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dddbbb commented on Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook inc.com/justin-bariso/fac... · Posted by u/evo_9

slezyr · 5 years ago

Do you realize that Apple isn't that popular outside of US and Apple can't kill anything with its actions?

dddbbb · 5 years ago

Apple is the biggest company in the world by a pretty significant margin[0]. The clout they wield is absolutely insane and they could kill many things if they were so inclined.

[0] -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by...

dddbbb commented on Facebook Declared War on Apple, and It Just May Signal the End of Facebook inc.com/justin-bariso/fac... · Posted by u/evo_9

senthilnayagam · 5 years ago

facebook removed the blue verified tick from apple official page on facebook.

the page has 13 million+ followers.

dddbbb · 5 years ago

'Verified' ticks in general are so bizarrely mismanaged. See also Twitter removing the status of controversial political figures. I feel like they should be totally open access to anyone who can provide irrefutable proof of identity, rather than these odd status symbols.

dddbbb commented on Netflix's Metaflow: Reproducible machine learning pipelines cortex.dev/post/reproduci... · Posted by u/ChefboyOG

toxik · 5 years ago

Edit: this is a somewhat OT rant.

Netflix’s recommender system is hands down the worst I have ever seen. Every single thing I watch, it suggests The Queen’s Gambit and two other random Netflix productions.

Even if I watch the first of a trilogy (LotR, for example). How can they be so terrible at this?

The categories in the main browsing view are also hysterically arbitrary. It kind of looks like a topic model with back-constructed titles for the topics.

Finally, they replaced the ratings with “% matching”. I guess so they can recommend their subpar productions even if they get low ratings.

dddbbb · 5 years ago

Maybe it's different in other countries (I am in the UK), but I feel as if there isn't enough content for a recommender system to even be useful. I feel like after browsing through the catalogue a few times, I have a rough idea of most things I would ever possibly be interested in. There's just not that much there. Either that, or the recommender system is working too well and I never see anything beyond what Netflix wants me to.

dddbbb commented on Amazon hires 427,000 people in 10 months nytimes.com/2020/11/27/te... · Posted by u/brian_herman

tylermac1 · 5 years ago

Individual effort isn't going to break up a company Amazon's size.

dddbbb · 5 years ago

I would nominally agree with this logic, but surely the exact same applies when voting? Should people not bother voting because they are just one in a sea of many?

dddbbb commented on Casio F-91W: The strangely ubiquitous watch (2011) bbc.com/news/magazine-131... · Posted by u/tosh

nabla9 · 5 years ago

Large fraction of world population has not learned to express themselves trough mindless consumerism. Cheapest Casio is enough "It shows the same time as expensive watch."

dddbbb · 5 years ago

Buying the cheapest Casio can also be a status signal, similar to the CEO of Goldman Sachs wearing a Swatch. Buying a truly cheap watch is a signal of 'I don't care' (which may be true, or may be affected), whereas getting into expensive watches can get very complicated. There's plenty of stories from investment banking about the signals that watches send, from my understanding people are more likely to poke fun at a Tag Heuer than a Casio.

dddbbb commented on Ray Dalio Has a Point About Bitcoin at $18,000 bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

dddbbb · 5 years ago

To ask a very amateur question, why do people think Bitcoin specifically will succeed? Aren't there dozens of coins out there which have fixed some of it's most glaring flaws?

dddbbb commented on “You Have Zero Privacy” Says Internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police Presentation thetyee.ca/News/2020/11/1... · Posted by u/emptybits

davidwitt415 · 5 years ago

I'm in favor of the Black Mirror approach for politicians; Give the people full transparency into politicians' activities. This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work for us, but of course, that is when you would see some real concern for privacy!

dddbbb · 5 years ago

> This shouldn't be so controversial, given that they work for us,

Pretty suspect line of reasoning when you apply it to literally any other scenario.

dddbbb commented on What Gödel Discovered stopa.io/post/269... · Posted by u/stopachka

irrational · 5 years ago

> This proof showed that “1 + 1”, does indeed equal “2”. It took 2 volumes to get here.

I know this seems logical to mathematicians, but it feels to me like having to take 2 volumes to prove something than any child knows intuitively is... I don't know what word I am looking for... obsessive?

dddbbb · 5 years ago

They didn't set out to explicitly prove 1+1=2, they just got around to it after 2 volumes, it didn't require 2 volumes of background. A direct proof of 1+1=2 is pretty short in most logical systems.

dddbbb commented on On the expressive power of programming languages (2019) pwlconf.org/2019/shriram-... · Posted by u/fanf2

dddbbb · 5 years ago

Great talk. The definition of observational equivalence is very elegant. I instantly thought it made no sense or must be a partial definition, then the simple example given on the next slide explained it perfectly.

dddbbb commented on Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft twitter.com/gvanrossum/st... · Posted by u/0xmohit

creddit · 5 years ago

I’m not sure what’s crazier to me: asking someone to demonstrate a live proficiency of an abstract skill that is only tangentially related to that actual day-to-day activities of a role or just assuming that because someone has some high credential that they would be good in a given role.

dddbbb · 5 years ago

For many roles at a hedge fund, being able to do mathematics quickly and intuitively is a valuable skill. Not sure why an economist applying for an MD job would need to be tested on that, though.