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New comment by shajznnckfke in "Windows 10 is now nagging users with full screen Microsoft Edge ads"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:20:15 +0000

I just installed Windows Pro on a new machine the other day with a key given to me by a friend. During the install process it asks if you want to use a personal account or domain account to log in. My guess would be you’d have to pick the domain account for the machine to be remotely administered. I’d be surprised if an existing windows install could be taken over merely by putting in an upgrade key.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

shajznnckfke — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 07:42:56 +0000

Another commenter pointed out the factual error about vitamin D coming from IR vs. UV, but there’s another misconception in this post.

The amount of IR you get exposed to is not the same thing as how warm your room is. If you touch a hot pan, or get hot because you’re hanging out where the air temperature is high, that heat isn’t being transferred to you by IR. It’s being transferred by thermal conduction: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_conduction

So even if vitamin D was created by IR, you wouldn’t get any from sitting in a hot room.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Windows 10 is now nagging users with full screen Microsoft Edge ads"

shajznnckfke — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:32:06 +0000

The common knowledge is that Microsoft doesn’t need to be worried about antitrust action because they don’t have a monopoly on the OS anymore. But on the other hand, a lot of people are talking about antitrust against the other tech giants that also don’t have monopolies, because they have so much power within their share of the market. Interesting that Microsoft apparently isn’t afraid of that.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Airbnb S-1"

shajznnckfke — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:18:31 +0000

That story happened when both the company and financial markets in general were in the dumps. As you can see from the headline, times have changed.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Airbnb S-1"

shajznnckfke — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 05:02:31 +0000

I don’t think that definition is right. Nobody will argue that Apple isn’t a tech company, and the iPhone isn’t zero-marginal-cost.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement"

shajznnckfke — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:30:56 +0000

There’s a public process when provisions are added to the laws, but the discussions where each side figures out whether their proposal is going to pass happens in private before the actual votes.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "RCEP, the world’s biggest trade agreement"

shajznnckfke — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 10:00:56 +0000

This is how negotiations work everywhere for any kind of deal. Think of some successful past legislation you support - I guarantee that it was negotiated behind closed doors.

Negotiation requires fluidly proposing alternatives in a give-and-take that ultimately leads to an agreement. When the items being given or taken are policies supported or opposed by members of the public, it would be self-sabotage for one half of the negotiation to expose its deliberations to public debate.

Imagine you’re a couple making an offer to buy a house. Do you think it would be smart to expose all your internal discussions about the purchase to the seller along with the offer? Do you think you’d ever succeed at buying a home at a good price if you always made such a disclosure?

I think this argument that a treaty was secretly negotiated is better understood as a general-purpose process argument that can be applied against any treaty or law, not as a meaningful criticism of any in particular. It’s just how the sausage is made.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:46:54 +0000

Perhaps you’re eating some food that has been supplemented with vitamin D. For example, one cup of milk fortified with vitamin D might have 100 UI (as much as six steaks).

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:24:19 +0000

Humans in Northern Europe have adapted to those conditions with very light skin that maximizes sunlight exposure.

> And how do you that for a fact? It's nutrition science. It's not reliable. These numbers of how much we need has been changing for as long as I can remember.

The changing numbers are why I gave such a wide range. Regardless of who you believe, it’s completely impractical to get the vitamin D you need from meat. It’s not even in the right order of magnitude. What is your proposed required daily value of vitamin D? If you’re going to go around claiming it’s possible to get your needed vitamin D from foods, you ought to have done some math to back up this claim.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:13:11 +0000

At the grocery store I can bolt at a moment’s notice if I see anything sketchy happening. No can do on an airplane. There could be a guy sitting next to me and coughing all over me for hours.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Vitamin D Supplementation Improves Cognitive Function: 12-month RCT"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 06:09:18 +0000

I read that there is 15 UI of vitamin D in a steak. You need 25 or 100 times that per day. It’s more likely that humans evolved to get their vitamin D from sunlight (although we also know that introduces cancer risk) than eating a whole cow every day. It seems like you’re trying to make the facts fit your preferred narrative re. meat consumption.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:11:33 +0000

Wow, that’s astonishingly cheap. What’s wrong with these? How is the range? Can they drive at highway speeds?

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Kandi K27 electric car available in California for $7,999 after rebates"

shajznnckfke — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 05:02:30 +0000

I wonder if the deployment of EV charging infrastructure is how society starts recognizing the costs of free parking.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "How we designed Dropbox’s ATF – an async task framework"

shajznnckfke — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 08:50:52 +0000

This way of thinking doesn’t quite make sense to me. Since those companies are huge, they could within them contain an organization that has more resources than Dropbox dedicated to storage. This organization will be completely focused on that goal. What if some company buys Dropbox?

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:04:56 +0000

As an advertiser how do I buy user data from Google photos?

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Google Photos will end its free unlimited storage in June 2021"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 19:41:15 +0000

How do they make money from giving their users free photo storage? I think the only path for that to be profitable was to grow the username for future subscription revenue.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "The election of the doge"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 06:55:06 +0000

So these random people are going to be put in power without making any ideological commitments, no platform, no coalition, no campaign promises. Where are these rookies going to get policy ideas if not from the lobbyists whose job is to convince them?

New comment by shajznnckfke in "The election of the doge"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 05:55:36 +0000

From my perspective, that’s pretty much how it works anyway. At the end of the day you’re sampling from a distribution. You can improve the outcome by networking, interview prep, and negotiation strategy but all of those are just changing the shape of the distribution. I would reject the idea of intentionally adding more randomness because the signal is already so obscured.

New comment by shajznnckfke in "One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong"

shajznnckfke — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 02:22:10 +0000

I don’t find it too surprising that more Democrats have an opinion of QAnon. There’s a small segment of people who actually have consumed the material and believe in it, and a much larger set who have heard of it and have a vague (and possibly wrong) notion of what “side” it’s on. I think due to the repugnant nature of the movement, most of that commentary is going to come from the left, so mostly left-wing people will form an opinion. Most of the people who are favorable toward QAnon in those polls on both the left and right probably have little idea of what it actually is.

See: https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/05/28/bush-did-north-dakota/

New comment by shajznnckfke in "Marketers are addicted to bad data"

shajznnckfke — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 22:22:44 +0000

The important question is how much demand does each dollar of marketing create. It would be poor decision-making to just assume marketing is a bad idea because they are already able to sell through everything at current prices. Presumably there’s somebody doing that math at the company.