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by kartan 9y ago
People miss the main point. The democratic voting of two countries was manipulated using social media, it puts at risk our rights, and freedoms. And this happened with collaboration, direct or indirect, from Facebook. Privacy concerns are a
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> “Arizona welcomes Uber self-driving cars with open arms and wide open roads. While California puts the brakes on innovation and change with more bureaucracy and more regulation, Arizona is paving the way for new technology and new bus
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>> I am not even allowed to tell a candidate (another human being that probably NEEDS a paycheck) why I didn't hire them and what they can do to improve their viability. > Policies like this exist because candidates have and w
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> choose someone to do it their way and everyone else help out If you choose wrong you are going to have a team following someone that nobody else thinks it's right. The solution is to have an arbiter,some one that makes sure that c
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> What should be passed (but I can't see how) is a percentage of allowed deaths, at least in the early years, and set it to something like 5-10% of the current rate, reducing downwards to 1% after 20 years. Whith so few self driving
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Again... 'Uber has temporarily suspended the testing of its self-driving cars following the crash of one of them in Tempe, Ariz. The ride-hailing company had also been conducting experiments in Pittsburgh and San Francisco.' I was
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> I learned to program, almost entirely, on my own, in a vacuum. Innovation is what requires a critical mass. You can learn from books, or nowadays from the internet, any skill. But what makes you move thousands of kilometers to a more v
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> The concern is the drip/drip effect of more and more regulation making those numbers even worse. There are industries, like construction, that have a lot more regulations that this one. And small companies survive. > What are t
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If you want capitalism to work, you need some kind of "homo economicus" that is able to look for their own selfinterest. If what you have is companies powered by complex financial systems and artificial intelligence help while con
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> Google is a private business and they can do what they want No. They can't. Countries have laws that regulate what companies can and can't do. That's why so many companies have had to pay fines in the past. To assert tha
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> Well as a user of Amazon you have a vested interest in the documentation being correct. As a Walmart customer it's in my best interest that the aisles are clean. But I will doubt the legality to ask customers to clean the aisles s
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> documenting open-source code for free Foundations that own the open-source projects are allowed to use volunteer work by law. Corporations with a for-profit interest doesn't. > or answering a stack overflow question? This one i
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> Can someone explain to me why people will inevitably put in countless hours of free labor for Amazon here? Most people is good a heart and they want to help, even when it's bad for themselves or even illegal. "Under the feder
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> "The harder and stronger the rock is, the quicker we advance."... I like how counter-intuitive is this statement. I used to live in a place where the soil was part of a river delta. It was really easy to drill but impossible
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> Did you find and contact specific companies? That is an option. Companies I have been working for have hired people that contacted directly. If you want to come to Stockholm, these are some companies I know people in: - https:/&#
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> And the German economy would crash That will also happen if you remove any major industry. And that's why you plan that in the long term. You start banning some use cases, and you keep increasing it. That's what is being done
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> The skeptic in me would say that the new rulers try to discredit their predecessors with allegations of corruption. The public servants are the ones that do this, not the new politicians. These actions involve police, judges, etc. The
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> You are saying that the corruption is established during the rule (before the change of power) but is more likely to be uncovered upon the change of power, correct? Yes. In the corruption cases the involved party is the exiting one. As
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> Confidence only works if you keep up the illusion so thoroughly that it ceases to be an illusion. This was the same for me as new manager. I was less confident that I let interviewers see. But in the end I got that confidence for real.
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I have seen changes of power of governments after 16 years. The result is always that corruption is discovered. After 16 years politicians have had time to get used to power and to put friendly people as public service officers. When power
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Some people are missing the point. > "In particular, machine minds that cannot explain themselves, or whose detailed operation is beyond the realm of human language, pose a problem for criminal law." It doesn't says that t
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A better society will help us to be less depressed. I have had some experiences with ill-behaving companies. Where bosses think that employees need to be in fear so they are more productive. Where people is told to "never make a mistak
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"A common operationalization of music ability is sensory discrimination of auditory musical stimuli of vari- ous types". Music ability is defined as "rhythm, melody, and pitch discrimination ". So it´s not about being
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I visited Chelsea Market Google offices by mistake. I was at the market, and not knowing so much about it, I though that was small. So me and a friend got into the elevator to go to the next floor. The elevator just opens and there it is. I
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> Because there is no point in being frugal if you have to pay significant corporate tax. And it helped expand "the empire" he was building, because he could reinvest everything. Only profits are taxed, not sales. So if you &qu
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> If someone wants to loose money on blatant scams with many warning signs, I say let them. I find this an abhorrent behavior that predates the uneducated. We have failed as a society to provide some people, actually a lot of people, wit
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Companies that play nice can't compete with companies that abuse our human biases and flaws. There is a niche for customers that care, and actually get annoyed by this practices, but it's not representative of the global populatio
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"2.1 Advertisements must be obviously distinguishable from editorial content, especially if they use a situation, performance or style reminiscent of editorial content, to prevent the audience being confused between the two. The audien
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> depth of trust I guess that it's more about the big boss is always right. Written records are needed for a fair observance of contracts. With no fairness, contracts are useless because one side can change them without consecuences
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by kartan 9y ago
Recently I had a lot of problems uploading content with Microsoft Edge, the cuprit was LastPass. Now I have it disabled until I need a password. Lastpass is a good tool, I hope they fix this issues.

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