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by csoups14 9mo ago
That's clearly true, given people by and large know what's good and bad for them but their consumption choices need to factor in a much larger set of pressing constraints like price, availability, and readiness and more abstract c
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by csoups14 9mo ago
Evidence please.
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by csoups14 9mo ago
That a majority of your populace not caring about how they're governed is bad for a democratic republic.
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by csoups14 9mo ago
Most major airports are at their physical limit in terms of both airfield and gate traffic and are charging extremely high gate fees. I'm not in airline logistics but I would bet my bottom dollar that is the true constraint in having m
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by csoups14 9mo ago
That depends entirely on how much "slightly more expensive" is. For the vast majority of the travelling public, they'll choose the cheaper option and we know that because that's what they choose already.
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by csoups14 9mo ago
The easy answer: Google simply does not care. Some mix of: they don't measure it, they don't look at it, they don't goal around reducing it, nobody's performance review is going to be better because they reduced it, no d
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by csoups14 10mo ago
Nowhere in the article is the author suggesting that local or state governments manage these algorithms, just that they be audited for fairness given the amount of power these algorithms hold in the market. Google operates something of a mo
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by csoups14 10mo ago
Any analysis of Github's functionality that begins and ends with blaming individuals and their competency is deeply mistaken while being insulting. Anyone who has ever worked at a large company knows exactly how hard it is for top perf
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by csoups14 11mo ago
That's besides the point, isn't it? There is a high likelihood that these models, these companies, and the people building them are going to be central in shaping future conversations and thought. Why does it matter what they&#x27
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by csoups14 11mo ago
It's not a skill issue, it's an organizational issue. The engineers at Meta are world class but they're nerfed by organizational constraints.
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by csoups14 1y ago
You don't think it's a bigger assumption that plowing hundreds of billions of dollars into a novel and often misunderstood technology is going to net out positive? We're not talking "people like feeds of cat photos"
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by csoups14 1y ago
The author didn't say the road was designed to kill children. They said the system was working exactly as designed in that it prioritizes vehicular traffic over other concerns and this is a predictable side effect of that prioritizatio
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by csoups14 1y ago
Or they realize it and they're trying to squeeze the last bit of juice available to them before the party stops. It's not exactly a suboptimal decision to work towards your own job's demise if it's the best paying work a
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by csoups14 1y ago
In the case of immigrant workers in Qatar, the deal they're offered very often ends up looking very different from their lived experience once it's accepted and they move into the country to perform the work. If the deal was clear
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by csoups14 1y ago
A realistic fair share is probably some colloquial measure of people and corporations being equally angry about their taxes and equally angry about others not paying their fair share. It's my personal opinion that corporations have it
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by csoups14 1y ago
Yes, I would expect the government to blindly stick to the founding document of the country. I would also expect the government to go through the amendment process to change that document if it was found wanting given changes in society ove
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by csoups14 1y ago
Where is the slop?
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by csoups14 1y ago
I fully believe that this will net out as a functionally insignificant change that Apple will market as world-changing and haters will say is negative.
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by csoups14 1y ago
Agreed. People want to be entertained, not informed.
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by csoups14 2y ago
We're supposed to withhold judgment on somebody who has directly led to the deaths of several dozen children? Are you really implying there is no one who is better qualified to lead HHS?
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by csoups14 2y ago
I also find it comical that banning TikTok is the red line for folks when the NSA and other government agencies have been acting with impunity when it comes to harvesting data for decades now.
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by csoups14 3y ago
From the original "Elixir is Safe" article: > 3. “Shared nothing” concurrency > Item 3 is the killer one for safety. Like two people, two processes cannot share memory; they can only communicate by sending each other message
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by csoups14 3y ago
The estimate isn't a guarantee of time to crack. If you chose "111111" it wouldn't take 5.5 years and that doesn't mean the estimate is incorrect.