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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
Did you even read the article? It clearly notes that the First Amendment doesn't apply to private companies. The article is about censorship, not about the First Amendment.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
Can you explain to me what "valid" means, in the context of tic-tac-toe games? What would it mean for a tic-tac-toe game to be invalid?
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
Yes, it does. Unless its defenders have shown good reasons as to why the points raised by the satirists are inapplicable. Which they haven't. The assignation of "quality" in people is a corrupt and folkloric reflection of the
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
At my company we have just created a position called Data Steward.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
It's definitely pie-in-the-sky. I wouldn't argue otherwise. But I do think this is a problem our industry will have to solve eventually. The volume of data we have to move between servers in order to ask questions is exploding. We
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
I don't think OP necessarily implied that the compute cycles had to be free.
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
It's true that if you define Amazon's market segment to be "all of human commerce" then it doesn't look particularly dominant. But if you applied that sort of standard to monopolies, there would be no antitrust enfo
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
I know that this makes it to the front page because it is symptomatic of frustrating and frightening things that affect society as a whole. I won't comment on those things because I don't know the answers. But insofar as you want
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by anthuswilliams 6y ago
I don't know if this is better or worse in that respect, but I have been following Banjo since 2017 and I'm pretty convinced that the product Banjo is hawking is basically vaporware[1], and that Banjo is actually in the business o
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by anthuswilliams 8y ago
What should their ad copy say instead? "Robinhood gives you the tools to lose all of your money making impulsive decisions" ? All brokerage accounts advertise themselves as investments, even if the reality is that idiots open them
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by anthuswilliams 8y ago
The law required CenturyLink to notify its customers and intentionally did not mandate a particular means of doing so. This is a feature, not a bug. Now, shady DNS spoofing may be one means of complying with the law (though it may violate o
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by anthuswilliams 8y ago
"as long as you don't run untrusted JS" is a surprisingly tough hurdle to hit, even for very experienced developers. What is your reason for preferring JWT + localStorage for authentication and session handling? I'm genu
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by anthuswilliams 8y ago
I took the course last year but did not apply to YC. I'm assuming there are others in this situation as well, so I'd conclude the acceptance rate for SS graduates is higher than the acceptance rate for the general candidate popula
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by anthuswilliams 8y ago
I took this course last year. The lectures/coursework were very helpful (albeit freely available on youtube as well). But it was the mentorship that really makes it valuable. You get placed in a cohort representing a wide range of busi
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
This is not to take away from your point, since I agree with you, but both accountants and finance professionals have stringent licensing requirements which (in theory) could provide a baseline expectation of competence.
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
It's true that there are many landlords who provide ill-managed, neglected housing even in areas without rent control. However, rent control exacerbates that problem, in my opinion, for two reasons: 1) It incentivizes the landlord to s
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
I'm sorry, this is nonsense. There have been lots of periods of industrialization and they didn't all result in mass starvation and penury. In fact, many of them _reduced_ poverty by freeing people to focus on new fields in which
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
But then, why does Amazon want to do that? it will decrease its own profit. Why would policing fake reviews decrease Amazon's profits?
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Drug discovery startup Recursion Pharmaceuticals raises $60m Series B(techcrunch.com)
2 points by anthuswilliams 9y ago|0 comments
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
I believe Adobe is known to aggressively hand out raises like this. Here in Utah, at least, it's extremely difficult to get Adobe engineers to switch jobs.
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Sexual Harassment in Silicon Valley(elaineou.com)
67 points by anthuswilliams 9y ago|54 comments
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
Oh my, I have thought about this a lot, and I firmly believe that there is. Sorry for the ensuing wall of text! Right now I pay for several online services, a gym membership, insurance, a student loan, a mortgage, and an auto loan. Every on
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
As I understand it (American here), it's not only about preventing member countries from leaving the EU. It's also about stifling separatism within those countries. If Britain can leave the EU without painful trade restrictions, t
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by anthuswilliams 9y ago
I don't think it presumes there is moral equality at all. Rather, it's perfectly possible for an evil and destructive regime to be elected by misinformed or desperate people, and you might be wrong about voters' motives when
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by anthuswilliams 10y ago
Moloch is, in this case, a reference to a poem by Allen Ginsberg.
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by anthuswilliams 12y ago
I believe tailoring search results was not as much of a factor in 2012 when the article was written.
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by anthuswilliams 13y ago
In 2013 I briefly contracted for a PHP shop. The hiring manager would invite people in for an interview and present them with the following code: mysql_query(' INSERT INTO `products` (`name`, `descriptions`, `price`) VALUES
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by anthuswilliams 13y ago
I think this axiom only applies to inclusion in desirable groups or roles. It's hard to imagine even the most egalitarian thinker working to improve the male:female ratio among death row inmates, for example.
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by anthuswilliams 13y ago
I would think it's rather obvious he's talking about ideas to be employed in your personal life or business, not political ideas.
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by anthuswilliams 13y ago
The article implies that the Medical Board believed he may have been impaired because of the use of drugs or alcohol. So he could have appeared reasonably competent before he developed those problems.

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