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901.
by creato 6y ago
> my data is still gone How exactly is your data "gone"?
902.
by creato 6y ago
I think remote work is missing the point here. It's politically difficult for governments to spend their tax revenue by paying a largely foreign workforce.
903.
by creato 6y ago
OK, so 100k at most per engineer for "over 100" engineers, and those are just the ones that jumped ship, never mind the thousands staying behind. Is that significant?
904.
by creato 6y ago
Your link includes post-WWII "regime change". Would you rather live in Western Europe or Eastern Europe? North Korea or South Korea? The point is, the United States has done a lot of things across the world. Some of it may be havo
905.
by creato 6y ago
I think a lot of the recent focus on "AI ethics" is just self-aggrandizement. I also think a lot of people here are overestimating how broad the agreement is on what is ethical and what is not (and thus what would be prevented fro
906.
by creato 6y ago
No matter who you put forth saying what Gates has been saying, they will quickly be tarnished by the same baseless bullshit. Effectively 0% of people knew who Facui or Birx were before the pandemic. Now they're the target of the same k
907.
by creato 6y ago
I really doubt it has much to do with messaging at all. It's more about the ability to disseminate and control messages the public sees, especially in a "narrowcasted" way. Political forces in the US are constantly trying to
908.
by creato 6y ago
People are thinking about this way too much in terms of personal data. I don't think this really is about that. Editorial control over what a significant fraction of people see is significant power over those people. Even seemingly ben
909.
by creato 6y ago
Yes, that's the point. Absent another explanation for unusual deaths, it seems likely they are due to COVID-19.
910.
by creato 6y ago
Tell that to people that live in Colorado, Oregon, Washington, or (mostly) Utah. They've been voting by mail for years. I'd worry a lot more about computerized election systems before voting by mail. I think people are too worried
911.
by creato 6y ago
I don't think the issue is that simple. For example, a Lyme disease vaccine was pulled from the market over dubious safety issues [1]: > This panel, described by one participant as raucous and riotous [35], provided a forum for all
912.
by creato 6y ago
Of course China is going to retaliate. That doesn't mean we shouldn't consider that ridiculous.
913.
by creato 6y ago
It's ridiculous that you even talk about retaliation in a post where you acknowledge that anything that would be a worthy retaliation is already banned !
914.
by creato 6y ago
You sent $6k in bitcoin to Elon Musk because you thought he'd give you $12k back? Assuming this isn't a joke, consider that $6k a lesson to not be such a gullible mark.
915.
by creato 6y ago
The fact that you believe something like content moderation can be boiled down to some hard and fast regulations, let alone a set of regulations that people could agree on, is honestly kind of scary.
916.
by creato 6y ago
Google supposedly is doing exactly this in some fields, e.g. Quantum computing. But I don't know enough about Quantum computers to tell if that effort is producing anything of value, I'm leaning towards no at this point. Maybe jus
917.
by creato 6y ago
I wonder how many of the deleted databases are just people learning with databases of dummy data?
918.
by creato 6y ago
Should we care about a monoculture around a local used/hosted, open source tool? I might worry about a monoculture around a hosted service like github, but not git itself.
919.
by creato 6y ago
Why does anyone even need to decide? Just look at the amortized costs for any activity, whether it is "essential" or not. Essential things still cost money. The only thing you might want to do is provide a rebate for taxes on &quo
920.
by creato 6y ago
These scams are so stupid I can't believe people actually fall for them in significant numbers, let alone after all this time they've been going on. The scams must be part of some kind of bitcoin laundering scheme, I just can&#x27
921.
by creato 6y ago
By the time of the election, the polls had narrowed considerably. There were a lot of clowns with predictions of 99% chances and whatnot, but people that actually understood statistics and polls had the race a lot closer to a coin flip at t
922.
by creato 6y ago
I feel like all of this debate is painfully missing the point. The problem is not some content moderation policy, the problem is that social media has changed social conversations from small local interactions into monstrous virtual fight c
923.
by creato 6y ago
Even if it were as simple as you make it sound, which I disagree with: so what? Our understanding of the world improves over time.
924.
by creato 6y ago
I don't like the implication that mental health is just feeling good. Maybe if more people would read and understand the news, and feel bad about it , they'd be willing to do even trivial things like wear a mask. In my opinion, g
925.
by creato 6y ago
I'm not aware of instructions that have this implementation defined behavior risk in non-SIMD code, and you can be sure that Intel has tested this. If Microsoft had shipped a non-SIMD version of D3DXMatrixInverse, this bug likely could
926.
by creato 6y ago
> True, but it's quite common that floating point ops throwaway bits (i.e. beyond the epsilon) will be numerically different between vendors. This is a common sentiment, and it is perhaps a helpful way to look at things if you don&#
927.
by creato 6y ago
Funny, I think this graph is from a thread where I got roasted for arguing that differences in CPU implementations meant that Intel (or anyone else really) would need to be careful about shipping SIMD software on processors they don't
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by creato 6y ago
They're basically the same thing, just the integer aliasing approach is a lookup table with one element in it, while an actual lookup table will have more, giving better precision for roughly the same cost (or even better, since you do
929.
by creato 6y ago
There are plenty of nipples on cable TV (and the internet). What you can't do is broadcast a nipple on over the air TV.
930.
by creato 6y ago
> I've read that teamwork and communal nature of the game appealed to Chinese leadership. How is basketball different from almost any team sport in this regard?

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