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by davidcbc 5y ago
People aren't robots, they are emotionally connected biological beings. Emotions are a biological response. You can't just 100% control your emotions any more than you can 100% control your thyroid.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
I'm looking forward to the sequel, "Have I Been 'Have I Been Facebooked'ed" when it turns out this is just a data harvesting operation. If you don't want your phone number leaked don't hand it over to a ra
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by davidcbc 6y ago
Could you be more pedantic? I'm not even the one who brought up L2 in the first place. I used the same jargon as the person I was responding to. HN is a technical forum, if you're going to have a discussion about autonomous vehicl
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by davidcbc 6y ago
Elon is selling a "Full Self Driving car" that is not full self driving at all by Tesla's own admission. It isn't doing the thing it is advertised to do. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35785277&#
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by davidcbc 6y ago
An L2 driving agent was never the goal. An L2 car isn't a self driving car no matter what Elon says.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
It's actually very normal and rational to be angered by child abuse. You aren't above it all and morally superior by talking about how you're not angered by children being abused.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
> how would you respond if people said you were treating your employees unfairly? I'd cry myself to sleep every night on my pile of billions of dollars. Poor Jeff.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
He's saying parents are just blowing pedophilia out of proportion. How is that an improvement?
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by davidcbc 6y ago
Not every autistic person is an asshole
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by davidcbc 6y ago
> The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. This doesn't take the edge off, it mak
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by davidcbc 6y ago
You would assume wrong
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by davidcbc 6y ago
There has only been 1 day this year that I think falls into this category (and only one or two last year as well). They are almost all algorithm based rather than math based.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
"Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities" is not a personal political opinion, it is the law.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
My recollection is that the extension was for notifying employees of relevant policies and laws regarding websites they were viewing. So no, it was not an unrelated extension.
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by davidcbc 6y ago
Then it should be no problem for Uber to up their fares so they can hire drivers as employees
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by davidcbc 6y ago
Who cares which C-level exec is doing something nefarious?
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by davidcbc 7y ago
https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference
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by davidcbc 7y ago
Or I can let go of my steering wheel and let my car naturally crash into road barriers for free
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by davidcbc 7y ago
> Don't you think he deserves a billion from that $700bn rise in market cap? No, nobody deserves a billion dollars, I don't care what they do.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
The climate crisis should be more important than AWS growth, even for Amazon. A severe environmental collapse is gonna be pretty rough on Amazon's bottom line
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by davidcbc 7y ago
This is fine as long as you can convince management to spend the money to rewrite your software. That's usually a hard sell though. In my experience this plan usually ends up with a python monstrosity that everyone hates but is forced
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by davidcbc 7y ago
Memory management in modern C++ is considerably easier than it used to be. Bespoke memory managers aren't really needed, you can do almost anything you need to without ever using new or delete.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
If you are comparing it to slavery I think you are vastly overestimating how bad the promo process is.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
Considering they already provide the !g command how is that significantly different for DDG? They obviously have access to Google search results if they want them.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
I got 4 ads, 3 were Progressive, Geico, and AAA. Those are likely to be top results for car insurance even without the ads.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
It reads to me like she was using her personal phone to access corp, not a corp phone to access personal stuff. They absolutely will wipe your personal phone in that scenario
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by davidcbc 7y ago
There is literally another example in my previous post.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
The NFL players association is a highly successful union for people with unique abilities. Same with the Screen Actors Guild. Highly specialized labor benefits from unionization as well.
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by davidcbc 7y ago
If you're gonna beat a dead horse at least get the motto right. It was "Don't be evil" not "Do no evil"
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by davidcbc 7y ago
Every time someone posts "Nobody wants cloud gaming" half a dozen people come in and say "Actually, I want cloud gaming" Don't mistake the fact that you don't want cloud gaming for nobody wanting cloud gaming

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