Lambent_Cactus

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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
Yeah, I liked the idea that it's asymmetrical. You use the VK to find replicants trying to pass as human, but to try to make sure they're sufficiently robotic you need something else. Which makes sense: the original VK would be e
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
There's a haunting version of this in Blade Runner 2049 that they call a "baseline test." Replicants have to prove they're sufficiently robotic by reciting extremely alienating things about themselves in rapid succession
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
Orders of the political police are backstopped by violence. I'm not sure what distinction you're drawing? Either way, the head-shooting and the stake-burning are Scott Alexander's metaphors here, from the linked SSC post. As
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
The Eastern Bloc did ... kind of a lot of violent coercion? The penalty for jumping the Berlin Wall was not losing your job.
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
I did actually check out his twitter feed before writing this, where I saw that his bio, pinned tweet, and several of his most recent tweets ( https://twitter.com/JamesADamore/status/1456653034671517703 , https:&#x
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
Most of his articles could be about a third as long with no loss in clarity. The meandering windups can be _rhetorically_ effective, especially when they appeal to the biases of the reader, as they appeal to mine. But they're not truth
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
I'm sure you could come up with a hypothetical prosocial falsehood, like "aliens assassinated JFK for petty reasons, but they're very vain and will destroy the Earth if word gets out." If you become President and learn t
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
The problem with signing up with an underground Straussian heretic network is that if you're not actually beset by the Inquisition or by Stalinism, you're likelier to trap yourself in an epistemic filter bubble than to discover so
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
I seems like a lot hinges on "The identities of the bullies is well known." The President's letter says "If those students who issues the threats can be identified, they will be subject to appropriate disciplinary sancti
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
Ugh, just read the original that this post rips off, which has all the analysis and none of the egregious over-writing. https://randle.substack.com/p/playing-different-games
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
The tooling system was ok even then, but core development seemed listless. Vitalik gave a keynote at a conference I went to and talked about why it was actually good for the ecosystem that he and all the core contributors spent all their ti
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
Oh yeah, a proper great power could snuff out Bitcoin, to say nothing of the smaller coins, if they put their mind to it. If there's a real non-bubble use case, it will have to be around making a bad but much less expensive version of
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by Lambent_Cactus 5y ago
OnlyFans is a classic two-sided marketplace with strong network effects. The more paying customers are already on the site the more attractive it is for new performers to choose OnlyFans as their platform, and the more performers there are
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by Lambent_Cactus 9y ago
Picture of new CEO Bryan Crowley looks like a parody. And this line! > First of all, I want to take a moment to say hello and thank you to all of our Soylent friends out there who have helped turn Rob’s vision into one of the most talked
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by Lambent_Cactus 10y ago
I like where this is going - you want to apply some pressure to organizations to set up internal incentives that push for longer-term thinking. But if the value of being on the LTSE is that it sends a signal that your org is optimized for t
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by Lambent_Cactus 10y ago
I'd love to talk to you about our devops team. What's the best way to get in contact?
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by Lambent_Cactus 10y ago
We built something like this for our our data science platform ( https://civisanalytics.com/products/end-to-end-data-science/ ), but the containers run on a group of workers that are isolated in one VPC per customer
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
Tried to sign up, but the enroll form at https://beta.docker.com/form is blank for me - it just says "Great! We just need a little more info:" but has no forms.
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
This is the Google version of Twitter's little 'verified' checkmarks, just for whole web pages instead of tweets. The presidential election is actually a great place to roll out that kind of service given him much domain squa
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The Endless Hackweek(civisanalytics.com)
3 points by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago|0 comments
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
Yes. I got a letter from OPM detailing what may have been compromised an offering me some identity theft protection/monitoring service. They got my SF-86 ( https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf ) and my f
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
Serious question: when did your shields go down at Palantir?
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
The Muji store locator amusingly lists the two Toronto locations as being in the US: http://www.muji.com/storelocator/?c=us&lang=EN&header=gl
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
Really disappointed they went with the bloodless "Datagate" when "VANghazi" was available.
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
My Chicago company is not Lightbank-funded, but all I see in print is relentless small-town boosterism - what's a more reliable source for sounding out a firm's reputation?
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by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago
Much nicer - keep at it!
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Elegant AWS Access Management with the IAM Role Injector(civisanalytics.com)
8 points by Lambent_Cactus 11y ago|0 comments
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by Lambent_Cactus 12y ago
Is there a standard synecdoche for the type of tech company that's better at 'thought leadership' than at its actual business?
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Treats is just an arbitrage on a loophole in laws against illegal lotteries
1 points by Lambent_Cactus 12y ago|0 comments
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Failure Porn: There's too much celebration of failure and too little fear(washingtonpost.com)
11 points by Lambent_Cactus 12y ago|2 comments

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