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by aeturnum 5y ago
To me the benefit of a QA team comes from synthesis. If you are providing one service to a few groups you don't get that much out of having a dedicated team. However, once you start having different people using your product in differe
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I agree but I think about it in the reverse way: the hosting is easy, what you get when you use another company's service is the maintenance. Just like every other option where we choose who will maintain something there are trade-offs
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think you start by targeting the platforms with more horsepower and can move down over time. Obviously they might just not do that work and stay on the high powered ones, but I don't think it's a given.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
What stopped them is that the entire rational for Zillow's approach is that human appraisal isn't needed. An algorithm, they think, should be able to do a good enough job. Any individual person who, when presented with this scenar
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by aeturnum 5y ago
If you like this there's actually a lot of work on this kind of topic in media studies! I particularly liked Nonhuman Photography[1] by Joanna Zylinska. [1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/nonhuman-photography
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Again, we've settled on rules that allow you to deny a particular person because you don't like them. The scenario where you won't sell food to someone who is starving to death - totally legal, as long as you refuse based on
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Simply, denying someone a service because you dislike them is a harm. It's less stark than some harms, but it's clearly along a line that ends in direct violence. If someone is starving and has money to pay for your food, but you
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think Christians have the right to hold whatever judgements they like about people, as we all do. However, that doesn't mean that they should be able to discriminate in the professional services they provide. In fact, these same laws
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I think the important part of this discussion is that the finality of payments sit outside of the mechanics of the financial system. For instance - when a wire transfer is "reversed" that is accomplished with another wire transfer
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> it's axiomatic that Firefox wouldn't be in such a horrifying shape if they were focused on it In my experience many things come to be in horrifying shape because of focus as well, so I don't agree with your logic. >
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I agree with your topline goal, but I am surprised by the way you think about it. Most of what you recommend has no obvious connection to firefox-the-program. Like... > - Donate the major money drains that aren't Firefox to the Apa
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Sure! So it's easy to think about all of the things someone could do to you if they have your location: hurt you, delay you, rob you, etc. But it's also very mundanely easy to get the location of a human. I'm sure, if you loo
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I've been aggressively sharing my location with anyone who will have it[1] because I think it's important that we grapple with how many people might be aware of our location at this point. Our locations are all shared with many pe
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It's funny because the open source arms control community (like Martin Pfeiffer[1]) works really hard to inform people of how few safeguards our nuclear policy has. But even those anemic safeguards (the idea that only the president c
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by aeturnum 5y ago
This reminds me that, despite the prissy and offended denouncements from the Air Force and DOD (War Department?), the only fiction in Dr. Strangelove is the characters. All of the systems depicted were built. https://www.newyorke
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Sure - no one thinks Twitter (or anyone) knows the exact count for real users, etc. But fraudulent activity and bot development is also driven by the underlying success of the website (scammers don't scam where there's no one to s
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's not wrong for a person to believe anything and act accordingly. It's not even wrong to argue that we should not describe the accused as innocent (as long as you acknowledge what the official approach suggests before ignorin
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The work of preparing to leave the country is necessarily public in a way that doing crypto stuff might not be. I suspect they were worried that preparing to leave the country would tip their hand - and they could have been caught earlier i
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Watching FSD driving feels like watching one of my side projects mostly work - it's impressive that it works at all and it's exciting and it would be wildly unethical pass off to someone without the access and ability to tweak it.
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Sure, I didn't go far into detail, but it's actually worse than either of us has said because once B surrenders anything ($1 or $1,000,000,000), they are at even greater disadvantage and "logically" should surrender more
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This seems untrue. There are also genuine uncertainties about the future: things that neither side knows but will impact the outcome. Because of that, there is always a range of outcomes for a conflict, and so both sides would still have
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by aeturnum 5y ago
In the immediate, of course you are correct. In the longer term - I suspect we will develop two different sets of laws as we understand what things robots do well and what things they do not. For example: I suspect that robots might be allo
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Surely Wordle is a passing fad I mean, I do think games come and go, but I think Wordle is some really solid design. It's paced and measured and feel like a mature experience, even though it's new. NYT could absolutely clon
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> The friendlier one eventually described how much it had cost to investigate another recent case where a person was reported to have pulled down an American flag and stepped on it. Only after the investigation was well under way did t
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I haven't done a ton of work with Python recently, but the problems I remember encountering came from the fact that python doesn't try to have encodings in any other part of the basic type system. So like, if you have an int or a
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To me, when communities choose a managed platform that didn't exist on the old internet, I assume that community would have just died if the managed platform didn't exist. It has never been easier or cheaper to run a phpBB instanc
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I do think that the way politics interacts with communities has changed over time, though I think that has been driven by how the US and Europe (where most community members live) political climates have changed? > The loud politics min
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by aeturnum 5y ago
When I was a freshman in college I ran into an elder geek who was dating one of the dorm RAs. They were super cool, had neat hobbies, seemed much smarter than me and I was desperate to impress them. The only thing I mentioned that made them
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I mean, of course "something" was lost? But...things were lost all of the time at the height of the old internet as well. No tech change needed. Communities would rise and fall, maintainers would move on and stop making things ava
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by aeturnum 5y ago
You caught me! I am actually a terminator. :)

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