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And a good shorthand for that is whether the is a propaganda site with a history of carefully worded deceptions...
Re:I may be fired over AI ethics work on Sunday June 12, 2022 @03:50AM (#31712517)
... including the author of the blog post.
While anti-science exists at both ends of the political spectrum, only one of the major us political parties seems to embrace conspiracy theories with gusto. And that party has a not insignificant number of adherents that accept the belief that covid is a hoax.

But notice that you've shied away from the climate change claim; the scientific consensus has not gotten softer in the last 20 years, but as recently as a few years ago one party denied the existence of climate change. Even recently a considerable majority of the strong adherents of one particular political party disbelieve that climate change is happening.

Re:United States vs. Google on Thursday October 22, 2020 @12:25AM (#24854863)
You realize that Amazon Fire is Android, right?
Some of this strikes me as a bad idea...
Re:Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font on Sunday May 10, 2020 @03:59PM (#23135628)
Bullshit is a technical term...
Re:Shirt Without Stripes on Monday April 20, 2020 @06:11PM (#22929289)
animalCrax0rx is in the business of producing quick pithy posts to earn more karma while keeping understanding low and making claims that are not evidence based...

See how that works? That's not really what's going on. Sure, G. is incentivized to include pages quickly, but they are also incentivized to produce them accurately, and as the above poster indicates, this is quite a hard problem to solve generally.

A is also incentivized to sell items.

In many cases different algorithms will lead to quantifiably different results. The algorithm changes that work better for the measurement set will be kept and those changes which dont will be discarded. And both A and G do that within different constraints.

Re:Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade? on Saturday December 28, 2019 @05:11PM (#21902159)
Why evolution is true. Coyne.
Re:Levittown on Monday June 17, 2019 @11:28PM (#20209547)
There certainly appears to be some sort of sub-urbanity trap. Low density living isn't necessarily more expensive than living in a high density area, but that relies on certain economic modes that do not include much infrastructure. But those economic modes are not the ones that fit the needs of a modern office worker. Modern suburban living requires roads, water, electrical, police, and other services, where the cost tends to scale with area. When the tax base doesn't experience growth, the required services must funded through something like ballooning debt, which quickly leads to insolvency, or be curtailed. Both of which seem to form a feedback cycle.
Re:Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed? on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:26PM (#19260076)
I tried a couple of blue apron kits when they were in Costco. Some nights you have the time and energy to cook from scratch. Some nights you order pizza. Other nights a meal kit is just right.
Re:Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It? on Thursday November 29, 2018 @12:29AM (#18558304)
But that requires political will, and with current political funding and party platforms, that's basically a non-starter.
Re:Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @06:00PM (#18556508)
Or even:

C++11 - Cool, it's 2018, guess what: Migrating a codebase as large as Google's from C++11 to C++1x is a bunch of work. And a lot of the C++1x goodies are library additions, available in Abseil <https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp>.

Re:Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter on Friday October 19, 2018 @06:13AM (#18255554)
It looks like there is a hinged floor that folds down and is covered by a tarp. That should get to about 80"
Re:Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:43AM (#18055527)
* by this metric
Re:Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:41AM (#18055516)
This is actually terrifying.
Re:Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @03:08AM (#17131933)
Yeah, ever since Bill Clinton the democrats have been Republicans, and the Republicans have been ... something new.
Back of the envelope to double check:

Some estimates put the internet traffic at 2^70 bits per year and growing. For any short sequence of N bits, there are approximately that 2^70 such sequences transmitted per year. Let's assume that, since they are encrypted, they are uniformly distributed. So what is the sequence length for which our p(seen all) = 50%? Seems like 71-bits is about right.

There traffic growth curve is probably ~2x per year, so each year we add 1 more bit each year. The sum of all internet traffic for all time, at present, is therefore about 1 more bit.

So ~73 bits.

Math checks out.

How is this different from Kenton's sandstorm?
Re:Donald Trump Is Elected President on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:53PM (#12912664)
Sure, hostile towards government while a large percentage of people actually work for government.
How is this different from sandstorm.io?
This works for Google, but not everyone.