Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
> The difference from car rental vs a hotel room or an airplane seat is the fact the the company relies on the previous occupant to return the car on time, which often does not happen. If a person wants to extend a hotel reservation but
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Where are you getting this "only 1% of reservations are not available" figure from?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Due to a vehicle shortage, the car rental agency offered him a van that he said reeked of cigarettes and marijuana instead of a compact car. Jimenez refused the malodorous van, and after a more than two-hour wait he settled for another
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> It's interesting talking to people who say "oh that problem is easy to solve, just do X" without realising that the problem is more complicated than it looks. At no point did I state that the solution was easy. My respon
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> If an ordinary persons account got 100 reports a minute it would be taken down. Neymar’s won’t be. Why does this disparity exist? By your own account, the number of times this happens for normal users is significantly smaller than for
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> unfortunately most sites that purport to allowing 2FA can't do it well because they either don't allow configuring multiple tokens or if they do, they don't allow really lock your account so it is not possible to log in
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> You might say that maybe 99.99% isn’t good enough and the engineers should try for more 9s. Maybe it’s possible but I don’t know how. If you have ideas on this, please share. Hire a large human moderation team. Facebook can afford to.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
My point up-thread was that this tier of service used to be more or less the de facto standard of service that you would get for a standard, not a premium, fee. Over time, it has deteriorated and is now the domain of specialty car hire serv
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Is there more context here that's missing from the tweet thread? When is there not? Tweets are a horrible medium for contextual information.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
It's all about the subtle nuance of the service provided. A skilled driver will know which route to take if the passenger wants the absolute quickest route, or if the passenger wants a scenic route, or which cobble-stone roads to avoid
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Taxi drivers are not knowledge workers, or artists and clearly not entrepreneurs. > They are easily replaceable "cogs in the machine", like many non-specialised factory workers, office clerks, retail employees and so on. &
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by Ansil849 5y ago
As I pointed out in response to another reply in this sub-thread: > [Self-plagiarism] doesn't mean "I use the same turn of phrase every once in a while". It means "I reproduced substantial portions of prior research o
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> I see no reason to change terms and structure in scientific publications so as not to plagiarize myself. There generally is no reason to change terms and the like. The solution is simply to cite one's prior work when quoting from
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Self-plagiarism is a pretty boiler-plate clause in most mature codes of conduct (e.g. when submitting a paper for publication). It doesn't mean "I use the same turn of phrase every once in a while". It means "I reproduce
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by Ansil849 5y ago
One of the thornier forms of plagiarism nowadays isn't plagiarizing other parties - which does result in repercussions, generally - instead, it's first-party or self-plagiarism. While it is generally against most codes of conduct
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> You fingerprint yourself in every restaurant with glass cups, and leave those prints behind when you depart. By your reasoning, you also leave your fingerprints on the number keys you press at the ATM when entering your PIN. So your ba
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by Ansil849 5y ago
That's not the point I'm raising. The point I'm raising is that they have a weird exception to the 'no bots imitating famous people' rule, which is 'dead scientists are OK' ... but this weird exception doe
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by Ansil849 5y ago
What a weird set of rules. > We generally don’t approve chatbot personas of specific people, especially without explicit consent from the person it portrays. Deceased scientific figures are often a category of exception to this. > Deh
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> OpenAI learned about the project and gave Rohrer the option to either dilute the project to prevent possible misuse or shut it down. Rohrer was also asked to insert an automated monitoring tool, which he refused. Why is this article so
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> So it's not economical for the offending parties to continue such behavior. Of course it is. The only needed change is to take adequate care to not leave incriminating evidence such as emails around.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> any chance this ends up with serious repercussions like prison time When has any staff member of a FAANG company faced prison time for a similar crime? Not a rhetorical question, I'm genuinely curious though my instinct is to say
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Character style/formatting is a pretty standard feature in commercial OCR offerings such as ABBYY FineReader. Its accuracy rate depends on the origin text, and is generally less than the overall OCR accuracy, though.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
This. Frankly, I'm surprised with the restraint China is showing. They can more or less do whatever they want to Taiwan with no real repercussions.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I just assume that any time any product is promoted, that the person is a potential shill. It may be a cynical view, but I find it a cleaner metric than trusting the poster to disclose whether they are getting compensated for mentioning a p
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> could you please describe what PM should've done differently? 1) Not kept logs so that when put in a position to provide logs, would not have been able to do so. If subsequently compelled to _start_ keeping logs, then: 2) Been hos
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> You can't provide a paid commercial service while hiding your business entity. You absolutely can. This is how many entities on the dark web function. And in fact, so do many entities on the clear web (see the RBN and its successo
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by Ansil849 5y ago
You appear to have missed a significant portion of my post: > at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services. > Instead, ProtonMail is attempting to have their cake and eat it too: on th
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I'm seeing a lot of comments along the lines of "there's nothing ProtonMail could have done in this case." This is patently false. The first thing they could have done is not hosted their service in a jurisdiction suscep
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by Ansil849 5y ago
This smacks way more of "well, what did you expect would happen?" than surrealism. If you introduce a vulnerability, it is nothing but hubris to think that you'll be the only one to leverage the vulnerability.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Notably, the man who said that is now married to a man himself.

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