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by dexen 5y ago
"Euphemism treadmill" [1] is a real problem when medical terminology enters common circulation. Various medical terms have shifted into insult or slur territory over the years - a risky example being "mentally retarded".
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>the AI might have found some other indicator, like filenames in the data set The paper quite explicitly goes into testing and disseminating what exactly the AI detects. Two observations: - the classification clearly was primarily base
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"Treat infrastructure as possible failure points and prepare accordingly" holds just as well for the payment infrastructure. Interesting and fresh perspective, thank you for sharing.
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by dexen 5y ago
What you describe is matter of selection bias: in fields as crowded as public health and medicine, experts voice all sorts of advice, citing all kinds of research, and often contradicting each other. At the end of the day, we regular citize
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by dexen 5y ago
That only applies to car engines; aviation piston engines evolve much slower and commonly required leaded gasoline til recently - specifically for the lead content, beyond the anti-knock properties. Most common avgas is 100LL, with signific
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by dexen 5y ago
>I'm generally an avid beliver in free markets as an agent for positive change I'm with you here - especially including the observation that it was the non-free market force ("It couldn’t be patented") that skewed t
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by dexen 5y ago
Depends on flight speeds and prop rotation (tip speed specifically), but the propellers have for a long time had a 90+% efficiency already. Ideally, a long and narrow one-bladed propeller would have best performance, somewhat similar to sai
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by dexen 5y ago
>callous with trending algorithms >abuse with some coordination I take umbrage with those characterizations. The practices described (pre-arranged release of information, voicing mutual support in coordinated manner, agreed-upon l
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by dexen 5y ago
Why is Mozilla, of all orgs, performing foreign activism and reporting on Twitter users in hopes of getting them banned? "We want to do good", sure, but that's two bits of a stretch here. Nothing in the article as posted ind
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Media outlets lose High Court appeal over Facebook defamation ruling(smh.com.au)
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by dexen 5y ago
Excellent contention, and I don't have a ready-made answer yet. Curiously enough, we've seen anonymous services succeed for results unrelated to privacy-from-government: places like Omegle & ChatRoulette use anonymity for fun;
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by dexen 5y ago
>Whether it's underseas fiber optic cables or bouncing signals off of satellites, the datacenter will be rendered useless if nations' citizens get a "This site can’t be reached. [...] ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" Not i
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by dexen 5y ago
>"we'll never log your IPs" is something that no company can hold. Four words: The Intercept, Secure Drop. A one-way mail (content submission) system that runs exclusively on Tor, and thus can't be supboenated for u
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by dexen 5y ago
>No more anonymous trolls, less disinformation/fewer manipulative botnets shaping public discourse, less aggressive behaviour in online games. This assumption was tested extensively by several platforms, and it failed miserably al
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by dexen 5y ago
Half joking: so far GitHub Copilot is more feasible as tool for humans doing code-coverage for its input code, "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" style. When a developer goes, "huh, Copilot generated insecure code,
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by dexen 5y ago
Nice tool, thank you for sharing. Feedback - a small bug - somehow it misses / hides the "½" character in my bio (profile description).
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by dexen 5y ago
I like this approach, and exploration of alternatives to popular solution is good. In particular the simple approach to circular structures looks good - including the reverse lexial order deallocation.
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by dexen 5y ago
Yes I have, but that's just one personal experience. My frustration with your proposal stems from the general trend of government monopoly making for sticky and byzantine bureaucracies. For all the warts of private services, there&#x27
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by dexen 5y ago
Not at all: just like platforms "suspend" account and may un-suspend it at their discretion, the government arrests suspects and confiscates property for evidence. That it ends after a year or two is of no help - the business is r
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by dexen 5y ago
Mother of bad takes... let's consider the two alternatives. Every single example you name happens just the same under regulation / government bureaucracy. Replacing private services with government services or tight regulation of
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by dexen 5y ago
Alternative source in case you want to double-check on the Telegraph newspaper: https://news.stv.tv/scotland/government-seeks-to-make-emerge...
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by dexen 5y ago
I find the opening graph to undermine the central thesis a bit: the dot-com bubble burst in 2002, but is barely reflected on the graph; the growth levels off in 2005 or 2006. If the change in productivity was largely software-moderated, I
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by dexen 5y ago
The reports you linked measure "access and equity and outcomes" - i.e., averaged cost-effectiveness for people who rely on popular insurance programs, rather than paying out of pocket. US scores poorly in those due to high sticker
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by dexen 5y ago
Two months ago there was a news that raised some eye-brows, "Amazon has a quota for the number of employees it would be happy to see leave (businessinsider.com)" [1]. Some of the comments were quite negative, reading it as a deh
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by dexen 5y ago
Reminds me the old anecdote, In the days when Sussman was a novice Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. "What are you doing?", asked Minsky. "I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-
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by dexen 5y ago
Good points about JS and Tor, thank you! >That's apparently become such a technological challenge I suppose it's more of an organizational challenge. Various factors like the difficulty of quantifying product- or service-ma
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>There is one important difference: Substack has better, more flexible tools for payment than blogging ever had. There are two more key differences: Substack has serious marketing effort behind it. Big scale, well thought ought, multi-
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by dexen 5y ago
In programming, coding is a tool for discovering the under-specified parts of the specification.
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Of the four factions identified, only one - Just America - cannot stand having any opposing factions in the same body politic. And now that very faction prescribes its overriding value of equality as way of proselytizing, rather than co
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Thanks to Windows 11, people are scalping TPM2.0 modules as well now(twitter.com)
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