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by jwie 4y ago
It’s only as good as the information it harvested. In a space where less true information is available, the results would be quite poor.
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by jwie 4y ago
They’re not the one who dialed 911 to solve a business problem. People sleep in cars when they’re not driving.
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by jwie 4y ago
I’m genuinely curious about the language senior management uses to communicate such things in public. Perhaps it is a disconnect about the audience. The people getting fired are not the audience of the message which communicates their termi
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s not that crazy. The US tax code is intentionally complicated to provide space for tax preparation businesses and loopholes.
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by jwie 4y ago
Is this really a software problem? I’m sure the software is functioning fine. The problem is a bunch of idiots decided that to solve the problem of people forgetting to turn the lights off they needed a complicated technology to do it for t
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by jwie 4y ago
Google claims they don’t use GA for ranking signal. Though in your case it could be interpreted as mischief, maybe something is going on there. You might try recreating a GA4 instance and starting fresh. It might be the least painful road t
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by jwie 4y ago
The conversation around chatgpt has been had before. It is more ancient than Plato and Aristotle. ChatGPT can only generate rhetoric. It is incapable of generating dialectic.
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by jwie 4y ago
In a way this is cutting out the middleman, or dogfooding of their page ranking technology. Search has been compromised so much by SEO games that the thing that ranks is essentially the king of the spam hill. By inserting the output of the
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s not that odd of a case. The incentives line up. LEOs get to seize drug money, property, and other assets related to drugs without due process. For pharma and criminals it’s the exact same reason; the laws create an economic moat.
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s unfortunate. Though what do you expect when possession is ownership and there’s no mediating institution to help you with theft. If your brokerage account somehow gets hacked and all your funds gets stolen that’s not an unsolvable prob
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by jwie 4y ago
Mishandling of classified materials is a kind of strict liability process crime, of which most who handle the stuff regularly could be guilty if someone applied enough scrutiny and desired a specific outcome.
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by jwie 4y ago
He failed to keep his mouth shut more like it. Picard guilt trips him into confessing, but this was very late in the series. Wesley had already established himself as an insufferable child prodigy so there wasn’t a lot of growth available t
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by jwie 4y ago
An excellent case study on data being pointless. The title might as well be “Geese want to be where humans don’t want them to be, probably for food or habitat reasons.” They’re not twice as likely to return if shooed away. They want to be i
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by jwie 4y ago
You can’t know what was prevented due to the copilot being present. This is the problem. Nobody appreciates the value of the unbroken window. I’m willing to bet a horrifyingly large amount of value exists in a human copilot. They say an oun
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by jwie 4y ago
The restrictions are not pointless. People shouldn't have to endure AI generated spam, no matter how well-formatted. I can opt out of robocalls, email spam, programmatic texts, even take legal action against people who make them outsid
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by jwie 4y ago
GitHub did the right thing. While GitHub might have had better ways to deal with this kind of thing technically, those controls are rather expensive to implement for novel scam use cases if they weren’t in place prior to the abuse. The blas
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by jwie 4y ago
I expect this is because those kinds of stories acquire engagement. These bots don’t get bogged down in the minutiae of “truth”, or “credibility”. It’s all metrics. The content is a vehicle for these metrics. Real or not, Bigfoot gets click
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by jwie 4y ago
Remote work is a tradeoff. The primary issue with commuting to an office is the costs are too damn high. The benefits are primarily collaboration. I'd be happy to come into an office. What I don't want to do is spend 2 hours in tr
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s unfortunate you’re catching heat for this 1000% true comment. The reality is that Apple systematically robs value, specifically the value delivered by foreign slave labor. This same process occurs in graduate schools across the United
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by jwie 4y ago
I definitley think it's on the product side that LAN parties died. The relationship between the player and the game, and the LAN community and the game were way different. Gradually the companies figured out how to inject themselves in
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by jwie 4y ago
I believe you could open a Roth, put dollars in it and buy anything your Roth broker would sell you in that tax protected container. Exotic offerings are not going to be available to regular people, but if you could get access to bespoke fi
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by jwie 4y ago
All you need to pull this off is ground-floor access to a unicorn startup. The IRA rules are the minor term here. Anyone could, provided they had an investment that gained as much as Thiel’s, do this. Maybe there should be lifetime caps on
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by jwie 4y ago
There’s rarely an upside to apologizing. It’s way easier to make someone else look worse than to do better. So blowing tiny mistakes out of proportion to take others down a peg is an effective strategy. Most mistakes don’t matter. They cost
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by jwie 4y ago
It’s likely one of those edge cases that nobody cares to solve. It probably involves some scoping issue where one system doesn’t know the conditions of the downstream system. Emergency volumes are supposed to be loud, and override the volum
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by jwie 4y ago
No it isn’t different. At least it is not different in it’s mechanics. The activities of a moderator and a censor are identical. The intent and objective contain nuanced differences, but only of degree not kind. Both moderation and censorsh
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by jwie 4y ago
This is a laudable position. But consider that, depending on your level and immediate boss, you might not be in a position to survive the layoffs no matter how personally productive and impactful you are. There will be a lot of snap judgeme
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by jwie 4y ago
The actual reason these common misspelling domains are acquired is to make it harder to perform scams.
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by jwie 4y ago
The cheating accusations need to be a lot less dramatic. Removing cheaters from competitive play isn’t a public activity. Magnus throwing the chess equivalent of a tantrum in public, and a woman being bullied into undoing a lucky win aren’t
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by jwie 4y ago
I thought it would nitpick everything but it can be satisfied. > This sentence is false. No issues!
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by jwie 4y ago
The endgame of this is platforms won’t get advertising spend without their ability to suppress content objectionable to advertisers.

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