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I managed to delete all records in a table a week ago ( I blame copilot ). Used time travel ( not quite inter-dimensional travel ) in bigquery to restore. INSERT INTO ... SELECT * FROM ... FOR SYSTEM_TIME AS OF TIMESTAMP_SUB(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(), INTERVAL 1 HOUR)

Would the snapshot contain the same info ( beyound any doubt ) that an actual user would see if they opened LinkedIn/Facebook/Service from Canada on an IPhone at a saturday morning (for example)? If not, the snapshot is useles for some usecases and we are back to scraping.

I used to put buttons in the menu ( or even side panels ), but nowdays I draw a big button and attach a apps script function to it. Looks more bad ass.

I solved this problem in a similar way some time ago. It was impractical to assign numbers to snapshots but each snapshot had a date assigned to it. So I computed the number of days since Unix epoch for each snapshot = n. Then the largest power of 2 which divides n. m = n &(~(n-1)) I think. Then I computed the date after which I wanted to delete a snapshot n +f*m. The factor f contros the density. I chose f = 2.

Every day there is exactly one date for which a snapshot needs to be deleted and it can be computed directly. If there is no snapshot for this date nothing needs to be done.

>After you make a neural network the first thing that occurs to you is that it’s useless without tons of data.

What about self-learning chess engines? All they take as input are the rules of chess. And the output (the games they play) can sometimes be described as peaces of art. My point is that it should be possible for AI to create art without tons of (input) data. Even if it is not what we experience at the moment.

>Me choosing to shop somewhere else is not even a rounding error in Walmarts profits.

So you are saying you can make a measurable difference. It's not a super hero story where you save the world on your own.

>Or you can choose to resend the same email to audience who haven't opened the first time.

I know there used to be tricks to find out whether an email was opened. But my impression was that Gmail and others prevent this nowdays?

some people like me will see the "stolen content" banner on the original website. And attackers can trivially remove it as soon as they get aware of it.

afaik there is no alternative to BigQuery on AWS? All alternatives are less managed and require more administration. But I never looked too closely.

What about the rule that the king is not allowed to castle if one of the squares moved over by the king is under attack? If you allow the king to be placed in check then you surely would also allow the king to step over squares attacked by opponents peaces? But this would change the game in the sense that it will not be equivalent to chess any more.

>(did the user come back and ask the same question? did they click the top result and leave or did they have to come back and click through many more?).

What stops me from writing a bot to simulate that behaviour for my website (or websites of my competitors) ?

>many services will just not post a poor review

but the reviewer will notice that the negative review wasn't published. I would seriously consider to leave a platform which doesn't publish negative reviews. Even more so if the review appears to be published, but other users can't see it.

> they would have studied those accidents and developed methods to mitigate them.

So, eartchquakes and tsunamis were a new developement in japan. The engineers had never a chance to study them and develope methods to mitigate risks for nuclear plants?

If plane crashes would endanger whole countries or continents we would ban air traffic all together.

Not that there is a lack of rational arguments against nuclear... But climate change may overrule them all.

I wouldn't go for it. Suppose my budget is Y and I could reduce it to Y/2 and get X%*Y/2 as a bonus. But in subsequent years I would only get a budget of Y/2. With half the budget I can only employ half the staff and be half as important. I don't think it works out.

edit: on the other hand: If I'm going to quit the job next year and I don't like my successor I'm definitely going to cut corners and budget.

Let visitors tag it and use it to train a ML model to distinguish between the two...

My hope is that it will reduce corruption. If the society is forced to play by publicly known and mathematically enforced rules there will be less room for shady backroom deals.

In 1998 I wanted to buy a router ( or a modem ) to connect my computer to the internet. I was asked questions like: why internet? What for? what do you gain from it? Nothing was obvious.

So the 20 million immigrants from Ukraine left their crypto in Ukraine, because the National Bank of Ukraine said so?

> now that the crypto market has crashed.

I don't understand this "crypto market has crashed" narrativ. Ether is +60% in the last month... It's crypto. It never really crashs. A crypto crash would be something like -99.99%. Everything else is business as usual.

Is cancer treatment not a benefit? And I guess some people regard a divorce (even a costly one) as a benefit, or they wouldn't do it.

Economic activity is an indication for benefit for people. I see no need to make a distinction between economic activity and a benefit obtained from that activity.

Most websites track users. Even if they don't try to monetize content or show ads.

Reader Mode is nice, but has two problems. Addons don't work with it and it is not possible to automatically enable Reader Mode without loading the website first.

Just share the password with others?

I know, you try to save the trolley scenario. But if brakes fail then it doesn't matter what the AI (or driver) decides. To blame is the one who is responsible for the brakes not to fail.

2 mutually exclusive buttons/levers + everybody dies if you do nothing. This way inaction is still an option but strickly worse than each of the actions/buttons.

Global warming is the primary, if not the only, reason for an expensive transition to renewables. If global warming is stopped/reversed then there is no reason to not to burn more oil, is there? I don't like it, but I won't argue against fossil fuels with abstract moral reasons.

I don't see how a naked human can survice 0C for long. Maybe our gear and technology is better suited for cold temperatures.

All in all I would say the temperature tolerance is the same in both directions.

In the last century mathematics gained a new level of rigorousness and maturity. Technology is just a tool to suplement this trend. Same is happening in other disciplines today. Economics and politics won't be spared. Whether it will be crypto or some other idea doesn't matter. In the end there will be a formal framework for economy and politics verifiable by a computer.

> I just don't think it's feasible to expect a significant number of people (like say # of users on Facebook) to be tweeting regularly.

The probability that somebody with a Twitter account tweets is infinitely higher than that somebody without a Twitter account tweets.