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As someone with kids, I still don't see a scenario with YouTube fading... What are you talking about? The video slop problem? If so, it's sort of like saying you don't think the In…

If certain political problems to be solved are zero-sum, and others are win-win, I'm not sure how adding more intelligence will solve the problem of the zero-sum ones that are the …

I'm not an academic but I've worked through practical problems in this space for longer than I'd like to admit, often in ignorance of the literature. The most CS-y fundamental pape…

I was a little surprised to find someone experienced in time series modeling not mentioning bayesian modeling nor the use of ensemble models... but I do think its more fundamental …

Between the difficulty and value propositions for forecasting timeseries "disk usage" versus "financial markets" there are some rather relevant time series such as "company sales" …

What seems intuitively wrong as a layperson new to this about Coase's theory, is that the "surprising" collapse in prices to marginal cost "in period 1" assumes that consumers have…

There are a limited number of bitcoins and Satoshi started out as a monopolist of them... so Coase expects them to get sold at the marginal cost? There are a limited number of iPho…

The earlier Spanish measurement system that changed to meters in Gaudi's lifetime was, like the English system, more 12-centric than 10-centric. In a way, base-10-centric measureme…

When I saw the emphasis was on 12, I wondered why it was combined with 7.5 so much rather than say, a more 12-centric nearby number like 7.2. 7.2 = 12 * 12 / 10 / 2 But having inte…

It's an interesting time window you chose. Why would there be an anomaly during that window (if there is one)? Perhaps it is due to the outward-facing, civic-oriented values coming…

I don't see the underlying economic dynamics of the relevance of substitution costs driving the way we do things going away. And substitution costs are all about limitations. Abund…

Legalization reduces the risk of violence to sellers and buyers and external parties. This in turn reduces the risk premium and quick score potential of the "business". The problem…

I can confirm. Redshift support is mediocre even for a F100 firm with TAM support if the workload is large and complex and you have some needle in the haystack causing problems lik…

You raise an excellent point. I'd only counter that a number of the factors I raised are manipulated to retain mass surveillance even in the presence of mass encryption. Let's star…

It would also be interesting to understand how much "imposter syndrome" seen at Ivy institutions stems from just the inevitable "little fish big pond" dynamic and how much stems fr…

That's a very interesting call out, the connection between gaming academics and (gaming) finance. They both do have very concrete point systems with a parallel set of less-measured…

The light source tech was pivotal, but the supply chain mastery of 100,000 parts and patience to invest "200 billion dollars" in development over decades is deserves massive respec…

This does not work if your communication enpoint is the same as your encryption endpoint. Or you don't control your key material. Or your tech supply chain. Or leave your device un…

You raise a good point. Skimming the original article, I didn't really understand why the author didn't discuss "WITH" CTEs (for SQL newbies, common table expressions, see https://…

The hidden problem many password managers gloss over is how unbelievably insecure the Windows copy-n-paste is in Windows for decades. IIRC (corrections welcome) Windows's window ma…

I have a related question, is anyone developing standards on how agents can proxy the requestor identity to backend database or application layers? (short lived oauth tokens perhap…

I heard about this feature first from Snowflake but there are similar options around in other ecosystems which may be of interest to someone here and one thing to keep in mind with…