ergothus

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by ergothus 8y ago
No argument here (though I have no real solution to that problem. Denying everyone lawyers doesn't help, it just slightly shifts who suffers). My point was that on this and related topics the "It's a contract, suck it up&quo
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by ergothus 8y ago
When my (now ex-) wife was going to law school, one of the biggest surprises I had was learning how often contracts aren't entirely binding (as long as you have the money to actually go to court with real representation). It's eas
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Microsoft dominance in browsers was beaten by other large corporations throwing resources at open source. I don't agree with your timing. My memories of the time were * Browser wars I - Netscape loses, MS rests on its laurels whi
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by ergothus 8y ago
At the time in question, NT Server was a real threat. Commercial unixes were expensive to get and worse to maintain. NT Server was (by most accounts) TERRIBLE, yet as servers became more mainstream, NT Server (and IIS) became more common
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by ergothus 8y ago
> I suspect it's a mistake to take this to the logical conclusion that we can make no conscious decisions. And I don't! I consider it unproven, but a duality option definitely remains an option. Plus, there's always the
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by ergothus 8y ago
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-arbitration-epidemic/ Cant say the quality of this study, but it came up in recent discussions about the topic when the US supreme court ruled on a related matter, and claims &q
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by ergothus 8y ago
That's a bit circular...I may choose to breed with someone, but i do that because I find them attractive (because DNA tells me what is attractive), because my (known in humans to be inaccurate) risk assessment says it is worth it, etc.
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by ergothus 8y ago
So true...I was "Brett" growing up and to this day the number of "Brett"s I've heard of is less than a dozen. As a kid I loathed it and promised myself I'd change to a nice "jim" when I was old enough
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by ergothus 8y ago
Yet ms dominance was beaten only by linux and firefox...open source efforts, not competing companies, and those cracks allowed for google and others to come in. Prior to that you had crap like "ie6 will be the last ie, and we dont see
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by ergothus 8y ago
Do you always assume something is the best there can be until a new better is created? I'm guessing not. I don't have a solution, I'm simply saying we should expect that things CAN improve instead of waving off all complain
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by ergothus 8y ago
> Democratic style governance is pretty pathetic, but it seems to be better than all the others so far. Not to detract from your comment, which is all accurate, but this statement is a pet peeve of mine: the same can be said of every oth
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by ergothus 8y ago
Ask them to lead the clean up it themselves. This let's you acknowledge their good intentions and doesn't feel like you are throwing them under the bus behind their back (bad analogy). They screwed up, but this lets them look res
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by ergothus 8y ago
The best advice on this sort of thing is always to scratch your own itch. Solving a problem you (and others) have will give you context and drive that solving a problem you dont have wont. This doesn't mean you have to write your own
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by ergothus 8y ago
I do indeed pay for this crap...but what are my options? When Amazon had the one-click patent, I boycotted them for the better part of a decade. They didn't notice, and I missed out on some of their best service years, when deliveries
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by ergothus 8y ago
I teach part time and as part of the training they covered why* speculation about motivations is so often very wrong. The Cosby trial was going on at the time, and I recall hearing the same questions being raised that I had just learned we
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by ergothus 8y ago
While others are talking about how "easy" the built in AI that can crush me is (I'm pretty bad), the part I found interesting is that they taught it to "see" the map from the data. Nothing new in the field, but int
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by ergothus 8y ago
You dont have to use public transit to benefit from it. You will see reduced traffic and a healthier economy (low income people can get to jobs at all, everyone can get to more jobs in a shorter time span, reducing friction in the basic c
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by ergothus 8y ago
White paper (linked in article) here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.07193.pdf
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Tencent created AI agents that can beat StarCraft 2’s Cheater AI(thenextweb.com)
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by ergothus 8y ago
I've had kidney stones a few times and found into online to be inadequate, so here's my anecdotal summary: There are 3 kinds of pain you can experience. From talking and reading, everyone can have different experiences. The first
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by ergothus 8y ago
I'm confused that they had a business BEFORE their data breach. That the same people who thought it was a good idea to publicly search and advertise for a secret affair would continue doing so after a privacy breach is less of a shock
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by ergothus 8y ago
Author David Brin has (relatively) long advocated that we have two options: shoot for privacy resulting in those with power able to access the "private" info, or have it open where everyone can access. He then argues for the latt
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by ergothus 8y ago
Many comments celebrate this "good news". I hate to be the downer, and I dont want to say this article made me sad, but this is more "stopping some bad news". That's still good, and it's better than more bad
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by ergothus 8y ago
> If a company isn't growing, its dying I can't argue the logic, but this makes me sad. Can't someone make a product that people will pay for that is sustainable over time (even if # new users == # lost users )? Why does
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by ergothus 8y ago
Please don't think I'm dissing diversity - I'm all for it. > And that's also why you see people on both sides of any given issue Often that's a great thing. Sometimes it's not. That was the point I was mak
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by ergothus 8y ago
Be careful about assuming too much consistency in the US populace. I'm born-and-raised US, and our attitudes can be very hard to describe. We'll hate "Obamacare" but actually support all the individual parts. We'
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by ergothus 8y ago
For the past 50 years or so, the literal books on good design (according to the govt of the US) have specified cul-de-sacs, which offer the promise of less vehicle traffic but actually guarantee MORE traffic, because you can't have goo
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by ergothus 8y ago
Uh....advanced stupidity? You're right, that was terrible. I tried the 24 hour clock for several years but got annoyed that no one else understood, (or worse, thought I was trying to pretentiously declare military service that I have
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by ergothus 8y ago
I think you misunderstood - I'm not getting entries in an "email database", I'm getting evaluations so whatever scoring metric they use, I'll be listed as above average. (And this doesn't necessarily contradic
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by ergothus 8y ago
I was crushed when I discovered the typical 9-5 wasn't typical at all.

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