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by aylmao 6y ago
> What difference did democrat control make to her? In her case a bigger factor is probably that Trump has also fallen off the grace of a lot of Republicans. The guy is done. He's still massively popular and a threat given his popul
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by aylmao 6y ago
+1. Plus, I'd assume the people who care about online privacy enough to let that influence what phone to buy are already using iPhones. Better "privacy" has been touted by Apple for a while.
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by aylmao 6y ago
I largely agree with you, but I don't think there's reason to believe this is the only way to live modernity. Being an industrialized nation with modern technology and medicine doesn't come as a single package with the nuclea
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by aylmao 6y ago
This. The only "big tech" company that's ever asked for official identification (out of the blue, wouldn't let me login otherwise) has been Facebook. Going back to the original comment: > I don't have to give Log
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Oculus couldn't survive by itself. Do we know how expensive it is to maintain and how much it earns? It probably spends more than the PSVR division at Sony or the Vive division at HTC, but the Quest is quite popular and, if review
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by aylmao 6y ago
Duopolies are bad, but I'd say still better than monopolies.
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by aylmao 6y ago
> It's unfair to Zuck for being very visionary about this. I personally disagree with the idea that Zuck was being a "visionary" here. I don't think buying Instagram for $1bn was a particularly visionary move but rath
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by aylmao 6y ago
> The fundamental problem isn't streaming, as much as it is that natural systems follow power law distributions. I disagree. The fundamental issue isn't power law distributions either, it's the fact that £200 won't ev
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by aylmao 6y ago
> exhorting them to stop working Perhaps it's just me as a URM, but her email resonated with me, especially this part. I see this position of calling what she did "exhorting them to stop working" often, but this isn't
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by aylmao 6y ago
I wish I had waited and gotten an SE 2, especially because Touch ID is way more convenient than Face ID nowadays that one's often wearing a face mask haha
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Unlike Apple customers, the rest of the population is sensitive to performance and cost. If Google can't compete people move on. Maybe they meant both independently. As an example: - A friend of mine just upgraded out of his iPhon
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by aylmao 6y ago
> If i were a shareholder i can see how i may have questioned why a person being paid $1M+/year (my understanding this is minimum what a manager in AI at Google would be making) for publicly disparaging Google. Salary aside (because
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by aylmao 6y ago
I hope Timnit finds it [1]. Google has it in their email servers but I doubt they'll publish it. [1]: https://twitter.com/timnitGebru/status/1334881120920498180
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by aylmao 6y ago
> ...if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date. To be fair it doesn't sound like her ultimatum was "I'll leave immediately"— that was forced on her by Google, and is an importan
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by aylmao 6y ago
I agree. Worth highlighting: > ...if we didn’t meet these demands, she would leave Google and work on an end date . Google's response to this was not accepting of her terms, it was to force an end-date for her —immediately— and loc
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by aylmao 6y ago
> "Do X or I'll quit" is a childish way to negotiate I disagree with this. It's really the only way to negotiate, pretty common. The wording is important here. If you word it as "Do X or I'll quit" it s
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by aylmao 6y ago
Well, two things: 1. I think few companies are out there "hiring by race or gender". At most companies I know, affirmative action means hiring by skill, but making sure at least XX% of the hiring pool are women, black, etc. This r
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by aylmao 6y ago
> No one got fired here. I mean, from the tweets what I gather is she wasn't planning on leaving just yet. Saying "hey, you want to resign by [X] but we'd rather you be gone so let us inform you've just been resigned
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Progressive companies hire social justice warriors into vague ethics or policy roles... > I think this is all a good thing because it may alert some executives to the price for hiring activists into research roles. Ah, yes. They&#x2
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by aylmao 6y ago
> AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google I think this title could be a little more descriptive. The conversation is about DEI, the fact she pointed out more accountability is necessary, the abruptness of it all, etc. I didn't
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by aylmao 6y ago
I agree it's harder to accidentally trigger it, but I doubt the reasoning behind it is "Privacy".
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by aylmao 6y ago
I didn't know about these two. Thanks for sharing!
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by aylmao 6y ago
I agree. Or even if nothing explodes, I'm worried that during the unfolding something will break or get stuck and, and unlike Hubble it won't be "easily" repairable (if at all). Hopefully this doesn't happen, becaus
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by aylmao 6y ago
Three that sound pretty exciting to me are ITER [1], the Extremely Large Telescope [2] and the James Webb Space Telescope. I'm sure there is also more I haven't heard of yet! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Seems right up Elon Musk's alley. Eh, does it? I've never heard of Elon Musk being interested in space science, only space business. An observatory doesn't make shareholders any money.
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by aylmao 6y ago
> But infrastructure ages, and 60 years isn't a bad run. Infrastructure can also be maintained and last longer than this, which is why I'm personally sad. Had Arecibo always had the ~60 year timeline, it would've been a bi
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by aylmao 6y ago
> Who said icons are supposed to be inspired? haha yeah they don't have to, but there's just some good examples of "inspired" icons out there and it's kind of sad Google didn't take the chance to do somethin
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by aylmao 6y ago
It increased app opens by 24% due to a wealth of confused users opening the wrong app first.
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by aylmao 6y ago
I imagine someone can re-publish it on Github without it being taken down if they rename it, change the README and/or add some disclaimer saying this tool shouldn't be used to download copyrighted works. Collaboration to keep it u
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by aylmao 6y ago
Adding to the industries that get into shady territory: universities. Campus fees, "activity" fees, etc. Now apparently COVID-related fees too [1]. [1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/20/college-studen

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