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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I'm also a big fan of the model Germany uses where once a company reaches a certain size they're required to have employees on the board, who can then be accountable to their coworkers and make sure they have a say in major decisi
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
The mention of silicon as a potential carbon replacement is also explored a bit in the movie "Ecolution" from 2001 - the half-life for replication is way short and (spoiler) they use an analog of cyanide to destroy the silicon-bas
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> (when they really, really love one another) can mix and meld to form a new organism that can replicate itself in turn I know it's a bit tongue-in-cheek but I kinda wish they'd go with something more realistic that also explai
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think I agree with others here - this isn't a real concern. If the only value you're adding to a market is your site design which anyone can legally view and copy then you aren't adding anything. If your product has true va
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
TurnItIn also let's students submit beforehand last I heard - if people are going to use tools like this then students should also get full access to make sure they won't get flagged ahead of time. I had some professors where you
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
You could even just set up a GAN to make the AI better at not being detected as something written by an AI, I don't see a good general solution to this, but I also see it as a non-issue - if students have better tools they should be ab
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I can't remember the keyword to look it up, but there's a problem of statistics you run into with stuff like terrorism detection algorithms If we have 300M people in the US and only 1k terrorists, then you need 99.9999% accuracy b
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think this is the big advice - it may be harder to get hired at a "top" tech company, but there's still so many hiring, seems more like a shift from larger to smaller companies - decentralization of the workforce rather tha
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
As some other replies have said - the best and most reasonable hedge is to rely on your community and have good bonds there. Doesn't matter how much cash you have if people don't care about that anymore, the best option is to have
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Great response - even if I can buy a pig with bullets it doesn't help anything else. That assumes you can butcher and store the meat. This seems like a kind of bikeshedding argument - the bike shed is built so don't worry about th
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Wouldn't FDIC insurance cover this? For the average person they'd be fine, if they have over 250k in the bank then they aren't the average person
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I'd still say very much yes, "car makers" are all humans even if the physical construction of the car is almost entirely done by machines - you still have people making and maintaining the machines so that becomes the action
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> (as if that would even matter, as I've discovered that no one actually ever seems to look at open-source code) I _really_ wish our company would open-source the code just as a way to make the team feel better and hold ourselves to
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Parts of Spain have a history of anarchism and syndicalism, with an explicit recognition that it was a way to fight back against an economic system that was taking advantage of them.[1] Chile tried to do something similar when they realized
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think the solution here is standardization - if you don't force a company to abide by some standard then they'll all create their own. We have the same issue with software - many programmers describe their job as creating the in
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I had the same thought - we already have this concept with licenses and laws. When I buy a movie it comes with a bunch of terms limiting what I can do with it, if I publish something I can limit how other people are allowed to use it - incl
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
100% agreed - the issue is that people aren't giving _informed_ consent, I think it'd be great to have a law that basically says "the default has to be not tracking, and you can prompt and allow users to opt-in for targeted a
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Gwern has an interesting writeup[1] on nicotine and how the real damage is from the smoking [1]: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Yeah good clarification sorry, the price cap is the compelled part, not the original loan decision
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> Going by revealed preferences, most people don't consider targeting advertising to be "spying and psychological manipulation". If they did, usage patters would differ. By this logic most people don't actually believ
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think this is like predatory lending laws - you can be forced to give someone a loan at a reasonable price, even if you can convince them to pay way more. The same argument also works for voluntary slavery - I think people have the right
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
> If the standard becomes "make illegal business models that the media gets enough people upset about" I think you're giving "the media" too much credit here, it's also very possible that the business models
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think a lot of the bad rap comes from how the measurements are used - I personally like to know my trends for how many hours/commits/etc I did in different areas during a time period. I use Wakatime[1] in my editor and love chec
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
Somewhat tangential, but we have the already have the tech to know when license plates show up at a certain place, we know the map and the speed limits, so we could completely automate tickets for speeding. If the limit is 60mph and you sho
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I definitely support assisted suicide, but not for economic reasons. If someone feels helpless because they can't afford a house or food that should be given to them. I think we're a little ahead of the curve here because we don&#
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I don't think we should be coercing their government to do anything, we should educate our own citizenry, build infrastructure to protect against it, lobby the international community to make a legal process for it, or all three
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I don't agree with the Russian sanctions, you're doing collective punishment on a population of people, many of whom presumably don't even support the war. It may be an effective strategy but that alone doesn't justify i
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I think this is an "ought VS is" thing - I know realistically the US could just hit people until they agree, but this is something that would need to be handled by an international governing body. If someone in NY scams someone in
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
I'm saying we should invest in educating people in the US to stop falling for the scams, or for infrastructure to stop in here in the US. As another comment notes, the US is responsible for plenty of parasitism (MLMs, ponzi, crypto) th
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by e_i_pi_2 4y ago
They could also stop civil asset forfeiture - in 2014 that surpassed burglary in the US as the top form of theft by value. Without being charged or convicted of any crime police can take cash and property, which can then be sold for funding

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