johnrbent

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by johnrbent 5y ago
I was wondering about this too... From the actual press release: "Apple will also establish a fund to assist small US developers, particularly as the world continues to suffer from the effects of COVID-19. Eligible developers must have
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by johnrbent 5y ago
> The main idea of the non-compete agreement is that employers want to stop people from walking off the job and taking trade secrets to rival companies. If companies weren’t able to secure those protections, they’d need to pay lower sala
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by johnrbent 5y ago
I'll admit, I read it as income. But it does make me start to think about the disparities in how wealth is generated across different classes of Americans. For me, wealth is almost 100% generated by my income, so I would say my income
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by johnrbent 5y ago
So less than 3.4% on average. How much do you pay?
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by johnrbent 7y ago
I don't know much about this field (and I did not purchase the full article), but it seems like quite a leap to assume this is a source of the gender-gap. First of all, you're talking about 80% of one standard deviation difference
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by johnrbent 7y ago
I used to work with Unity and Blender professionally. Not sure what this guy is talking about.
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by johnrbent 7y ago
Paid for by the same IARPA contract as dlib: https://talhassner.github.io/home/projects/frontalize/hassne...
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by johnrbent 7y ago
Raspberry Pi is all over HN today
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by johnrbent 7y ago
Facebook is the entity creating this work, and is the root of the problem (by contracting a 3rd party to perform work that they very well understand the consequences of). The article is suggesting that Facebook should be held accountable fo
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by johnrbent 7y ago
There is a lot of sensationalism (see title of article) and high, anxious emotions around facial recognition right now, which really is to be expected at this point. But it is muddying the rational conversations we should be having about it
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by johnrbent 7y ago
I was inspired by Da Vinci in my younger days to become a modern Renaissance Man. Then I discovered that the depth of knowledge in any given field had become far too deep to ever hope at becoming expert in more than one. Sure you can still