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Kevin Hart on the Joe Rogan show comes to mind.

Twitter was a second order effect from the fact right at that food became too expensive for the low-income countries.

> Looking at long-term trends in rain, crops, food prices and migration, they were able to determine how these factors contributed to social instability in the region.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-an...

Sounds like a great time to be alive!

A bad company devides available work in so many different departments and job titles the actually people with authority that is able to execute is by design very thin spread. This company could also pay higher salaries, give better training and enable more call agent autonomy because that is what is takes to deliver a frictionless delightful customer service.

That's why every mom and pop store outranks every Fortune 500 on customer service expect Amazon. Most still haven't learned to put customers central to their business but treat it as an after thought.

So there is also no such thing as a business model flywheel like a platform as Amazon for example?

https://medium.com/aws-enterprise-collection/your-enterprise...

> We emphasize here that both our definition of news and fake news are extremely broad. In the case of news, we include, for example, morning shows and portals, while our definition of fake news includes highly biased and hyperpartisan news sites such as Breitbart.com

> As expected, young adults spend less time consuming news than average and far less time than the oldest group.

What the oldest group views as news the youngest view as fake news.

The definition of fake news is not broad enough because it doesn't end at hyperpartisan outlets like Breitbart. Those are just the extreme end of the spectrum.

On average it are the news sources from the center that have legit credentials to have the most impact as producers of fake news on the population. Manufacturing consent comes to mind from Noam Chomsky.

> the deliberate spread of online misinformation

Even when it is only expressed by the choice to not give a subject attention and thereby censuring important aspects of the "news". Censorship is most worst form of lying George Orwell wrote.

I think Bill Gates initiatives in Africa are very misunderstood. Women in Africa are still treated worsts than women in the developed world 150 years ago. They get on average 7 children in some parts. There are 200 million women living that experienced female genital mutilation and 600 million women were married before the age of 18.

Medication like Depo-Provera are offered in a liquid form and work as a contraceptive for 3 months. Pfizer has agreed to deliver this medication for at least 8 years for cent on the dollar.

Abortion is still illegal in 145 countries. With a contraceptive available less unsafe abortions are induced. Less unwanted children are born and women are able to plan their family.

In the developing world 5.475.000 children die per year to a lack of financial resources.

300.000 women die per year of preventable causes related to child birth.

Contraceptives are the best invention we have to create a more equal relation between men and women. 240 million women around the world have an unmet need for contraceptives. And Bill Gates is trying to supply these women with a better solution and at least a choice.

Are you willing to consider the opinion that CS people can make a similar mistake with out of field problems as people with a PhD in Biology make about CS problems?

I think that is more a quantification of the unmet need mainstream media creates by not discussing topics like DMT and the simulation hypothesis. The long form of content enables conversations even about the most fringe topics.

The Overton window doesn't magically shifts when millions of people are serviced by a 3th party outside the Overton window.

Disappointing ad hominem, expected a better analysis about viewpoints instead of the people he invites. Joe Rogan is unique not because of his guests but what he talks about with his guests, these topics are not covered by the mainstream.

If the institutional gate keepers want to declare a new main stream than also embrace people with a more nuanced point of view instead of this fully scripted narrative they publish 24/7.

When was the last positive article published by the NYTimes about Russia, the Republican party or even number 45?

I wish the main stream isn't as compromised as it is. Until then I have to listen to Joe Rogan & the portal to tap into nuanced thoughtful content.

More about dolphins in this youtube video with dr. Laurance Doyle at 30 minutes. In it languages are compared and apparently language dolphins follow Zipf law.

https://youtu.be/H30NipTkA5s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

Made a doorbell out a real rotary phone hanging on the wall.

Anybody an idea what sidekick Jamie's cut is from this enterprise?

Can't imagine Jamie doesn't have equity in the show and remained just a employee. On this kind of level of earnings, an important part is choosing who you share with.

Cheap debt influences the cashflow multiplier in a great way when doing a discounted cash flow analysis. The estimated financial gains are off by at least a factor 2 or 3. It doesn't make sense to make a deal of 100 million when you received 30 million last year.

> Joe Rogan's podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience' earned a staggering $30 million in revenue across 190 million downloads per month in 2019.

For your neighborhood or was this a more structural problem and did your collegeas find more locations with similar issues?

Look I fully agree with you if that is what you want, and you are fully aware of the trade-off you make.

When you pull this off you are a very talented skilled engineer. I hope you open source your solution so friction is removed for other people with a similar dilemma in the future.

Our time is the only currency we have and we can pursue activities we love or fear. The line between paranoia or choosing for personal freedom is thin and very personal.

I came to the conclusion for myself I have spend to much time on home grown solution for problems others have solved better and cheaper. Getting from it works 80% of the time to 99% and I can blindly trust my infra is the difference between a weekend and year fulltime work.

I choose for G Suite because at least Google offers me a paid option to exclude my account from their advertisement data monetizing branch.

I do really respect that you make a deliberate effort in this.

We would already have done a lot of things, among plant a flag and declare "terra nillius".

CMU has published before that probably Russian adversaries fused different groups in the social graph of Facebook in 2016 and basically got in control of both groups after the merge.

Bots are used to get attention, steer the conversation, introduce key retweeters to bot retweeters and merge a couple independent user groups at scale.

This is a highly specialist job not a couple of random amateurs, and could be the underlying mechanism at work here.

Big brands pay a fortune to execute similar tactics but are not even 10% as effective. Coke for example has an annual advertisement budget 7+ billion.

Isn't that data already in the hands of 3th parties when it are screenshots of conversations and documents, or did you also build that communication stack from the ground up?

Why not upload it to Google Photos. It will do the OCR and make the text on your photos / screenshots searchable with a sweet UI in the browser.

If you still want to grab the text yourself you make a copy to Google Keep and use the "grab text" function.

Works for me, I take full screenshots of interesting stuff so the url is still visible when I want to go back to the original.

Obviously I have a paid G Suite account at Google. That comes with a very good set of privacy protecting rules. Doesn't matter how you roll your stack eventually you are going to be dependent on a 3th party. Better use one that offers full encryption and 2FA to lockup your data.

https://gsuite.google.com/learn-more/security/security-white...

Could both the Hoover institution and the divinity school be a signal that there are no communists on campus?

I sometimes wonder if the US is less secular than Europe because atheists were for a long time associated with communists. Church going people obviously couldn't be communists.

I saw a video on the long now channel today with dr. Laurance Doyle about dolphin communications and other species. Dolphins start at 30 minutes.

He basically found that dolphins language follow the Zipf law and Shannon information theory.

Baby dolphins also have a babbling periode like humans in the same timespan. It is interesting talk all the way through. Maybe you can contact him.

https://youtu.be/H30NipTkA5s https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law

> There are not a lot of successful examples where the host company actually profited from the invention.

Maybe we should not hold on to the bureaucracy patents bring. Especially considering in some countries international patent are used as recipe to copy innovations.

Tesla has moved their patents into open source because they are under the opinion that competition is won by attracting the best engineers.

> Elon Musk: "After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible."

https://www.tesla.com/en_GB/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-y...

> The findings suggest that they “do develop natural immunity that protects against re-exposure,”

Is there any conclusive evidence about humans developing immunity?

Project code at github

https://github.com/mneeleman/qubefit

If you google with define knows lesbianism. This dork makes a dictionary of your search result :

noun sexual attraction or sexual activity between women

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+lesbianism

> Chitwood said in a statement posted online. "None of it will deter law enforcement from coming back when we're needed."

Mike Chitwood is a local legend with his own website selling t-shirts. Nice to read positive news about a sheriff doing his job in great way for the community.

https://www.votemikechitwood.com/

It would be nice if the actual racial distribution of the population of the county is added for context. For a random visitor from the internets the lack of context hinders the ability to understand what implications the data has.

When 90% of the population is black the conclusions are different from when the population is 90% white.

If you are going to write more about the pricing of airline tickets I would include a graph of the actual demand and supply curves, plot the corresponding business segments in it. Many people did not study economics and graphs like these are a great visualization of the problem at hand.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PDoN9F9YpJo/VjDZxPztmkI/AAAAAAAABn...

He needs sales volume and the progressive part of the population is not enough. Onboarding more conservatives is his only option. Progressives do not have many viable alternatives to what Tesla is offering, bait and hook. Classic diffusion of innovation what Musk does, the sequence of Tesla models are 100% reflecting different parts of the bell curve.