a reduction in views) I'd guess they wo
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
I don't think I've gotten an actual misinformation / hate speech / etc. recommendation from Youtube, Facebook, or Tiktok. On Facebook, I see potentially divisive posts from friends with very different political views. Th
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
This is all I could find... https://www.facebook.com/eThekwiniM/posts/4359537737429640 I don't know what the referenced video is, or if it is a deepfake though.
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
do you have a reference to the US helicopter / DEA claims btw?
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by georgeglue1 5y ago
It's obviously super hazy, but it's worth clarifying that being developed in the lab != originating from the lab. From what I've heard on Chinese social media, there are a bunch of plausible sounding theories. For a lot of jo
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by georgeglue1 6y ago
this is off topic, but medical training (at least in the US) is unfortunately about as dysfunctional as you describe. there's are years of inefficient labor from students, residents, fellows, and junior doctors on procedures they'
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by georgeglue1 6y ago
It's a mixed bag. There's a bit more context recently released here: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4017337/privacy-focused-sea...
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by georgeglue1 6y ago
Matt Jackson is one of the most respected game theorists at probably the best game theory department in the US. His goal is just pretty different. He's presenting the mathematical / intuitive foundation that underly more advanced
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by georgeglue1 7y ago
>> (don't really get it -- tbh,rich people bad/corrupt?) it's not so much that wealth is bad, but tax evasion and money laundering (from organized crime, corruption, etc.) is bad.
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by georgeglue1 8y ago
There are some ways to adjust and counteract these effects (it's an issue with every clinical trial on serious illnesses and older populations though). A reference: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PM
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by georgeglue1 8y ago
we're also hiring many other kinds of developers (from NOC to web to devops to Kotlin).
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by georgeglue1 8y ago
Bird | Android Developers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers + many non-technical roles | Venice + Santa Monica, Los Angeles | Fulltime, ONSITE We know that: - Traffic and increased carbon emissions are a growing problem
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by georgeglue1 8y ago
Verizon makes roughly $100 billion a year off of internet subscription revenue, and collects immense amounts of user data. If Google went through all the investment to build an ISP, bid on spectrum, etc., it'd be silly for Google to at
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Ask HN: What were your favorite CCC talks this year?
5 points by georgeglue1 9y ago|1 comments
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
Obama could personally call any world leader and talk about taxes, privacy, regulation, etc. with authority. He would also be generally pragmatic, likable, and qualified.
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
Interesting. Obama could be a good bet if he would take the job. (Perhaps the departure was predicated on Obama agreeing in advance)
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
It sounds like you could build a TV/device that caches key frames for all channels on the client/consumer0side. Or am I totally misreading this?
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
many privacy search engines like duckduckgo really just query bing or google (sometimes through a proxy)... any idea if qwant does this?
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by georgeglue1 9y ago
Can someone summarize the returns and risk-level of his strategy?

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