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Deloitte make a huge point of hiring apprentices - taking on dozens (maybe nearly ~100) of them on every year. Seems the general goal of everyone there is to make partner one day.
Interesting analysis, but the main point remains: You can not compare drivers across different eras. Is Lewis the GOAT? Yes. Is Michael the GOAT? Yes.
Why wasn't backpage.com projected by section 230?
Borders are just as real as the governments and societies that give you those rights. If you don't recognize them then you don't have rights either.

Remember your rights are my responsibility. They don't work in a vacuum nor can you make up your own rules.
Of course the blame is on the developers. If you don't want commercial enterprises to repackage your project and exclude you, choose a license that says that! How is this even controversial?
To me that problem can be dealt with between the user, their ex-bf and local law enforcement. Grindr need not be involved, and no special internet laws need apply.

That’s a case of harassment and possibly some form of identity theft.

I don’t find your proposal tenable and it would obviously be prone to abuse.
Funny you should ask, at my work this was a recent source of tension because a culture had emerged of people using bcc to silently keep others apprised of tense email exchanges — so that someone would have seen the exchange before gossip went around, for example
I've seen the claim that reason is just emotional rationalization before. It strikes me as dreadfully cynical. Rationalizing one's emotions is the entire point of life. We experience something, it confuses us, we try to figure it out and explain it, model it so that we can better predict in the future. In other words, it's called "understanding". Understanding is a good thing, not a bad thing.

I think the criticism is better and more narrowly targeted toward those that don't prioritize consistency. Yes, from your experiences and emotions, try to derive (or infer, rather) your principles. That's fine! But then, don't stop there. From there, try to remain consistent with those principles. And if they conflict, use that emotional experience to again understand and update your principles and then try to remain consistent with those.
> That outcome doesn't sound like the outcome you're saying you may be comfortable with.

Oh no, I'm considering exactly that. I am saying: if my tiny personal blog has a comment section I would be liable for comments posted there. If that is a burden I can't handle then I should turn off comments. At least in my experience those comment sections are a complete waste of space anyway and the trend I've noticed from the large blogs that are still around (e.g. daringfireball, kottke) is that their comment sections are long gone anyway.

What I am pondering is: would this ruin the Internet? If I couldn't host a public forum if it got beyond my limited means to moderate? If I couldn't have a public comment section? It doesn't seem clear to me the Internet breaks if I am forced to own the responsibility for those things that I allow to be made public through sites I control.
Automatic updates from trusted first-party developers is pretty different than automatic updates from random Chrome 3rd party extension devs..
Medicine is definitely politics when its uncertain how much certain drugs really help.

One the one hand you could say: WHO has an unreviewed study that says "china early vaccine tests good, usa drug bad" and Gilead has a bunch of studies that say usa drug good.

On the other hand you could say: the studies wording is so fine tune that its hard to say if any are true.

Results:

- some side with their political/religious beliefs (and will downvote this probably)

- some are confused about what is true and admit they just don't know (I'm definitely there)

- some are a bit of both
How can google achieve this, realistically speaking?
Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?
I forget what we started on, but in the mid-90's we used to use a Solaris software suite in tech support as a knowledge base. That software was great.

Then we got a new manager, and he made us all switch to Windows NT and Lotus Notes for the knowledge base.

I think right up until the end of that company, only that manager liked Lotus Notes. Talk about clumsy and taking up way too much screen space to show any amount of information that previously was far more compact and easy to find.
>> Though I fully admit that giving Japanese as an example of a more monocultural language in this context is a poor choice given how many non-native words it borrowed from Chinese

Japanese did (and does) use Chinese characters.

But Japanese, in fact, is a perfect example of a language that developed in a very monocultural way; it developed in a single region, and:

"Japanese is classified as a member of the Japonic languages or as a language isolate with no known living relatives " from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_language#Current_theo...

A 'language isolate' is a language that has no known genealogical relationship with other outside languages. Japanese developed as a fairly isolated language. Only since the 1850s has the Japanese borrowing of loanwords really took off, and those are mostly limited to English words for technology and other more 'modern' objects.
> Even "common carriers" don't have to carry everything.

Looking at your comments it seems like you at least agree that common carriers are subject to some laws.

Great! It seems like you agree with me that there are laws and things that common carriers have to do, and that there is content that they are required to carry some content.
> If you no longer own a car they should not be allowed to sell it to you. Make it lease only and if it breaks, they need to deal with it, like a cable box.

Isn’t that what they want eventually? Technology is being used to turn vehicle ownership into licensing. The goal is to make you pay forever, even after you’ve paid for the damn thing.
I find that process uncomfortably loud, and I worry about damaging my ear with too much pressure. I also find it difficult to tell if it's working or if it's finished, especially if the ear is not plugged all the way yet, which I want to avoid.

The endoscope is faster, easier, more comfortable, and makes it possible to clean when the ear is not actually plugged and verify that it worked.
Anyone can shop there they just won’t send you a printed catalog unless you spend a ton of money.
But if you've never seen "weigh" written, how would you spell it. That's the issue, not that we need to memorize baroque hints for words whose spelling we can't fully remember because it's essentially impossible to generate the spelling from first principles.

Then there are words like "stein", that just feel like the rules are too good for them.
Thank you for your comment. Congratulations on your positive response and recovery.

Our goal is to enable the same response in others who may experience side effects and may have to forgo treatment because of it.

Doxorubicin, also nicknamed red devil or red death, is notorious for its side effects. In addition to the bone marrow toxicity common to most chemotherapies, a person cannot receive more than 6 doses of doxorubicin in their lifetime without increasing their risk of heart failure. So when patients respond to doxorubicin, but more doses are needed, the patient and the doctors face a difficult choice: risk of death from the cancer or risk of cardiac failure. Shasqi is trying to change that equation for solid tumors. We are not focused on lymphomas yet.
Are anonymous trolls "information content providers"?

An easy fix is to say that an "information content provider" must be a legal person who is liable for their content. Then it's easy to find where the buck stops for a Tweet or a Rip-off Report or a Revenge Porn.
I don't really follow the idea that "midi is lossy" in the sense described. Because it uses note-on/note-off pairs? I don't see the problem there. Certainly the idea that a score somehow has more information in it than a midi recording is ridiculous. A score always requires interpretation. The midi is, in contrast, fully specified, very little room for interpretation.

A midi recording contains pretty precise velocity info for each note (0-127) that is either not present at all in a score, or is present only in the form of a limited number of dynamic markings[1], which govern the flow of dynamics imprecisely, and almost not at all on a per-note basis.

With tempo it is similar to dynamics: midi will precisely determine when notes turn on and off, down to the millisecond, in the process resulting in the midi performance having a precise tempo. In contrast, musical scores have limited means to indicate proper tempo[2], necessitating (as with dynamic markings in a musical score) much interpretation by the musician.

All of this is not to say that a midi performance is somehow "better" than a score. There are good midi recordings and bad ones. A good recording will generally be made by an accomplished musician who in making the recording records fairly precisely a particular (and good) interpretation of the score. Likewise, a bad recording would generally be the result of a poor interpretation of a score. But whatever the case, the midi recording is far more precise than the score itself.

[1] https://www.aboutmusictheory.com/music-dynamics.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo#Basic_tempo_markings
Sounds to me an awful lot like a "throw down the gaunlet" to Cloudflare . . .
The comparison being made was of SV of today vs the SV of yesterday not SV vs Europe.

By the way, of all the companies you listed, only Zoom and Snowflake were actually founded after 2010. And that's the point. In the past 10 years, we haven't seen any Googles, Apples, or Microsofts emerge, despite eye-popping levels of venture investment -- which is a bit disappointing.
From a libertarian standpoint forced "neutrality" (scare quotes intended) is an infringement on the property and free speech rights of the platforms. You are not entitled to use my property against my will to endorse viewpoints that I disagree with, and the government should not force me to comply.
The biggest limitation to this drug is that it probably works very well IF given in the first 12 hours of infection when viral replication is highest.

The problem is that since it's intravenous, it's hard to justify giving it to people BEFORE they seem sick.

Naturally patients and doctors are pressured to treat the sickest patients first, and so they get the Remdesivir, despite it likely not doing much so late in sickness.

Ideally, if we could identify people highest at risk, and early in their disease - THEY should be given the drug very rapidly. ...but again, without that identification step, it's very hard to justify giving someone an experimental treatment.
I find the biggest perf issue is typing! seriously it actually lags behind my typing at an alarming delay sometimes, this is not being used on a slow or busy machine, there is something going on in slack front end that evaluates on every keystroke and sometimes it's really really fucking slow.
Surgery is not a great option. It’s incredibly invasive, it’s risky, it costs valuable time to schedule, it’s expensive and at the point where you’re metastatic it’s not curative in any way.

I haven’t read the article, but if you can integrate this with regular chemo cadence to amplify effects at certain locations it seems like a no brainer.
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That's only true of Grinder is obligated to positively ID a US resident who provided the content.
These aren't the same rationalists. This is about LessWrong-style Bayesian rationalism from ~2009 or so. The name is pretty unfortunate, though.
> For example, suppose you're an online service Twitbook used by a vast swathe of the world to communicate, and you decide that you want to allow calls to murder politicians you dislike but not (obviously) ones you like. Section 230 gives you pretty good protection from liability over your decisions as to which political figures get threatened with murder

That's not true on 2 fronts. First, Section 230 requires good faith. That would almost certainly fail to pass the good faith muster, assuming they can demonstrate that it was done intentionally. So civilly, they would likely still be liable. In addition, Section 230 has no bearing on criminal law (it's specifically called out in subsection e). So in the event someone was killed, there would likely be a host of people from Twitter facing charges for being complicit in the death. They are effectively Charles Manson in this scenario, and I think they would have a hard time arguing that selectively filtering messages to expose users to messages encouraging them to kill someone does not count as speech.

I don't see why the second is a terrible issue. They're effectively a tabloid at that point, well known for spreading libelous content. I would be surprised if Queen Elizabeth is overly concerned that the tabloids say she's a lizard person. And also, RipoffReport is the wrong person to sue here, which is why that isn't working. If the content is libelous and you want it taken down, sue the person who wrote it, and have the judge issue a takedown order to Ripoff Report. Section 230 only protects them from civil liability, it doesn't make them immune to takedown requests.

In a funny idea, I wonder if you could upload a copyrighted image and then file a DMCA request against the page and have it delisted by Google. Their terms say you grant them a copyright, but if you upload a work that you don't own the copyright for you can't give them a copyright. Technically you're violating DMCA for the upload, and again by lying on the DMCA form you fill out (since you have to own the copyright) but as long as you pick something nobody is likely to sue you for, it should be fine (copy the credits from a book or something). Or if you want to get clever, you could have a friend make a painting of a stick figure in Paint and slap a copyright logo on it, then upload it and have your friend file the DMCA complaint. For bonus points, do it to every single page. They aren't liable because of section 230, but you could probably still force them to play a game of whack-a-mole with Google.
Perhaps because he hasn't run for office in a quarter century? And while I find many of his views odious, he's more coherent and restrained in his rhetoric than Trump - he is a fixture on a weekly TV roundtable political TV show called *The McLaughlin Group if you want to sample his communication style.
The trend-lines were really just to guide the eye (the text gives this context), but if you really must know: the R^2 for all three fits was above 0.9, suggesting the exponential growth model is reasonable.

As you say, the pps and bps don't show much curvature, so a linear fit could indeed work for them for the displayed portion of the graph. But it's non-sensical when you look further back in time... predicting negative attack volumes prior to mid-2011. ;)
Hopefully something will work out eventually. Each of my ears has tinnitus of various pitches and while you get used to it, its disconcerting to hear a sudden new pitch every couple of months and know that you've permanently lost some kind of hearing (and gained a new persistent aural 'tone').
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Authenticity of the image is not disputed by Bidens. :-) Hunter Biden also left drug paraphernalia in the rental car when returning it. There's a police report to that effect. His history of addiction to illicit drugs is even corroborated by CNN, which would gladly sweep it under the rug, if it could. Seriously, this is not a good hill to die on.
Yes. Copy HR on things I need to document or otherwise remove people from a thread.
Why haven't we automated the software configuration optimization yet?
I see the argument repeated quite a bit. I think it's easy to read this and think "Nothing new, just more of the same, maybe a little worse now". I don't think that's quite right though. A television station can only broadcast 24 hours of content a day. A newspaper can only have so many editions per day, and each edition has a limited number of pages. The same is true of television and radio. But the common factor among all of them is that there is a common reality that everyone is looking at, and there is scarcity because of that: the publication has to choose what will appear each day to the readers/watchers it serves.

The ideal formula is to draw a large group of people in with really engaging content, and then show them advertisements that are likely to be effective for the group of folks drawn to the content. This presents a three-way tradeoff:

1. Write about stuff folks want to read about (but don't make it so outlandish that you ruin your credibility!)

2. Show effective advertisements alongside that content (but not so much you drive them away!)

3. Show enough variety to draw in a large crowd (but still know your target demographic!)

Newspapers, magazines, television, and radio all faced this dynamic and had to make the right tradeoffs to survive.

But there is no common "Facebook" published each day. We can't say "Hey, did you see the top story today on Facebook?" Each article can target a tiny segment of the population and be designed just to keep only those folks engaged. And there's no need to tie a particular advertisement to a particular piece of content, advertisements and content can be selected in realtime based on models of the user's behavior. And drawing in a large crowd is easy, since there's content and advertisements for every tiny group that any entity is interested in targeting. The scarcity that forced reasonable tradeoffs in other mediums simply isn't present on social media. This is a huge difference that isn't captured at all in the "optimize engagement by any means necessary" argument.

Put another way: the problem isn't that incentives are different, it's that the tools available now remove scarcity that previously shaped the entire industry.
What do you mean by that? Their prices are higher than most, but anyone can purchase from them.
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Just beware there is an EU CE and Chinese export C E. They are different. I probably can't post a link but the search you need is this: CE eu markings CE china export.
CE is a mark of quality assurance and compliance. C E is not the same.
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Very true, and that's why I prefaced my comment with "only helpful to an extent".

In some cases, data validation[1] on the cells directly can help. Particularly if the data is going to be manually entered by the end user, rather than a bulk copy/paste job from elsewhere.

In other cases, you apply defensive checks within the PowerQuery processing. If a field is supposed to contain US-formatted phone numbers, you can explicitly set the column type to text, split at dashes and keep the first part, verify it only contains numerical content, optionally check for non-sense values (all zeros, all nines, 12345, etc), then left pad it with zeros to ensure they're all 5 digits. You can also package up all of those steps into a function that can easily be added into future worksheets via copy/paste and save you from re-creating the wheel. And depending on the data itself, it may be handy to call out to a third-party API for validation/normalization.

To maintain sanity, you can also create a helper column for validation. If any of the columns can't be "safely" normalized or validated, you update this field with details on what failed. At the end, split out any records where that column is not null into its own table. That way you both filter those records out of the "final" table, and can also easily add in an Exceptions Report section to the spreadsheet, clearly calling out the rows that had issues and providing the error details to the end user.

It sounds complicated, and it is compared to the alternative (Excel's undefined behavior silently swallowing it). But it's actually incredibly straightforward to implement and a fairly natural design pattern for someone coming from a software development background. You just start treating Excel as a UI and PowerQuery as a backend. All of the business/processing logic gets decoupled into PowerQuery, and formulas become primarily tools for presentation logic (such as adding an an Exceptions notice to the primary worksheet if COUNT(EXCEPTION_TABLE)>0).

[1] https://www.howtoexcel.org/tips-and-tricks/11-awesome-exampl...
But tech can also pick up and leave much faster and required less reason to stay clustered (factories, transporting materials, supply chain etc). Add in the fact the world in general turns faster, I don't think SV can keep the tech industry for how long Auto Manufacturing remained in the Mid-West.
> So clearly Amazon has no moral scruples about doing what they did

Dude, they picked a software project that was released to the world under a license that explicitly allows anyone and everyone to use it as they see fit, and they proceeded to use the software.

Please do explain exactly wheredo you see any breech in morality.
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This article is a low quality strawman. The owner of the laptop shop is one of the least credible witnesses I've ever seen - he never saw hunter biden drop off the laptop, and his story changes about 4 times in substanial ways during a single interview. He is an ardent trump supporter, and identifies it as hunters laptop because of a sticker from the beau biden foundation on the laptop. This is hardly a smoking gun.

Additionally, Hunter Biden is not up for president. Clearly its not cut and dry, but I'm not sure we should be hanging a father out to dry for the actions of his clearly struggling son, so there is lots here that's of shaky relevance to Joe or public interest in general.

This article says "we have no reason to believe the emails aren't genuine" which is the exact opposite stance to that a rational person should take. If there is substantiated evidence that these allegations are true, publish them, get them trending on twitter.
But this is the thing with misinformation. You simply cannot allow stuff to be widely shared until there is proof it is not true - the cost to making a false claim is 2 or 3 orders of magnitude as disputing it.

Conservatives are doing themselves a disservice here. This article stinks of vested interests, barely plausible narratives and incredibly poor witnesses. Is this what you want to attach your name to? Free speech has clearly not been violated - so the allegation is that this crackpot story wasn't amplified by twitter and "left leaning journalists". Come on, take a step back and think if this is really the hill you should be dying on.
e(5) of Section 230 is a specific carve out that the protections don't apply to sex trafficking content. I believe they used that to argue that Backpage wasn't protected by section 230.
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Hmmh, I took away the exact opposite point. They developed a model to do exactly this and Fangio from the 1950s came out on top. He raced for four different teams and the driver's contribution (versus the car's and the team's) was 58% compared to 19% today.
Not just Excel; Google Sheets too. Our school system has student codes in the format ABC0001 where ABC is the first three letters of the surname, and the number is sequential. So a student with a surname Martin might get a code MAR0004. Which Sheets, in it's wisdom, decides to interpret as the date March 2004. Go figure.
What about the criminal who mounted the screen next to the road and hooked it up to the internet?
I suppose the virus could adapt to spread more easily via surfaces. Or, it could become more virulent, such that fewer particles have to get through the mask to cause infection.
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