Sven7

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by Sven7 11y ago
Mark Zuckerberg isn't really a person. He represents a class of extremely misguided super smart rich people who convince themselves they are doing good by getting themselves richer.
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by Sven7 11y ago
You can come to all kinds of satisfying conclusions, when you ignore the fact that a lot of the productivity gains of the developed world comes of the backs of dirt cheap labor in the under developed world. It's a safe bet that, for th
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by Sven7 11y ago
When it comes to unfolding tragedies. Nope.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I obviously meant all live threads.
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by Sven7 11y ago
I'd like to see a ban on live threads, when these things happen. Beyond reporting emergency contact info they serve no purpose other than encouraging the next attack.
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by Sven7 11y ago
How else do you get to 'too big to fail'?
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by Sven7 11y ago
Moral of the story - there is no great need to keep relying on the same visionary. I like Regina Dugan's ATAP (DARPA) model of kicking the visionary out after 2 years.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Adding a couple more articles I have come across this month on social networks and their unthought-out consequences. We are so unprepared to deal with all this shit. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/07/us/c
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by Sven7 11y ago
Boils down to the question - who wants to go work on security for the government?
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by Sven7 11y ago
Don't worry about it. We have always taken time to recognize our heroes. History is littered with people who were called traitors who now have roads and schools named after them. But I do wonder if our politicians were to trying to pul
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by Sven7 11y ago
We have been trying to get the basics into the third world for a long time now. It's not cheap because its not easy. I am not even talking about the extreme cases like Somalia and Afghanistan. Even in countries like India and China try
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by Sven7 11y ago
Progress towards what? For the developing world to get to the basics (rights/health/edu) the developed world is used to, we need a couple more planet earths in terms of resources. We seem to end up with what happens in nature. Ran
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by Sven7 11y ago
Come on. Do you know how much it costs Jony Ive to fold aluminium? A little more than NASA's yearly budget thats how much.
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by Sven7 11y ago
The Ant has possibly the largest brain/body mass ratio in the entire animal kingdom. Which is possibly why there are 10 million more ants per human on the planet. That's a smart brain in my book. Having said that I am all for mass
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by Sven7 11y ago
I think the point of the article is where you draw your ethics line, decides what you might call a success and what you might call a drawback.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Data leak
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by Sven7 11y ago
It is sad but totally hackable. If we don't find aliens soon, someone needs to send up a secret satellite, that randomly broadcasts messages about the imminent arrival of the most evil aliens in the galaxy.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Chomsky has been saying this for a long time. He equates our current language tech with stone age tools. Long way to go...
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by Sven7 11y ago
This is why I am not worried about AI. The smarter you are the less "diligent" you need to be :)
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by Sven7 11y ago
I dont like it either but most of this stuff already exists with them in email, texts, im's etc.
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by Sven7 11y ago
IMHO most new smart phone users haven't figured out what they can do with their phones. It could very well go the other way - search volumes explode as search gets better and users of search get better at searching.
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by Sven7 11y ago
$5000 for burial costs?!? And 50000 burials a year...wow...would never have imagined.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Maybe it should be no-experience pilots then :) But joking aside thats where these systems will eventually take us.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Maybe code shipped, code quality over time etc
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by Sven7 11y ago
Time for team leaderboards/recommendation systems on LinkedIn, Stackoverflow etc
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by Sven7 11y ago
The "what the heck is it doing" problem may not be a problem with inexperienced pilots.
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by Sven7 11y ago
Voting for the lesser evil at the end of the day is non representative. It devalues the vote. It sends a wrong signal to establishment and to candidates. The undecided voter is constantly bombarded with this "get out the vote or the re
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by Sven7 11y ago
Well good luck to you. I think differences in policies are irrelevant given the current setup. If Obama's two terms have proven anything, it's how ineffective the system is. You don't see leader's, in any other field sta
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by Sven7 11y ago
Not always. I have seen cases where the most productive/well liked person on the team has got fired cause they made the wrong people look bad. Did that turn out bad for the team? Not really. Life goes on. And sometimes its just a good
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by Sven7 11y ago
Fully agree. All I'll add is with the tech industry "keeping people in need" happens at a scale and speed that has never happened before. Hyper efficient scaling does one thing extremely well - inequality.

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