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by lisasays 4y ago
So the next time you look up at the stars, remember Brownlee's story. Somewhere out there, a manhole cover launched by a nuclear bomb is probably speeding away from Earth at about 125,000 mph. Meaning the Earth sits motionless at the
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by lisasays 4y ago
We see it when scientific truths —- say, the binary nature of sex -- are either denied or distorted because they’re politically repugnant. To blithely state that something is a "truth", when it is in fact hotly debated (and ther
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by lisasays 4y ago
" not what's happening here", meant to say.
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by lisasays 4y ago
You're free as a bird to say or think anything you want. Still, at the end of the day - the word "censorship" has specific meaning, and it just doesn't apply to this situation.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Repeating that this is form of censorship doesn't make it so. Ironically, what DDG is doing is exercise of its free speech rights - pure and simple.
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by lisasays 4y ago
It pretty much was just about fake news and trash results, actually. RT really is pure garbage, by its very intent and purpose. I do agree that blocking RT outright was overreach and somewhat silly. However, I imagine it comes more from a
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by lisasays 4y ago
Implicit in that the action is about preventing someone else from making that content public.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Then use a different search engine. To call what DDG is doing (or what a newspaper does when it chooses not to print your foaming, incoherent editor to the letter -- as is, you know, its right) "censorship" is just silly.
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by lisasays 4y ago
So is all censorship. Sorry, but that's not what the word means. By definition, it refers to the interception of communications between others . That's now what's happening here.
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by lisasays 4y ago
You mean in not caving to conservative-friendly "free speech" preferences? Its decision to downrank state-sponsored disinformation? One can question the wisdom of these decisions - but ultimately it's a matter of editorial c
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by lisasays 4y ago
The issue is definitely not obvious to a non-tech person. It isn't even obvious to me why text-image pairs should be considered, by default, public domain and fully commercializable by any and all. The bigger point is that in all prob
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by lisasays 4y ago
Oh sure - there are definitely morale and trust issues. Even (and sometimes especially) among otherwise smart and capable people. Vastly more common (and destructive) than simple incompetence, I have sadly come to find.
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by lisasays 4y ago
I really don’t see how new ai capabilities lead to big layoffs and new opportunities for Dropbox. I can think of plenty. Text-based image search, "find the latest TPI report last modified by so-and-so", etc. Which isn't to
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by lisasays 4y ago
I'd be curious as to where the magical 16ms figure comes from. Yeah, a single monitor refresh. But is that really needed for most UIs? these imbecile developers ... under-experienced software "engineers." Yes, I know we&#
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by lisasays 4y ago
Age discrimination seems somewhat problematic in tech. It was supposed to be a happy, feel-good article. Don't let messy reality intrude.
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by lisasays 4y ago
“We had already pointed out to your client that our client is entitled to claims for damages in accordance with Section 97a (4) UrhG in the event of an unjustified claim,” writes the lawyers acting on behalf of LAION. OK, so they're
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by lisasays 4y ago
Just like in one of the most underrated films of all time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matango
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by lisasays 4y ago
I doubt people who couldn't stick to Duolingo would have stuck to the boring advice HNers have like reading grammar books and watching in-depth Youtube videos that require much more attention. It seems that people just like ... diffe
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by lisasays 4y ago
https://archive.is/Ry7dF
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Dutch to Make Public the Files on Accused Nazi Collaborators(nytimes.com)
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Facebook work filtering posts 'cost me my humanity'(bbc.com)
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by lisasays 4y ago
No, it's not an echo of the Cold War. It's just another form of peer review and change management. Which some people are actually in favor of. But if one is ideologically committed to seeing peer rerview as adversarial ... then
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by lisasays 4y ago
By all indications, it's definitely a solid engineering project. On what basis should we deride it as "amateurish"? Because it originates in the public sector? As opposed to the private sector (where, as we know, everything
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by lisasays 4y ago
For his part, Schuhmann hasn’t profited from LAION and says he isn’t interested in doing so. “I’m still a high school teacher. I have rejected job offers from all different kinds of companies because I wanted this to stay independent,” he
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by lisasays 4y ago
Yup, that's what they do. Been there, sorry to hear.
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by lisasays 4y ago
You're supposed to be on a vesting schedule, and they begin to make it tough for you to vest. How specifically? Do share, please.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Duolingo’s marketing is not the issue - the issue is the majority have unrealistic expectations regarding the effort and time involved, get frustrated and then give up. Yet if DL maintains that "Fifteen minutes a day can teach you a
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by lisasays 4y ago
I wrote an article about it and received threats to take it down. From time to time, i get a hoard of emails calling me toxic and threatening to sue. Fascinating. You might consider publishing those emails (with sender info redacted, per
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by lisasays 4y ago
Not impossible. You just need to be a bit cocky. And start shutting them down when they start switching to English on you -- by switching seamlessly back to your hobbled Swedish, no matter how bad it is.
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by lisasays 4y ago
Speaking in Spanish would last about 1 minute until we transitioned back to English because it was more effective. "You need better friends, man". Actually, what you need (for immersion to work) is friends who will meet you half

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