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by jmopp 3y ago
In the Netherlands, if you're here on a highly-skilled migrant visa and leave your job, you get 90 days to get a new one. The only requirement is that the company you work for is also recognised as an employer of highly-skilled migrant
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by jmopp 3y ago
The problem is that a company would only fire the cavalier AI researchers after the damage is done. Having an independent ethics department means that the model wouldn't make its way to production without at least being vetted by someo
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It does make me think that one of the problems with Britain is a lack of proper checks and balances: the notion of parliamentary sovereignty kind-of implies that judges can't really overrule problematic laws. While the US system isn&#x
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by jmopp 3y ago
That makes me wonder: Can you take a car's catalytic converter and fit it onto a fireplace's stovepipe? It seems like it should be a simple fix for lowering the amount of soot that gets out
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by jmopp 3y ago
I would put a hypothetical software engineer's union in the same category as a sports union/actor's guild. Just as an actor has brand recognition and can leverage this or start their own productions, so can a skilled software
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by jmopp 3y ago
This, in my opinion, illustrates the value in studying classics: a lot of modern society is based on the stories we have been telling each other for thousands of years. Not just the Bible, though: also the Ancient Greek and Roman texts, and
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by jmopp 3y ago
"Oh, what am I to do with all this wheat that grew on my field?"
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And then you exclaim that it's the fault of what little regulation there is that's keeping the prices up, and that the prices will drop as soon as the government allows us to pay below minimum wage/hire children/loosen h
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by jmopp 3y ago
My first guess would be to help disinfect the air. UV-C light is pretty good at killing bacteria and viruses. Though they evidently didn't realise it can also kill your corneas.
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by jmopp 3y ago
I still have no idea what an ounce is supposed to measure. Is it mass? Is it volume? Is the ounce for measuring gold different to the ounce for measuring food?
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by jmopp 3y ago
Taiwan is less recognised by the outside world than Kosovo is, and it has its own country code. Same with Palestine. Having a country code is only weakly related to being a country.
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by jmopp 3y ago
How is a gun-shaped object made out of dense metal not instantly picked up by the X-ray machine at security? I know security theatre and all, but that's pretty blatant.
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by jmopp 3y ago
Try the Netherlands. You can do a spousal visa with an unmarried partner, and if you come in on a highly-skilled migrant visa, your partner can do any kind of work. If you can apply to and get a job with a software company who can relocate
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by jmopp 3y ago
People underestimate the value of a humanities degree. The point of studying literature or art history is not to study literature or art history, it's to study how people operate from an emotional point of view, and see how the way peo
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by jmopp 3y ago
Have the machine translation more as a sanity check than the actual translation: you don't want to blindly trust what the machine produces if it's in a language you don't understand. But going the other way for quality contro
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by jmopp 3y ago
You need only look at the Moms for Liberty types to see what small but well-organised campaigns can do. If you don't make time for local politics, others will.
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by jmopp 3y ago
Goodharts' Law applies to money too. Government action need not be as draconian as a centrally-planned economy to push incentives just enough to eliminate the worst excesses. How much is 'just enough' is, of course, up for de
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by jmopp 3y ago
Creating more supply is hard. Jacking up the price is easier. Sure, someone will see the opportunity and undercut your inflated price, but you will have made your money by then and there will be a lot of collateral damage in the interim.
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by jmopp 3y ago
Molecular clock evidence indicates the population bottlenecks happened 100 000 years ago and 12 000 years ago — prior to modern-era hunting and farming. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5892392/
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by jmopp 3y ago
Well, the cheetah crossed the Bering strait from North America, through Asia and into Africa, and survived two population bottleneck events in the process. Any other species with a similar lack of genetic diversity as a cheetah would have b
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by jmopp 3y ago
There's a difference between creativity and initiative. Aleatoric music has been a thing for over 200 years. But you still need a human to roll the dice, as it were. I would like to see a computer do something unprompted before I am so
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by jmopp 3y ago
This. Masks are a lot more acceptable in public than they were 5 years ago. Given the mass surveillance going around, I'm surprised more people aren't in favour of regular mask wearing in public.
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by jmopp 3y ago
Most printer-paper you can buy in a shop is acid-free. I still have high-school printouts from 20 years ago that show no signs of degradation. I don't think any of my own digital assets have survived from 2003 — granted I was a teenage
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by jmopp 3y ago
All bodies are different: some people react well to a vegan diet, others get so broken by the FODMAPs in plant-based proteins that they can only eat meat and greens. When you interpret dietary advice not as "this is what you should eat
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by jmopp 3y ago
I would hardly consider Angela Merkel left-wing, but go on I guess. Of course people on the far-left can be power-hungry authoritarians too. Stalin, Malema, and Chavez immediately come to mind. But this phenomenon manifests more often on th
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by jmopp 3y ago
This is what people who court the far-right don't realise. Far-right politics are a means to an end — that end being naked power. You will get chewed up and spat out if you do something they don't like. The silver lining is that a
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by jmopp 3y ago
Considering they asked him questions like "do you consider your reporting objective" and didn't return his phone and laptop, it's gone a bit beyond counter-terrorism. I would be less heavy-handed towards a journalist, du
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I always thought of technologies like these as potential solutions to the grid-storage problem: excess solar and wind energy can be put into electrolysis, and then the metals can be burned to provide base load power — while keeping lithium
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Economics sits at that intersection between the social sciences and the exact sciences: you can get some useful quantitative predictions out of it, but that is discounted by the fact that people are messy, and become even messier where mone
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> one needs to have dedication and will not to get distracted. This is something often overlooked when people say you don't need college. Tutorials and exams — along with spending a few years with peers also engaged in study — is a

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