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larl··on In the Asian Flu of 1957-58, they rejected lockdowns (2021)
And a good shorthand for that is whether the is a propaganda site with a history of carefully worded deceptions...
larl··on I may be fired over AI ethics work
... including the author of the blog post.
larl··on Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.
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.

larl··on United States vs. Google
You realize that Amazon Fire is Android, right?
larl··on Show HN: Hacker Spring – Instant blog by email, no signup required
Some of this strikes me as a bad idea...
larl··on Scunthorpe Sans – a self-censoring font
Bullshit is a technical term...
larl··on Shirt Without Stripes
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.

larl··on Ask HN: Best books you read in the past decade?
Why evolution is true. Coyne.
larl··on Levittown
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.
larl··on Are Mail-Order Meal Kits Doomed?
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.
larl··on Competition Is Dying, and Taking Capitalism with It?
But that requires political will, and with current political funding and party platforms, that's basically a non-starter.
larl··on Google C++ Style Guide Is No Good
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>.

larl··on Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter
It looks like there is a hinged floor that folds down and is covered by a tarp. That should get to about 80"
larl··on Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos
* by this metric
larl··on Fair Trending: Objectively-Ranked Trending YouTube Videos
This is actually terrifying.
larl··on Congress Approves First Big Dodd-Frank Rollback
Yeah, ever since Bill Clinton the democrats have been Republicans, and the Republicans have been ... something new.
larl··on Shortest bit sequence that's never been sent over the Internet (2017)
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.

larl··on Solid aims to radically change the way web applications work
How is this different from Kenton's sandstorm?
larl··on Donald Trump Is Elected President
Sure, hostile towards government while a large percentage of people actually work for government.
larl··on Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications
How is this different from sandstorm.io?
larl··on Solid – A set of conventions and tools for decentralized social applications
This works for Google, but not everyone.