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by jimlongton 4y ago
Interesting large delivery companies do not use EirCode either. It was not primarily designed for deliveries but taxation. It's still annoys me to this day. The Irish government had a problem administering Property tax and the TV Licen
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I suggested reading the linked article. > “Results showed that exposure to manipulated Instagram photos directly led to lower body image.” Engeln, Loach, Imundo, & Zola (2020) Children with vulnerable developing brains being targete
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> You don't really notice your youth going, it happens so slowly. Unless you're unlucky and start losing your hair in your 20s. That really teaches you a lot of life lessons about self-image, aging, the way beauty is marketed a
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by jimlongton 4y ago
Related "Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence." [1] Does anyone else find these videos extremely emotionally manipulative and creepy? Now users have to contend with not j
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by jimlongton 4y ago
> but how do you square that with articles like this One city having a bail problem does not invalidate the observation that the US has an abnormally large prison population for a developed country [1]. [1] https://edition.cnn
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That makes sense. It would be good to add this information to the README.
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Does this send all the data to a third party? What if it contains personal information?
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> Visual Studio Code + Python The perfect example of why Microsoft can't be trusted. VSCode had a great open source Python extension which everyone used. Then Microsoft hired the developer and switched to recommending their closed s
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by jimlongton 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)#Funding_Cris... AMDOCS has been accused multiple times of being an extension of Mossad, including in the US where the investigations got quietly ended. Leaked cables from
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I hope their security is better than in 2019 when the French Tchap service based on Matrix was immediately compromised by a trivial attack [1]. Matrix.org has also been breached in the past [2]. That's ignoring the fact their project w
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That scandal is different in nature but just as egregious. It didn't involve fancy ML or algorithms. The Post Office and Fujitsu knew the system was broken (no correct tracking of transactions) and maliciously prosecuted hundreds of pe
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> Their goal/claim is that the language model will not retain copyrightable sequences. In case people are not aware, we know for a fact this is demonstrably false. It may not even be possible to achieve this with existing models. Pe
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> We use deep learning technology to create realistic AI voice clones that sound exactly like an impression of anyone in the world; whether it's your favourite reality star, game character, celebrity or cartoon character. Their busi
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by jimlongton 4y ago
> The notion of bias being self-enforcing is questionable as well. It seems obvious, to me at least, that people don't pursue careers in areas where no one looks like them, therefore creating a self fulfilling prophecy. > one tha
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by jimlongton 4y ago
> Emotions get the better of people. It's culture. Everyone has "emotions" but, at least in my country, police officers don't regular beat/choke/shoot hundreds of people to death each year.
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by jimlongton 4y ago
> Global warming has been fantastic so far where I live (UK) Not if you want reliable food production. Milder, wetter winters and drier, heatwave-prone summers and more unpredictable weather in general is hitting farmers badly. One recen
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by jimlongton 4y ago
Cargo is one of the main strengths of Rust but it's also poorly managed. It's not just the time it takes to sync cargo and the massive dependencies even small projects have. Namespacing should have been implemented early [1] (see
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by jimlongton 4y ago
You can find a small group of people to complain about anything, especially in a world where being offended gets you clicks and attention. You said "It would be so blatantly idiotic and racist that nobody would ever do it". Peopl
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by jimlongton 4y ago
> Imagine if this was called the Irish Software Foundation or the Palestinian Software Foundation or the Xhosa Software Foundation or the Asheknazi Software Foundation. You mean like the "Fighting Irish" from University of Notr
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That is very misleading since it is purely because of historical reasons .i.e. a naive struggling newly-born state handing education to religious institutions. The school system is very different to other countries. Schools can have a relig
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by jimlongton 4y ago
I would not take the article seriously. The author is an "investment professional" twitter addict who thinks COVID lockdowns are the cause of the NHS collapse in the UK.
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The linked site appears to be run mostly by American Catholic activists in their early 20s. I doubt they know anything about the reality of Catholicism in Ireland. I'm Irish and I've never heard of the author either. If he thinks
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by jimlongton 4y ago
I didn't go to a prestigious US university but even mine had all this data and used it. In tech we like to think we are the only ones to "get" data. We are not. Teaching outcomes are evident from exam results, grants won, pap
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I had to laugh at one of the authors being Christine L. Borg man. I'm sure all our data will be treated respectfully when fully integrated into their unaccountable profit-driven total surveillance system.
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I can't access the original study however taking data, explicitly naming security cameras for example, to "use it or merge it with data from external parties such as publishers or public or private sector organizations" will
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Unless they plan to offer similar services in future it seems Peloton are missing an opportunity to become a platform by not providing an API.
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Is using another companies trademarked name in the URL and service name and collecting their users names, emails and passwords not likely to lead to some legal action?
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by jimlongton 4y ago
See "The Billion Dollar Network No One Uses" by YouTuber Coffeezilla [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhU295bUv4
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I have not found that to be true, maybe due to company culture. Both my manager and our best engineer left my current company and returned, one after 2 years and the other have just 3 months. Both have been subsequently promoted. Our indust
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by jimlongton 4y ago
Is your current post already filled? I'm in the EU and filling positions left by people resigning has taken months. Talk to your old manager and HR. They might be more desperate than they appear.

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