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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Not only that, the bit about letting you "out-and-out own the work done on your own time... not [using] any company resources" is standard. Most ownership clauses allow it, and many of them don't even require permission. Th
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Thank you. "We own everything you do" is absolutely not standard practice, even in the US, and we shouldn't do Google's work for them by pretending it is. The linked Twitter thread says Google "tries to appropriate&
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I see a very different explanation which could also explain this pattern. Employee activism doesn't make the news that often, but it's actually pretty common - as long as the activism doesn't challenge any core element of the
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
This is a great point, thank you. It's been awesome to see archiving and Archive links become standard practice on Wikipedia. For a long time, links just rotted and were replaced. Then later, dead links would be switched to Archive con
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
The consolidation and permanence of the web are definitely concerning. Moving from "somebody knows this happened" or "this is in a file drawer somewhere" to "there's a searchable record of this" expand eve
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I agree that this is a risk for basically any networked app, but can't we distinguish whether this is an active concern or a hypothetical one? In order to actually provide your messages to Facebook, the app needs to either call home wh
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
When I was in undergrad, a Google recruiter found my resume and contacted me about an internship. Google decided I didn't have enough background and they wouldn't even offer me a phone interview - meaning they made the decision pu
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> those manual processes are expensive and likely to be automated away to some hackable business logic I suppose this depends on who they're manual and expensive for . Some people will probably automate "respond to all agent
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Legally, no. CCPA guidelines say that for deletion requests via an "authorized agent", companies can require the consumer to verify their identity directly with the business, and require the agent to furnish written permission fro
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
As a wiki content contributor, it seems like the only easy entry-level approach is to find a category that's interesting to you and largely abandoned. For example, any non-famous books by your favorite author are likely to have stubs o
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I was thinking about a condition that's specifically for "inherited but not supported", but that's pretty close to what I had in mind, yes. Java doesn't have a language-level exception that's specifically for u
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As I remember, someone who put together a study of highly mismatched chess games reached a similar conclusion. Strong chess players often play longer games and lose more material when their opponent is thoroughly unskilled players than when
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I suppose you could define toString() to throw an error, but obviously that's a messy hack in place of having that control. I can definitely appreciate the logic for making nothing intrinsic, and I can also see an argument for making e
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Ironically, that's one of the few things I do know off the top of my head about Object.wait(). I'm far from an expert on Object's threading methods, but "this will burn you, don't try it" is becoming more per
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
This also goes for logging and even string-ification in a lot of popular Java libraries. It's certainly good to write methods like getName() if you foresee an issue with changes down the line, but precisely because toString is universa
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Go uses a very elegant handicap system of spotting stones. The weaker player essentially takes between 1 and 9 scripted moves before the actual game begins. It's an excellent system for several reasons. Most obviously, it largely prese
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Randomness is a very popular (and good) answer to skill gaps, but it's also a dangerous knob for game designers to turn. I quite enjoyed the early days of Hearthstone, including the random factors in who won. But successive releases ke
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Honestly, I don't understand the sentiment of "if you're losing, just get better". That's not what games are , socially. You can have contests in high jumping or pi recitation, but no one organizes weekly games of
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
Wow, yes it is. You're right, I just hadn't seen the final outcome of that. It's not a knockout victory, it looks like only 57% of members ratified the new contract, but it's an impressive show of solidarity given how ti
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
I think we're reading the parent comment in very different ways. I think the key word was seen , just like the quote from the article says the managerial class is still capable of wielding power. Basically anyone in public policy ci
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by Bartweiss 7y ago
This is a good point, but it's notable that the only major strike victory since 2008 was by government employees. There have only been a few other notable strikes in that time, outside of special cases like pro sports. And aside from o
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The liners are apparently being hardened with steam or hot water. That still shouldn't cause backflow, "rising air" isn't worse than diffusion and the little bit of extra pressure from heat should head down-pipe before
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I think we overestimate the dichotomy between those two things. It's pretty common to see people react to ideas with "that's either obviously true or heretically stupid, but it's definitely not accurate and groundbreak
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I'm generally allergic to "let the Big 5 run your services", but I have to admit that "sign in with Google" looks like a major improvement on "hand PII to whoever tried to home-roll auth". With a password
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Yep, this is my reaction too. People are conflating two fundamentally different problems. One is having the ability to know what's real, the other is actually knowing . Ability is what interests me most. Faking this sort of content
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"Video can be used to mislead" is nothing new, but I'll still argue that we're watching a very specific new door open. From the first days of high-fidelity video to the recent past, there has never been a time when someo
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We've also had video since before convincing photo edits were available. So people learned that we shouldn't trust a photo of Martians, or a sound clip of the President confessing to murder, but should hold out for video. When f
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> Deepfakes don't provide any fundamentally new capability I'm not sure this is entirely true, although your larger point is quite good. People have been faking video since the dawn of video, yes. But for several decades, a c
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As far as technical responses, there are at least four different goals to pursue regarding fakes: 1. Origin tracing. This is the microdot example: it's not meant to catch deepfakes, but link nefarious instances to their source. But t
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Yes, this is all true. I didn't mean to imply those things can't be salvaged, or that I think the lifespan of frameworks and hardware justifies switching to a system of "you lose all your games forever as soon as we aren&#x

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