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by jacksnipe 3y ago
People tend to reject it because it makes negative economic sense for a country with a powerful currency to allow the replacement of that currency, so they won’t. Becoming the next Greece cannot save you.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
I don’t think it tells us something terribly interesting though. ALL complexity has a cost. String manipulation is such a core operation for so many software engineers that for many of them, the complexity of using an imperfect tool for
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
It’s very tough. For me, an important moment is realizing that these situations are rare and where the most growth can happen, which helps me push through sometimes.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
I also think that having a messy personal life that you CARE ABOUT is really important for fostering good people management skills. I’ve never had a good boss whose primary identity was work.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
Yea, it’s literally the style that is held up as good writing in the usual American high school setting, at least IME.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
The only evolutionary strategy at play here is dog breeders. Also, it’s important not to overly anthropomorphize evolution. It’s not as though animals are choosing their evolutionary strategy, so I find this language misleading.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
It’s hard to imagine a more mature industry than farming capital . It’s not exactly going to be easy to even compete on quality, let alone disrupt.
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by jacksnipe 3y ago
Except gradient descent is about as far from brute force as it gets
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
This is also my interpretation of the Chinese Room. Norvig and Chomsky really got into this type of argument, though maybe it’s a stretch to say it’s this exact one; see Norvig’s side here: https://norvig.com/chomsky.html
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
We loved them in medical testing. Very explainable models.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Wait isn’t this the plot to the original Charlie’s Angels movie?!
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Except that Alameda was also run by SBF, as laid out in the article.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
I don’t have a blog because it strikes me as more likely to hurt me than harm me.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Up top I want to be clear: I totally agree that software is really, really close to actual magic. I think comments like this are less about the reality of the situation and more about a bad vibe about the industry, and venting. I think we’v
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
He doesn’t need to be getting a kickback. He probably just wants to spin as hard as he can that his poor choice cost did not cost the company a bunch of money.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
I don’t understand why GitHub would be upset with you; seems pretty clear they should be taking action against the app that you were using, and that you didn’t want this either.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
See for example Diablo Immortal.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Apparently they’re not doing the perceptual hashing at all anymore, according to Wired.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
WOW. I can’t help but feel this dovetails with the CSAM-scanning work that Apple canned last year. I was always under the impression that ultimately they were doing that work because they needed some mitigations for the fact that iPhoto bac
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Do you really think that the designers and frontend engineers working on this would have been put to better use working on capacity issues? If this makes more money than it cost, then what does it matter?
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
What an uninformed opinion. Just because you don’t need them doesn’t mean nobody does. Autism is a real problem, and solving real problems is something companies do for profit, not because it’s “PC”.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Best not to conflate ethics and privacy. The most private digital world — one in which everything is e2e encrypted — is arguably totally ethical (impossible for anybody to infringe on your personal rights) or the least ethical state of affa
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Not who you asked but: I’m afraid of the data being stored and available to anybody. As long as it’s out there, the government can compel others to give it to them; and companies can get acquired and structures and laws can change in such a
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
They were supposed to get paid on Tuesday.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
This article presents an absolutely DISTURBINGLY disingenuous view of the civil-rights-forward view here. > The underlying problem is that the ACLU and other progressive libertarians view the mentally ill as victims of society deserving
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Sure, but circles are geometric too :)
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
Well this isn’t very fair. Yes, triangles have very little to do with the true nature of sin and cos. It’s also true that they are the basic building blocks of cyclicity. But to say they are not geometric tools is dishonest. They instead sh
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
It was designed by a mathematician and broken by the mathematical community.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
The goalposts are “good working conditions”. You can track this with retention, which is notably terrible at Amazon.
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by jacksnipe 4y ago
There’s pretty immediate value in sealed records for blackmail purposes, though, so it could have just been non-state actors.

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