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Given the sensitivity on 5G, I'm not really sure Apple or Broadcom ever really had a choice. Various regulators probably wouldn't let Apple use 5G components produced outside of a …

Do you have a sense of what the % increase in total energy is? As in what is the denominator for the +300 terawatt hour figure?

Human migration (under various situations / stresses like famines) has been studied in economics, sociology, etc.. There are also studies about generational poverty, medical litera…

Are there any licenses that are generally permissive, but prohibit certain programmatic, law enforcement, government, etc. usecases? It'd be interesting legal territory if someone …

If the ads systems still actually work, Twitter could theoretically be pretty profitable without much headcount. IMO there's no way those profits last more than a quarter until eve…

The Oversight Board has overturned Meta’s original decision to remove a Facebook post comparing the Russian army in Ukraine to Nazis and quoting a poem that calls for the killing o…

My understanding is that Alameda was a market maker, which should have less exposure to down / upswings. What kind of bets was Alameda making? Why would it need so much leverage? I…

I wonder how many CIA employees work at any of the top 20 US companies. Ex-CIA employees probably also work at every tech / industrial / health / oil company in decent numbers? Thi…

I think we have to tolerate a certain amount of irrationality from shareholders. If you bought a $100k home which then dipped to $80k during Covid, would you accept an unsolicited …

Independent != Unbiased! Facebook, of course, can hire biased independent fact checkers. At least Facebook is not 100% determining truth of everything on their own.

Theoretically, the main point here is that Facebook has an independent fact checker program, and some of those fact checkers rated Russian media posts (which would lead to a big sc…

I don't think I've gotten an actual misinformation / hate speech / etc. recommendation from Youtube, Facebook, or Tiktok. On Facebook, I see potentially divisive posts from friends…

This is all I could find... https://www.facebook.com/eThekwiniM/posts/4359537737429640 I don't know what the referenced video is, or if it is a deepfake though.

do you have a reference to the US helicopter / DEA claims btw?

It's obviously super hazy, but it's worth clarifying that being developed in the lab != originating from the lab. From what I've heard on Chinese social media, there are a bunch of…

this is off topic, but medical training (at least in the US) is unfortunately about as dysfunctional as you describe. there's are years of inefficient labor from students, resident…

It's a mixed bag. There's a bit more context recently released here: https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4017337/privacy-focused-sea...

Matt Jackson is one of the most respected game theorists at probably the best game theory department in the US. His goal is just pretty different. He's presenting the mathematical …

>> (don't really get it -- tbh,rich people bad/corrupt?) it's not so much that wealth is bad, but tax evasion and money laundering (from organized crime, corruption, etc.) is bad.

There are some ways to adjust and counteract these effects (it's an issue with every clinical trial on serious illnesses and older populations though). A reference: https://www.ncb…

we're also hiring many other kinds of developers (from NOC to web to devops to Kotlin).

Bird | Android Developers, Data Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers + many non-technical roles | Venice + Santa Monica, Los Angeles | Fulltime, ONSITE We know that: - T…

Verizon makes roughly $100 billion a year off of internet subscription revenue, and collects immense amounts of user data. If Google went through all the investment to build an ISP…

Every year, I usually see some talks bubble up onto the frontpage or some recaps posted, but I'm not sure I've seen anything yet. What are your favorites/highlights from this year?…