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forgotaccount3
6mo ago
Yes, great response. But is the failing here an individual one 'This person is bad at their job and needs more training/be replaced' or a company one 'This company only hires bad people and we shouldn't use them
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forgotaccount3
6mo ago
What law is it breaking? If a company leaks my sensitive data, I get some nice junkmail offering me some period of time of credit monitoring or whatever so what are browsers doing to prevent this? The issue should never be 'We want ent
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forgotaccount3
6mo ago
> I know people who don't even type search queries or URLs into a browser, they just tell the phone what they want to find and open whatever shows up in a search result. I don't know exactly what you are talking about here, but
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6mo ago
> Does this not have more to do with desirability? Not really. NYC population still hasn't fully recovered to the pre-covid peak: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NYPOP NYC is losing it's share of the gl
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7mo ago
> It's sufficient to have a process that satisfies the letter of the law No. Let's take an example of 401ks. Any company that has a 401k has to pass non-discrimination testing to ensure their plan doesn't favor highly comp
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forgotaccount3
7mo ago
> I guess it was a mix of enjoying the attention, pitying weaker students, and wanting to reward "participation". It probably wasn't intentional, just 'I have x minutes a day with the students to teach them the day&#x
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7mo ago
> But Baumol's argument, which you introduced to the conversation, is that outcome and process cannot actually be distinguished How is that Baumol's argument? How is 'outcome' vs 'process' relevant to his ar
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forgotaccount3
7mo ago
Have you thought about creating building a faraday cage into your house so all internet has to go through the router's hardline?
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forgotaccount3
7mo ago
Yes, backups are great but a 'dumb robot' or a 'mistaken junior' shouldn't have access to prod. And a sleep-deprived senior? Even then. They shouldn't have access to destructive effects on prod. Maybe the senio
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7mo ago
> Top management has insane levels of compensation as a strategy by ownership to alight management's interests with their own, by turning them into owners. If there is going to be a management layer at all, for example the proposed
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forgotaccount3
8mo ago
> I can bet you a hefty sum that Alameda will never go without electrical contractors. You *really* don't understand the issue then because no one is saying that there will be 0 electrical contractors. Electrical contractors will co
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8mo ago
> But companies prefer to put in that effort and annoy their users so they can have that tracking. This is making the assumption that the company has already paid the significant legal fees to see if they need the banner or not. Or igno
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8mo ago
> I also recognize that websites don't need the banner if they aren't trying to track me And I recognize that there is a non-trivial cost to knowing if you need the banner or not, and people are likely to ask their web designer
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8mo ago
> The bigger problem is the unbanning The was my first thought as well. Yes, using the Safe Browsing list feels wrong, but I don't know enough to speak definitively in that regards. However wouldn't a relatively simple solution
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8mo ago
My only concern here is that it's using ex post facto information to try to dispute earlier assessments. If I 'moved' some AI 'patents' to another country 5 years ago and stated they were worth $x using some formula
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8mo ago
As a tech-literate person, I'm not 100% against the concept of ID if only because I think people will be more reasonable if they weren't anonymous. This conflicts with my concerns about government crackdowns and the importance of
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8mo ago
> it’s prudent to assume that they’ll shift to a “merit based” There is already a "Merit based" system that supports the arts. It's called the private market. My initial gut reaction was akin to many responses here but a
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8mo ago
> What part of your idea was supposed to stop that happening The part where people see their money burning away paying maintenance and tax on deteriorating assets. Why are people holding assets unused? Because they don't believe tha
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8mo ago
> A server like Marvel Rivals has literally millions of users. Players join that discord to socialize with all of those players and build a community around the game. Going back to something you said earlier: > Rocket chat is a Slack
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8mo ago
> many telecoms are reluctant to do it. This really buries the lede. Telecoms are reluctant to do it because 'doing' it isn't aligned with their priorities. Why would a telecom risk bankruptcy by investing heavily into a s
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8mo ago
> They are specifically making it as engaging as possible because that's [how they make money.] ... what people want. Fixed that for you. Your argument is basically the same as saying that Banana Ball should be banned because they a
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8mo ago
One is knowledge the user has, and the other is a physical key they own. Providing your 'finger' to unlock a device is no different than providing your 'key' to unlock something. So you can be compelled to provide those
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forgotaccount3
9mo ago
Maybe the two public data points weren't connected before? I don't use SoundCloud, but if profiles didn't have contact information like Email Address on them then it could be meaningful to now connect those two dots. Like, &#
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9mo ago
> Ingress being disabled doesn’t really net you all that much nowadays when it comes to restricting malware. But how much of this is because ingress is typically disabled so ingress attacks are less valuable relative to exploiting humans
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9mo ago
> In my opinion most of the people who refuse to believe AI can help them while work with software are just incurious/archetypical late adopters. The biggest blocker I see to having AI help us be more productive is that it transform
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9mo ago
> down time is supposed to be down time. Life doesn't have down time. Should we avoid learning new things because no one is paying us to learn? One of my favorite uses of AI is to quickly make some simple 'hello world' lev
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forgotaccount3
10mo ago
Not necessarily AI with 'hard guidelines' AI tools that pass output to a filter with 'hard guidelines' is definitely feasible. Take the input as normal, pass it into Sora 2 and execute it as you would, pass the output th