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richardhod··on Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps
It's called oligopoly, and can also be legislated against. ios and android together run the mobile market.
richardhod··on Smartphone sensors keep an eye on crumbling bridges
Original research Abstract, linked at the bottom: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167739X1...
richardhod··on The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed
Do you have a source? This sounds useful
richardhod··on The End of Being a Duke Professor and What It Means for the Future of Higher Ed
Precisely this. I find it appalling that an associate professor was not given tenure, because that is normally a tenured position, particularly since he'd been there 20 years
richardhod··on Facebook Expects to Be Fined Up to $5B by FTC Over Privacy Issues
I did read this as $58 for several seconds, making 5B a suboptimal abbreviation
richardhod··on Why We Think Galaxy Folds Are Failing
when you say 'gain traction', can you clarify this a little?
richardhod··on A Chicago woman fell victim to Candida auris, a drug-resistant fungus
indeed, it's mostly that they know which antibiotics and other drugs work on which infections, and when they will not work at all. So many people demand drugs for colds and flu, and it is only the incompetent doctor that will give you antibiotics for viruses. Patients generally aren't good at diagnosis or choosing correct treatment, even with their apparent certainties from google.
richardhod··on A Cult Japanese Retailer Making Billions Breaking All the Rules
sarcasm is generally frowned upon here, for these reasons
richardhod··on New study shows grim outlook for future of Air Force pilot shortage
It's interesting how the US military copied the British class-based system of management, officers v other ranks. It does stymie a lot of creativity and talent.
richardhod··on Open-plan offices reduce face-to-face interactions (2018)
I disagree with the opinions of this comment, but I'm glad you made your opinion and your experience heard. Even when for most people an open office works worse, for some people it is preferable

new people: please don't down vote people just because you disagree.

richardhod··on The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked
I think there are many reasons, including yours definitely true at least in the cultural unconscious in England. Other possibly more important reasons for Americans - whose white populations come from a wider cultural European base - includes the pre-eminence of French culture in the C17-C18th and through the C19th. Furniture, arts, music, food, wines and all sorts of things were particularly refined there, from before and especially during the courts of King Louis at Versailles through tothe golden decade in the late 19th century in Paris. Everybody who had aspirations to be cultured would speak French: it was the lingua franca after all! It was the language of diplomacy. Aristocratic Russians spoke French rather than Russian. I suspect in the Germanic states that was also this looking towards a rich and prosperous France as well, to the extent of invading it once they gaind some sort of cohesion and became a Prussian / German state in the late C19th. And remember that more white Americans come from Germanic stock than English stock, which is very readily observable in surnames and physiognomy.

I am not a historian and I'm quite happy to be corrected, but I'm suggesting these as factors.

richardhod··on Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes
that's a story and a half you could tell. No buses? And I wonder why blablacar hasn't taken off in the UK
richardhod··on Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
This is an idea which has been popularized by the new TV series Westworld. It is interesting, however it is not the topic of this paper, which does look instead into sociological perspectives rather than an internal psychological theory which is difficult to be approved.

Jaynes' theory may have merit, but it isn't that relevant to this paper, which is an empirical research paper on social data and theories.

richardhod··on Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
Paywall, but there's a good abstract. I hope someone has a workaround.

In the meanwhile, here's a couple of blogs with a little more description.

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2019/03/28/complex-societi...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320141116.h...

richardhod··on The History of Ketchup
Malcolm Gladwell wrote an excellent piece in the New Yorker 15 years ago on this topic. Worth a read.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-ketchup-co...

richardhod··on [dead]
This is woo. It doesn't belong here. I see no research or credible data to back up these assertions.
richardhod··on Volkswagen’s Costly Bet on Electric Cars
Ah yes, i forgot Americans gallons are 4/5 size. Adjust data accordingly, so i did mean 40mpg US! (Most modern diesel estates(station wagons) do up to and sometimes over that, such as mazda 6, Ford Mondeo)
richardhod··on Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music
This sounds really interesting. However if you do want to distribute this widely, I would check if they have any patents on their devices because stupid American IP laws.
richardhod··on Types Are Moving to the Right
That first chart really annoys me because rather than giving us the names of the languages it uses a logo, which do not really describe what languages are if you do not recognize the logo. And generally it's an extra cognitive layer and load on your brain. Makes it pretty unreadable.
richardhod··on Germany to make it a crime to run a Tor node or website
This is the same problem we've seen in most countries, especially the US, where technologically illiterate lawmakers make overly-broad laws that can capture all sorts of perfectly decent behaviour, which then allows law enforcement latitude to prosecute who they will, when they will. This is a deliberate ploy in Russia, of course, but in the West, it happens, especially with terrorism and technology laws. IT's really important to stop these and reverse them with literate lawmakers.
richardhod··on How Transformers Work – Model Used by Open AI and DeepMind
That's not good enough. Citations must be in the text, so that nobody mistakes their work for yours. This can be informally like 'Jay describes", or 'Sally's article says', and then your words, or a quote 'in quotation marks' with a link to their work.
richardhod··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
At 2h 10m the PNF (copilot in the left seat) warns the guy on the right about speed and says he needs to go back down. I believe that this is where the issue is, where he doesn't realise that the guy on teh right is still trying to climb. I think this is something I also read in the article, and it's good to see it in the logs (thanks for posting them)
richardhod··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
I may be mistaken; I had thought I had read that Airbus had acted, but on checking up, I think not in ways which would make my brief implication useful.
richardhod··on Volkswagen’s Costly Bet on Electric Cars
Just as a reference, that's 57mpg for petrol and 65mpg for diesel, and that's average, not peak, for all cars. A good diesel estate might average 50mpg if driven carefully, but in towns a lot less. So there's a long way to go. Companies will need to build/sell/operate a lot of tiny cars, or definitely have significant electric and hybrid parts of the fleet.
richardhod··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
The senior copilot was in the other seat, and the problem was that the unlinked controls meant that the senior co-pilot did not know during the previous 10 minutes what the junior Copilot Bonin, who had the controls, was doing, and that his (senior copilot) input to put the nose down was doing nothing
richardhod··on What is the Boeing 737 Max Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System?
Airbus has since updated its flight control feedback systems
richardhod··on Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New?
To be fair, whether there is affirmative action or bias or not, characteristic names give a lot away for this religious-ethnic group, as with other groups.
richardhod··on Mercury is closer to Earth, on average, than Venus
And from an update to that page, (thank you), it's worth picking out his own page and code link: https://olihawkins.com/2019/02/1
richardhod··on Bribes to Get into Yale and Stanford? What Else Is New?
That article on first reading appears to be a balanced and well-argued article, but it concerns me that other articles on that site appear to be literally concerned with Holocaust denial and are generally israel-obsessed; alongside other far right wing and outlandish conspiracy theories. Therefore I'm sceptical and would wish to fact check further.

See https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Unz_Review

richardhod··on Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist
Do remember that this is probably in Canadian $, so slightly less than you would assume. (today's rate: USD 1 = CAN 1.34)
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