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> it’s not a new problem or a problem that we lack prior art for. The prior art I'm aware of comes from the copyright, trademark, and defamation laws, but the definitions developed there are so vague that it can take a few months in
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What should be the rule about what videos are banned? We don't want to ban parodies I suppose? What if the author of the Pelosi video claims it's a parody? It would be great if we could allow parodies and jokes as long as a reason
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It is very hard to get a large group of people to work efficiently towards some goal; very few organizations manage to do that. As far as I know such success stories are even more rare in the public sector than in the private sector. This m
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I can totally see where you're coming from. But major engineering achievements require efforts of many skilled people, who often like to be paid really well for their work. And the way the world works today is that a lot of big money i
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I thought the conditions he is concerned about are not merely bad weather. Doesn't his statement hint at giving up on self driving in SF/NYC/London urban traffic?
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> Krafcik went on to say that the auto industry might never produce a car capable of driving at any time of year, in any weather, under any conditions. What's the likely business model for Waymo if level 5 autonomy is unattainable?
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Should smart phones be treated like tobacco too? Millions (soon, billions) of people glued to their phones have hurt their relationships, impoverished their lives, and developed an addiction quite akin to the addiction to the social media.
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Ah yeah if it's personalized, then I understand. That said, it seems just asking the landlord to make the codes the same for everyone would have been far simpler than going to court over this.
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From the article: Lisa Gallaudet, the landlords' attorney, said the smart lock was on a single door and that tenants were able to enter a numeric code to get in and didn't need an app. They'd also been offered codes they coul
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The smart lock had a keypad that could be used to open it with a code. And to clarify, it was a smart lock into the building, not into individual apartments. How is this possibly a privacy concern? Also, the tenants didn't win a right
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I think some parts of the job market ignore degrees. I know many people who got very solid SWE jobs through the popular recruitment platforms. Those platforms essentially allow people to get an on-site with big tech and startups without eve
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Interesting. Wouldn't that imply that a lot of crimes are not investigated, and/or suspected criminals are let go?
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Edit: I just realized that the nearly 100% conviction rate is only for those who go to trial. A third of the people who are detained are released without trial. So ignore this post: my main assumption (that arrest is similar to conviction)
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My guess is it's not an organized smear campaign. Rather, it just happens to be a hot topic these days, an easy way to gain some clicks and subscriptions. Kinda like UFOs, government conspiracies, "Elvis Presley Seen Alive" e
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Yes that's a good point. It's a bit like Exxon Valdez: they don't profit from spilling oil in the ocean, but they should still be penalized for cutting corners on safety.
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You can do many evil things with passwords. But, according to the articles, that's not what happened. They did download contact lists, even though they never used the plaintext passwords they stored in the logs. The users involved in t
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I don't think they can make money off plain text passwords? They can only lose money from that, if it's discovered and they are fined and lose some users. They can make money from contact lists, but IIUC the article said they didn
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Maybe I misread, but none of the articles linked above suggest any malicious intent. Could you clarify what specifically you're referring to?
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The post I was responding to didn't call GS terrible; they called people who admire GS terrible. That's a lot more people than GS, and that is a very questionable claim. To your point, I think maybe 99.9% of people agree that murd
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Do you mind if I ask you which country you're referring to? Does it mean people in your country would hate for their kids to get a job at Goldman Sachs, organizations would hesitate to take Goldman Sachs donations, etc?
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I didn't say they made the world a better place. They weren't trying to. They had one clear goal: make a lot of money for themselves. And they have, for many years, achieved this goal splendidly, through hard work, financial and b
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For better or worse, a lot of people admire and respect success. Goldman Sachs is very successful, so unless it does something really bad, it will be respected by many. I don't think you should refer to people as terrible just because
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Somehow I feel even the basic 7/11 in Japan is more elegant / neat compared to the 7/11 in the US. I don't know, maybe it's just some subconscious bias on my part.
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My impression was that in Japan, retail establishments are typically expected to be elegant, cute, neat, etc. How did Don Quijote become so popular while going so heavily against this trend? Or perhaps my impression was completely wrong?
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Microsoft said they refused to provide the tech due to the bias against minorities caused by the training data. How difficult is it to fix this bias? For example, the model can be told to only produce a match when a confidence level is high
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Wouldn't this approach be cheaper, both in performance and human effort, than fixing the entire OS to hide the timing information?
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Yes, that's what I meant under "intentionally obscuring their opinions" (for example because of the organizational culture, etc).
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As an alternative to this approach, I wonder if it's possible to push all sensitive computations into a few small components, and rewrite those components carefully to obscure any information that could be obtained from timing?
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The authors of the slide either lacked the ability to analyze problems, or lacked the ability to communicate their opinions, or were intentionally obscuring their opinions. Which of these is the more likely explanation? I've seen exper
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Recently, I have seen multiple Bloomberg articles that were way outside the normal margins of journalistic prose, and far into the territory of clickbait and even misinformation. A while back I thought Bloomberg was a high quality source. E

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