It's baffling to me that Apple doesn't get get more attention from regulators. They're very blatant in behavior which is explicitly illegal in current antitrust law. They 1) formed a cartel with book publishers to…
>Field's medals The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing…
This reminded me of the opposite story: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery Tldr- commodities trader accidentally specified physical delivery for several thousand tons of coal; very surprised when the…
The UI is good wrt readability; but the statistics, not so much. 2 concrete improvements would be 1) to change the color coding to cases per population (right now it seems to simply be a hard cutoff of 100 for orange,…
That's a quite old (2005) article, dating to the original sars outbreak. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1 is a much more recent one, specific to covid-19. (Edit typo)
My previous employer and my current one (both Fortune-50 tech companies) each had quiet policies that prospective job candidates who had Huawei on their resume needed extra clearing before they could even interview.…
It's baffling to me that Apple doesn't get get more attention from regulators. They're very blatant in behavior which is explicitly illegal in current antitrust law. They 1) formed a cartel with book publishers to…
>Field's medals The UK equivalent of the NSA invented both RSA encryption and DH key exchange years before any of Diffie, Hellman, Rivest, Shamir, or Adleman did their work. No Fields medal per se, but two Turing…
This reminded me of the opposite story: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Special-Delivery Tldr- commodities trader accidentally specified physical delivery for several thousand tons of coal; very surprised when the…
The UI is good wrt readability; but the statistics, not so much. 2 concrete improvements would be 1) to change the color coding to cases per population (right now it seems to simply be a hard cutoff of 100 for orange,…
That's a quite old (2005) article, dating to the original sars outbreak. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1 is a much more recent one, specific to covid-19. (Edit typo)
My previous employer and my current one (both Fortune-50 tech companies) each had quiet policies that prospective job candidates who had Huawei on their resume needed extra clearing before they could even interview.…