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by johndhi 3y ago
My father and his friends were academic computer scientists working on AI back in the 60s. I don't know that there's a straightforward path between what they were doing and the popular LLMs today, but I do applaud more stories on
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2a is the exception I was thinking of.
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My high school friends and I built a website and web forum for us to chat about our LAN parties. We also spent one summer turning a dirt space beneath one guy's house into an epic lan room - we put in floors and carpeting and lighting
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Disagree on first statement. It's what they do with it that matters, not what the contract says. On the second point, sure, but so we have knowledge of what, how, and for how long, the carmakers are storing?
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Pretty sure this isn't true. What wiretapping laws do you have in mind? I think ISPs are exempt from most.
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As someone who works in privacy I find it really funny and sad that all of the legal requirements to create and display privacy policies result only in this: conjecture about what a company might do based on its vague privacy policy languag
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Hmm I don't know the food quality area super well but I am sure it's hard to confirm improvements were caused by regulations and not technology, right? The idea of transparency is interesting to me. I used to agree with you that m
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Good examples! I'm more familiar with 911 but I know it also contains nightmare pains in the butt (e-911 software requirements).
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I'm generally skeptical of the efficacy of regulation to solve a problem. Can you please cite some examples of where FCC regulation has been successful in solving other problems, and explain why you believe iot security regulation is l
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This is true for me at work right now. Tips on how to reverse it?
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I'm thinking about going solo / freelance in my profession soon. Are there good places to read general tips on this? But short and to the point, like this thread.
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Nice story. It's unfortunately really hard for higher management to see something like this. I guess it's on the middle manager to convince upper management of this. Unfortunately in my current experience my manager is not at all
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No, this is personal responsibility in action.
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> Most privcy-adjacent laws that EU has released in recent years are neither complex, nor do they cost too much money. Please visit https://gdpr-info.eu/ and read the text of the 99 articles that make up the GDPR. You do
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and for this reason, there are extremely harsh laws against whistleblower retaliation.
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If the manager told the IC to deprioritize what I'm asking for, the IC should tell me that. If the IC tells me that, I'll consider that in what I write about the IC. Also - I'm not necessarily advocating for praising in front
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by johndhi 3y ago
To me, the text you quoted is a separate issue/topic. If a manager is that horrible, then it's time to give negative feedback to THEIR manager. Just like I don't ask before I send a Slack message to someone about a work-relat
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I disagree with the "ask first" suggestion. That's adding friction to the process that makes it less organic and will disincentivize actually doing it. Instead I will give feedback that I know won't hurt the employee I&#
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Cool story
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lol... if they retaliate against her she gets to file another case and win even more money. I'm not sure what to make of the assassination intimation; I mean... so far as I know there's no history of corporate whistleblowers being
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by johndhi 3y ago
My pov on this is, I say no to people I don't want to work with and don't like, and I say yes to bosses I respect and who I want to work with more. That way, I earn the trust of the people I like and fall off the radar of the peop
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I've implemented gdpr. It's much more than that.
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Great post. Adding that the article misreads the legal events too. The Norwegian decision for FB isn't a watershed moment. The Irish enforcement against them is not.
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I'm saying the laws EU has released are too complex and indirect and cost too much money, and that if they wanted to ban behavioral advertising outright they should have and could have done that instead of what they have done.
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As a lawyer working on these topics, this is a poor phrasing. EU regulators don't need to "war" with advertisers - they have complete control over them. There's no other side of this war, just regulators issuing commands
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I do that too!
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IMO a lot of stuff humans have 'invented' (like meditation) are really just sort of tied to our nature as animals. I think meditation is something we're all (most?) inclined to try in some way, but then some specific geeks st
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Makes sense. Thanks for sharing! I personally think human beings need some kind of central spiritual belief or identity to feel satisfied/happy/whole. I'm not sure, but in your case, it almost sounds like you might be getting
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I suspect you just have a different definition of 'religious' than I do. Why are you so anti-religion?
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I used to play a game as a kid where I'd close my eyes and try not to see or imagine anything. To keep a black empty universe as the only thing I see, for as long as possible. It isn't easy!

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