advael

20 ms·

271.
by advael 2y ago
Yea, and jobs that selected by university degree wanted to implicitly select for class Making the path to go to a university more accessible is admirable. Entrenching this hiring practice with policy designed to enforce its implications on
272.
by advael 2y ago
With all due respect, fuck that. We do disruptive stuff with unintended consequences for millions of people as a matter of policy all the time, and the idea that it'll disrupt some finance goons' ponzi scheme does not bother me
273.
by advael 2y ago
I think it's really sad that we so reflexively consider universities vocational training that criticism of universities so often includes "offering degrees that won't get you a job" Actually academia predates the push to
274.
by advael 2y ago
We should be way more willing to straight up kill multi-billion dollar industries. Without that willingness, most modern problems are impossible for governments to solve, and such industries and even their potential competitors are incentiv
275.
by advael 2y ago
I wonder how the somatotopic map relates to proprioceptive awareness. I've kind of implicitly assumed that executive functions like the attentional spotlight rely on connecting to that area to accomplish conscious proprioception, does
276.
by advael 2y ago
Well, it was specified that your eyes should be closed, so I think this is supposed to be sort of a proprioceptive attentional spotlight
277.
by advael 2y ago
Saggital plane I think
278.
by advael 2y ago
I agree, making something cheaply and quickly is a great way to make it bad, and thus profitable
279.
by advael 2y ago
A great argument against relying on any software you can't control if ever I heard one
280.
by advael 2y ago
It's been observed by many that making bad things seems to be a lot more profitable these days than making good things
281.
by advael 2y ago
This seems like a reasonable solution to me, and I often stream music through my ssh sessions via port forwards so I may well already be getting the benefit in some places
282.
by advael 2y ago
There's a lot of money in feudal power over others, once it's established, not to mention that it's an end-run around policy channels to reshape society. Some investors really do mostly want direct ROI and are likely disappoi
283.
by advael 2y ago
And I'm sure that'll stay working in San Francisco as long as there's enough bribe money to cover pushing past the considerable concerns about safety in "edge cases." It's entirely possible that's forever,
284.
by advael 2y ago
The entire history of the tech industry is one of profitability being a trifling concern compared to buy-in from the investor class and sometimes government subsidies. Feudalism doesn't require profits, only power over resources
285.
by advael 2y ago
I think so, but the pushes to integrate privately-controlled computers into every facet of required infrastructure means the feudalism in other domains has come and will continue to tighten for any country that doesn't adequately rebuf
286.
by advael 2y ago
Yea, feudalism is probably the best description, and it applies to cars as well as anything with a computer in it, as well as the more traditional land and food supply. This is not that surprising given that the safeguards that have been sy
287.
by advael 2y ago
Despite all the hand-wringing most claims to be able to do this seem pretty implausible at this stage. But for the sake of argument, assuming this happens, this is not different from the second scenario I've described. Of course, if th
288.
by advael 2y ago
That's definitely the recent history, and the current propaganda strategy of modern oligarchs, but looking even a little beyond living memory there are many other solutions history can offer us, including labor solidarity, trust-bustin
289.
by advael 2y ago
As with price discrimination, I think there are only two possible ways this can go: Either we pass some laws that deeply upset some oligarchs and future eras see this one as a "wild west" of data-driven exploitative practices, or
290.
by advael 2y ago
From the perspective of thinking that this model of infrastructure is working well, I suppose. ISPs are a great example of where it kind of isn't, and the degree to which the municipality imposes regulations on infrastructure-providing
291.
by advael 2y ago
I honestly think SaaS - which I think is more honestly described as "renting software" - is a business model that would have never worked if we hadn't curtailed so many threats to it with draconian laws The most natural analo
292.
by advael 2y ago
There is prior art here, e.g. Emo from alibaba research ( https://humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive/ ), but this is impressive and also actually has a demo people can try, so that's awesome and great work!
293.
by advael 2y ago
This seems like an overall good thing, since a lot of the effect of these essentially artificially inflated growth numbers has been investors' expectations becoming tied to an unsustainable and unrealistic expectation of growth year ov
294.
by advael 2y ago
I agree, but the fact that a judge in Texas has the power to harm workers throughout the country while we wait for the government to act is a problem, and there's an asymmetry in how quickly a single judge can make a decision versus th
295.
by advael 2y ago
And you're saying that other states affected by these decisions should have no recourse for judicial activism that happens in some gerrymandered area that happened to get a judge appointed. The alternative to that isn't lawlessnes
296.
by advael 2y ago
I really think federal authorities should start ignoring rulings from Texan judges. The amount of corporate bankruptcy venue shopping alone should tell us the appointment process has corrupted the supposedly impartial nature of the judiciar
297.
by advael 2y ago
For my purposes, among the most important Even a major refactor is relatively easy if you can find stuff in your codebase. Even a small bugfix can get complicated if there's a ton of ambiguity
298.
by advael 2y ago
Who knows, it seems equally plausible that the argumentation lead to my posts being sarcastic in retrospect. There's just no way to tell these things!
299.
by advael 2y ago
Yes, in our population samples people who have income from a job report feeling like they have more money than people who have no income from being long-term unemployed. But due the cross-sectional design of our study it's impossible t
300.
by advael 2y ago
Clearly there's some correlation between poverty and unemployment, but since we didn't do an RCT there's just no way to tell causality here

More ›