graham_paul

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by graham_paul 6y ago
> If we analyze our wants and needs, if we learn to love basic goods, we can achieve happiness with what we already have right now. This. All this 'experiences over things' is a false dichotomy and ends up falling into the tra
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Still enough to build a nuclear arsenal. So that's probably enough to build AI talent
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Value is there until it isn't. A lot of the value here comes from its potential rather than its current use
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by graham_paul 6y ago
No. This is like saying that if today is not raining, a rainy day is coming
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> Given the latest developments, I would put the odds at fifty-fifty within the next decade. thing is technological development is not linear, you can't predict future development based on the last n decades. You can't assume a
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> no-one can train GPT-3 in any acceptable time except for those with access to large GPU/ASIC compute power (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, NVIDIA, etc.) Any state actor has access to large compute power
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by graham_paul 6y ago
you mean lego brick worker?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> the Apple App Store and Google Play Store will just stop allowing it to be downloaded Time for a privacy focused app store!
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by graham_paul 6y ago
That's because many Anglo-Saxon folk tend to equate engineering to coding. Many people find it demeaning
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by graham_paul 6y ago
You don't need "AI" for that
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Better than what? You seem to forget that while you might be an affluent middle/upper class person, a lot of people out there are struggling really hard to fulfill their primary needs. You realize how many people in the states are poor
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by graham_paul 6y ago
1. communication and collaboration is just much harder work remote: you are probably used to an office culture where communication happens in person and nothing is ever documented. That's understandable. in a remote culture, the writt
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> I'll simply stop working For a few months maybe. Soon, you will realise that to keep your previous lifestyle (or to simply fill your time with something other than browsing text-heavy sites) you need to work. So you will go back t
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by graham_paul 6y ago
https://www.facebook.com/off-facebook-activity https://www.facebook.com/help/2207256696182627 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/28/off-fac...
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Ah I thought you were British, I looked at your Linkedin profile and saw a UK uni there
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> I don't intend to have a financial relationship with Facebook. You wish it was that way but you do have one. An increasing number of businesses submit their financial data to Facebook and Facebook uses that data to track your off
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by graham_paul 6y ago
sounds encouraging
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by graham_paul 6y ago
How did you end up in the States?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
sounds really good. I am curious, what tech stack do you use?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Pretty sure Outward is not even meant for kids content-wise. It is not even meant for novice/casual gamers
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by graham_paul 6y ago
1. No, it is not. Chromium relies on binaries as well as calling Google's web services whose code you cannot read. That is why ungoogled-chromium is a thing 2. Not sure what your point is here. Mozilla needs to make money to maintain a
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Imagine being banned by ALL of them. You are cut out from a large chunk of the Internet. the only thing saving you from being unable to access common internet services are those that dared to defy that monopoly (DDG, Mozilla and all those n
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by graham_paul 6y ago
As a Firefox fan, I really hope it happens again and again. It's good for the web as a whole when Chrome fails and Firefox doesn't. As a technical person, you should be advocating the use of (real, community owned) open source bro
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Maybe just maybe, you will consider Firefox. 1. Same or better performance 2. Open source for real not just (pretending to be) Open Source 3. More transparent process 4. No business conflicts Support Firefox if you care about the open web
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by graham_paul 6y ago
elaborate on the ublock nerfing?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
What's the catch? Are they legally obligated to work for Shopify after graduation? Are the grads forced to work for Shopify and accept whatever Shopify wants to pay them?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Any chance I can get the name of that mailing list via PM?
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by graham_paul 6y ago
> people don't want to do too much work so they choose the language which allows them to offload erors for later Replace "people" with business and you are right. I feel many devs would prefer to invest the time once rathe
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by graham_paul 6y ago
Respect for that
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by graham_paul 6y ago
I find it interesting that out of the massive field that is CS you focused solely on a single area.

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