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by Ajay-p 3y ago
One of my great fears in life is getting locked out of a Google or Meta account. I have resolved in myself that should that occur the account is forever lost because there is no way to get support. The best that one can hope for is that a m
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
Eesh I thought it was a hacking situation.
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I think the whole DEI concept was done in the worst possible way when the goals may have been actually noble. Universities should recruit a diverse population and encourage everyone to attend, but acceptance, advancement, retaining, and pro
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
I recall reading about Amazon's near-zero profit margins as a way of gaining huge market share. How long can companies run on such narrow margins?
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I got a better one. It was the lobbyists who fought for five years to enact the World Trade Center 9/11 Health Compensation Fund. It took FIVE years for congress to make that happen and no one was lobbying on behalf of the first respon
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
When Uber/Lyft are surging it incentivise more drivers to go to the surge area. Or.. it incentivizes drivers to create surge conditions so they can make more money. https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-drivers-artific
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I think this is an act of desperation and will completely fail. Customers will see the higher prices during certain times and just not go there. These kinds of games are insulting to consumers and represent very narrow, bean counter mentali
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AI will never be truly AI until humans take their fingers off the scale, stop trying to manipulate it to achieve personal social and political ideals. Until then you must leave room for doubt that there is a human tipping the scales and the
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
Nate Silver, in another tweet, labeled it “the politics of the median member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.” That has to be the quote of the year and it is IMO a very accurate description of the people making too many decision
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
Harvard's endowment of $35 BILLION. Yearly tuition is $54,000 for a combined cost, without discounts, scholarships, etc. of $216,000 give or take for a four-year undergraduate degree. Harvard's endowment could give full rides to 1
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
Tangentially related.. When I was at uni I got very bored one summer and started making a spreadsheet of when certain people posted to a message board I frequented. This started with 3 people then became 15. It was very interesting to then
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
Does Reddit really block all search engines, or do "all" search engines abide by No Spiders? If it's freely available it's ripe for scraping, no matter what Reddit may say.
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I don't understand why they chose Reddit, was 4Chan not willing? Seriously though, why not use the comment and discussion sections of Wikipedia and other sites that are not drowning in social insanity.
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So too did their response to raising the API price.
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A lot of introspection needs to be done to determine why these decisions were made. These decisions were purely political and social in nature, and it will happen again as soon as there is another opportunity. University administrators, u
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That.. did not last long. In my opinion it was a disastrous thing to even attempt. There is really no way to judge a random person's ability to learn, or even address the act of learning, without a standardized test. The ACT and SAT wi
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
That is not artificial intelligence, that is deliberate mucking with the software to achieve a desired outcome. Google is utterly untrustworthy in this regard.
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Watch Rocket Lab launch space-debris inspection mission today [video](youtube.com)
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Related, "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" by by Jake Adelstein is absolutely fascinating. So too is the drama produced by HBO based on the book, but I am partial to the book. Adelstein becomes friendl
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Twin Peaks Tavern is located at 401 Castro St.
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Yes, many I say. When you see the poverty, malcontent, and crime right before your eyes every day on the streets of your city, it is a problem. Atlanta does not have the level of open lawlessness than San Francisco does. Atlanta has its pro
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During the pandemic, my wife and I spent a lot of time on Facetime with her sister in Los Angeles. I remember how loud it was for her, people yelling, fire crackers, music, vehicles, a near constant noise cloud outside. It differed so remar
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by Ajay-p 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about this. It is a wild animal that is capable of killing, while never known to be capable of total domesticated, as a dog or a cat would. Treating an animal like that as if it were your dog, or your cat, is taking a
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It does not say in the article but from looking at the project website, this plant is 5-10 years at minimum from completion and permitting, that's if there are no regulatory or environmental challenges. Given the onerous and lengthy pr
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I have made a claim before which I shall make again: Windows 11 should be considered malware, it is the worst product Microsoft has ever produced. I hope the experience gets even worse so that more people will abandon Windows for better OS&
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I think copyright on photos should be significantly shorter, more like 10 - 15 years. The current length is much too long.
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How could you tell? Teams is awful and fails to work almost every time.
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Is death ever not barbaric? Death is death, and this man earned the right to be put to death.
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Why not use helium or a gas that we know will absolutely cease function immediately? I am generally in favor of the death penalty and death is rarely without pain, or suffering, but no one has come back from the dead to tell us so we don&#x
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To pop up Intuit, makers of Turbo Tax. Lower income people are still more likely to go to a tax preparer service than to attempt to file their own. The idea of doing your own taxes is a middle class and up ideal, or those who are more likel

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