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by enord 4y ago
Gp calls out certain declarations of disruption to be hot air, then argues the point. Gp then proceeds to declare «Stable Diffusion» to be Capital D disruptive, bemoans the unfortunate destiny of the world’s now disrupted artists but, cur
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by enord 4y ago
You quite studiously compared every ostensible disruption to the preceding state of the art to (quite convincingly IMO) reveal the material consequeces to be… less than world shattering, shall we say. Your example of Amazon and walmart does
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by enord 5y ago
We are not in disagreement here. I was making a comparison in kind as a cheap rhetoric trick. Documentation is good, no documentation bad, good documentation can be better. Slide along the scale towards more and better documentation and our
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by enord 5y ago
>Defects is a metric businesses doesn't care much about. This depends on both the defect and the business. Just because critical regressions and recurring denial of service has become normalized as somehow par for the course in our
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by enord 5y ago
Military veterans of some theater of war are desired exactly because they will perform well in the next theater of war. I don't think i can fully appreciate how mind-bogglingly huge a company like Google is, so it might well be the cas
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by enord 5y ago
Well, you've reduced competition for employees from THE REST OF THE WORLD to a handful of companies, the executives of which you met for golf and sherry last Tuesday.
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by enord 5y ago
Well yes, if we could only train new employees for 20 years in the specific curricula of the organization, as that is how long we spend getting pi and calculus into the heads of kids. On the scale of lifetimes, I don't think we can ref
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by enord 5y ago
Excellent point IMO! For an organization to believe itself the sole proprietor of relevant and useful knowledge within it's domain of operation is pure hubris. So too is believing it is anything more than a community of individuals, co
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by enord 5y ago
I would assume this as well, when i think about it. I guess learning about the industrial revolution in school kind of messed up my preconceptions. Anyhow, this military comparison just keeps sprouting thoughts in my head. Isn't an own
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by enord 5y ago
Just look at FAANG: Retain developers at (almost) any cost. Pay developers like it's monopoly money. You could call this "The benefit of retention", though that may be a bit reductive.
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by enord 5y ago
I mean, for assembly-line production this might ring true (I wouldn't know, never did it). But for what one might reasonably categorize as "knowledge work", my experience is that knowledge reigns supreme. Some of that knowled
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by enord 5y ago
Money. The shares you are talking about already exist, and they're called "money". Of course, the relative value of shares wrt. the house will fluctuate over time and you'd have to account for this when transferring betw
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by enord 5y ago
Some sibling comments argue that the USA is a religion in the same sense, which is a nice thought experiment and a fair comparison. However, I think it's incumbent on us compare bitcoin as a religion to the prevailing mode of social
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by enord 5y ago
>Possession is a physical/real property of the universe This assertion immediately falls apart on consideration IMO. Even in simple, controlled circumstances like football, the meaning of "possession" is subject to mutual
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by enord 5y ago
"Som fanden leser bibelen" - Norwegian proverb, lit.: "Like the devil reads the bible" I sense that your arguments are in concordance with TFA, broadly speaking. Also, I suspect you read it rather uncharitably for rea
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by enord 5y ago
Everybody wants to be the Fox Mulder of their story.
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by enord 5y ago
You're making an argument that is already in TFA. It's in addition -and only partially related to- the main point which is: The arguments that are commonly used to demonstrate the possibility or threat of "ASI" are made
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by enord 6y ago
I'm beginning to suspect a big problem here is one of level-violation. At least in the often promised push-button domainObjectClass to domainEntityTable ORM (batteries included). Three common (IME) manifestations: 1. the domainObjectCl
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by enord 6y ago
This line again... Education only works insofar as it acculturates children to greater society (or novices to the society of some specific domain). The methods of education are social, present in the surrounding culture and mediated by teac
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by enord 8y ago
Nobody will accept liability for actions outside of their control, and car manufacturers can not possibly afford to insure all cars they sell in perpetuity. Insurance only works if the insuree bears the risk (and it has to be an actual ris
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by enord 8y ago
And replacing criminal proceedings with cash fines improves this how ?
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by enord 8y ago
I like your take, and Haskell is an apt comparison in this sense. Another sense in which i think APL is... un-competitive is that its strengths (terse, mathematical, matrix-centered) are the easy parts of programming, i.e. the parts that ar
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by enord 8y ago
The nullephant in the room is that procedural programming with mutable state (registers, class fields, whatever) is not trivially amenable to logical analysis , and any constraints introduced to rectify this issue become the topic of a neve
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by enord 8y ago
Hypothesis: High outlier @5pctl - outstanding graduates groomed for management. Low outlier @10pctl - family/friends/favours groomed for management.
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by enord 8y ago
Wait, so... this "thing" that true skaters share, can the posers take that away? If not, why the ire? All my skater friends are very particular about who's real an who's posing, and also rather hostile towards wrongb
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by enord 9y ago
All other things being equal, yes. But therein lies the rub (or the stuffing, if you will). >Are gray turkeys slimmer on average? Worse? Different distribution? No. They are just harder to find. Who knows? Anyone who tries to find out ar
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by enord 9y ago
>Just from looking at their site, they don't actually seem to be hiring at all. There's a casual “hey, maybe contact us if you want a job!”, but that's only gonna attract the Dunning-Kruger Dudes. (Men are disproportionate
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by enord 9y ago
Sooo... They should pander to women and pre-emptively assume that they're catastrophically sensitive to anything that might be construed as putting gender parity behind anything else, for any reason? I don't know [wo]man, the cure
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by enord 9y ago
Thats the point.
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by enord 9y ago
WTF is this? These are and have been problems since forever. Yes, we now have to worry whether someone tries to murder you by replacing your roomba with a RoboWars KillerBot, contrived as it may be. Or even worse... Your voice and image may

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