michaelterryio

We’ve been searching for a rigorous way to determine scientific consensus on claims but I don’t think we realized the answer was YouTube’s management.

I used to use the elixir trending page to learn about new popular elixir libraries. It had twice as many repos as it has now. Now it’s garbage. I complained to GitHub when it happened. It’s purely worse.

There is a ton of correlational evidence of low vitamin D and C19. And it would be easy to ignore that as having cause and effect weaknesses.

But we also have dozens of RCTs showing that vitamin D supplementation suppresses respiratory infections!

Folks always act like we just take this study in isolation. That’s not how it should work. The totality of the evidence is quite strong for vitamin D versus C19.

This reminds me of when sports fans say things like, those odds are meaningless, they’re just set by bookies to get action.

True from a naively pedantic POV, but also ignores that betting odds happen to end up efficient also. Like saying shopkeeps set prices to drum up business and aren’t subject to the principles of supply and demand.

Google is an advertising company, but as part of its strategic goals it develops a high quality email client that beat out competitors on its own. I bet you the Gmail team is full of brilliant people who don’t give a shit about advertising and just want to make an awesome email client and spend night and day thinking about just that.

A few years ago some Kenyans chased down a couple cheetahs:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-24953910

The problem seems apparent to me. Google has a monopoly on websites being able to promote themselves.

There are plenty of other channels, but none with remotely the reach or trust of the US's overwhelmingly dominant search engine.

By dint of this fact, they can steal the content of those who actually produced it. What are you going to do, deindex your site? That's death, because Google is a monopoly.

In the short term it seems good for the end user. But in the long term, Google having a monopoly on distributing the world's information seems like an obvious threat.

A bad experience with an entity is a legitimate reason to form a bias against them; indeed, that's the point. The nature of the threat that Google poses is likely to leak into many activities inviting criticism.

Then why was the original study published? And why did it get so much press?

Just because you use this tactic doesn't mean it will work. Just like anything, you have to have the talent and skill to pull it off. But if you trust your abilities and judgment, it's very effective.

Yes!

And eye witness testimony is often terrible. It's disappointing that circumstantial evidence gets such a bad rap.

Very unlikely things happen all the time. But beyond a certain level of unlikeliness, combined with a strong motive, it has to be enough.

And of course in practice everyone gets this because cases are decided every day by this implicit understanding.

    Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you
    find a trout in the milk.

    -- Henry David Thoreau

Erlang excels at being used in mixed-language shops. Erlang is an incredible control plane language.

So the only message passing between your rust actors is via SQS or such?

Cos in this paper they suggest actor coordination is a problem for AWS and that using queues for message passing is slow.

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2019/EECS-2019-...

Very interested in your experience cos I’m interested in trying this pattern.

There's more to what makes a great language than regular grammar and spelling but, that aside, English is already gradually being adopted as the world language. The OP is complaining about parochialism slowing the spread. Whether you agree English is best or not, you might still agree that worse-is-better move to some common language improves things overall

Meanwhile, duolingo still doesn't support Taglog, much to my annoyance–since my wife is half-Filipino but doesn't know it–and we thought it'd be a fun challenge to learn it together.