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New comment by genofon in "Apple threatened Facebook ban over slavery posts on Instagram"

genofon — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 20:23:46 +0000

FB is a communication platform and a publisher, depending on what is more convenient for them. They police speech but then in more important things is clear that they are doing a very bad job. You can argue that any company at the end try to maximize profits but FB has a long history to be misleading an manipulating to avoid do what they should do while keep milking their cash cow.

New comment by genofon in "Air travel is going to be very bad, for a very long time"

genofon — Mon, 11 May 2020 13:35:24 +0000

but terrorist attacks on flights seems more controllable than a virus and also more rare. Granted that it's true that there is a lot of sensationalism there are also events that will disrupt an industry for a while

New comment by genofon in "How I Turned an Idea into $7K by Teaching Online"

genofon — Sat, 09 May 2020 21:34:59 +0000

It's a great project, I would only make a small correction... What the author* calls profit still includes all the time and effort you put in: building an audience, creating the course, building a reputation, marketing, etc.. Just to make people understand that it's a lot of hard work and taking that not consideration the ROI is much lower.

*small correction: you->the author

New comment by genofon in "Hundreds of thousands in L.A. may have been infected with coronavirus: study"

genofon — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:17:05 +0000

you don't take into consideration how contagious it is, it's not only important the percentage but the absolute number and also the time (due to resources constrains)

New comment by genofon in "California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining"

genofon — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:30:05 +0000

of course everyone has to die at a certain point, when does make a difference and COVID is making a HUGE difference as you can see by the spike in mortality rate

New comment by genofon in "IMF predicts worst downturn since Great Depression"

genofon — Wed, 15 Apr 2020 22:52:03 +0000

yes and assets started to bubble because of the hidden inflation of QE. What do you think it'd going to happen by just keep printing money, 10% to normal people and 90% to businesses ?

New comment by genofon in "Map of usage of intensive care beds in Germany"

genofon — Mon, 13 Apr 2020 23:43:27 +0000

That's not true, Italy's debit was slowly declining till 2009, the big financial crisis that originated in the US and it was mostly because of US bank and funds. after that there was a sharp increase but it then stabilised at least.

In my understanding there is only a blunt no to the coronabond, not a request fro more condition.

It was unfortunate that it started with Italy, and been the first with an outbreak like that in Europe push them to take brave decisions.

To me it feels more like that these countries don't want to help because they feel it's Italy's fault and they need to pay.

But what about all the money that was given for free to Germany to rebuild after the second war war, despite a long history of aggression?

It's not a surprise that people wants to break the EU, it's sad to see this project heading this way.

New comment by genofon in "Worst economic crisis since 1930s depression, IMF says"

genofon — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 05:24:14 +0000

life is much more than just an economic contribution. Society is made by people that have relationships far beyond economics (family, friends..). Money plays a big part of course but people were also happy when there was less money around. Loosing one (or more) dear one is much more devastating that an economic crisis.

New comment by genofon in "Covid-19: death rate is 0.66% and increases with age, study estimates"

genofon — Sun, 05 Apr 2020 22:08:41 +0000

the problem with relying too much on death is that even trying to be accurate if the system is overwhelmed they will not spend time, resources and precious test on a death body. This is not speculation, it's happening in China, Spain, Italy (sorry can't remember the source)

New comment by genofon in "Doctors and Nurses Say More People Are Dying of Covid-19 in the US Than We Know"

genofon — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:00:05 +0000

I think it would be useful to compare the mortality rate of a region with the past years. Other than uncounted coronavirus death there are other emergencies that cannot be throated properly in some heavily affected areas and that increase the overall mortality rate.

Uber Open-Sourced Manifold: Visual Debugging for ML

genofon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:10:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/uber/manifold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21994067

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by genofon in "The $0.006 Object in a Sushi Container"

genofon — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:37:57 +0000

I sincerely wrote that to make the PP author to reflect to his situation, but of course read it as you prefer

New comment by genofon in "The $0.006 Object in a Sushi Container"

genofon — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:51:55 +0000

1 the feeling it's much better 2 enormous waste (multiply that by the people in your country)

Once, when I though that people might regularly use plastic I thought: "if that's not a mental health red flag I don't know what it is"

New comment by genofon in "$1T is leaving Britain because of Brexit"

genofon — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 15:25:33 +0000

as you are telling others to be more informed, and you said that Junker is unelected.. how do you think Junker ended up in there? Do you think he can just do whatever he wants without having to asked? Or you think every important official should be directly elected by the citizens? Spoiler: it does not happen in the main democracies for roles such as president or even head of state, and of course it does not happen for the Queen. I would be more upset bout that than about Junker.

New comment by genofon in "IBM‘s Project Debater does debate club-style discussions with humans"

genofon — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 22:34:21 +0000

IBM is just remarketing old systems as AI, there are plenty of companies, Google as one of the main one, that produce AI innovations, this it's just a PR stunt

New comment by genofon in "In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy"

genofon — Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:15:19 +0000

According to Forbes (2017) UK is far from be top country https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/11/23/the-to...

Aside from that, and I'm sorry is totally tangential, but I live in UK and I find the luck of food culture here disturbing. Sure there are a lot good restaurant, but most of the people are not able to appreciate and cook good food, while in France, Spain, Italy I find the level much higher.

New comment by genofon in "Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to Advertise"

genofon — Wed, 24 Oct 2018 16:50:08 +0000

I'm confident there are people at FB already preparing it.

New comment by genofon in "Deep Angel: AI that erases objects from images"

genofon — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:19:02 +0000

unfortunately in my experience that's the case for most of opensource AI projects out there, while the showcase results are hand-picked or the algorithms was trained and tuned to solve that specific image.

New comment by genofon in "JupyterCon: I don't like Notebooks [slides]"

genofon — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:30:33 +0000

Serious question, I don't want to attack this presentation but in general am I one of the few that finds meme annoying in slides?

New comment by genofon in "Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster"

genofon — Sun, 22 Jul 2018 17:08:58 +0000

Very likely an ads in disguised, such a shame seeing things like this in newspapers.