babesh

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by babesh 7y ago
Do these AIs actually have much of a strategy? Is the strategy mostly correct evaluations of positions and optimized search?
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by babesh 7y ago
The implication is that minorities that have been historically discriminated against and are disproportionately poor will have fewer kids. This is a bad idea that people have 'tried' in the past and is ripe for abuse.
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by babesh 7y ago
Terminator, Mad Max, Robocop, Batman.
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In Silicon Valley, Hypocrisy is the new normal(om.co)
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by babesh 7y ago
Prior to the recent debacles, they were rewarded for their transparency.
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by babesh 7y ago
I am not a Google employee, but from working with ex and subsequent Googlers and from interviewing Googlers, Google has some blind spots (perhaps intentional). It places more weight on algorithms (which can be gamed with study) and less wei
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by babesh 7y ago
Humans can learn and transmit lessons. There is usually more objective evidence especially nowadays with cameras everywhere.
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by babesh 7y ago
You are proposing an AirBnB equivalent of a hotel tax. It’s basically bribing/paying the permanent residents to accept the cost of the AirBnBs. It depends on what the community is willing to accept. The richer communities probably woul
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by babesh 7y ago
I was wrong about some of them being drawing frame related. See https://www.cocoawithlove.com/2008/12/drawing-custom-window-... . Apparently customizing the window frame. The CA prefixed ones are correct. Apparentl
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by babesh 7y ago
This affirmation of Zuckerberg's position based on the First Amendment makes no sense. The Zuckerberg position is that he chooses to censor everyone except politicians. Furthermore, it is he who gets to decide the veracity of everyone
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by babesh 7y ago
The gist isn't the line that you are focusing on. Scorsese loves movies that expand the mind and enrich the spirit. Irrespective of where the line is drawn (losing sight of the forest by focusing on a tree), he thinks that the Marvel m
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by babesh 7y ago
Public core animation APIs on Apple hardware are plenty fast. I suspect the issue here is that web browsers are acting as yet another abstraction layer and thus are introducing more performance overhead. Electron is probably trying to squee
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by babesh 7y ago
You are assuming that these Apple APIs are used to give Apple a competitive advantage somehow. From what I can tell, these specific APIs don't. What they do give Apple an advantage in ironically is in forcing more developers to develop
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by babesh 7y ago
Also letting an app use those private APIs can be a security hole.
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by babesh 7y ago
Microsoft was vilified for many anticompetitive practices. I worked on an app that competed with a Microsoft app. Our app was actually winning in the marketplace. One year they release a new version of their app with some really cool featur
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by babesh 7y ago
That is a load of cow manure aka confirmation bias. Israel has no compunction spying on the US. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.co
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by babesh 7y ago
Shouldn't we (at least in the US) be more concerned with getting health care costs under control and universal? This manifesto is mostly about making money rather than about general human welfare. The issues are not due to technologica
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by babesh 7y ago
I have been told by multiple sources that Apple engineering salaries are not competitive with industry leaders and haven't been for a long time. I wonder if the dissolution of the Jobs anti compete agreements exacerbated the issue. How
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by babesh 7y ago
They will say that you did a good job fixing the issue but most mid level managers won't give you a bonus for that. In fact, in the next breath, they will criticize you for not putting in enough effort into introducing new tech. Fixing
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by babesh 7y ago
The primary issue is the sweetheart deal New Orleans gave to Donaldson. The rest is just information asymmetry that this article will serve to correct.
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by babesh 7y ago
If you measure at the level of humanity instead of the individual human, the last two advancements for tools of thought were the mobile phone and the Internet. The Internet speeded up access to information and computing. The mobile phone ma
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by babesh 7y ago
That is pretty normal, both in the CEO or founder just asking or having to ask a question and the quickness and lengths that people go to to address it. People don’t actually get credit for addressing the issue. People just get dinged for n
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by babesh 7y ago
Different motivations AND different evaluations of the company and market between the VCs and the founders. Also different risks and rewards for the VC and the founders. Sometimes the VC thinks that the market the startup is in is a bubble
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by babesh 7y ago
It's not a written down list. The way it works is that when you are considered for a company, someone there might reach out to people they know at your former or current employer and get the inside info on you. Those people are usually
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by babesh 7y ago
Several Asian people I know who moved to the Bay Area seemed to be traumatized by the racism they faced growing up in the South. Don't know if it is different now. Parts of SF do smell but most of it and most of the Bay Area don't
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by babesh 7y ago
It was partly organizational imho. Oftentimes non mobile teams would write C++ modules. After writing the module, that team would refocus on server but the module would have remaining hard to find bugs (sometimes due to lack of mobile exper
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by babesh 7y ago
Would like to see an analysis of the costs and benefits of two separate codebases after they are done with that and have given it time to prove itself... especially with the more complex code.
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by babesh 7y ago
I have been following a youtube couple building a shipping container home. It isn't as simple or cheap as you think. You need to deal with rust, sealing floors that have chemicals, cutting out windows, etc... I wonder if they can do th
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by babesh 7y ago
These new houses will probably be at least as expensive as the average house there just due to the nature of single family houses in the Bay Area. Cooking during the whole year and heating during the winter will cost more. Those winter mont
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by babesh 7y ago
It looks as if people have different definitions of technical debt.

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