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by cbeach 4y ago
Can one think without language? It’s a question my headmaster once posed in a general studies class.
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by cbeach 4y ago
No, it's taken much longer than that. But Musk is far closer to this goal than anyone else. Other solutions rely on geo-fenced known areas, LIDAR sensors (which will never understand the whole picture e.g. coloured traffic lights), and
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by cbeach 4y ago
Err they just rolled it out to the whole of North America
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by cbeach 4y ago
Independently of the Biden administration and FBI. https://therealnews.com/twitter-is-hiring-an-alarming-number...
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by cbeach 4y ago
I've followed HN over the last few weeks and there are literally hundreds of comments and posts from people being negative about Musk and Twitter (since it got taken over by Musk). Barely anything about Holmes. Amazon lays off 10,000 w
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by cbeach 4y ago
It's odd that HN criticises Elizabeth Holmes less than it does Elon Musk. * One is a privileged charlatan who pretended to innovate, dicing with the health of innocent customers, and defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of
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by cbeach 4y ago
People are declaring their tribal affiliation. Twitter used to be owned by the blue tribe. Now it's owned by a member of the red tribe. That's all there is to it.
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by cbeach 4y ago
One of the reasons I quit my last job (senior manager in an investment bank) is because of the pressure I was under to hire female technologists to make their diversity stats look better. The pipeline was 90% male, reflecting the choices th
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by cbeach 4y ago
I ran online discussion forums for a few years. I fear that community-led, “best intentions” type platforms like Mastodon will have the same problems I had. Moderation when budget-constrained gets harder and harder. Initially I had voluntee
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by cbeach 4y ago
Working in the office leads to nothing but work and train journeys. Wake (earlier), eat, 1h30m on train, work, eat, work, 1h30m on train, eat, sleep (less).
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by cbeach 4y ago
Same happened to me. I ran Adsense and one day received an email from Google saying I was permanently suspended. I knew I’d done nothing wrong, but there was nothing I could do to prove it to Google. Nor did they provide any useful info on
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by cbeach 4y ago
Yes, the comparison with the Chinese government is spot on. What is the US system becoming? It’s so sad to watch.
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by cbeach 4y ago
Before you all rush to cheer the senator, try to imagine a different context. What if a government official was issuing threatening public statements against a private citizen who happened to be in /your/ political tribe? Governme
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by cbeach 4y ago
To quote @telmo: > The real reason why people are "migrating" to Mastodon right now (and can't seem to stop talking about it on Twitter) is one and one only: to signal their tribal affiliation. Twitter used to be controlle
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by cbeach 4y ago
Problem is that lawmakers can simply make the whole technology illegal to use. China banned trading and mining of all public blockchains (except those it controls) in 2021.
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by cbeach 4y ago
I think the $8/month charge will put spam and bots out of business. That’s why Musk is doing it. I’ve just subscribed to Twitter Blue and aside from the extra features, I have a lot of confidence that if others do this, we’ll have a mo
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by cbeach 4y ago
Funny how the mainstream media seems to focus on the one or two attention seekers leaving - as opposed to the actual data which shows the platform thriving. It’s almost as if the establishment wants to pick a political fight with Elon…
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Ask HN: Can directed energy weapons be rendered impotent using mirrors?
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by cbeach 4y ago
Elon’s the kind of guy that moves fast, gives ideas a try, and re-evaluates constantly based on performance and feedback. So, it’s too early to predict the outcome, but having seen the success of Tesla and SpaceX, I think Twitter is worth
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by cbeach 4y ago
The bit that exhausts me is how everyone is suddenly trolling Musk, and that these trolls assume we all feel equally indignant about someone trying to stand up for free speech in the public square. It’s Trump Derangement Syndrome all over a
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by cbeach 4y ago
When I left Twitter back when it was censoring Conservatives, I found Mastadon a confusing experience, with much less compelling content than Twitter. I didn’t stay long enough to be attacked. If the authoritarian Left leave Twitter to join
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by cbeach 4y ago
I think you’re downplaying the significance of a private company in the West banning the democratically elected leader of the free world from reaching his supporters … while simultaneously allowing the Taliban to use the platform. Something
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by cbeach 4y ago
Life got a lot better for me when I finally moved out of London. I was fed up of living in a place where there was no cultural cohesion, where people constantly came and left, where ghettos naturally formed because melting pots don’t work i
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by cbeach 4y ago
When Twitter started overtly censoring conservatives a few years ago I tried to break my addiction to the platform. Lefties said “if you don’t like Twitter, start your own platform.” Gab and Parler popped up. Predictably, they picked up som
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by cbeach 4y ago
I bitterly miss the freedoms I had before children. Doing anything I wanted, any time. I miss the partner I married before children made her tired, stressed and irritable. We’re still together, still married, but our relationship has really
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by cbeach 4y ago
Society is polarising thanks to social media, with its self-reinforcing echo chambers. Like/dislike buttons promote groupthink and demote comments from critical thinkers whose thinking doesn’t conform to whatever is popular. This makes
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by cbeach 4y ago
Startups are really hard and most fail. Anyone who goes into one without knowing this is naive. The important thing is to go in there and work bloody hard, because in a startup your hard work is uniquely able to contribute to the success of
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by cbeach 4y ago
I think it’s sad you’re getting downvoted. Sad, how people now sneer at hard work and dedication. Working in a place where everyone is passionate about the mission - that’s a wonderful feeling that doesn’t come often in life. It’s true soli
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by cbeach 4y ago
The “working hard for a billionaire” narrative is a politicised sneer. Who are we to judge employees at Twitter like this? In reality, they might be working hard because they believe in the new vision of the company. Perhaps they believe th
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by cbeach 4y ago
To those dismissing Tesla FSD as “snake oil”, I’d recommend a quick YouTube search where you’ll find countless customers using FSD without intervention on city streets with complex junctions and poor visibility.

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