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by agency 5y ago
Also during the Civil War I think. I was just listening to a podcast and they were talking about this. I think it took a couple of decades to get back to the gold standard after.
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by agency 5y ago
I mean, in a narrow financial sense that is true. Robinhood got a good deal selling their stock before it fell. But Robinhood is selling a story about democratizing access to markets and made a big deal about allocating a big chunk of their
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by agency 5y ago
That’s great, and jives with my experience. You probably don’t know the problem well enough to come up with the right abstraction until at least example #3.
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by agency 5y ago
No comment re: Palantir’s scruples/principles but the fact is they’re not an infosec company. They don’t make malware or anything close to it.
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by agency 5y ago
This is only tangentially related but has anyone else started getting more obviously spam emails in their gmail inbox lately? I feel like for a long time I never got spam in my inbox but lately I’ll get ones that seem like they should be ea
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by agency 5y ago
There is a view, called “legal realism”, that what the courts and law enforcement collectively do _is_ the law itself. The rules as they are written down are useful in predicting or convincing how judges or other actors in the system will a
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by agency 5y ago
> There's nothing stopping them from improving their own services. Except the laws of physics I guess. Geosynchronous orbit is about 36,000 km out so best case scenario if you were going straight up to a satellite in such an orbit a
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by agency 5y ago
It’s fascinating getting glimpses of other justice systems like this. Meanwhile in the US many states have three-strikes laws where you can get a mandatory life sentence for repeat offenses, even if the last offense is relatively minor or n
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by agency 5y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Security_Policy
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah I don’t know how anyone with even a passing knowledge of the history of the CIA could make a claim like that.
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by agency 5y ago
It’s a Stanisław Lem novel.
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by agency 5y ago
The article also says he was making Hero , which is a masterpiece IMO.
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by agency 5y ago
They describe having anxiety attacks on the way to work. That sounds serious by any reasonable definition. Who made you the arbiter of social anxiety?
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by agency 5y ago
I've gotten close. One thing I have noticed is when I drop the case on the floor it's not at all uncommon for it to open and for one or both of the buds to fly out. One time this happened to me while I was in the security line at
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by agency 5y ago
Not just per capita; highest prison population in the world full stop. It’s good to be #1
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by agency 5y ago
If it is a cultural shift it is not restricted to a particular group of Americans. Fertility rates are low across the developed world. Most industrialized nations have a total fertility rate below replacement level.
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah to be honest this feels like a Googler trying to deal with their guilty conscience by starting a "movement" that fundamentally cannot go anywhere because it runs entirely counter to the economic incentives that animate ad tec
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by agency 5y ago
That is true but I think it can be misleading to apply this kind of logic when technology has fundamentally changed the economics of this kind of recording. For example, it’s always been perfectly legal to station a police officer next to t
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by agency 5y ago
Was Bezos a programmer? I don’t think so. He has a degree in electrical engineering & computer science but he immediately went into the business world via Wall Street (D.E. Shaw). He seems like as much of a “business dude” as anyone.
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by agency 5y ago
I think it would be one thing if these tools worked such that with experience you gained a kind of intuitive understanding of how your inputs map to the outputs and a finesse in crafting that poetry for the machine. But based on my (limited
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by agency 5y ago
I think at the moment there is an important difference that the OP is talking about, namely the ability of the artist to channel their intention into the work. I think even early synthesizers offered a degree of control which even if the re
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by agency 5y ago
Yeah this is some John Birch Society level shit. The Soviets invented being power hungry? The US has used its own brand of Realpolitik to maintain its empire since long before it was “infiltrated by the Soviets,” and has nearly always been
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by agency 5y ago
“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.” - George Bernard Shaw
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by agency 5y ago
I think the point is not that there’s something wrong with hour long lunches, but that people have to find ways to fill up their day if they’re expected to be “at work” for 8 hours a day and can only be productive for a fraction of that. As
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by agency 5y ago
If you can't tell it was a comic reference without the creator specifically saying so, is it really "trading on the name of the character"?
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by agency 5y ago
I don’t mean to be glib but are you really good at Scrabble? I believe the strategy at the competitive level is similar to what you’ve described: Memorizing essentially an index of words by the alphabetized sequence of letters, then you kee
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by agency 5y ago
I recently stumbled on another ancient Iranian religion, that of the prophet Mani[1] and had a strong Baader-Meinhoff phenomenon thing where in the next couple of days I read the word “Manichean” used colloquially twice. I guess l it is use
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by agency 5y ago
I had never seen the term “goodput” before. Kind of a clumsy portmanteau... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodput
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by agency 5y ago
I have a pretty clear view of the sky so I’m hoping for the best. HughesNet is barely usable for anything but basic browsing and the plan I’m on is more expensive than Starlink to boot.
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by agency 5y ago
A couple years ago I moved somewhere where my only internet option is satellite (HughesNet). The data caps are pretty low (50 GB per month) but if you use data on the “bonus zone” (midnight to 8am IIRC) you get an additional 50GB quota, so

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