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by defen 6y ago
The stereotype doesn't come completely out of nowhere though - Cormac McCarthy: "If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking."[1]. Of course, he did some of his best work after quitting drinking, so it&#
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by defen 6y ago
> in practice given that for a lot of concrete ML applications, the broader impact statements appeared to be mostly focused on things like efficiency (or just platitudinal), as noted by other commenters. If they're just platitudes o
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by defen 6y ago
It's in link number [3] that you posted in the section called "C — Types of societal impact"
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by defen 6y ago
> Many other sciences have IRB and human factors approvals for experiments that involve or may involve humans. As far as I know, those are for experiments that directly interact with humans as part of the experiment itself. They exist be
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by defen 6y ago
> Anytime you move fees from a regime where they’re fully visible to the customer into one where they’re hidden, the customer is eventually going to get fleeced. It would be interesting to apply this insight to "surveillance capital
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by defen 6y ago
I find it hard to believe that "subsidizing Prime Video" is the only way for Jeff Bezos to gain entry to the LA/NYC social scenes.
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by defen 6y ago
The investment was at a $1 million valuation and the company currently has 40k cash + allegedly, the possibility of 60k/year from ads. Unless there is significant growth potential, the net present value of the company is much less th
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by defen 6y ago
> We found that acquiring the key requires reading a value from the shared preferences file and decrypting it using a key called “AndroidSecretKey”, which is saved by an android feature called “Keystore”. I'm not familiar with Andro
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by defen 6y ago
Now I finally understand why a Sesame Street song was in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
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by defen 6y ago
I don't think it's due to corruption per se . Americans just have to be convinced to care about civil asset forfeiture more than they care about other things. Most people probably think of it as something that happens to other pe
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by defen 6y ago
The articles describes a study which purports to show that stricter child safety requirements for cars inhibits families from going from 2 -> 3 children, since it essentially forces them to buy a minivan, which is either too expensive or
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by defen 6y ago
> - GMO, again, same point above. "Sure you can have this great crop, no seeds". Again, GMO per say isn't bad, its the implementation that's bad. Why specifically is it bad? If you want non-GMO food you can just grow
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by defen 6y ago
Google can do bad things to you. Significantly less-bad things to you than imprisonment/asset seizure/execution, BUT they are not required to follow due process and are not answerable to anyone but themselves if they do something
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by defen 6y ago
Mind sharing the phone make/model and when this happened?
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by defen 6y ago
A union’s role would be to enforce humane working conditions, not to ensure that a company achieves arbitrary financial goals.
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by defen 6y ago
There’s a definite chicken and egg problem. I think it would have to be a grassroots bottom up thing starting with small vendors, because I agree the big vendors aren’t going to do this on their own. But the small vendors are probably the l
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by defen 6y ago
Maybe a software developers’ union. Big projects like this use a lot of third party tooling; imagine if a decent percentage of those said “we won’t license this to you unless you’re a union shop” or something like that. And said union would
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by defen 6y ago
Really makes one wonder if this document is one that Google does not want to come out in discovery, ever, and that it's in some system with a relatively short TTL before it gets deleted, because policy.
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by defen 6y ago
> Their paper was accepted by the conference's peer review system. Source? The linked article says it was submitted but nothing about whether it was accepted. If it was accepted, is it available for public viewing?
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by defen 6y ago
> they are selling a digital asset at a valuation that exceeds the total economic output of the known universe by several orders of magnitude. If that's not a scam, I don't know what is. But they're not. There are 2^32 pla
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by defen 6y ago
> Urbit has more sinister motives, not least of which is to separate fools from their money by selling them "real estate" in the Urbit cyberworld. How is paying $20, once, for an Urbit planet different than paying $20/mont
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by defen 6y ago
You need more constraints than that to explain why you can't just mount /run/docker.sock in the CI container.
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by defen 6y ago
How do we know "they caved to pressure" as opposed to "were convinced of the merits of making the change"? Like I said, if enough people don't like this change, they can start their own fork called originalgit or so
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by defen 6y ago
Git is Free software so nothing is stopping people from forking it and excluding these patches if they feel that strongly about it.
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by defen 6y ago
I can relate to the anxiety/firmware thing. I had never really experienced that sort of generalized anxiety before, but the weird thing for me was that it was preverbal. So I couldn't even put it into terms like "buried/
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by defen 6y ago
David Foster Wallace actually wrote this essay, it's called "Consider the Lobster". I believe it caused a not-insignificant number of chefs to start killing the lobsters first instead of just boiling them alive.
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by defen 6y ago
I'm not talking about pitched battles though; more the logistics of even engaging horsemen in battle if you don't have your own horses.
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by defen 6y ago
One thing to keep in mind when imagining "Knight vs Peasant" combat is that it's not like they would be fighting in some sort of idealized battle arena. Knights have horses and peasants do not, which means that barring except
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by defen 6y ago
I think "Trump asked the Russians to find Hillary Clinton's emails" is entirely uncontroversial. Saying he asked the Russians to "hack" the "Democrats" involves two inferences and seems like a statement de
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by defen 6y ago
> 2) It's a direct request to hack the Democratic presidential candidate and party standard bearer. So if someone were to hack Trump's emails, do you think it would be an accurate statement to say that they "hacked the Rep

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