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by advael 3y ago
The only "unmet needs" such an endeavor need care about is convincing a deep-pocketed investor
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by advael 3y ago
The linked article is very clearly an attempt to persuade its reader that the lack of classing (IE verification of safety by an external auditor) is less of an issue than they might otherwise think. Your advice to a reader of this article i
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by advael 3y ago
What a profoundly stupid take by a profoundly irresponsible company. This is a great example of why you should consider anything a company says about itself to be marketing, and treat it with commensurate skepticism. "We're so inn
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by advael 3y ago
I am sure I'm preaching to the choir here, but the DMCA is just such an egregiously bad law. Its main use cases are this kind of consequence-free fraudulent terrorism and the much worse draconian de facto state enforcement of extremely
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by advael 3y ago
I think that was neither unclear from the sentence nor a particularly interesting detail to fixate on
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by advael 3y ago
And if there's a video of FSD that isn't a "fail compilation", it was probably filmed and/or uploaded because it showed off the FSD doing well, and may even be subject to, effectively, the editorial review of goog
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by advael 3y ago
The entire point of an independent audit is to throw an expert at the technologies in question at the point of the supply chain they are tasked with auditing in order to better understand it than a layperson could and make an assessment tha
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by advael 3y ago
Bullshit, full stop. We live in a society with deep dependency chains on technology we can't possibly understand as individuals, that much is true But all of those technologies are subject to independent auditing and regulation to make
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by advael 3y ago
Also a very good point, which makes an even stronger case for throwing the regulatory kitchen sink at this bullshit
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by advael 3y ago
Gatekeep, gaslight, girlboss The official policy to deprive customers and victims of information as much as possible is shocking from the standpoint of being flagrantly, cynically customer-hostile to the point of probable illegality, but it
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by advael 3y ago
That this analysis tries to claim this doesn't correlate to economic conditions only demonstrates that economics has failed. When we say "the economy recovered" we don't mean anything that's meaningful to people on
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by advael 4y ago
Yes, policy needs to be pragmatic in how it ensures that trends toward greater inequality are reversed. In particular, anti-trust regulation, non-means-tested social safety nets (IE government services that allow humans to survive), and mea
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by advael 4y ago
What a profoundly naive opinion. The overwhelming majority of paid work available is not fulfilling to anyone, and the overwhelming majority of people who are wealthy enough to not need to work to subsist can find things to do with their ti
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by advael 4y ago
I sometimes participate intentionally in social contexts where truthseeking is a top priority. I've noticed that while you occasionally get some overlap with the kind of people who like trying to win arguments in normal contexts by ins
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by advael 4y ago
If true, this means that the laws are toothless and should be enforced more stringently
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by advael 4y ago
Maybe this is just a matter of the buzzword doesn't precisely convey the technical implementation, but I don't want "end-to-end" encrypted backups, I want backups that are stored encrypted on the server and that only I c
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by advael 4y ago
This sounds a lot like what we're trying is solutions that put the people the state is helping under their power and observation and do not give them ownership, autonomy, or any sense of stability surrounding their living situation. I&
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by advael 4y ago
As anyone who's ever tried to study any complex phenomenon in a rigorous way knows, determining causality is fraught. But I think it's fair to say that most mental illnesses are exacerbated by living in stressful and uncertain con
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by advael 4y ago
I think like most generalizations, "studies show" is making this seem like a much more pervasive bias than it is. I definitely buy that the majority of people tend to go with defaults more often than not, because were that not the
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by advael 4y ago
The applicable cliche here is "the perfect is the enemy of the good." I may be misreading your point, but the way this reads to me, it's kinda a reductio ad absurdum of the concept of law in general, no? Of course anyone can
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by advael 4y ago
Weird how during the one tiny era in human history where we've had explosive exponential growth in {technological progress,wealth,etc} we destroyed both human cultures and biodiversity on a scale unprecedented except for the rare natur
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by advael 4y ago
Strongly agree. The way the roman alphabet is represented on digital computers is to treat upper- and lowercase letters as completely separate sets of characters. People are pretty used to treating these sets of letters as functionally equi
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by advael 4y ago
This article is kinda a mixed bag of complaints that ranges from very reasonable and important to completely nonsense, which is to say it's very representative of discussions of the relative merits of operating systems For example, a l
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by advael 4y ago
As I have already explicitly clarified once in this reply chain, I am not talking about people who already have a job at one of these companies, or even people who already have gone through the interviewing process and have an offer in hand
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by advael 4y ago
Dope, you want strategies for dealing with uncertainty? That's what we like to hear. There's a wealth of standard advice out there, but I can tell you the biggest three disparities between what I have gleaned from personal experie
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by advael 4y ago
I am not claiming the hiring freeze makes the stability illusory, I am claiming that the entire concept of stability is fictional EDIT: Actually, you've also missed my point in another respect: Even if there's a real hiring freeze
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by advael 4y ago
As others have commented, this seems like a smokescreen rather than a real freeze. But as someone who wants to see every monopolistic company broken up or fail spectacularly, I think a hiring freeze at FAANGs is a great opportunity for tale
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by advael 4y ago
What part of "its fundamental premise is flawed" is unclear? I don't propose an alternative because I don't believe the stated goals of the system are achievable or desirable. Also, if one believes something does more ha
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by advael 4y ago
My position on this has been pretty controversial when I've shared it before, but I still think it's correct: Measuring knowledge at scale is futile, harmful, and pointless. The fact that a lot of society has been arranged around
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by advael 4y ago
Half of this advice strikes me as great: Get to know the people you're working with, and not just your boss. Try to figure out how things work here rather than flailing around trying to make an impact right away However, I think trying

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