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didntknowya
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those exploiting power have no interest in becoming "saviors". trying to appear as one does not last long as victims as in human nature soon looks for someone to blame- often the most visible
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$500M is a lot to waste in private money, but unfortunately in taxpayer money it's pittance and usually swept under the carpet
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idk it'll closer to 60% coding, of which >50% would be looking thing up rather than actually writing anything
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didntknowya
3y ago
people are not stupid- they know a business needs to make money. middle managers who tries to hide this from their team, even with the best intention (ie, to "shield" them from the realities) are only fooling themselves and in the
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didntknowya
3y ago
yeh even for coffee or energy drinks. many take it to study for longer, rather than have a better study session.
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didntknowya
3y ago
if you take a step back, double blind every country's name and judge them based on their history, i doubt most, if any, would rate the US as the good guy. it has a history of starting wars, especially in places far from their territory
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3y ago
i dont see any competitor atm that even comes close to wework. and maybe that's because the model isn't sustainable.
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3y ago
now that COVID has a few years to run we have new data for scientist to discover it's effect. back then no one knew anything about COVID. it's not like the doctor was hiding the truth. people are expecting them to be all-knowing i
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3y ago
good. the UX of using it on anything but an iPhone is painful, and watching on a small screen is a small subset of usage
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3y ago
it's fine to have a heavy cost to private ownership because they have a decent public transport.
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yea a company's word that it respects privacy has little value. thankfully data harvesting isn't a profit stream for Apple so they see no need to collect it. Google on the other hand trades in data and would collect as much as the
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really depends more on how many poor people he affected (slap on the wrist) vs rich people (longer jail time)
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3y ago
any country would avoid confirming any defense errors, I don't see why China needs to be singled out every time
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didntknowya
3y ago
it's very easy to ask questions sitting on a chair of privilege. most people just take a job to survive.
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3y ago
new evidence "coming to light" is grounds for appeals or rehearings, I'd have thought evidence of debunked science would have applied too
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i wouldn't say she was ignored. this was an important but incremental research. people always assume that landmark discoveries are immediately obvious but really it only appears so after the accumulation of numerous research built on t
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didntknowya
3y ago
leverage? as in sell out people's biometric data for profit? yea that's exactly what we were warned about
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didntknowya
3y ago
though chatGPT seem to have had no trouble scraping data from everywhere
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didntknowya
3y ago
who would've thought a simple fact about tesla would be so triggering. IMO the post was quite neutral so hold off on your bias.
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3y ago
yeh unfortunately most of the best professors spend the majority of their time applying for grants for their students, going to conference, doing admin etc rather than work in a lab
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didntknowya
3y ago
there's proven ways to unlock older iphones. you can upload a modified ROM that increases the lockout limit. then brute force your way into the passcode.
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3y ago
an eye for an eye is fair enough. but in his case though i think most people felt justice was hugely disproportionate- and only because they wanted to make an example out of a vulnerable person, just to protect their profit.
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3y ago
lol. i have respect for these skilled engineers. but let's not pretend making posts show up on a feed is as difficult as curing cancer. half the time my app screen freezes or there's an issue with posts showing. it was good at the
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idk there's plenty of black box recordings of pilots panicking when a crash is imminent. ATC controllers on the other hand have training and physically don't have much to lose.
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3y ago
they sell mostly end of line stuff. Hence why they can sell very cheaply as factories would otherwise just clear them by the lot or dump them. as such most are cheap products but you do occasionally get decent items (e.g. factories retoolin
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idk, selling services/goods below cost is kinda the playbook most SV startups use so nothing new here.
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3y ago
i think everyone is wary of how politically connected the US courts are
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Human factors is a big part of the UX for vehicles and machines and frequently overlooked in new products. It is especially important for emergency situations where what you assume is logical can be thrown out the window when the user is un
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their AI would never
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materials costs are not the only consideration. they have to arrange for a secure supply, retooling, QC checking etc. to do it properly. I imagine they got the cheapest engineer to make a functioning product. Changing their whole production
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