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by bigfudge 4y ago
I do something similar. There even used to be a lovely website that had a text entry box which would delete words if you didn’t keep up a certain words per minute. It sounds daft but it was actually useful to use at least a couple of times
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Or substantial social changes. Rents and other costs would presumably need to change if this affected a majority? Edit: what I’m pointing to is that hunger is often in the context of sufficiency.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Whether free for all drug use would be more expensive is an empirical question and- if it displaces any alcohol use — the evidence would be strongly that it would cut costs, especially if basic standards for purity were enforced.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
(especially) if you have left this business you should blow the whistle on this. Have you thought about doing it? What are the main barriers?
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Edit - ah, I think you mean politicians? My comment still stands though. I don’t know the polling in the US, but spending on social programmes in Europe is broadly inline with public opinion, so the insunuation of a democratic deficit is mi
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by bigfudge 4y ago
That’s factually incorrect. Cf most of Northern Europe for the past 60 years.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Im returning to this late but I think the comment is disingenuous. My post made it clear that this is an uneasy compromise. I’m not sure what the solution is, but -a the moment- apple seems more aligned with my interests than google or the
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Bank transfers in the uk are pretty much instantaneous during working hours, and often outside too
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Right. But that is illegal and in my view also immoral. If you want to change the law campaign for it. But breaking tax laws is not a victimless crime. You are freeloading/stealing from the rest of us.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I’ve had limited success combining the results of pyannotate with whisper transcripts (based on time stamps). It’s ok, but the quality of speaker identification is nowhere near as good as the transcription itself. I’d love to see models whi
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I actually want a printer, but know this and have put off buying one for about a year now because I can’t be bothered to spend hours working which is the least shitty.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I’d be more sympathetic to this if the Spotify interface wasn’t just so terrible on all platforms. There’s not much innovation at Spotify, except perhaps in the legal department.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
People talk about the Linux kernel vs linux (the complete system). I’m not sure why nerds are still litigating this sort of thing years after the who gnu linux thing.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I think the “too many eggs in one basket” is really the only thing that persuades me. I don’t care that random developers have to workaround annoying restrictions and pay 30% to apple because it means it does just work and I don’t have to t
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by bigfudge 4y ago
This is exactly the sort of reason I don’t think I could ever switch back to android.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
It’s also shitty the entire time you use it. Let’s compare apples with apples (or replace the fruit, but you know what I mean)
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I don’t think that’s right - my daughter does and she has a 6s
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Very few other crimes have such a low rate of action let alone conviction.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
A lot of the suggested mitigations made a lot of sense to me. For example reducing time to prepare grant applications, or to add 1s jitter to stock trades. Perhaps there are flaws to these specific ideas, but the thing that struck me most w
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Probably. But you might not want to work at a place where this is at the whim of a manager. Or where your non rock star colleagues are treated like shit.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Some rules are not allowed. Not allowing remote work is still allowed, but I don’t think it’s far away from being socially unacceptable. Being legally unacceptable is just one step beyond that.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Er no. There are both social and legal norms around employment. I’m not saying he’s breaking any laws here, but companies are a certain scale aren’t just the playthings of the boss they exist at the convenience and for the benefit for socie
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by bigfudge 4y ago
If that was the case, the study actually was unethical. Some designs do include interim analyses and stopping rules. However in my view the real scandal is we are still using NHST for clinical trials. We should be continuously updating a se
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I don’t disagree with this, but it is a form of whataboutism so it doesn’t really undermine the original point that some MSM are also terrible actors. Press in the UK is bad, but I don’t yet see it as this bad.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
A cheap phone would work for that. But they are noticeably laggy and kind of grotty to use, especially once you’ve used something nicer. Kind of like going back to an ancient PC.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
I think the issue here is that we lump all plastics together under a single label. Not all of them are equivalent in impact of production or as waste.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
But if a conventional media source published a quote from someone impersonating a public figure, and discovered this, they would publish a correction. Big tech companies wash their hands if this kind of responsibility. That degrades the val
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by bigfudge 4y ago
We have sold our public spaces for big tech companies to monetise, but basic functions like preventing fraud must now be paid for again? It’s a form of blackmail. Don’t want to be impersonated in an important public forum? Pay up!
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Step away from it for 6 years and I think it will look incredibly unnerving to anyone concerned with healthy public discourse, or who values a shared sense of community.
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by bigfudge 4y ago
Peer reviewed work has a much higher bar for people to say stuff. If you want to know what academics think, as opposed to what they are motivated to write and get past a reviewer, you need something like twitter. Plus, some academics are i

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