ertian

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by ertian 4y ago
This is part of it. It's also well understood within Google that the way to get promo and move up (and secure your job...lack of 'upward momentum' means you'll be first on the chopping block) is to launch . Getting &#x2
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by ertian 4y ago
No, the distinction was that the fact that they used RoundUp (which would have killed the crops they claimed to have planted) suggests a motive. The farmers claimed that the seeds had just drifted into their field by chance, Monsanto claime
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by ertian 4y ago
Yeah, it seems like it'll just as happily 'attribute' human-made images as well, which calls the whole thing into question. If it's really showing the images that stable diffusion has 'stolen from', and it&#x27
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by ertian 4y ago
If they were going to pay $5/hour, why wouldn't they do the same work in India, Vietnam, or some other country with wages in that neighborhood, but with a more stable political environment, better infrastructure, and more experien
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by ertian 4y ago
McLuhan came up with the term "Global Village". I remember that term being bandied about a lot in the early days of the internet, which was going to turn us into a global village: one big happy worldwide community in open communic
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by ertian 4y ago
Japan is still and independent country full of Japanese people, who held their own against Western militaries within decades of opening. That's a very different from the apocalyptic collapse followed by replacement of the New World.
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by ertian 4y ago
...Over time, too. This wouldn't be useful for starting up a new PHP project. Instead, it'd be great for situations where you've got a dozen different projects that you work on every few months to a year, all with different d
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by ertian 4y ago
Are Republican systems immune from the head of state messing with legislation, or abusing executive privilege to keep things secret, inappropriately? The President of the US pushing for legislation--openly or otherwise, and including legisl
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by ertian 4y ago
I've been thinking about this for a while. Watching a swing towards autocracy around the world, it strikes me that republics seem somehow more vulnerable. The existence of a monarch, even as a functionally ceremonial role, creates a so
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by ertian 4y ago
There's also experiments and staged rollouts, and if there's no hurry they can take a while.
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by ertian 4y ago
More like Dr Manhattan with a sense of humor.
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by ertian 4y ago
It's hard for me to imagine, in a commercial setting. Wikipedia demonstrates that it's possible, but the financial aspect makes it so hard to manage incentives. Sellers have every incentive to game the system, up to and including
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by ertian 4y ago
> They will more likely keep the 'ChromeOS' name to limit the confusion... I mean, that would make sense. But being Google, I think they're likely to name it something different that nobody recognizes. And then change tha
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by ertian 4y ago
The thing is...that doesn't scale. If somebody was still manually updating the homepage with a handful of curated beautiful items, then we wouldn't be talking about it because none of us would've heard of it. Or maybe it woul
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by ertian 4y ago
On top of that, reviewing is considered an important and valuable skill. You have to demonstrate a deep understanding of the language and go through a months-long meta-review process before you can even start doing (language, as opposed to
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by ertian 4y ago
I believe American square bolts are different than Robinson. The sizes aren't exactly the same, and they don't taper in the same way.
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by ertian 4y ago
Sure, in some countries and time periods. I'm not in any way saying the US has a flawless record. I'm just saying that US pressure was not the only reason why countries transitioned to democracy: it was a combination of popular
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by ertian 4y ago
They'll be wrong until the moment they're right. The USSR looked similarly durable in the 1980s, and the few voices saying it was rotten at the core and on the verge of collapse were waved off. And then all of a sudden it collapse
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by ertian 4y ago
It was a combination of pressure from above and below: US pressure, but also a newly middle-class population starting to raise hell. In most of those countries, protests and civil unrest presaged the transition to democracy--and suppressing
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by ertian 4y ago
When was the internet's "first year"? I think you could make an argument for the very first wide-area networks, ARPANET, or the invention of packet routing. So, 60s to mid-70s. If you think everybody was on board with the i
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by ertian 4y ago
I mean, I disagree...I think cryptocurrency is more analogous to packet routing than to some specific piece of media. CD-ROMs in particular were an evolution of physical media that had been around for a century (vinyl record, 8-track, tape,
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by ertian 4y ago
I suspect we're not really at the equivalent of 1993. We may still be back in the early 80s, with people exchanging bang paths and oohing and ahhing when an email goes through. 'Real' applications are thin on the ground, larg
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by ertian 4y ago
I don't think so. I'm not particularly interested in 'status', but I do want to propagate my opinions. When I'm replying to a comment online--like this one--I'm not really thinking of changing your opinion. I&#
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by ertian 4y ago
Ah, fair enough. I didn't look into the company, I've just come across suggestions along this line.
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by ertian 4y ago
I suspect the intention is something more like IPFS ( https://ipfs.io ), built on some distributed data structure like a DHT. With that in mind: - "Infinitely scalable" in the sense of the internet, I suppose? If we had
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by ertian 4y ago
On top of that, and related: almost no conversations are private or intimate. Conversations have a vast potential audience. So people are less concerned with communicating their point or changing the mind of the person to whom they're
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by ertian 4y ago
That's kinda the whole point of the essay: getting something up and running quick that is 'complete' (if not particularly elegant) is better than slowly and carefully working on a Good System. Unix ate Lisp's lunch becau
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by ertian 4y ago
Yeah, honestly, I think there are several brands I buy in grocery stores for which I don't know, or at least don't remember, the brand name. I just recognize the packaging and think "oh yeah, that's the one I like".
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by ertian 4y ago
> This doesn't really align with my experience. Well TBF, I was an SRE while at Google, so I worked with a whole bunch of other teams. And tech talks were considered a good way for SREs to familiarize themselves with partner teams&#
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by ertian 4y ago
> the focus on your raising your peers detracts from more important business goals? It's this. Actually doing work is seen as simple and unworthy of a higher-level engineer. Good engineers focused on problems (fixing complex bugs in

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