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The rules the FBI/DoJ applies to kids on irc are not the same rules the FBI/DoJ applies to multibilliondollar infrastructure companies and/or trusted military defense contractors (Amazon is both).Equa...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
> If amazon copied all your proprietary data, you would almost certainly never notice, no criminal law would apply, and you'd have a hell of a time proving it in a civil suit.For a thought exercise, l...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
> To do any useful computation on your data (read, what you're using all AWS for) they have to have 100% visibility into your data.This is true, but it doesn't have to be this way [1].[1] https://en.w...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
This comment is based on a misreading of the very testimony you're referencing. As quoted in this CNBC article.https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/16/amazon-tells-house-it-doesnt..."Nate Sutton, associa...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
"Nate Sutton, associate general counsel at Amazon, told lawmakers the company doesn't tap data from individual third-party merchants to determine what new products to create."https://www.cnb...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
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I think this is just a special case of "online communication". It's illegal for the phone company to arbitrarily suspend your service for what (legal things) you say over the phone.It's legal for Twit...
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
show context + On: Amazon scooped up data from its own sellers to launch compet
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So has Newfoundland's response to the pandemic been extremely effective [0]. Where is Newfoundland's data being published by the WHO site? Here is what I was able to find as far as case statistics: ...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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Taiwan data was being counted with China's. This means that many of the early safeguards Taiwan was taking to protect their country was overlooked as it's effectiveness didn't show up in the global tr...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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Not the only position that changed radically over time. Head of WHO in early March:> First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.> With influenza, peopl...
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
show context + On: YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contr
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A monoid is an algebraic data structure that has a binary operation (+, *, ++, etc), and an empty element (0, 1, [], etc). In terms of relationship to other algebraic data structure, it "inherits...
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
show context + On: Fast Fibonacci numbers using Monoids
> The current count is ~21,000 with the number of confirmed daily cases declining for 6 days straightYes, but all of those 6 days are still higher than 7 & 8 days ago. In fact, all the days you picked...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
> Given that Japan's official count is ~11k, is there reason to believe 1/4 of all official cases are "severe"?Yes. That fits data out thus far.https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6912e...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
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Here are the facts as we have them.From https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/japan/ Japan admits to about 10,000 cases now, with a doubling time of about 11 days so they will admit to 20,...
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
show context + On: An update on a pre-registered result about the coronavirus
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Another odd thing: One of the co-authors of the study, Andrew Bogan seems to manage a hedge fund, and then published a WSJ op-ed on the study. He didn't note in the op-ed that he was involved in the s...
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
In regards to the issue of selection bias, this is what the ad looked like:https://twitter.com/foxjust/status/1251270848075440133Quote from ad: "We are looking for participants to get tested for ...
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
show context + On: Concerns with that Stanford antibody study of coronavirus pr
> don't necessarily need shelter-in-place rulesIs there a cite for that? Because that's not the way the data looks.Everywhere was growing with roughly the same exponent before lockdown. The numbers ...
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
https://twitter.com/MarkLevineNYC/status/1250170016504430595@MarkLevineNYC
BREAKING: NYC publishes, for first time, data on fatalities that includes "probable" cases (those without a confirm...
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
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> Another view is that opening the economy should involve testing people who are NOT symptomatic.Testing people with symptoms is a waste of tests. When tests are in short supply assume everyone with s...
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
show context + On: California's Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
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The Office for National Statistics is gathering lots of data for the England and Wales (but not NI or Scotland). (There's some lag in the ONS data)."The provisional number of deaths registered i...
show context + On: Latest EURO MOMO data shows excess all-cause mortality in so
show context + On: Latest EURO MOMO data shows excess all-cause mortality in so
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Interesting article. In late March I built a simple SEIRD model for a few US states with python. It was very difficult to estimate R0. R0 is essentially Beta/Gamma, where Beta^-1 is is time between co...
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
show context + On: The Metric We Need to Manage Covid-19
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