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by edanm 2y ago
How many people in your life "hate AI" but love that feature in Google Photos that lets you search your photos by a person's name? People don't generally like or dislike the combustion engine. They like the ability to ge
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by edanm 2y ago
> Here’s a weird fact: if you look around the room you’re in now, I bet you know what it would feel like on your tongue to lick everything you see. We probably learned that in the “put everything in your mouth” baby phase. You are an exp
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It's not "strange" nor an "affectation". Most software startups are consciously trying to innovate , create a new product that didn't exist before. That's a perfectly valid thing to try and do. The fact t
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A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace are two of the best SF books I've read in the last 10 years. I loved them. Three-Body problem is one of the greatest SF books of all time, IMO.
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> The quality overall has increased significantly. Pretty painful to try to read eg Asimov nowadays I wouldn't go that far, Asimov is still awesome, with all the weaknesses that have always been in his works but with all the strengt
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by edanm 2y ago
Which huge companies were spawned from the last few decades of startups raising VC? I think almost all the biggest companies today? Here's a list I grabbed of the highest market-cap companies: 1. Apple 2. Microsoft 3. NVIDIA 4. Alphabe
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Banks don't really physically store much money any more. And more importantly - the police exist. If someone were to actually physically rob a bank, enormous resources would be spent trying to find and capture them, then they'd be
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> I think the implicit assumption is that the vast majority of these breaches are obviously preventable (basic incompetence like leaving a non-password-protected database connected to the public internet is common). Some breaches are cer
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> Nobody said "you have to buy an iPhone NOW, because in 3 years the connectivity will be good". When Steve Jobs got on that stage to show it off, he didn't ask you to trust his vision. I don't think anyone is telling
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> Laws related to data breaches need to have much sharper teeth. Companies are going to do the bare minimum when it comes to securing data as long as breaches have almost no real consequences. Maybe pierce the corporate veil and criminal
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> The question is whether the current Israeli government rationally believes it will improve its overall security position in conducting the operation in the way it is doing (the usual intended outcome of a "war"). That's
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This is absolutely not true. Whatever else you many think of what's happening, this is just a distortion of reality. Hamas is an organized paramilitary of a semi-autonomous regino, that has spent twenty years digging a vast tunnel netw
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by edanm 2y ago
This was specifically written in response to comments on his blog post from a few days ago regarding the new discovery in Busy Beaver functions.
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> i.e., google was fast, Just to quibble with this - that was not even close to the reason Google got popular. It was because Google was much, much better at finding what you actually wanted. It was just a far better product. You can deb
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> But if you're Arab Israeli, you don't have the same slate of rights and representation that Jewish Israelis have. You're mixing up two different things. Arab Israelis (as Israel calls them) are Israeli citizens. They hav
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> I'm saying they're commiting mass murder in hospitals and you're saying they don't do it with air strikes. So I guess it's good then. I didn't say it was good. This thread was about whether NYT is biased o
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Likely, but since as you say West Jerusalem is Israeli, and the government of Israel is in West Jerusalem on a practical basis, calling it a Palestinian city is both wrong, and making a point that I think is worth stating explicitly.
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In what sense do you mean that Jerusalem is a city of Palestine?
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That sounds pretty great, I'll definitely check it out. One thing I'm skeptical about is whether the way Clojure itself is written, with lisp-style S-expressions that are identical in look, is an inherent advantage for this kind o
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> There are well over 1 million ultra-orthodox. There's also a not-really-countable number of non-ultra-orthodox who want the same thing, but their opinions are a bit more diverse. Say, somewhere around 1.6-2 million. That's pl
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by edanm 2y ago
I haven't looked at this specific plugin in a while, so I might be wrong, but from a quick glance (and from vague memories), it doesn't seem like the same thing. Look, I've been using Python professional for 16 years, and eve
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None of that seems accurate, not when it comes to Netanyahu. He's not a religious zealot and almost certainly isn't pursuing anything because of religion. > But there are millions of people in Israel that want nothing more than
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You're partially right, and I've stated many times that I think Israel has acted in morally wrong ways for the last 15 years of Netanyahu's rule. But I think it's important to understand that the reason the Israeli ele
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There is such a valid argument. But the Oslo accords officially created the PA, which rules over the Palestinians in the West Bank. And Gaza is ruled by Hamas. The Palestinians are governed by a mix of Israeli military law and PA laws, whic
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by edanm 2y ago
I'm a very long time Python developer, but also did a project in Clojure, a type of lisp, over the last year. There is no comparison between the Clojure REPL and the Python REPL. Python's is just literally a shell that you connect
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> "Everything is a tradeoff" is almost a core belief for me, but in the same time, in technology, the "too-good-to-be-true" events does turn out to be real every once a while (I'm using technology here as a gener
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This is how I've always understood it. Not pejorative btw - just a phrase to refer to the current article.
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> This increasingly popular assumption that users are clueless cavemen is very condescending. Sorry, but no. And this idea that everyone else is condescending is offensive nonsense. I understand where you're coming from, but the peo
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by edanm 2y ago
Humans are responsible for 100% of deaths attributable to violence. So how about we do our best to keep any humans from getting a world-ending technology?
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> But it sounds like you're describing the possibility of calculating his expected weight gain based on how much he ate and how much he exercised, and I don't think that's possible. Why? To a large extent this is possible,

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