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by guntars 8y ago
If being able to work for any company remotely means I have to compete with the whole world, I’m ok with it.
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by guntars 8y ago
The reason your employer can bill you for ~$150-200/hr is that they're also selling a peace of mind that the project is going to be on track, even if you get hit by a bus one morning. Getting that rate individually is certainly po
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by guntars 8y ago
> the probability that I will turn my gun on myself, which is zero. Assuming that you're not going to change and that your life will be exactly the same, forever. Do you think there's ever been someone that thought there's
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by guntars 9y ago
I sure hope you don’t just put random user provided blobs in your database, even if they’re validated. Also, how do you validate without parsing? If it’s parsed, might as well serialize again when saving to the DB.
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by guntars 9y ago
Until the more productive and engaged fellows start questioning what exactly are they working overtime for or simply burn out, then they're replaced by fresher more productive fellows and the cycle continues. Best way to break it is to
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by guntars 9y ago
Do you think the users are not already paying for it? If you click on an ad and buy the product, you’re paying for that impression as well as 100s of others that resulted in a small annoyance instead of a conversion.
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by guntars 9y ago
It’s certainly false though the sentiment might still be valid, basically that the lack of smarts isn’t something that’s holding up more inventions from coming into this world.
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by guntars 9y ago
It begs the question - exactly what kind of problem does paying with a smart speaker solve over just using your phone? Also, how much is that worth to you?
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by guntars 9y ago
It's just people being wired to compare their lives with other's. Humans evolved in small groups with hierarchies where your "rank" compared to others could mean the difference between life and death. Not so much these d
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by guntars 9y ago
I think this will be pretty obvious to anyone who has meddled with machine learning. Suppose you have a working model of the world (based on your sense of touch) and you now suddenly get more data (sight): {255,254,254,254,255,255,254,2
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by guntars 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't have a contract with Equifax so there's no way binding arbitration can apply.
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by guntars 9y ago
I like the comparison of the economy with an optimizing AI, but the value function isn't max(paperclips), but whatever people will pay for. So it's not really the fault of the AI that people have fucked up priorities - the AI itse
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by guntars 9y ago
Pretty sure we already have laws to put authors of malicious software in jail.
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by guntars 9y ago
Probably to add the css file to the page you're on.
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by guntars 9y ago
The compensation is not based on how hard the job is so it doesn't matter. There's a limited amount of people that can do programming, but also limited amount of people that can do safety-critical engineering. Perhaps there is som
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by guntars 9y ago
I wouldn't go as far to say that having undocumented magic comments doesn't add complexity. From a very surface level, sure, the parser is the same, but now every tool that works with the Go language needs to be aware of these. Li
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by guntars 9y ago
This is probably it. There is no way to tell the remaining charge of a lithium battery other than estimating it from the voltage which drops with the level of charge. It also drops more when it provides more power and this gets worse as the
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by guntars 9y ago
This is basically just entertainment (Fox News included) so they can do whatever they want. If this was healthcare, for example, it would require a bit more scrutiny IMO.
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by guntars 9y ago
They are doing A/B tests on something like that, right?
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by guntars 9y ago
It doesn't. You can put yourself through misery and mooching off of the society, but you shouldn't subject children to it.
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by guntars 9y ago
> Polling was conducted by Civis Analytics on behalf of Freedman Consulting, LLC of 2,475 adults online in English and Spanish, June 22-23, 2017. Portions of this research were also supplemented by a national phone poll of 256 adults con
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by guntars 9y ago
Eh, kind of wishing this was over and we could move on. People voted for the current administration to do this and they should get what they want. It's also up to people when they sign a contract with an ISP that then might limit their
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by guntars 9y ago
I think the point is that programs written in a dynamically typed language aren't that dynamic most of the time. With static analysis, you're able to get at least some benefit from autocomplete and automatic refactoring. The parts
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by guntars 9y ago
I doubt you or the parent commenter are going to be marginalized because of that comment is any way. The fact that you can have these beliefs and express them in a public forum is a sign of how civilized things actually are. There are plent
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by guntars 9y ago
It's not if the other side is using AI lawyers, too. Heck, throw in an AI judge and you got yourself very efficient dispute resolution.
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by guntars 9y ago
They should add a 3kW+ inverter option to use all your favorite electric tools in the field, making this basically a large battery on wheels.
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by guntars 9y ago
Can you explain how buying in Bay Area can be more expensive than renting? The only reason I can think of is that there's an expectation that the property will appreciate greatly in the near term and can be sold for a profit, but event
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by guntars 9y ago
In addition, who do you think is selling the apartments to the Chinese investor corporation? It could be another nameless corporation, but it's equally likely to be the same people that you refer to as the real neighborhood. They certa
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by guntars 9y ago
There's no need for snarkasm. You don't have to be a Chinese investor to buy an apartment. I simply have no sympathy for people who rent long term: 1) They can take off any time. A new job? A market crash? No problem, just pack yo
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by guntars 9y ago
I don't think people who rent have a right to complain about the housing market. If there's a toxic spill across the street, they can just pack up and move. They also can't complain about gentrification of "their neighbo

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