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by fumblebee 4y ago
What did the process look like? Did you find out first from HR, from Zuck's memo, your manager, or was your laptop just remotely KO'd?
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by fumblebee 4y ago
If you think 85,000 if a lot (it is), Amazon employs a whopping 1.6m. > In 2021, the American multinational e-commerce company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, employed 1,608,000 full- and part-time employees.[1] [1] https:/&
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by fumblebee 4y ago
One of my pet peeves is that, even where there are doors on these supermarket fridges, I've found that it's common for staff to lock them in the open position to streamline shelf stacking (presumably), then fail to unlock them. I&
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by fumblebee 4y ago
In the news section: > 2022 Wreck of Äpplet warship, sistership to Vasa, found in Sweden. For anyone who’s not been to Stockholm and seen the Vasa, I thoroughly recommend you push it to your things-to-see-before-I-die list.
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NASA's Dart spacecraft 'changed path of asteroid'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
While I agree that the permissions seem over and above what's necessary, there's a trivial solution available that I've been using for many years: create a Google account (or several!) that's exclusively used for _untrus
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Revolut also [1] [1]. https://developer.revolut.com/
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Work, the Wasted Years(economist.com)
4 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
> Let's go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
This same thing happened to me. I was trying to register an obscure domain name (never before registered), left it for several hours, then came back to find it snapped up. The chances this was done without inside information on my lookups a
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by fumblebee 4y ago
This actually seems a reasonable enough solution to the bot problem, but doesn’t address the fake content problem. A human can still upload fake stuff.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Compare the content of today to two years ago. Now extrapolate from that. Right now, sure. In another two years?
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by fumblebee 4y ago
A quick Google suggests the author is correct here, in that etymologically robota initially meant forced labour.
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Estonia is in NATO, an attack against one Ally is considered as an attack against all Allies. Maybe I'm trivialising the issue, but that fact alone seems a large enough deterrent to any potential Russian offensive.
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Thinking hard makes the brain tired(economist.com)
1 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Steven Bartlett has a really insightful with Tom Blomfield about this [1], and then also with Starling CEO Anne Boden [2]. While I'm generally not a great fan of his podcast, these two I found to be fascinating. [1] https://
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by fumblebee 4y ago
You mean, the abstract?
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I keep rattling my brain trying to discern what the implications of hyper advanced generative models like this will be. It's a double edged sword. While there's obvious tangible benefits from such models such as democratising art,
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by fumblebee 4y ago
https://archive.ph/OP1Je
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Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous(economist.com)
5 points by fumblebee 4y ago|2 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
A while back I had to perform an entity resolution task on several million entities. We arrived at a point in the algorithm where we had a long list of connected components by ids that needed to be reduced into a mutually independent set of
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NASA's James Webb Telescope reveals millions of galaxies(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|0 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
Most countries have incredibly sub-par banking systems that work against the consumer. The UK is really on another level, though many countries are catching up. I can't speak for Monzo but Revolut have presence in Singapore, and the pr
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by fumblebee 4y ago
While the U.K. and its allies may have been aware of the Holocaust prior to the end of the war, there wasn’t exactly a lot they could do; they were already at war with the Nazis. Provocative and bold statements like yours require robust a
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I can't help but think one of the most appealing aspects of Hitler would've been his ability to deliver passionate speeches. For example, I have no idea what he's saying in this speech [1], but the tone at which he delivers i
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by fumblebee 4y ago
AFAIK: the British Empire caused much suffering, but your comment is a blatant fabrication of it operated. For example, the British East India Company succeeded in gaining control in India not through war, but by striking deals with (or str
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Ask HN: What convictions do you hold that are antithetical to popular belief?
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|3 comments
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How do the rich and famous protect their homes?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by fumblebee 4y ago|1 comments
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I just clicked a link to read an article on The Economist [1] and it made me appreciate that, even though I can't read the article, it's SO much nicer to have a message inline with the subscription offer instead of as a popup. [1]
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by fumblebee 4y ago
I think actually it's: do it bigly AND do it in coordination with other folks across a number of institutions. If it's just you doing it bigly, then you're in for a bad time (see Nicholas William Leeson [1]) [1] https:/

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