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by traek 2y ago
Google asked Meta to switch to AndroidXR for their Quest devices. Meta said no and suggested Google offer Play Store on Quest, which Google rejected. Google then went on a PR offensive accusing Meta of fragmenting the VR/AR ecosystem.
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by traek 3y ago
This paradox is famously a case where the expected value of the game is infinite.
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by traek 3y ago
This isn’t what E2E means for communication software. E2E means only the participants have the keys. Signal is a good example of this, the message is encrypted from the sender to the receiver and Signal themselves cannot decrypt it. Separat
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by traek 3y ago
A key property of a Vickrey auction is that it is incentive compatible, i.e. that it isn't possible to achieve a better expected outcome by bidding something other than your true valuation. Your example relies on the telecom company (o
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by traek 3y ago
Oops, cut off the quote too early, it was in response to "Is it possible that someone at your university was tricked?" The list is real and it is part of a LEED standard. Technically it's compiled by ACEEE and just reference
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by traek 3y ago
> I’m slightly confused by the existence of that list, USBGC provides LEED certification to buildings, not cars, right? No, LEED credits are given to buildings for providing incentives for low-emitting vehicles. https://www.us
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by traek 3y ago
> I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their BEVs to countries where they will have to face c
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by traek 4y ago
> It's somewhat surprising to hear that requests would be rejected if the user agent doesn't match a set of hard coded IP addresses. It’s fairly common for DDoS/scraping prevention, Googlebot (and most other crawlers) publ
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by traek 4y ago
It's accessible on any browser, you'd just need to scroll to the section manually if your browser doesn't support text fragment links.
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by traek 5y ago
> Still, if it means Google is investing in Matrix, that's a good thing. I always worry at some point it will be killed. This isn't Google investing in Matrix, this is a group of people who work at Google using their spare time
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by traek 5y ago
The original article is talking about traffic from Twitter to publisher sites, not traffic from Google to Twitter. Twitter never used AMP for pages on their own site. In this case Twitter is the platform, not the publisher, and would absolu
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by traek 5y ago
This would only be correct if stickiness (the DAU/MAU ratio) were around 3%, i.e. if each MAU only visited once per month.
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by traek 5y ago
I'm surprised they didn't apply this analysis to their Twitter page as well.
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by traek 5y ago
> I'm not sure how 21% lower is considered "not statistically significant", in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING > 0% is helpful. Full stop. Statistical significance has a specific meaning in the context of hypoth
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by traek 5y ago
All of this is also true for our actual government[0]. I have zero confidence that if our government were in charge of running Facebook/Twitter/any other social media app the results would be better. [0] https://www.cnb
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by traek 5y ago
They aren't saying that the feature gating code adds to app size, but rather that there's a lot of code behind feature gates (for tests/staged rollout/locale-specific features/etc) that most users won't see whi
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by traek 5y ago
That's not a feature of advertising as a business model, it's just a feature of growth-focused businesses. The same forces apply to products that you pay for with money. For a very obvious example, just look at Candy Crush.
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by traek 5y ago
No, there’s no reason to want to go OTC for just 20k and most desks won’t will deal with you for that amount. That isn’t even half a BTC at current prices, every major exchange has the market depth to support that.
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by traek 6y ago
There's a ton of literature out there on America's infrastructure problems. This is a good summary from a neutral source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure
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by traek 6y ago
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, not Tencent.
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by traek 6y ago
Yes, by checking the SSL cert.
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by traek 6y ago
They're all paid into by workers, taxes are taxes.
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by traek 6y ago
CA data was from a quiz, developed by a researcher at Cambridge University, hosted by that researcher, which scraped FB APIs after being authorized by a user. This data is from a browser extension, developed by researchers at NYU, hosted by
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by traek 6y ago
Individual Contributors (i.e. non-managers).
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by traek 6y ago
The link explains some practical applications of Milgrom's and Wilson's work on auction theory. Mechanism design and auction theory are definitely predictive and useful in the real world.
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by traek 6y ago
Did they go through YC? I can't find anything online about that, but I had no clue they raised $10M from Sequoia. Surprising.
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by traek 6y ago
This explains why law students apply to clerkships, not why firms pay bonuses for former clerks.
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by traek 6y ago
Where are you reading that this affects New Zealand?
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by traek 6y ago
The partners aren’t the ones working nights to draft these documents.
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by traek 6y ago
It is absolutely true that the board has a fiduciary duty to shareholders, and many states have statutes specifically protecting minority shareholder rights. Delaware is fairly unfavorable to minority shareholders though.

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