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by gretch 4y ago
Corporate compositions are similar. There’s a natural ratio of engineering to sales to recruiting to finance. Also all these companies exist in the same environment- interest rates are pretty much the same for everyone, so is inflation
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by gretch 4y ago
> the reflexive "spending money on war machines is bad" takes are really reductive and signal a shallow understanding of geopolitics and the global security situation I think if you revisit this comment chain, you’ll find that
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by gretch 4y ago
In President Eisenhower's farewell speech, he warned us against the establishment of a military-industrial complex. https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwigh... I'm largely just heeding his
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by gretch 4y ago
I'm sure everyone has their own reason, so I'll just speak for myself. I don't understand why we spend so much time and resource getting better at war when we (US citizen here) are already so extremely good at it. Atm, the US
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by gretch 4y ago
Normally I wouldn’t be a pedant and nitpick this but you went out of your way to be confidently incorrect about there being exact ZERO cleanup. The only way this is true is if the filter dissolves into the coffee and you consume it. But it’
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by gretch 4y ago
A big part of product and marketing is “differentiation”. You have to give the customer a reason to select your product over N other possibilities in the market. If your functions are a subset of everyone else, and your only benefit is “it
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by gretch 4y ago
MIT free course on finance from first principles. Answers questions like the difference between price and value. Why do interest rates exist https://youtu.be/HdHlfiOAJyE
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by gretch 4y ago
How are you so sure you know what’s actually important 5 years down the line? In the tech industry that’s a Herculean feat of prediction. You’re at Amazon, in 2001 and you know that in 5 years there will be a thing called AWS and that’s goi
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by gretch 4y ago
How is it for profit? The government is paying Google, not the other way around. Your former employer is paying a 3rd party service to digitize your old health records. I’d much rather have digital records instead of paper files which can b
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by gretch 4y ago
Yeah but that data can be used to make things better for you later. For example, with the burn pits in Iraq where soldiers no longer have to individually prove harm: https://www.publichealth.va.gov/docs/exposures/t
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by gretch 4y ago
disclosure: work for Google I read the article and I'm not really convinced that something bad is happening here. A lot of the comments here are purporting that something unethical is happening here - in the article I read: “Ultimately
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by gretch 4y ago
Probably because height is normally distributed and it’s easy to predict someone’s height within a range. I’d bet a lot of money the person in the story is not 6 foot 5 inches
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by gretch 4y ago
You seem to be against this idea of 'copycating' but our society has put a lot of thought into what's Trademark-able and what's not. In particular, his name is incredibly descriptive - it's just a plain description
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by gretch 4y ago
An interesting point and I wonder if there are thoughts on if the JVM should implement flags that do overwrite before gc (obv worse perf but some cases have use for it). Or at the least, let a program implement parts of the gc api and plug
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by gretch 4y ago
> Could good laws still protect them in the way that laws about asbestos protect people from harms related to chemistry and disease they cannot possibly understand? They may not understand the chemical mechanisms, but the end effect is s
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by gretch 4y ago
Okay I know the article is about the origin, not the accuracy. But I just can’t help pointing out all the hilarious holes in it. “But the new Ford 150 today!” -> Chevy truck team: “curse those foul journalists!” The criteria that you jus
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by gretch 4y ago
The reason those other places around the world aren’t broken* is because people had the mentality of putting in hard work toward the future. If everyone shared what you thought and fled at a moment of hardship, the whole world would go to s
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by gretch 4y ago
The article addresses this head on. Even though those users once consented to share data “It’s not expected that human beings are going to be reviewing the raw footage.” The meat of the article is that what technology and tech companies are
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by gretch 4y ago
I read the article and I don’t think your interpretation of the “suggested” narrative is there. The title is “ A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?”. That’s not really implying a “they’re watching
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by gretch 4y ago
The comment section is vast and plentiful. It's okay to talk about things that aren't limited to scientific accuracy. In fact, that's exactly what you did with your comment.
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by gretch 4y ago
We don’t half self driving trains because there’s far, far less incentive. You only need 1 or 2 drivers for a huge train carrying a lot of ppl/stuff. Optimizing away the driving barely reduces the cost of operating the train as a whole
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by gretch 4y ago
>Or if Facebook hadn't existed, somehow the same people would have been inspired to kill the same man? Yes absolutely I am directly saying this and imo your points support my argument. When there is no Facebook, ppl use the radio to
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by gretch 4y ago
"All bad drivers are bad in different ways, but all good drivers are good in the same way". I accept that as a plausible hypothesis to work off of and see how far it goes, but I would not bank on it as truth. I'll give anothe
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by gretch 4y ago
> Violence like that described in the article often does not happen organically without mass media of some kind inspiring it, contrary to what you have asserted. Dude what? So what if we go back even further? Spanish Inquisition? Crusade
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by gretch 4y ago
Your saying that I’m missing an obvious point about the 50k shares, and I think your missing the even more obvious backdrop that this took place amidst a civil war! Is this the only guy that died in this civil war? Did fb cause the civil wa
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by gretch 4y ago
>People will get even more upset about self-driving tech causing injuries/wrecks/deaths/endangerment vs what human drivers cause. Will they? I mean for example Tobacco companies lied and the truth that we know today is tha
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by gretch 4y ago
The concept of a controlled experiment is quite important to scientific discovery and obtaining new knowledge. What you just said is pretty equivalent to saying: When the moon is full, there is more murder. Therefore full moons must be cont
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by gretch 4y ago
Well zoning in on the rare cases is the difference between what we (as in society's collective technology, not tesla) have today and full reliable self-driving. Even in the anecdotes throughout the rest of the comment section, there&#x
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by gretch 4y ago
Did facebook _cause_ it? Or would it have happened anyway? Lynchings have happened frequently throughout human history, long before the invention of facebook. Racism and ethnic hatred have always been there. To me this is like saying '
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by gretch 4y ago
I don't think that would work due to "bad" drivers. We all drive differently than we know we should drive in certain circumstances (e.g. road is completely empty in the middle of rural new mexico) For example, you can imagine

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