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by jarrett 13y ago
I tried them in the early 2010s. My biggest gripes: * Hard-to-find, outdated, labyrinthine documentation. * Confusing web front end. * Flakey login. I had trouble accessing my account more than I should have. * Flakey POSTing back to my ser
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by jarrett 13y ago
I don't think they're trivial to automate, actually. Take the Home Depot self-checkout counters. They're already present in most (all?) Home Depot locations that I've visited. But Home Depot hasn't gotten rid of cle
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by jarrett 13y ago
Excellent catch! I quite agree.
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by jarrett 13y ago
True, but I was using "unemployment" to refer to a condition in which a person is unable to find employment offering subsistence wages. This is an important distinction. So far, technology has not made it impossible for most mem
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by jarrett 13y ago
> Law enforcement doesn't need to be based on secrecy. I never said you have to broadcast that you're investigating someone, just that the information about who, how, and why you're investigating someone be reasonably publ
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by jarrett 13y ago
> I mean, why not though? Why is it OK for the government to have any secrets?...Maybe we shouldn't be sending out special forces teams or covert operatives. This gets at the heart of the issue. As I mentioned in my parenthetical ab
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by jarrett 13y ago
There is one very significant wrinkle, though: The difference between ongoing practices and hypothetical, emergency actions. In the former case--ongoing practices--it is hard to make a credible argument against oversight. Some details may n
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by jarrett 13y ago
It's certainly an interesting line of inquiry. Replacement of 100% of human labor would seem to imply a very sophisticated artificial intelligence. We don't yet know what properties that AI would have. Would it be sentient? Would
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by jarrett 13y ago
Intrinsically, there is no harm in 0% employment. One can certainly imagine a society in which nobody works, and the fruits of automations are enjoyed by all. Alternatively, one can imagine an extremely hierarchical society where the fruits
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by jarrett 13y ago
Fair point. Indeed, not everything needs to be scientific. Though for empirical claims that science is capable of addressing (as opposed to, e.g., what is morally right), claims that are based on sound scientific reasoning are more worthy
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by jarrett 13y ago
In anticipation of someone bringing up the Luddite Fallacy: [1] It's true that we're still below 50% unemployment, despite tremendous increases in productivity and automation over the preceding centuries. The standard explanation
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by jarrett 13y ago
Wow, that was a really silly goof on my part. Too late to edit I'm afraid. My apologies.
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by jarrett 13y ago
> There's not an argument in this entire paragraph. Is it meant to be a list of pointers to arguments? As stated, it's a recap, or summary, of arguments previously made. So no, the arguments themselves are not contained or full
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by jarrett 13y ago
Which of the above posts is "just saying 'I don't like it' over and over?" This thread is a discussion of the structure of a certain argument. To recap: swombat3 explains why he thinks Princeton's method of rea
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by jarrett 13y ago
Follow-up reply to ronaldx's edit: I personally would not have (and didnt't) use the word "bullshit" in this context, so I agree with you there. I still agree with swombat3's overall argument, though.
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by jarrett 13y ago
Yes, it is a testable and falsifiable hypothesis. So is "George Washington will be elected President in 2016." Nonetheless, we can fairly argue that both hypotheses lack a firm grounding in the evidence. > Observing common netw
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by jarrett 13y ago
The argument isn't that it won't apply to Facebook. Rather, the assertion that the analogy will apply is unscientific. It is an assertion of the form: A and B have behaved the same so far. Thus, A and B are of the same nature,
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by jarrett 13y ago
Ah, so the design of this encoding is specifically targeting URLs? That makes a lot more sense. Thanks! Knowing that, it does in fact seem like a sensible encoding for certain applications. Encoding, not encryption, mind you. I assume (or
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by jarrett 13y ago
Good point. What, more specifically, is the purpose of the Citrix encoding system? Is it to map an arbitrary byte string onto a limited range of bytes (ASCII A to P)? If so, any reason base 64 was unsuitable for these applications?
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by jarrett 13y ago
I did find that odd. Whitespace helps you get away from "a wall of dense text." I'm not clear on how mandatory whitespace could exacerbate the "wall of dense text" problem. Does the author want to skip the indentati
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by jarrett 13y ago
The difference, though, is that the sweet.js example of classes aims to implement something that is traditionally a language feature. APIs tend not to do this. You might argue that the distinction between APIs and language features is arb
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by jarrett 13y ago
Are you arguing that the inclusion of political opinions negates the value of the author's actuarial discussions? If so, why would that be the case? If the author's statements about actuarial science are incorrect, why not just sa
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by jarrett 13y ago
The PDF I linked to in my post above has a great deal of useful information. The commentary at the beginning is especially helpful. If you're running a website where DMCA safe harbor protection is important, you'll want to discuss
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by jarrett 13y ago
You said you were trying to offer a rebuttal. So I aim to show that the counterarguments presented do not rebut the author's main point. His main point is, roughly: 1) a variety of factors, including fear and antiselection, made for a
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by jarrett 13y ago
> You could argue that, YouTube has maintained their safe harbour, and hence they're a reasonable entity. That's not how the reasonable person standard works. "Reasonable person" is a term of art. A reasonable person
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by jarrett 13y ago
I haven't seen the case law, but from the following commentary, I'd say the issue isn't so clear-cut: > However, if the service provider becomes aware of a "red flag" from which infringing activity is apparent, i
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by jarrett 13y ago
Amazon says their "m1.small" instance has 1.7 GiB of memory. That's a lot less than most current laptops. Maybe JRuby uses more memory in total, but can handle more concurrent requests per MB of memory used? That could explai
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by jarrett 13y ago
Filtering out a signal that's in the same band is notoriously difficult. If the signal you're subtracting is known to you, you can simply lock the phases and subtract. That's pretty trivial. But knowing the name of the song d
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by jarrett 13y ago
Agreed. It's certainly worthwhile to look into that. The fact is, people with political influence (monied downtown tech workers) are upset. That's likely to cause some kind of reaction from government, eventually. Given that, it
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by jarrett 13y ago
I was thinking of more serious crimes. But before you start prosecuting people for the offenses you listed, you first have to make sure there are adequate options for the people committing them. Across the country, the homeless are routinel

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