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Why is this promotion about a book published in 1994 interesting and worthy of my attention? Not news, more like nonsense.


This is flat out not true. FB doesn't employ 10s of thousands of human moderators.

According to a 3-month old article, $FB supposedly employs 7,500 moderators [0], though it's unclear what constitutes "employment" in this case. Probably a salary of less than $5k/yr. Are there really thouhsands of content moderators pulling up to FBHQ in Menlo Park 5 days a week? I don't think so, no.

[0] https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/facebook-content-moder...


"By the end of 2018, in response to criticism of the prevalence of violent and exploitative content on the social network, Facebook had more than 30,000 employees working on safety and security — about half of whom were content moderators." [0]

That number has only increased in recent months and will likely continue to increase in the near future. Not all of them are designated content moderators, it's true, so technically they likely only employ one or two "10s of thousands", but I'm mainly addressing the misconception in the thread that Facebook is "doing nothing." That's a significant amount of moderators. Is it enough? No, but to claim or pretend that they aren't actively doing anything is facetious and something I've been seeing more and more of on HN lately.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...


Great. Now we need more and we need to give those moderators teeth and tools.


And maybe some way to forget the horrible material they have to sift through.


It reminds me of a certain kind of sheath. Don't want too come off as too vulgar, but latin roots reveal all:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sheath+latin


The creator, Solomon Hykes, rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with his arrogance and narcissism, not to mention poor netiquette.

Docker is also a huge layer cake of code, not elegant or beautiful by any stretch. At this point there is enough lipstick on the pig that it more or less works okay in general, though frequently still remains the source of many a headache.


Spacemacs is superb once you get it setup right. Best of every world!


Salaried employees almost never are.


What about the underside of the vehicle? I remember hearing it was a super big tightly guarded secret. Was that ever true? Is it still?


Chain Bear F1 on YouTube has great video from an incident last season which helps explain the floor setup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUC2gDPiHEc


>What about the underside of the vehicle?

A very astute question. Yes, as much effort goes into the design of the underside as does the shiny side.

The most recent article I found via a quick G search is from 2013. For sure the rules have changed since then, but it's still a fair benchmark to illustrate the complexity of overall design with regards to the aero.

"https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/news/a18417/the-sec...


More effort probably, most of the downforce is from the floor AFAIK


It used to generate a big fraction of the downforce, so much that drivers pressed the accelerator when going into corners.

http://formula1-dictionary.net/ground_effect.html

Right now this ground effect has been banned and it is mostly flat, except for some things in the tail.


Floors in F1 have been flat for a while with the exception of the FIA mandated plank down the middle.

The rear diffuser is sometimes blocked from cameras when the car is parked. For example 2009 with the double diffuser.


There isn't that much teams can do on the underside of the car. A lot of effort goes into preventing air from "leaking" under the car in the first place.

While you don't see the underside of the car much (for obvious reasons), the occasional roll-over crash (or crane lift after a 'regular' crash) gives us a glimpse from time to time. Check out Nico Hulkenberg's crash at Abu Dhabi pay year for a good example.


Does DF have a multiplayer mod like rimworld? I love playing together with my partner.

https://github.com/Zetrith/Multiplayer


Maybe blown away by wind and / or burned dry by the summer heat.

You seem out of touch with reality (I intend this in the gentlest way possible).


> An F150 consumes ~2 litres of fuel an hour at idle

Where'd you get this number? AFAICT this is not true.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+much+gas+per+hour+idling...

More like a little less than 1 liter for a 4.6L V8 motor.


Your link says 0.5-0.7 gallons for the 4.6L V8, which is 1.9-2.6 liters.


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