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ouid··on Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
I said that recommendations themselves are materially differwnt from hosted content and therefore are not protected by section 230.
ouid··on Up next: a lawsuit threatening your YouTube watch queue
This title (and the article itself) is deeply biased. Obviously "platform" recommendations are materially different from third party content.
ouid··on Chess is booming among teens
I think lichess.org is generally a better place to play. Less pointless monetization. More content available. Better alt modes.
ouid··on Knowing What We Know: The transmission of knowledge (review)
has nytimes finally stopped supporting reader mode?
ouid··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
I have tinnitus, so i only need perfect relative pitch.
ouid··on IKEA Redesigns Its Bestsellers
The point of ikea furniture is that you can throw it away when you move. Moving furniture is more expensive than buying new ikea furniture. Just don't buy their couches.
ouid··on Improbably Right
The rules were clear before, what has changed is that they are now different rules. You were just wrong before.

You've still got a problem though, now when you ask the reader to verify the rule, you have to explicitly state that they're not trying to verify the first rule.

ouid··on Improbably Right
When mathematicians say Quadrature, they mean that if your function is suitably approximated by projecting onto some orthogonal basis functions, you can get very cheap approximations by cleverly expressing those integrals exactly as a linear combination of their values at certain points along the interval. You need very few.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_quadrature

It is significantly more subtle than what you are thinking.

ouid··on Improbably Right
He misremebered the third task as well, since his solution to it, as stated, is wrong. If you aren't given that every card has a number on one side and a color on the other, then you need to check everything which does not satisfy the consequent.
ouid··on Improbably Right
This argument is invalid. These two things are easy to pattern match, but every theorem comes with an obligation to show that your current state matches your predicate, which is very hard, generally.
ouid··on TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids
"Liberal" is an oxymoron. The social contract is not optional. We agree to be bound by rules because we prefer it to being by force, which is the default. Security is liberty, in the optimization sense.
ouid··on TikTok’s algorithm keeps pushing suicide to vulnerable kids
"I'm a completely leftist liberal, therefore I don't have any particular paranoia about China" is a type error. China is an autocracy, with a track record of doing things that warrant paranoia.

I don't really care what you mean by leftist, but you definitely cannot claim to be a liberal and have no "paranoia" about China.

ouid··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
The condition is as precise as possible "pairs of distinct integers" is not equal to "distinct pairs of integers". Don't blame the writer when you fail to read what is written.
ouid··on Only one pair of distinct positive integers satisfy the equation m^n = n^m
>from our curve we can see...

Just use Rolle's theorem. If you took calculus, you learned Rolle's theorem.

ouid··on 'Algebra for none' fails in San Francisco
By the time you can measure the difference, it's too late.
ouid··on Surviving Burnout (2015)
I dont think this is the correct characterization of burnout. Maybe burnout occurs on the conditions listed, but not all burnout is caused by it.

Burnout is just when you run out of burn. It's like getting sleepy. You run out of the thing keeping you from being sleepy. You gotta get more stuff to burn if you wanna burn it.

ouid··on Aztec monks with 1/55 HP no longer die when picking up or dropping a relic
why would rationals be good for RTS.

If all of your operations occur with some reasonable minimum denominator, just use ints. If not, that arithmetic is going to become unbounded really fast.

ouid··on NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
Editorial independence from government funding.
ouid··on Google has already pulled six products in 2023
Stadia failed because gaming is already hilariously cheap. even at the AAA "price point", you pay 60 dollars for 80 hours.

No subscription can compete with just owning the games and the hardware.

ouid··on I worked at Google for -10 days
This simply isnt true. The idea that every cost of regulation is born entirely by the non-corporate party is corporate PR.

Unionizing does not result in worse outcomes for employees or new hires. Lawsuits don't raise the prices of McDonald's coffee. And stronger labor laws won't stop companies from needing personnel. It might move the needle a little, but these things are subject to more forces than you are imagining here, and most of them are much stronger than the offchance that you would need to pay to relocate someone you are immediately terminating.

ouid··on Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
Using firefox without memory errors is a pareto optimization over using firefox with memory errors.
ouid··on Twitter Is Blocking Likes and Retweets that Mention Substack
wgot? whad?
ouid··on Dutch journalist who writes critically on China targeted in intimidation scheme
It's not particularly fair to single out the Nerherlands here. These operations seem to be more or less allowed to continue in the US and Canada as well. The dutch don't have nearly the standing that America has.
ouid··on Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars
and so your conclusion about trust is?
ouid··on Brave launches self-serve ads program
Another entirely earnest and enthusiastic step towards the "future" presented here:

https://imgur.com/dgGvgKF

ouid··on The case for banning children from social media
Why not ban social media from children. It was, at a point in the not so distant past, illegal to advertise to them.

Simply return to this standard, and make the penalty for non-compliance that your company is seized and auctioned.

ouid··on Music Labels Win Legal Battle Against YouTube-Dl’s Hosting Provider
"key reselling harms consumers and businesses equally"

ew

ouid··on How to be a -10x Engineer
You're going to have to be more specific at this point.
ouid··on Wronger Than Wrong
I asked you to run me through your calculation, followed by my best estimation of your argument. If you can't provide your reasoning, then I can't do any better than my guess.

You're the one who has taken the stance that people who say "standing is bad for your back" are universally failing to account for the relative scale of the two considerations. I think it's likely that you're making a number of errors yourself when coming to that conclusion, and I would appreciate it if you would share them.

ouid··on Wronger Than Wrong
Run me through your back of the envelope calculation here. It seems to me like you have plugged in -infinity for the utility of heart disease which is an example of the scale insensitive reason you are currently accusing people of.
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