aphelion

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by aphelion 5y ago
iPhones are being built with slave labor. Some guy wrote a satire of Silicon Valley in an exaggerated tech bro literary persona. Guess which one triggered the strenuous denunciations of woke tech activists?
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by aphelion 5y ago
The most striking thing here has got to be that for some people being told they worked at a company riddled with white supremacy and racism would have been a relief. I know the stock response is that denying the existence of a problem is wo
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by aphelion 6y ago
The great irony with these terminology changes is that those most tripped up will be learners with access to fewer up to date resources and autodidacts who lack access to the usual educational opportunities afforded to those pursuing a care
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by aphelion 6y ago
What passes for AI ethics research is akin to a "Hiroshima ethics research" that focuses on the carbon footprint of the Enola Gay and the lack of BIPOC representation on the team that assembled the Little Boy bomb. I don't ca
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by aphelion 8y ago
That it is incorrect to say that personal bias or subjective interpretation has never played any role whatsoever in search results is a vacuous truth. It's a meaningless tautology. And it's fallacious to use it to excuse for injec
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by aphelion 8y ago
In the real world, what's going to make Python less accessible to PoC new to programming(and new programmers generally) is the arbitrary change in well-defined industry-wide terminology. Working from documentation and learning resource
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by aphelion 8y ago
Passing over the politics of this decision, is there any plausible outcome that doesn't involve every organization with any sense at all forking or abandoning Lerna?
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by aphelion 10y ago
Had he denied the application it could just as easily be said to have shown his expertise in the regulatory approval process by detecting and rejecting a dangerous drug. And yet, I don't think that display of competence would have land
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by aphelion 11y ago
An algorithm understanding enough about the text to infer the correct emotional inflection to give a speech may edge into the category of strong AI, but I would have guessed that it would be easier to create a neural network that, given a t
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by aphelion 11y ago
Case in point. Social Security is OASDI - old age, survivors, and disability insurance. It's not a guaranteed income for the general population, it's meant to provide support to those incapable of working due to age or disability.
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by aphelion 11y ago
I'm always a little mystified by those who believe there is some vast pool of people receiving something called "welfare" that pays them munificent sums to sit around all day not working. There is no "welfare". Ther
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by aphelion 12y ago
The influence journals like TNR and The New Criterion once had were wholly unrelated to their tiny readership numbers and instead depended upon the fact that they were for a time considered required reading for much of the political and cul
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by aphelion 12y ago
You say this as if the 20-something libertarian software engineer isn't just as pissed off when he gets screwed over on equity or stock options as is the 50-something manufacturing worker whose job has just been outsourced.
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by aphelion 12y ago
So generate immutable ProductState objects that contain all parts of the domain model that can change over time, and maintain a mapping from SKU to the correct object. So GET /product/12345 returns UUID_1 at time A, when details o
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by aphelion 13y ago
It's things like this that make me wish Silicon Valley invested less energy and resources in nutty utopian schemes like artificial islands and more in lobbying for liberalization and modernization of U.S. immigration policy.
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by aphelion 13y ago
People who hate Silicon Valley do so because they think it's full of narcissistic social climbers who just want to get rich quick but talk like they've joined up with the Peace Corps or are working on a cure for cancer. Wall Stree
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by aphelion 13y ago
I'm very impressed by the technology behind Meteor, I just wish it weren't quite so "opinionated". It relies on standard parts of the node/js web stack, it would be great to have a stand-alone library that supported
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by aphelion 13y ago
Low pilot salaries are due partly to the dismal state of the airline industry and mostly due to the fact that while flying a 747 may be an immensely impressive skill it's not one that's in very wide demand.
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by aphelion 13y ago
This seems like a good time to point out that every study of tipping I've come across fails to find this sort of incentive effect.
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by aphelion 13y ago
What happens? They get fired. I'm all for workplace policies that give a greater amount of discretion to employees as to how, when, and where to work. But "set your own salary" is a bit like "set your own hours". Yo
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by aphelion 13y ago
The appropriate analogue here is not literacy, it's carpentry. That everyone makes use of furniture does not imply that everyone would benefit from taking the time to learn to build furniture themselves. It would be a good thing if fur
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by aphelion 13y ago
It's not particularly surprising when you think about it. Users of stenography keyboards are far more "productive" than users of QWERTY keyboards. But everyone knows how to use the latter at some level of competence, while th
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by aphelion 13y ago
It's my fervent hope that developments like source maps and asm.js will eliminate what it basically Javascript's sole competitive advantage; that it's the only language that runs in a browser. If it's possible to write p
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by aphelion 13y ago
This is all rather absurd given that the Western European nations that haven embarked on major infrastructure projects in recent decades tend to have higher rates of unionization as well as stronger labor and environmental regulations than
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by aphelion 13y ago
The worst thing about undefined is not its mutability but that it exists in the first place. Trying to retrieve a non-existent attribute should throw an error by default, not fail silently.
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by aphelion 13y ago
It's not so much that the liberal arts are easier that the sciences, it's that you can be lousy at them without realizing it. It's very hard to be bad at math and not know it.
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by aphelion 13y ago
The thing about risk-seeking ambitious 19 year olds is that they have absolutely no real idea what risk is, or what their real ambitions for their life will be.
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by aphelion 13y ago
Dean Baker proposed "Artistic Freedom Vouchers" as a way to supplant copyright. The basic idea is that every taxpayer would get a refundable tax credit of 75-100 dollars which could be "spent" by buying creative works fr
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by aphelion 13y ago
For me, the big gap between native and web is in UI. Performance is a solvable issue with either Javascript-native bridges or just devices getting faster. Even ignoring the Android/iOS "look", I've yet to come across an HTML5-based framewor
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by aphelion 13y ago
I'd say that once you've mastered Angular concepts like services and factories, dependency injection, etc., it's far easier to build complex applications in it than in Ember. That's because the abstractions Angular introduces are focused ar

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