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by jl6 2y ago
Does the IA publish hashes of its data to a 3rd party, so we could (in principle) verify that nothing has been tampered with?
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by jl6 2y ago
The heart is slightly on the left though. This paper takes the "fighting hypothesis" seriously: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/15/4/940
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by jl6 2y ago
The worst HR case I ever got involved in was a semi-onshore (Indian) development team who couldn't deal with having a female (Indian) tech lead. She was eminently qualified for the role, but they would attempt to undermine her at every
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by jl6 2y ago
And yet coal wealth was tremendously beneficial for those communities. Kids-in-mines was ended by better labor regulation, not by cutting off the source of the wealth. Ghana has an amazing opportunity here. The world is literally shipping g
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by jl6 2y ago
> "There’s a whole generation of young people that are building their society from e-waste work." This is hard, dangerous, indecent work by any first world standard, but it's still work, it's still opportunity, and it
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by jl6 2y ago
I have observed this bot requesting URLs that haven’t been live for over a decade, and to which no reference can now be found in search engines. I imagine there must be a private trade in URL lists.
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by jl6 2y ago
“No evidence of X” is a more impressive claim when X is itself an extraordinary claim - but in this case, I believe “not X” to be the extraordinary claim. Based on my own observations, and on my experience of being a child and of raising on
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by jl6 2y ago
> Special “hidden system areas” I guess "hidden" can be a matter of perspective, from filenames beginning with a period, right through to things like the Intel Management Engine.
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by jl6 2y ago
A great of deal of history’s greatest works of art have been produced by artists in dire personal circumstances.
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by jl6 2y ago
Is it? If you are referring to the Slovenian status of “self employed in culture”, it appears to be a way of getting social security contributions paid by the government - not a wage. It requires “exceptional cultural contribution”.
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by jl6 2y ago
A great thing about being a programmer is getting to complain about the crappy requirements you have to work with. SQL, on the other hand, is not a program - it’s a precise specification of the result you want, in a format that lets the dat
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by jl6 2y ago
Suicide is the extreme tip of the iceberg, and thankfully still rare. But the rest of the iceberg, comprising teens suffering mental health and body image issues - not to the point of suicide, but still serious - is staggering. Teens are se
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by jl6 2y ago
From 2019, his longevity explained in his own words: "I think the best explanation for that is to marry the best spouse: someone who will take care of you and engage and do things to challenge you and keep you alive and interested in l
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by jl6 2y ago
Next up: Doom running on this Z Machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_Pulsed_Power_Facility
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by jl6 2y ago
Big boots to fill if they go ahead with the Harry Potter TV series.
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by jl6 2y ago
A key enabler of a nightmare dystopia is not being able to tell whether everyday items are secretly working against you. This tech seems to open up new horizons in the field of untrustworthy objects.
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by jl6 2y ago
It makes perfect sense to use the word content where it’s a convenient abstraction. But humans don’t watch/read/play or fall in love with abstractions. The specifics matter.
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by jl6 2y ago
Nobody ever thought to themselves: I sure could go for some content right now.
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by jl6 2y ago
Now I’m wondering whether you could fire sonar pings through the ice and transmit data using an acoustic sonar modem. Then the ice-melting probe could be completely untethered. It would be a profoundly unfriendly probe though: a hot radioac
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by jl6 2y ago
Laboratories of democracy, I get it… but simply allowing law to vary by state is just the enabler. There’s a lot of structure you could add to make it an actual experiment.
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by jl6 2y ago
I really wish legislation like this was structured as an experiment, so we could robustly determine if it worked. Otherwise someone will come along in ten years and rip it out, saying there’s no evidence it improved things.
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by jl6 2y ago
> To create this huge image, the painting was photographed in a grid with 97 rows and 87 columns with our 100-megapixel Hasselblad H6D 400 MS camera. Looks like they had the ability to move the camera precisely to one of 97x87 grid posit
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s not obvious to me why this experiment induced regret specifically. Are we sure the participants didn’t feel some other emotion like annoyance at losing?
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by jl6 2y ago
Pretty sure every big org is looking to move off every big tech product, as part of the contract renewal negotiation dance.
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by jl6 2y ago
Interesting that Sony considers a Blu-Ray drive to no longer be a key feature of the flagship console model. They’re probably not wrong, given the long slow decline in importance of optical media. Feels like the beginning of the end when ev
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by jl6 2y ago
> “The ideas described within a patent application should not be viewed as an indication of our business or product plans,” the statement added. In a followup statement, Ford said it "will always put the customer first in the decisi
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by jl6 2y ago
Say I’m a politician who gets caught on camera doing or saying something shady. Will your service do anything to prevent me from claiming the incriminating video was just faked using your technology? Maybe logging perceptual hashes of every
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by jl6 2y ago
Misogyny spoken out loud is very rare, but actions speak louder than words, and as the first bulleted point in the article mentions, male advantage begins at a very early age. It’s possible for there to be near-zero misogyny in the workplac
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by jl6 2y ago
“Recycling” sometimes (often) includes burning it in waste-to-energy incinerators, which emit CO2 and other pollutants just as if the original oil had been burned directly instead of taking a detour via a plastic product. It would be better
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by jl6 2y ago
The thesis seems understandable to me from the title, but I couldn’t tell you whether we should believe it or not. I assume the content of the book provides evidence and justification. I assume, because I haven’t read it either.

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