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by cirgue 9y ago
IBM has definitely created some cool stuff at various times. The problem, though, is that IBM misrepresents themselves in publicly-facing marketing and with paying clients during implementation .
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by cirgue 9y ago
You can't quit being influenced entirely, but it is still mostly up to you.
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by cirgue 9y ago
This rose has a much tighter action-reward loop, both for consumers and producers. Yellow journalism, tabloids, etc were taking advantage of the same human tendencies, but the speed and volume of the message is orders of magnitude greater t
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by cirgue 9y ago
> People differ and people think differently: sometimes stuff we think as difficult seems easy to business people. That is a conflict that we have to solve, not avoid. This, and its inverse (things that seem difficult to business people
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by cirgue 9y ago
Drink lots of water, eat a wide variety of mostly non-processed food, find physical activities that are fun and engaging enough that you will do them for entertainment.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Just to be clear, I think the president is a fraud and a grifter who is attempting to use the fundamentally broken ideology of the far right for his own advantage. We can discuss the absurd details of his agenda all we want, but he is ultim
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Does that mean the content of one's political beliefs is not essential to their political identity If your political ideology allows you to think that 'people who disagree with me about policy but agree with me in principle a
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by cirgue 9y ago
The universe of human endeavor is not a line between backwardness and progress. Social medial platforms could evolve into more robust means of communication, tools of brutal oppression, advertising-saturated hellscapes, monuments to human v
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by cirgue 9y ago
>The cynical dystopian insinuation around technology, on a technology site no less, is getting old. A technology site is exactly the place for cynicism about technology. The idea of seeing an ad for a suicide hotilne on a social media si
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by cirgue 9y ago
Cultivating an enthusiast base is very much a viable strategy toward marketing a product if you also play the rest of the game correctly. Apple products are viewed as luxury goods because of their appearance and interface, but they also had
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by cirgue 9y ago
> We (humanity) have made huge progress to understand images in terms of content and emotions of people. We don't have systems that 'understand' anything, nor do we have anything remotely close. We have systems that can as
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by cirgue 9y ago
>By providing all the necessary clues to convince his audience that what they saw was truly “scientific,” Hörbiger’s doctrine “produced sensations of authenticity that made the distinction between ‘serious’ scientific work, committed to
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by cirgue 9y ago
Depends on where you are in the US. "The West" is pretty a pretty diverse place in terms of attitudes.
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by cirgue 9y ago
My bad, I thought that was added by the parent.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> The quoted text specifically refers to this being the result of a 5% monthly chance recurring over 12-months, i.e. it was a pretty unambiguous appeal to mathematics. No it isn't. If I have some information about events that will o
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by cirgue 9y ago
> It's 2017, there's no excuse for being ignorant any more. Implicit in this statement is that your view on this issue is the truth, and anyone who disagrees with you is ignorant. If you want to have a genuine discussion with
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by cirgue 9y ago
Junior devs are a radically different value proposition than senior devs. You have to turn them into good developers, they will all look like garbage on paper if you are expecting someone who can walk in and do the job. Curiosity, tenacity,
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by cirgue 9y ago
If you think the answer to this question is yes, you are not good.
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by cirgue 9y ago
The how and why are extremely contentious for most externailities. That government has a duty to prevent certain kinds of anti-competitive behavior is one of the few points of general agreement.
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by cirgue 9y ago
> Surkov is one of President Putin’s advisers, and has helped him maintain his power for 15 years, but he has done it in a very new way. He came originally from the avant-garde art world, and those who have studied his career, say that w
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by cirgue 9y ago
You don't need AI to have a paperclip demon. You just need complex systems that impact people's lives and aren't well understood. Capitalism is arguably the example of the paperclip deamon, and that will not get better with
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by cirgue 9y ago
> I don't see what this fuss is all about. If Facebook wants to offer cheaper Internet with their services prioritized, why not? Incumbency advantage and the arbitrary consolidation of economic power. The one clear duty of a govern
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by cirgue 9y ago
The interesting part of human intelligence isn't the ability to calculate that F=MA based on measurement, it's the ability to come to a social consensus on the meaning of F,M,A, and =, and to decide that the relationship between f
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by cirgue 9y ago
> "magic beans" is harsh IBM sells an image, not a working product, and they deserve some ridicule for it. I have worked with Watson and a decently large IBM consulting team, and 'magic beans' is a diplomatic way of p
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by cirgue 9y ago
Absolutely, but a city needs a stable rental market that isn't subject to the vicissitudes of tourism/travel demand.
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by cirgue 9y ago
This isn't correct. The major problem with Airbnb isn't that it competes with hotels, it's that full-time residents have to compete with Airbnb for housing. Airbnb owners typically violate local laws preventing short-term ren
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by cirgue 9y ago
Read my comment, that is explicitly not what I said. She has a better skill set than I do.
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by cirgue 9y ago
Having worked on a project that tried to implement "Watson" in one of our use cases, I can say with some certainty that it is worse than a joke. >“If you call IBM Watson a joke you call the hundreds of companies and startups th
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by cirgue 9y ago
I am paid less than one of my peers who has a masters from a prestigious university. I am cool with this: they have more debt and a larger skill set than me. However, I am thankful that other people in the organization do not see the differ
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by cirgue 9y ago
You are 100% correct. However, that is something that should be enforced by the norms and values of the human beings on the team, not HR. Cursing isn't bad, it's that cursing can be used to express sentiments and intentions that a

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