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by ehsankia 4y ago
I think the debate over whitelist/blacklist is often pointless. Yes there is not cause/effect link, but it honestly doesn't really matter. Allowlist and blocklist are much better words imo because they are self-descriptive, w
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by ehsankia 4y ago
There's definitely a balance. Yes, they needed to test their games a lot more, but no amount of testing will equal millions of people trying all sorts of weird things you would've never thought about. That being said, games have b
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Can't even imagine being a dev back when you only had one shot at your game going gold and couldn't update it after the fact to patch bugs.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
NSA doesn't sell Hacking as as Service to foreign countries. While NSO isn't part of the government, their work and existence is obviously very much endorsed and allowed by their government.
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by ehsankia 4y ago
I would assume the effects of this are extremely small, and only relevant due to how insanely precise JWST needs to be. I believe they said they were getting in the order of 1 photon per second from the dimmest targets, whereas your eye loo
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by ehsankia 4y ago
> If not NSO, then someone else. There's a big difference between an underground group doing it in semi-secrecy, vs a state-sponsored company doing it publicly. With said company somehow not being sued into the ground or said countr
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by ehsankia 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y
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by ehsankia 4y ago
He addresses that too. The kind of "squabbling" you have in your mind is far from what kind of "squabbling" that actually happens in practice. In practice you have death threats, doxxing, and a lot more animosity than th
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by ehsankia 4y ago
First off, it's a hard coded area, not "route". They're not buses. A limited area is part of the definition of Level 4. What you're thinking of is Level 5, which is being able to handle any area and situation. There
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Tesla FSD is level 3. You still need to be fully aware and hands on the wheel. Level 4 is when no one needs to be at the driver seat, which is what Cruise and Waymo are doing. Quantity != Quality. Just because McDonalds serves billions of p
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Obviously YMMV but in 2021, every tech video I commented on would get these replies, which all had 18+ profile pictures. Clicking their profile every account had the exact same "playlist" with a porn site ad inside, and the channe
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by ehsankia 4y ago
Yes, and Youtube and Facebook both have similar problems. There is survivalship bias at play here, you do see the bots that manage to get past the spam protection, but never see the ones that don't. For all you know, Twitter could be b
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by ehsankia 4y ago
> That must explain why numerous right wing media outlets also chose not to cover it (Fox, WSJ, others). No, it's because every other outlet has a standard, which is that they need to be able to independently confirm a story and not
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by ehsankia 5y ago
The thread actually touches on that roughly around here: https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514956233005928449 Digg and Voat aside, I think the whole T_D example on reddit is a good example. Like you said, subredd
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by ehsankia 5y ago
I think the bigger point, above free speech, was that running a social network is hard, and Musk will fail at it, regardless of what his "goal" is, unless his goal is to run it into the ground.
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by ehsankia 5y ago
The tl;dr is that running a social network / content moderation is a really fucking hard problem, and Musk has no clue what he's in for. That no matter how much you are against censorship, you will eventually have to do it to some
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by ehsankia 5y ago
You mean self driving, which they promised would be ready over 5 years ago and still barely at L3 level? Meanwhile Google engineers have actual L4 level self-driving in both Phoenix and San Francisco (by your logic, they are better than Tes
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by ehsankia 5y ago
To think that a company that has failed to create self-driving for nearly a decade could solve "content moderation", one of the hardest problem on the internet that every single of the big companies (who btw hire the best talent)
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Isn't that similar to what they tried for things like shopping for example, and they got sued for? The problem is that if they become an aggregator for a specific type of content, like let's say travel or lyrics, then other aggreg
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Am I the only ones who has a really hard time with Quora. I can never tell which answer is real or fake. And even the "real" ones rarely ever answer the question. Quora is basically the Pinterest of answer results.
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Every time I see these lists, I tell myself i'll start using these, but always forget. I would love a meta tool that, every time I use one of the old tools, it automatically gives me a notice to use the new one instead, so I can learn.
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Google -> Alphabet, then add in Microsoft, Tesla and NVIDIA. MANTAMAN https://streetsharks.fandom.com/wiki/Mantaman
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by ehsankia 5y ago
I visited maybe around a decade ago, and was truly saddened by the state of it. It was all in ruin, maybe 1 guard watching the whole area, anyone could come, take a piece and leave, and many unfortunately do. The best pieces of Persepolis a
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Scarcity in my mind is a function of both supply and demand. Both low supply and high demand result in scarcity. In this case, supply and demand are both increasing, but one is way outpacing the other due to zoning laws. Even with perfect m
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Another great video, with a quick reference to Oh The Urbanity https://youtu.be/6OZJClSdZ28
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by ehsankia 5y ago
The problems of the housing market is the exact same as any other expensive city in the US or anywhere else. Home-owners with local power messing with zoning laws to limit supply and boost the price of their homes. It's always a supply
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Market inefficiency would add an x% overhead on the price, but it doesn't uncontrollably increase the price. That's scarcity.
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by ehsankia 5y ago
Here I thought it was another Wordle game, not a good time to name your product <name>le
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HN hug of death.
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by ehsankia 5y ago
> But there's no real rhyme or reason, it is a sort of alchemy. Is there a rhyme or reason as to why picasso decided to paint like that? Yes these networks are hard to reason about, but so are real human brains.

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