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by chillacy 6y ago
All countries which play the geopolitical game have "enemies". Pakistan and China are geopolitical allies, the Belt and Road initiative runs through Pakistan while Pakistan provides a port to China. The two states have very little
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by chillacy 6y ago
Firmware presents an extra challenge too, seeing as how you basically can't see what was flashed, and most toolchains are proprietary.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Another very common example throughout history: cannibalism. Nobody thinks they're capable of it yet somehow in a starvation situation it just happens to happen. Or worth considering: https://twitter.com/mccormickprof&#
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by chillacy 6y ago
Everybody copies at first, then they start making state of the art improvements. It takes time though, Toyota was founded in 1937, they started by reverse engineering Chrystler cars (they were surprisingly open about this in the Toyota muse
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by chillacy 6y ago
I can only guess but art is now considered to be inherently subjective. So you there's no way to make statements like "picasso is better than jackson pollock", or "cubism is not real art". Going further there are a
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by chillacy 6y ago
Race and ethnicity are also hyperlocal concepts. The specific groupings that are used in America are a product of American history more than any sort of universal truth. It doesn't mesh well for a global advertising product.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Isn't that better? Like if you're selling sailing equipment, I can't imagine that excluding <ethnicity> possibly make things better for those people who also happen to like sailing.
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by chillacy 6y ago
I mean to be fair I'm getting payment processing and hosting but yea it's a pretty steep fee.
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by chillacy 6y ago
If these events are anything like the some of the AirBnb experiences I've attended, there's material cost and effort to adding more attendees: more cooking supplies, more equipment, more instructor attention, more work to followup
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by chillacy 6y ago
First amendment applies to the US Government, not Apple, but it is a free speech issue in principle.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Probably mostly "stock buybacks" and "Apple unrelated R&D" at this point. More seriously though, I'm not sure if anyone outside of Apple could actually tell if the app store as an organization is revenue neutral
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by chillacy 6y ago
Yea so as a developer I pay two taxes: The first 30% goes to Apple, the next 30% goes to the government, now for every dollar my app sold for I make 49 cents.
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by chillacy 6y ago
There's a closer analogy between US states. It's expensive to move and all your friends are in the old city, but you could do it.
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by chillacy 6y ago
"Reclaiming territory" is kind of a bullshit excuse though. I that actually made for moral justification, then just about everyone should be conquering each other right now. For instance, other people could reason that the current
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by chillacy 6y ago
> Hell, I am only a voting member as far as the flight controls are concerned in the Super Hornet anyways. If I put a control input in that is not aerodynamically sound (i.e. could result in a departure from controlled flight), the fligh
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by chillacy 6y ago
> This month Thailand’s digital minister accused Facebook of not complying with requests to restrict content, including insults to the monarchy. On 10 August he gave Facebook 15 days to comply with court takedown orders or face charges u
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by chillacy 6y ago
Sometimes maybe. Other times you have this story https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-16/qatar-pr... Ultimately it reinforces a culture where influence can be passed to children.
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by chillacy 6y ago
> The marriage of reason was not, in hindsight, reasonable at all; it was often expedient, narrow-minded, snobbish and exploitative. That is why what has replaced it — the marriage of feeling — has largely been spared the need to account
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by chillacy 6y ago
Not the parent you're responding to but the answer I see is that in the modern understanding of geopolitics (like 19th century and onwards), "fairness" and "values" aren't considerations at all. https:/&#
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by chillacy 6y ago
I guess the article should be called "2 year unconditional cash transfer program to 2000 people seemed to improve employment and wellbeing". But I disagree that this doesn't allow us to infer anything about UBI. It tells us s
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by chillacy 6y ago
The market doesn't care about suppliers and jobs going out of business (actually more cynically the market encourages efficiency, and useless suppliers are inefficient). Sometimes places try to legislate make-work jobs into existence,
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's kind of interesting that she had to fight to build a female TTS at bell labs and now the major TTS systems in America are all female voices. Ironically this has lead to accusations of sexism. https://www.businessinsider
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by chillacy 6y ago
Oh yea, love Roquefort. I remember it was quite difficult to get where I lived in the US maybe 10 years ago and then suddenly it started appearing at normal supermarkets. I've been told unpasteurized cheese is hard to get in the US sti
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by chillacy 6y ago
Agreed, economics is probably more like medicine or biology: complex systems often have 2nd or 3rd order effects that aren't apparent at first. These studies should be seen like phase 1 clinical trials are, promising results lead to la
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by chillacy 6y ago
It's impossible to fully prove a negative (e.g. prove this code has no bugs, prove there isn't a teacup hiding behind mars), but each study gives us tentative confidence to do larger and larger studies. If we really are nearing an
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by chillacy 6y ago
I recall Harari talks about the cycle of capital in Sapiens, with the Dutch punching above their weight compared to Spain due to how they could fundraise for wars by raising war bonds or selling stock, vs the Spanish king who had to increas
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by chillacy 6y ago
What makes it worse is there are certain topics where there is no objective, unbiased view beyond believing what most of your peers believe.
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by chillacy 6y ago
Hmm I think I see what you're saying. Reality is experienced through electrical signals, arguably we're just learning those inputs. But then I (as always I can only speak for myself, everyone else could be a p-zombie for all I kno
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by chillacy 6y ago
The paper makes reference to the Symbol Grounding Problem, but I have not found the SGP's distinction between form and meaning to be completely convincing without some evidence of a physical, observable process. At the end when you loo
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by chillacy 6y ago
This is the thesis of Bender 2020 https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.acl-main.463.pdf when evaluating GPT-2. They distinguish between meaning and form. We don't _really_ know what the physical manifestations of

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