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It is like the search engines vs. SEO arms race. The hope could be that such proliferation can be managed by disincentivizing such abuses. The reality might be vastly different with codes that have more regularity and better chance for AI's emulating humans than the natural language texts.

Citation needed. Magnesium is definitely critical for living organisms, humans or or other animals or plants alike, but that shouldn't be confused with the question of whether Magnesium deficiency leads to hypertension.

Maybe being an ER doctor itself could bias their decisions more favorable toward CT scans. ER people may see dead people & people with tumors more often than pediatric doctors in their offices. The usual pediatric doctors would see much more patients with ear infections.

Also, to ER people, knowing the root cause is probably important for patients' survival, whereas for pediatric doctors, more often than not, lives are not at stake and customer service/easing parents' fear is more important.

I can think of a few milestones in the future for AVs:

  * the first accident between two fully automated AVs.
  * the first such accident within AVs from the leading company.
  * the first fatality in fully automated AVs
  * when uber or lyft or any similar company starts to use AVs more than human drivers in a metropolitan.
  * when a city gets half the driving hours in AVs.
  * when human drivers no longer get insurance coverage by a major insurance company.

I wish the order in reverse.

I think the word "allegedly" probably indicates SEC did not use the messaging app as the route to uncover this.

If I were a part of SEC, unless there is some regulatory hurdle, I'd use some other information (e.g., some gov documents? linkedin?), and use that to construct a giant watch list for insider trading even before trades are made.

Who pays the bill eventually? I would wish the people directly benefit from the power line should pay for it. (The article seems paywalled.)

I consider google doc coding an extension of the white board coding, which often happens in pair programming. I do not think it should aim perfectly working code, but at least I would personally expect reasonably good whiteboard coding hygiene from a colleague, at least for a report to the committee.

I think another good use case for this sort of hardware/service could be for youtubers/streamers/performers who want to provide immersive interaction to the viewers. If I am a fan of a singer, I'd definitely pay for an opportunity to watch the person singing right in front of me, instead of going to the concerts where I watch them singing miles away.

I need encryption to make sure nobody is listening to my sensitive conversation like legal/psychological counseling. It can be actually more secure than in-person conversation.

Recreational ones are not "needs". Your analogy seems flawed.

My theory about what might have governed his behavior: boredom. He was designing a game, which is a system designed to mitigate the boredom issue. Knowing people better could make them boring to one's eye -- there are familiar patterns, and not much interesting new patterns developed. Nature has a lot of interesting new patterns.. but maybe he eventually got bored out of that too.

A thread that shows the membership to higher castes or the lack of.

  WARNER: They patted his shoulders to see if he was wearing a white thread that only Brahmins wear.
  
  CORNELIUS: So with you not even knowing, they will try to pat your shoulder and try to see - the finding this thread.
  
  WARNER: Was he a Brahmin like them?
  
  CORNELIUS: In other ways, they will call you for a swim, you know? Hey. Let's go for a swim - because everybody takes their shirt off. And all they know who are wearing threads, who are not.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/915299467

  Hinduism is divided into four societies, Brahmins- the highest, Kshatriya- The nobles and warriors, Vaishyas- The traders, Shudras- Traditionally artisans and labourers also untouchables. The first three Varnas (as were called) had the rights to pursue Veda, where as the forth were considered very low and weren’t even allowed to enter temple.

https://ubb01.wordpress.com/2016/09/06/why-that-thread-aroun...

So there's trade-off between the security and the conference call quality, and this option weighs toward more security. That sounds great for customers in general. I'd wish they choose the E2E option to be the default for small meetings and non-E2E to be the default for larger meetings with some clear notification for attendees.

> In a meeting with E2EE enabled, nobody except each participant – not even Zoom’s servers – has access to the encryption keys being used to encrypt the meeting.

> Zoom’s end-to-end encryption (E2EE) offering will be available as a technical preview, which means we’re proactively soliciting feedback from users for the first 30 days.

It is a commendable step forward, but I wonder what their concerns are about this feature with such a careful rollout schedule. The difference seems only about who generates/manages the key, so unless they were decrypting the packets in transit, they should not be concerned about this.

> We expect our new fully driverless service to be very popular, and we’re thankful to our riders for their patience as we ramp up availability to serve demand.

I think this explains the reasoning behind the gradual ramp-up. Even at the product launch like new iPhones, the demand is difficult to estimate, so IMO it seems more responsible to give a reasonable expectation to the public like this, than just saying bravely "the service is fully public from today".

I think the take-away from this announcement is their commitment for wider rollout over time from this point on.

I think there might be one point that deserves more attention: the wind that is getting stronger over time. It is entirely possible that the C-hook was holding up relatively well until the wind reached certain threshold, and the wind could have gotten to go over the threshold more frequently lately. This could be another side effect of the climate change in addition to the increased vegetation mentioned in the thread.

I am curious if there is any research around the electrical component failure trends (probably from some nationally owned electrical companies). I would believe there is some correlation between tower failures and the peak wind strength/strong wind frequency, but if such correlation holds up meaningfully across different electrical companies in different areas, that could mean the wind might be more at fault than PG&E. PG&E was still criminally negligent, but as the thread said with a different angle (Camp Fire B), the fire might have been inevitable.

I believe so. People can probably set up some physical models and simulate the wear against various elements, and possibly detect similar wear in the reality. Even without AI, human inspectors can remotely monitor the tower using drones and check more checkboxes than one.

By employing such effort and maintaining towers more responsibly, PG&E at least could partially evade the blame and liability. IMO this could be a good startup idea if founders know the right people.

In addition, as the original twitter stream says, climate change promoted additional growth of vegetation, which added even more fuel for wildfire. It would be an interesting topic of research to see which one contributed more to the proliferation of wildfire we are observing in the west coast.

Android does not even have an app for Apple Maps. I certainly don't wish the success of Apple search if they are going to follow the model of Apple Maps and many of their other attempts with the closed ecosystem.

There's one genetic factor known for the performance variance against the stress, which is also called "warrior vs worrier": https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stress-management_b_2671591

IMO, there's Moneyball-like opportunity for companies who can utilize (or, in another word, exploit) this aspect. A tech company may conduct tech interviews with a private environment & a traditional environment, and if one's performance is much better in the private setting, they might be able to offer a job with a reduce salary than the candidate's capacity shown in the private setting.

Back up now.

Thank you. Your number 8-10% was very useful in getting the idea of why the rate change would not affect those unprofitable companies.

I'm not well versed in the economics, so could you elaborate how the corporate debt would be a problem in this economy? Wouldn't the lowered rates & other activities by Fed be helpful for the entities with massive debt?

I think the difference might be in that startups often do not have their own dominant & profitable products that they can leverage to undercut the profit in complements.

It has good usability, and not much trouble in video conferencing. No nonsense. Plus it has a catchy name: Compare "Google Meet" or "Microsoft teams" vs "Zoom".

That is not true. There are nearly risk-free methods of making investment returns, and when the upside is small but risk is minimal, leverage is the way to amplify the upside. Playing lottery means high risk of losing money and that is not an investment, though the line may seem blurry. (Some turn lottery into a reasonable investment, so it is truly blurry.)

Though some of the major ones may have the restriction, not all US metros have the regulation yet. It would be good to have a data on how much of the number is under the regulation.

How much difference is there between the r0 value of 2 and that of 3? Maybe we can't flatten the curve to fit it under the threshold, but we can probably reduce the area above it?

This definition has too much room for subjectivity. It needs objective criteria. Or maybe WHO might need to have a numerical metric that says high large the impact of a virus or its associated disease is, just like the earthquake magnitude.

I think the point is that the cost should not be the main motivator. I would agree that there needs to be other differentiators in addition to cost, which could provide sufficient moat against other competitors, big or small.

Those show why I called it a heuristic. With some code similar to yours, I would probably use parentheses unless they are frequent enough to deserve some brain cells.