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by fatbird 3y ago
This is part of it, but a bigger part is simply that Walmart approached suppliers with a proposed volume that would require the company to rebuild themselves as an operation in order to meet that demand and the required service levels, at t
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by fatbird 3y ago
As Stephen Fry puts it, "twice my brain has tried to kill me," describing exactly what you describe.
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by fatbird 4y ago
> to ensure... desks are kept clean and free from personal items. This was called "hotdesking", then "hotelling", and it's unclear why I would arrange with a coworker to timeshare a desk when a proper hotdesking
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by fatbird 4y ago
Honeywell furloughed virtually its entire staff for two weeks in Q2 of 2020. Literally, no work and no pay, just all about reducing labour expenses by 2/13ths for the quarter.
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by fatbird 4y ago
This is a very important point that highlights the absence of anything we could call "understanding".
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by fatbird 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding how the model works. It predicts next tokens based on past tokens and the LLM trained on large bodies of text. It doesn't have an underlying database of "factual" elements it incorporate
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by fatbird 4y ago
It had to be shot down harshly because there are some premises to a courtroom proceeding that aren't met by an AI as we currently have. One of those is that the lawyer arguing a case is properly credentialed and has been admitted to th
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by fatbird 4y ago
Yeah, I wasn't fully clear. I'm talking about Canada, where Chinese investment is only 4%, contrary to perception that "Chinese money" is the source of our troubles. 4% is still a significant impact, but it's pret
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by fatbird 4y ago
Conveyance is the act of transferring ownership, done by real estate lawyers. If you, as a foreign investor, bought before this law came in, then when you tried to sell it, your identity as a foreign investor could be noted, triggering a c
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by fatbird 4y ago
its zoning that explains everything about today's home prices Not really. Vancouver, one of the worst places in Canada for foreign investment driving up prices, has been adding new high density housing as fast as it can for 20 years
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by fatbird 4y ago
In Canada, the vast majority of rich foreigners buying property are American. Chinese investors, the favourite villain of the "rich foreigners" class, make up only about 4% of foreign real estate investment.
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by fatbird 4y ago
You have to show proof of citizenship and residency during conveyance. When my wife and I recently bought, our driver licences and passports were recorded by the lawyer, pretty much just to tackle this issue. A foreign investor would need
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by fatbird 4y ago
An argument from authority is not a fallacy in and of itself . An appeal to false authority is always a fallacy, such as considering an authority's opinion on a topic on which they're not authoritative. If the participants in a
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by fatbird 4y ago
I wish more people would remember this.
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by fatbird 4y ago
The problem is that the municipality is a subordinate gov't within the county. They have no leverage over people outside the municipality, and basically had to have a court fight for every uncollected fee/fine, which rapidly at
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by fatbird 4y ago
The FD had tried retroactively charging for fire services, but then spent more on collections than they'd collect. People living in the unincorporated part of the county were usually trying to pay as little as possible for anything.
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by fatbird 4y ago
The municipal fire department's insurer told them that they would not cover injuries sustained while fighting fires on uninsured homes, which was the final straw for the fire department. The FD had tried for years to find a workable so
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by fatbird 4y ago
A reporter on the scene spoke to the homeowner, who said he didn't pay the fee because he thought he could just pay after, like happened previously. He literally thought he could get away with not paying unless a fire happened. It&#x
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by fatbird 4y ago
> Rumor is that Twitter lost $700-million/year or so in ad revenue at its latest advertising conference. And having lost its CRO, who walked out on Thursday, Musk tried to repair the damage himself on a conference call with major ad
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by fatbird 4y ago
If you're thinking of the video I'm thinking of, where the blond woman with a ponytail is in an incredibly nimble stunt plane and it looks like she's doing exactly that, slamming the stick one way or the other [0], I think th
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by fatbird 4y ago
Any business operating at Twitter's scale (and I mean this in a business sense, not a technical sense) has far more to do, operationally, than sustain mission-critical activities. The accessibility team is gone; the curation team is g
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by fatbird 4y ago
You don't turn a plane in flight by slamming the yoke as far left as you can. If you know how to fly, then you know how to make a fast turn, but that means knowing how flying works, how the plane responds, and how your current state w
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by fatbird 4y ago
The point of free speech is to be free. Pushing the line constantly is a tactic that some argue (or rationalize) is a way to maximize that freedom, but it's not the purpose, any more than the purpose of a right to bear arms is to get
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by fatbird 4y ago
This is the effect it had on me, reading it in college. It was the first time I'd seen such a mental journey, and it meshed almost perfectly with how my mind was working at the time: that kind of vocally articulated walk through a ser
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by fatbird 4y ago
Fortunately, he was only a candidate, and decided against it.
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by fatbird 4y ago
I'm guessing the project got cut, so the team went, so the guy went. You're right, he can have almost any job he wants with a phone call. Given his history, he'd survived quite happily in much more difficult, demanding envi
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by fatbird 4y ago
Yes.
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by fatbird 4y ago
One of the people laid off yesterday (along with his whole team) had been a candidate to lead development of the Xbox 720. This was definitely not a very public PIP ejection. It looks more like a spreadsheet driven culling of the product
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by fatbird 4y ago
Orlowski was acting very polite in this article (and presented some compelling points) compared to most of his work at The Register, but he’s always been a beacon of “yellow journalism” [0]. I’ve always thought it was less a crusade than a
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by fatbird 4y ago
Oh sweet, sweet memories of the rejoinder: “If plan A is to take multiple .308 rounds to the back, you need a plan B.”

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