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Google asked Meta to switch to AndroidXR for their Quest devices. Meta said no and suggested Google offer Play Store on Quest, which Google rejected. Google then went on a PR offen…

This paradox is famously a case where the expected value of the game is infinite.

This isn’t what E2E means for communication software. E2E means only the participants have the keys. Signal is a good example of this, the message is encrypted from the sender to t…

A key property of a Vickrey auction is that it is incentive compatible, i.e. that it isn't possible to achieve a better expected outcome by bidding something other than your true v…

Oops, cut off the quote too early, it was in response to "Is it possible that someone at your university was tricked?" The list is real and it is part of a LEED standard. Technical…

> I’m slightly confused by the existence of that list, USBGC provides LEED certification to buildings, not cars, right? No, LEED credits are given to buildings for providing incent…

> I haven't seen a single one of these and with the Chinese market as large as it is I'm sure that they could stay away from other markets for a long time without exporting their B…

> It's somewhat surprising to hear that requests would be rejected if the user agent doesn't match a set of hard coded IP addresses. It’s fairly common for DDoS/scraping prevention…

It's accessible on any browser, you'd just need to scroll to the section manually if your browser doesn't support text fragment links.

> Still, if it means Google is investing in Matrix, that's a good thing. I always worry at some point it will be killed. This isn't Google investing in Matrix, this is a group of p…

The original article is talking about traffic from Twitter to publisher sites, not traffic from Google to Twitter. Twitter never used AMP for pages on their own site. In this case …

This would only be correct if stickiness (the DAU/MAU ratio) were around 3%, i.e. if each MAU only visited once per month.

I'm surprised they didn't apply this analysis to their Twitter page as well.

> I'm not sure how 21% lower is considered "not statistically significant", in trying to suppress the spread, ANYTHING > 0% is helpful. Full stop. Statistical significance has a sp…

All of this is also true for our actual government[0]. I have zero confidence that if our government were in charge of running Facebook/Twitter/any other social media app the resul…

They aren't saying that the feature gating code adds to app size, but rather that there's a lot of code behind feature gates (for tests/staged rollout/locale-specific features/etc)…

That's not a feature of advertising as a business model, it's just a feature of growth-focused businesses. The same forces apply to products that you pay for with money. For a very…

No, there’s no reason to want to go OTC for just 20k and most desks won’t will deal with you for that amount. That isn’t even half a BTC at current prices, every major exchange has…

There's a ton of literature out there on America's infrastructure problems. This is a good summary from a neutral source: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/state-us-infrastructure

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, not Tencent.

Yes, by checking the SSL cert.

They're all paid into by workers, taxes are taxes.

CA data was from a quiz, developed by a researcher at Cambridge University, hosted by that researcher, which scraped FB APIs after being authorized by a user. This data is from a b…

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