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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
There might be a reason they lost. Believing that one size fits all is a sure way to alienate a lot of people who don't fit that size. Right tool for the right job and giving the freedom for people to solve their problems in the best
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
It is a moat and keeps the status quo. He understands how finance works, and he understands how compound interest rates work; he got the benefit of "low interest rates" on taxes and generated a lot of wealth; if he increases taxes
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
If corporations are accepted to be "evil" (and we have lots of examples of mega-corporations that haven't held to "don't be evil"), then simply taxing them and having them continue to be evil doesn't make
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Most people are not debating the building of roads, and most of those are at state and local levels anyways. The bigger debate is on the actual federal budget, which has ballooned over time into all sorts of items which cannot be assumed to
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J. Halcombe Laning(en.wikipedia.org)
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
This is political grandstanding and virtue signalling. It also presumes that increasing taxes above current levels helps the economy-- that is definitely not a given. The real reason, I suspect, is that elites have a lot of political contro
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Like the issues we have seen with Bing and ChatGPT, it seems that self-driving cars are a long way from being resilient to real world uses. The issue is the complexity of the domain space, which which might not lend itself well to the mathe
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
> web started to arrive that leveraged the core values of the technology, such as interconnection between people A lot of people blame the advanced social media products on the internet for a decline in mental well being and for increasi
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
If you are a developer working for the government and in charge of this, please do not make this mistake. If you are the President of the United States and need to send a message like this, please make it completely unambiguous. Maybe repea
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
This shows an important concept: programs with well thought out rules systems are very useful and safe. Hypercomplex mathematical black boxes can produce outcomes that are absurd, or dangerous. There are the obvious ones of prejudice in mak
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
The future has a funny habit of being different than we anticipate. I think this might be one of those cases, but time will tell.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
The other weird thing is, if someone is looking to have an edge in these sorts of things for their business, they should replace the AI helpdesks and automated emails with real, well-trained and friendly humans who will be an instant improv
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I think it is mostly all together, "distrust big corporations that are obviously corrupting the government and media". Big corporations that have large political clout and donations to media and then use that to cover for nefariou
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Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing(bbc.co.uk)
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Psychopathy in the Workplace(en.wikipedia.org)
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I do not support legislation outlawing cancellation.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I agree with free speech and oppose censorship, but I also promote tolerance of those we disagree with and a certain degree of latitude in putting up with things others say without jumping on them immediately for things I disagree with or e
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
That is a straw man. There are other perfectly valid interpretations and distributions of a statement that 100 could maintain it, like this: 15 database admins 10 linux sys admins 5 kubernetes specialists 10 windows tech support 25 front en
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
This depends heavily on parent involvement, dedication, and education. Even in public school the outcomes are heavily dependent on parents. If your father is an engineer who helps you with your homework and wants you to go to university, yo
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I met the eponymous Hyrum; went to lunch with him on a social occasion that had nothing to do with software. He is a very nice guy and quite humble, in fact. Thoroughly good chap.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I second that. I really like the idea.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Talon allows using the Tobii with other triggers so that gaze does nothing without a trigger (a keyword or noise), which then zooms the area looked at, then allows using another trigger to perform the click.
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Inkarnate – Create Fantasy Maps Online(inkarnate.com)
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Well, while we are on the topic, it could be a PR move leading to a future geopolitical move [1] to justify things like banning bitcoin, encryption, and toilets that flush correctly. It would be impressive technology to do such a thing, but
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Huh? That's not the President's job; how did we get to this point? If the President can ban a specific, commonly used algorithm for arbitrary reasons, then we are in for a wild ride.
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
But the electoral college ultimately derives its members from people who are voted on by the general electorate. The electoral college is an abstraction so that the states in the United States are able to have a check and balance on federal
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
Sometimes it is a quick occlusion algorithm; if we spent time evaluating every proposal we encountered, we would never get much done. Being able to quickly remove some arguments that our brain can quickly exclude (even when sometimes incorr
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
I agree that pointing out fallacies can get excessive, but is mainly based on the intention for so doing. The difficulty is that there is an entire class of people who don't even care about being logically correct or in finding truth.
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China’s Top Chipmaker Achieves Breakthrough Despite US Curbs(msn.com)
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by brobdingnagians 4y ago
How are libertarians "right-wing"? Some libertarians could be described as extreme "left-wing" depending on being social or economic libertarians. I think it is better to not have such a simple dichotomy of "left&qu

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