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It would be interesting to monitor his number of followers before/after the controversy. For information, John Gibson, CEO of Tripwire Interactive, which is a videogame publisher, recently tweeted a controversial opinion about abortion, then had to step down from his job, yet his number of followers increased from 2.5K to 9K in the process.

This can be seen on websites like: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/rammjaeger/monthly Picture: https://i.imgur.com/poc1QcE.png

Edit: when it comes to Piers Morgan, it does not seem to have been worth it. The last bump of followers happened in March.

Reference: https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/piersmorgan/monthly Picture: https://i.imgur.com/s7145UK.png

You are correct. See:

> Judge seems alarmed at the extent to which impulse spending by "exorbitantly high spending gamers" drives App Store revenue.

> Says it's outside the scope of antitrust but says issue is "worthy of attention"

[1] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365652164493317

> "in most economic ways...the App Store is primarily a game store and secondarily an 'every other' app store"

[2] https://twitter.com/stephentotilo/status/1436365985800507394

If you look closely at the painting before restoration, you can see with your naked eye the rectangular dark frame of the Cupid painting.

Yes, it is very obvious if you look at the face: the width is the same before/after, but the height is different (smaller before than after).

For the record, when Epic did their stunt on August 13, 2020, the margin went to the user.

> Today, we’re also introducing a new way to pay on iOS and Android: Epic direct payment.

> When you choose to use Epic direct payments, you save up to 20% as Epic passes along payment processing savings to you.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/news/the-fortnite-mega-dr...

That is why I use Paypal. As a customer, why should I be constrained to use Apple's payment system as my only choice of middle-man?

> I would rather use Apple payment system.

The price would be higher if you used Apple payment system. That is how companies would get consumers to be enticed to use other payment systems.

That is what Epic did with their V-bucks: either use Apple system at the usual cost, or use Epic payment system at a permanently decreased cost (20% cheaper in August 2020).

I don't understand how this works in favour of Apple. Imagine you had paid with any other third-party payment provider, e.g. Paypal. Wouldn't you have been able to cancel the recurring payment just as easily? Even with a CC payment, wouldn't you be able to cancel the recurring payment by going through the account options on your bank website?

> I understand why someone would fractionalize an NFT as a scheme to extract more money from suckers, but I don't get why someone would pay $ for owning a small portion of an NFT.

Maybe these "suckers" do not understand what they are doing:

1) they heard that blockchain and NFT is the future,

2) they do not understand why, but they trust these who understand and evangelize,

3) they want to try riding their luck, just in case this miraculously works.

Imagine people purchasing lottery tickets, just in case they miraculously win.

It reminds me of this movie quote:

> I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum and I'm all out of bubblegum.

Reference: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/111729/

> while still being OK with high speed limits that kill thousands of people per year.

The French government tried to tackle this issue. This lead to months of yellow-vest protests, close to a revolution at times. Some dude forced the door of a ministry with a bulldozer. Others set fire to a prefecture. Death threats everywhere. Small Guillotines were built. Etc. The protests were sill rocking after a year, and were put to a temporary stop due to COVID lock-down.

tl;dr: nobody would dare decrease the speed limits again.

> People strongly want to believe that intelligence doesn't have a strong genetic component, I think mainly for moral reasons.

More so because there is no proof for that.

Individuals exhibit different levels of intelligence. Sure, life is unfair.

However, individuals do not necessarily inherit intelligence from their parents' genes. Seriously, who could think that you could build a lineage of "gifted persons" solely by genetically selecting the parents among the population of "gifted persons"?

What we observe could be explained by many other more convincing factors: early learning activity, more care to the child's education, logical and clear answers to the kid's questions about the world around him, help with the homework, etc. With proper early learning activity for the baby, and amazing teachers for the early teachings, the kid has a strong foundation. From there, compound returns.

Coined by an advertising agency.

I emulate it by deactivating as many notifications as possible, and manually checking replies after a few days or weeks, when I remember. I have noticed that what was a "hot" discussion often becomes pointless and laughable after enough time has elapsed. I usually don't feel the need to reply to these old bickerings anymore.

These "absolutists" are people looking for:

- a service which would blindly accept money/crypto-money,

- in exchange of a worldwide legal shield which would take all of the heat resulting from the user's anonymous actions.

This service is not going to exist for $100/year. It would not even be safe to offer such a service for a million dollars per year, because the responsibility could be huge (terrorist attacks, human trafficking, etc.). Nobody in their right mind would be ready to bear this kind of legal responsibility without trusting (and thus knowing) their customers.

So that activist was the leader and social media coordinator of the group.

> what does Protonmail offer in terms of privacy that is better than GMail or Outlook

Encryption. That was always the point. Your emails are stored encrypted, and nobody can read their content except you.

Not sure why some people expected ProtonMail to act as a magical VPN, both truly anonymous and not obeying to any court order, to an unencrypted email account like Gmail.

> I'll just use Gmail it's free.

So that is your alternative... Not sure what your threat model was.

> I'll take my money elsewhere.

Feel free to report where. Something tells me it ain't that easy to find a decent alternative.

A user with the intent to engage in unlawful activities should read the terms of services in full. If that user only reads the homepage of the service, without understanding the implication of each word, and does not bother to review the terms in details, that is on him.

Moreover, I would like to point out that ProtonMail is about encryption of email *content*. It is foolish to expect more from them. They won't protect your identity: law enforcement can know who you are and who you communicate with, but they cannot know the content of your emails (if you recipient uses encryption services as well).

This is another amazing blog post by Matt Ferraro. You may remember his post last month about Poisson's Equation.

For the past 2 blog posts, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mattferraro.dev

With this in mind, the conclusion of the blog post is hilarious.

Quotes from the blog post:

> [The] rough idea is that if, say, Alice spoke to Bob for a long time and then Alice also spoke to Carol for a long time, then Bob and Carol are more likely than not to speak for a long time too.

> [...]

> The data have clearly shown us that, despite proving a successful technique for many other products across a range of contexts, collaborative filtering simply wasn’t a match for Chatroulette.

Basically:

1) make an arbitrary assumption about your data,

2) apply a widely-used recommendation algorithm,

3) notice that the results are really bad,

4) reject the algorithm... rather than the assumption.

Admittedly, I don't know whether the algorithm requires this assumption, or whether a slightly different one could be used. For instance, if Alice spoke to Bob and Charlie, then Bob and Charlie don't want to talk together. Or, if Alice spoke to Bob and Charlie, and Carol spoke to Bob, then Carol should be recommended to Charlie, etc.

The same way we have text classification for the spam in our mail inbox, couldn't someone train a model to classify issues as actionable bugs vs. noise for large projects like the one mentioned in the OP? Data would come from closed issues:

- if the issue lead to a commit, or a merge is mentioned in the thread, then it is actionable,

- if the issue was closed without any code change, then it is noise.

There is also a number of flagged pictures to reach before an individual is actually classified as a "positive" match.

It is claimed that the chance of being a false-positive for a positive match is one out of a trillion.

> Apple says this process is more privacy mindful than scanning files in the cloud as NeuralHash only searches for known and not new child abuse imagery. Apple said that there is a one in one trillion chance of a false positive.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/05/apple-icloud-photos-scanni...

I'd argue that I've been watching this play out in real time among other... parents. It is actually sad when you go outside and start noticing that people are glued to their phone screens, including parents who would rather look at their smartphones rather than their kids. I can tell you that little kids notice that they lost the attention war to their parents' smartphones.

That is correct. When one runs `pip install dlib`, only a .tar.gz file is retrieved. Then the building process takes a long while!

> Collecting dlib

> Downloading dlib-19.22.0.tar.gz (7.4 MB)

> || 7.4 MB 14.7 MB/s

> Building wheels for collected packages: dlib

I had not noticed before because I have only used dlib on Google Colaboratory, where it is thankfully pre-installed.

Absolutely not, or at least not yet, because:

1) the most contagious variants have emerged from countries with little to no vaccination: UK before vaccination and with very little protective measures (pubs, etc.), Brazil with Bolsonaro, India with a very high population density who are mostly unvaccinated, etc. These variants appear thanks to the high number of contaminations. Vaccination means fewer contaminations, and thus the less likely arising of mutations and a new variant.

2) Current vaccines are very effective against the current variants. This observation is inconsistent with the assumption that one of the variants could have been naturally selected to resist to vaccination. This is also expected as the percentage of vaccinated people is low in most parts of the world, thus there is little pressure to select a vaccine-resistant variant for now.

If we had made the variants "worse" because of imperfect vaccination, we would have seen a vaccine-resistant variant emerge from one of the vaccinated (>50%) countries.

Note sure what you mean by "a new metric".

Sorting by "controversy" has been an option on Reddit for a long time. Most people won't use this option, but it exists.

The formula is here: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/blob/753b17407e9a9d...

There were 18 chimpanzees vs. 1 silverback. While the silverback was getting harassed by 10 chimpanzees, the gorilla infant could be targetted by the other chimpanzees.

Moreover, the silverback was troubled by the presence of human observers and fled 3 minutes later, whereas the chimpanzees were habituated to the human presence.

Quotes below:

> In both events, the chimpanzees considerably outnumbered the gorillas. [...] At 17:13, the silverback charged an adolescent female chimpanzee, Gia, knocking her into the air. At 17:15, a group of approximately nine male chimpanzees (adults and adolescents), and at least one adult female chimpanzee surrounded the silverback, and repeatedly jumped down on and hit him whilst screaming and barking. [Meanwhile, the gorilla infant could be kidnapped by the other chimpanzees.] At 17:22, one adult male chimpanzee, Littlegrey, was observed sitting on the ground holding a gorilla infant in front of him.

> During the first encounter the silverback was present for 14 min [out of a total of 52 min], whilst in the second encounter the silverback was present for 10 min [out of a total of 74 min]. [...] At 12:33, the silverback discovered the human observers on the ground in a distance of approximately 30 m to the base of the tree and started barking. [...] At 12:36, the silverback rapidly climbed down the tree and fled. The chimpanzees continued barking but did not follow him. [...] We cannot rule out that the presence of human observers, in both events, may have had an effect on the unhabituated silverback’s departure and may have tilted the imbalance of power in favour of the habituated chimpanzees.

> 11. Retention of Information

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https://neverinstall.com/privacy

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If I understand it right, information is kept for an unknown period of time unless the user sends a deletion request. I am not sure pressing the "delete" button at the end of a session acts as a deletion request, but I hope so.