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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, this is the Machiavellian view. Alternatively, we might want to look at objectivity and truthiness as being, you know, important. We can do both, but one of those things is more important.
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Sadly in 2021 my initial reaction is 'this is Orwellian' because frankly, what we need a lot more these days is not 'framing for the purpose of narrative creation' but rather 'contextualizing facts so they are more
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It depends a lot on circumstances. Most developers today building mobile apps, web front-ends/apps, or even working on the backend simply do not need foundational CS knowledge, though I suggest it would be better in most cases, and mor
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This must be written by a young developer who has not yet realized that formal CS knowledge is barely applicable in most scenarios. Paradoxically, the hustler who's 'learned everything themselves' has the right attitude, if n
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by jariel 6y ago
They're not racist - they're books with caricatures of any number of cultures, including Western cultures. It's possible people could be offended, but they're not any more offensive than any creative depiction of anythin
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by jariel 6y ago
EU's procurement boondoggle aside - they are actually strong in drugs and a lot of HC development. This is a bureaucratic/political problem, maybe an operations problem, not so much an R&D problem.
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by jariel 6y ago
For COVID, the EU decided to band together as a strategic manoeuvre to procure as a single entity. The approach actually makes sense, if everyone was acting rationally and competently it would work. But they screwed it up. Everyone is clamo
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by jariel 6y ago
"Follow the contracts and you don't get your shipments blocked." This does not make any sense, it's worse than crude economic nationalism because it doesn't take other agreements into context. They were probably &#x
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The end-point of distribution is besides the point. It's not part of the discussion and is not even a problem anywhere really. The EU is definitely the entity responsible for acquiring the vaccines on behalf of nation states - this i
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The EU is not 'behind' because of it's naive generosity to other nations. An export ban would have made hardly any difference as production would have probably been aligned around the fact. The EU is not 'naive' - i
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by jariel 6y ago
No, this is not true. The EU has no regular authority to 'enforce' contracts in such a matter, how any company decides to delivery is up to that company. If Italy wants to sue or sue for damages, it can try do to that. For example
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It looks incredibly bad for nations to be playing 'vaccine nationalism' and banning exports of anything, especially life medicine, to other nations. It looks possibly very petty and incompetent. The vaccine maker will claim that t
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It doesn't matter how much legitimacy Italy/EU might have, this is just going to have very bad optics overall. A few wins for the local nationalists i.e. 'our people first' ... but it comes with just as much of a downsid
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by jariel 6y ago
Not in most cases. C++ and C are complex enough and full of idiosyncrasies that you need experience. Java is in the middle, you can do a lot with little knowledge, but it's still very comprehensive for large projects you want people wi
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This is a bizarre, seems like there is a personal issue here and perhaps the board should have a look at this? This is one of the areas that CEOs seem to have a lot of opportunity for odd behaviour, what with Benioff spending billions of hi
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Funny because I think that firing person for saying a bad word, especially when talking about the nature of the word and not using it in a negative context, is an excessively and obviously bad practice of the 'Far Left' and that p
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If you need to publish this you have a product management problem. Arguably, some of these things are features not products, and should not be branded. The level of complexity is overwhelming, especially for the decreasing marginal returns
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by jariel 6y ago
So Etherium will do credit checks? Evaluate the legitimacy and valuation of major assets? Validate small business plans? Check creditor references? Do due legal and IP due dilligence? Foreclose? Evaluate the credibility of executive teams?
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by jariel 6y ago
"Citation needed" I literally just explained it to you. The price of BTC has always been highly unstable. There is absolutely no evidence it will ever be stable, to the contrary in fact, all evidence points to the fact that it wil
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This is upside down. There is no reason for Google to pay researchers and to not have some ownership over the process or outcome in some manner, in fact, it's unreasonable to contemplate otherwise. Google was exceedingly gracious by s
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" bitcoin for every day purchases and the hope is that by 2140 the price is relatively stable." This is fantastically impossible. It will about as stable as any other commodity plus the additional swings due to public stampedes
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This is the most curious part: hiring those two individual researchers, who clearly didn't have an understanding of the nature of public communication, was incredibly naive and asking for disaster. There is no other outcome. It kind of
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And what qualifies anyone to be an 'AI ethicist' anyhow? This is a heavy question - it's problematically like elevating an individuals personal moral position, with all their little trivial baggage to something more than it i
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Selling shelf space is not a new concept, it's just another part of the squeeze.
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I don't know the ratio, but it would be hard to determine anything from that because rules are broad and have been in place for some time. What I do know is that construction is vast and booming. Driving through Toronto over the last 2
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New builds are outside the scope of rent control, so I'm not sure it's a relevant factor in Berlin. I think a lot of this discussion may be around gentrification as much as anything. Some nice neighbourhoods in Berlin were on the
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No, this is not the reasoning that helps your argument at all. It's false to claim you need to kick people out of homes in order to have new developments. Though the notion of 'lack of investment in capped rentals' may be tru
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In Ontario and Quebec the entire economies are rent controlled to some extent - rents can only rise by a certain amount. It seems to work. Also, with Berlin, perhaps it's an issue of splitting the areas that's bad, and also perhap
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For those wondering, JQuery is still used on the majority of web sites in the world apparently [1] I'm not sure how the data is run, but it's quite massive share however you cut it. JQuery is still in it's foundational phase,
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"Is peer review also the assumption or implication of their role? If not, should it be," This is what I was responding to assuming you were implying that in general should 'researchers also be paid to review, implied as part

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