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In behaving this way, he is erasing a tremendous amount of the goodwill he generated from his space and electric car businesses. The world's media, political, business, scientific elite are on Twitter and watching carefully. It's all very upsetting to watch. I hope that, as you've said, he finds a better management team to fix this ongoing trainwreck.
I share the author's personal investment in this topic. It was my first introduction to the web3 world, and it really showcases the potential of truly decentralized communities. Some of the flaws were visible, but overall how this community evolves and incorporates the input of its 17K participants will set up the norms and practices for DAOs for some time to come. I'm hoping that the community created here endures and continues to test and expand the boundaries of this new type of organization.
This is a very good point, policy making in Canada has shifted to an enormous degree to the courts. And the Supreme Court has also been very vocal about choosing its own members too [0]. The BBC had a lecture series [1] on something similar happening in the UK with the creation of their relatively new Supreme Court.
I'm not sure what the solution is, but perhaps provinces pushing back with the Notwithstanding clause will send a signal. It's tempting to be envious of the US and its more circumscribed constitution, but one good thing in Canada is that there's a mandatory retirement age at 75 for Supreme Court judges.
[0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/marc-nadon-sup...
There’s been something wonky about YouTube downvotes for a little while now. If you go any children’s video (I have two toddlers so am accessing them all the time), downvotes often outstrip upvotes. The reasons are unclear, maybe competitive pressure from rival channels astroturfing the votes? Take a look at this[0] video from Sesame Street, 1.3m downvotes for a fairly decent educational video, vs 1.7m upvotes? How is that even justified? I can’t blame YouTube for removing a metric which looks like is being manipulated on a massive level. [0] https://youtu.be/783EsrHchXA
ICE’s have over a century of development behind them now. I’m not going to miss them, but I wonder if there’s a way to ‘archive’ this kind of specialist mechanical engineering knowledge. It may come in handy one day.
It’s depressing to read about engineers having to go to the Smithsonian to study the lunar lander to relearn some of the innovations and improvisations made at the time.
It's fortunate that Pfizer/BioNTech chose the whole spike protein mRNA as their vaccine candidate over the one that focused just on the receptor binding domain -- which the UK mutation changed. Wise choice, and hopefully it will work well against this new variant. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906
Moderna's vaccine was focused on the whole spike protein too. So even though there are crucial mutations in this mutation, both leading vaccine candidates hopefully will still be effective.
There's Messenger Lite, I think meant for low internet connection speeds and free of a lot of bloat. Hopefully the antitrust lawsuit will keep Zuck from getting too egregious and getting rid of that too, but who knows.
It's a really good point; what really got me was Facebook being impossible to remove from my Samsung device (S8+) without rooting. Likely due to their tie-up with Oculus. I find the uncannily appropriate ads being served fairly disturbing, and an invasion of privacy. It's going to be a real challenge transferring data and settings though...
I'm moving away from Android (after 10 years) to iOS for exactly this reason. Not much sympathy for FB on my end.
It's a simple choice really; being infected with Covid means your body creates thousands of antibodies to fight the virus. Some of those will likely go on and attack your own cells and cause post-covid symptoms. The vaccines only present part of one protein, so not as many antibodies created, less scope for after effects. Key will be seeing when Pfizer and Moderna release their safety data for their testing cohorts. If the effects are minimal, getting the vaccine is a no-brainer.
I think we have Adobe to thank for stagnation in creator tools. There are smaller, harder to find companies doing pieces of the work (i.e. Photopea for Photoshop) and lots of video editing apps that have grown up around Instagram and TikTok. Blender is great for 3d modeling and more.
What competitor is this, if you don't mind me asking? Could use a service like that for my own project.
I think you're right... We blew through the free tier 50k database reads just on testing, and that's just 3 users!
Early stage social media/news feedy startup here, wondering if a strategy of just starting off with Firebase and praying will work.
I figure if we did get to a thousand or ten thousand users, we could recruit the DevOps talent to pull this off before the bills kill us!
I can't wait for the Netflix series on this. Having lived with many of them over the years, I've always admired the sheer entrepreneurial energy of the Lebanese diaspora. Remember, Carthage was founded by ancient Phoenicians (modern-day Lebanon) and its strength came from its business and financial prowess [0]... and was Rome's greatest threat at the time. This [1] more recent article from the Economist discusses this as well. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage#Economy [1]https://www.economist.com/business/2013/03/16/a-tale-of-two-...
I wish there was a way to get all of the episodes of Mr. Rogers, especially outside of the US. Current offerings really lack the patient approach he exemplified. There's one DVD set with just 30 episodes, no digital downloads anywhere.
A few things helped me - part time child care/day care - putting grandparents to work, especially the first few months - wife cut her work hours - lots of YouTube as background distraction. I haven't seen any ill effects from screen time.. in fact he actually knows his colors, alphabet and numbers and he's only 18 months - get as much done during naptimes as you can It slowly gets better... Definitely a hit on productivity but less wasted time. I'm able to get at least 2-3 3h blocks of time a week to work on projects.
They should use RSS; Youtube, Medium and most blogs already generate RSS feeds for their content.
A Malcolm Gladwell noted in his recent podcast, the entire Ivy league undergrad cohort (17k) would fit into the incoming class at the University of Toronto (ranked ~20 worldwide in most rankings). If Harvard admission is so rigged, and the best and brightest are not making it in, maybe these numbers will do more to lessen it's social and academic cache than anything the courts could do.
A pretty accurate but damning portrayal of the economy in Canada. I wonder how smaller but more successful economies like Sweden or Israel manage to consistently build great companies?
There are many uses for the technology that don't violate civil rights. We can finally catch dangerous or intoxicated drivers on highways who cause accidents. Just because the tech is Chinese doesn't automatically disqualify it from serious consideration.
I wonder if the same McDonnell Douglas corporate culture behind the flawed DC 10 is what led to the MAX? It's often said Boeing's acquisition of Douglas was more of a reverse takeover.
On a side note, I once met an aircraft investigator who called it the Death Cruiser 10, and that it put his kids through college!
Thanks for posting here! Do you see any chance of an open source framework, like Mozilla's tacotron, competing with something like Google WaveNet's quality?
Impressive! I wonder what they're using for video editing and vfx? Blender is great for 3d assets, but what open source software can make this?
NLTK (python) will do it. I'm working on a similar project and the text summaries are great, even for non English articles.
Me too, will email you. I've been collecting as well.
Just a question for a project of mine, but can tabular data be combined with NLP? Or should I train two seperate nets (i.e. with ulmfit) and try to combine the results?
Very true, especially in the emergency medicine and critical care world where entire conferences and movements are organized around hashtags (like #foamed or #medtwitter). It's too bad Twitter doesn't give it's users tools to screen out bad actors and accentuate the positive.
The author, Bruno Macaes, is an unusually astute observer with his own book "Dawn of Eurasia" that covers this topic at length. He's from Portugal, a smaller recovering economy with a lot at stake in the health of EU. I find his Twitter feed very informative on this topic, and European policy makers would do well to heed his advice.
This is for an electronic travel authorization, which the US, Australia and Canada already require of all visitors. It's simple and takes minutes online, hardly a 'visa.'