BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I guess what I'd say is that if that grinding sales process and those industry-wide cultural changes have all the negative effects we're seeing with AI, then we shouldn't make that trade. There is simply no urgent need to ad
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> SQL is one of those languages that looks simple on the surface but grows in complexity as teams and systems scale. The funny thing is it's actually several of those languages. :-)
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I feel like this is another case of an article kind of missing its own point. It says the majority view among tech experts is that AI is overhyped. And why does that matter? I guess because: > If we were to simply listen to the smart
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But we don't need to do anything. We don't need AI and so we don't need a push for it. If AI is just a "normal" technology that has some legitimate uses, it doesn't need a huge boost, it doesn't need any
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This reads like it was written by someone who doesn't understand that most notifications can and should be turned off. Like this: > My notification center shows texts from my family group chat next to a bunch of New York Times push
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I don't disagree that this is a huge problem and you're right that too many on the left seem unwilling to acknowledge it. I think the same is true of a variety of other issues as well. I guess where I'd disagree with the art
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> With the extreme stratification of wealth follows the stratification of... everything else, really. That's one reason that the solution to educational inequalities may not lie in education policy at all, but in tax/economic p
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
There is some truth in what you say. However, I've come to the conclusion that it's hard to deduce much from things like popular vote totals because our political system is warped in ways that cause a feedback loop between ineffe
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Maybe, but I think still the enforcement of that would need to be targeted at the large players. Also I'm a bit leery of banning the knowledge itself. I wouldn't want to ban research on such matters, for instance. The problem i
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> Ban bots from social media and all other speech platforms. I would agree with that, but how do you do it? The problem is that as the bots become more convincing it becomes harder to identify them to ban them. I only see a couple opti
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
This is how I'm starting to view many of these things. It's just that the metrics we use to evaluate the economy are getting out of sync. For instance, if "consumer sentiment is at Great Recession levels", why do we ne
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
It's not "let's not do any checking whatsoever", it's just "let individual users choose between Google's ineffective checking and alternative app sources that users can trust or not trust with zero involve
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
If not then it's still the same question: how does the UK benefit from having the royal family allowing this rather than just some other entity that owns the land and rents it out at low cost? Why does that entity need to be a monar
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
But this seems like the fallacy of comparing a benevolent and somewhat reasonable monarchy to a malicious or foolish non-monarchist government. Any system can wind up with stupid people doing stupid things. The difference is if you get on
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
If we could persuade enough voters to get out of the hole, why can't we persuade enough to fix the hole (and the other holes)?
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
That is correct.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> If I buy a CD from artist X, I know I won't be supporting artist Y with my money, just X. That's not entirely true, since by buying X's CD you're also giving money to the label/publisher of that CD, who may be
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Not a good enough idea, apparently, given that what you said in the first paragraph is happening.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think there are multiple irreparable holes in the US Constitution. That doesn't mean tyranny is inevitable, though, it just means we need to start fresh (which is what they did when they came up with the Constitution anyway).
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> The UK benefits from the royal family allowing the use of their land, including historic buildings, at a relatively low cost. How does the UK benefit from the royal family allowing this, rather than just having a non-monarchist governm
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Or just criminalize device manufacturers holding more than a certain market share.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I think that's the case in many places, isn't it? Like people go to towns in Europe to look at a cathedral that's hundreds of years old.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
> The study also explores preferences such as shuttlecock choice and indoor versus outdoor play. An important consideration when playing in space. . .
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
One of the many sad consequences of inequality is that people like Peter Thiel have a platform to spout nonsense that belongs in a street-corner rant from a crazed-looking guy clutching a sign that says "THE END IS NEAR!!!"
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
I mean I think you can go back well before that. At least to when Kissinger received it, while his co-laureate Le Duc Tho refused it on the basis that no peace had been achieved.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
No, it doesn't. That info from the website is a gross mischaracterization and seemingly an attempt at self-promotion. It's like saying that your building has walls and a ceiling and is therefore in the same league as Notre Dame
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Sure, but the article is saying the school's accreditation "validates its quality of education". I'm saying that's not really true. There are many schools that are accredited and are crap or scams. Accreditation
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Then they're also cowards, evil, or both.
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by BrenBarn 1y ago
Given the number of dubious for-profit colleges that have accreditation, I wouldn't say it tells you much about whether a school is legit.

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