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by lores 2y ago
You're talking about expectations from economic theory, while I'm talking about expectations from societal values; or, in other words, the economy defining society, vs society defining the economy. Obviously the first is factually
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by lores 2y ago
Wouldn't the opposite be expected, an aristocratic caste system less equal than an ostensibly democratic society ostensibly based on fairness and human rights?
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by lores 2y ago
People on HN skew young, smart (in one domain), and tend to live in a bubble of similar people. If you know you're smart, the smart people you talk to validate your smartness (in one domain), society validates it some more by paying yo
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by lores 2y ago
It does, to -2 decimal places :)
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by lores 2y ago
Worth noting it's not a linear relationship - 100k immigrants do not take 50k or whatever homes that would have gone to people already there. That's because immigrants also create building companies and incentives for existing one
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by lores 2y ago
"Harming people" includes money loss, though. Any hacking that results in identity theft would end up at the feet of the certifying engineer.
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by lores 2y ago
You're right, and it would radically change the industry. No more wild experiments, but a very measured and ponderous rate of change. It's not necessarily a bad thing, I'm at the age where I curse aloud when I see yet another
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by lores 2y ago
I'd argue there are vanishingly few engineers who understand all the consequences of even relatively simple code in terms of security and reliability. Every time there is a security breach at a bank or FAANG, some very smart and experi
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by lores 2y ago
And on top of all-certified components, it also requires the chief engineer to have veto power over the system. If business or client asks for features that are potentially insecure (and that's going to be a lot of features), they have
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by lores 2y ago
That's way more than the end-of-career salary for a pilot at a major UK airline, around £140k. Newly-qualified pilots at Ryanair make around £23k.
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by lores 2y ago
Well, slap my ass 10 times and call me Charles Maurice. When was that introduced?
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by lores 2y ago
I'd like to use kilometres instead of miles in Google Maps, but I live in the UK, so it's Not Allowed. Why? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lores 2y ago
You're likely correct it was theft. I was told by a CTO there that topping up accounts with bank money where it has been hacked away was daily routine and cheaper than fixing the systems. Incompetence would not manifest on routine oper
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by lores 2y ago
The Epic of Gilgamesh references him gloriously restoring ancient cities destroyed by the Flood. Of course, by the time is was written, Sumerian civilisation was already ~2,500-3,000 years old, so it's hard to tell if Sumerians thought
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by lores 2y ago
But considering a higher power as even a plausible hypothesis is purely due to historical reasons. Alien mind control, Illuminati mind control, living in a simulation, or humans being the fruiting body of Gaia would be impatiently dismissed
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by lores 2y ago
It's a surprising black hole on the map, seen from London. In 20 years in the country, it has never come into any conversation I've had except for "have you ever been to Birmingham? No, me neither." For a major city so a
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by lores 2y ago
Some are here https://observer.com/2022/12/elon-musk-suspend-twitter-accou... There was also Dell Cameron for reporting about a Twitter hack; Liam Nissan, TrueAnon, for poking fun at Musk; Ken Klippensten for shar
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by lores 2y ago
He bans journalists and others who criticise him. Why do you think he is committed to free speech, rather than speech he likes?
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by lores 2y ago
Many people at the margin don't have bank accounts. Not only schizophrenics, but undocumented immigrants or the homeless. There are a lot of undocumented immigrants and homeless.
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by lores 2y ago
Don't start me. Besides that, there's the fact that card-only is giving free rein to the boards of MasterCard and Visa to decide what's effectively legal; it's already the case in the adult industry, where the card compa
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by lores 2y ago
Tobacco smoking has been on a downward trend since at least the 70s, from 50 to 13%, and taxes have steadily gone up since then in real terms, but I'm surprised to see that the period when the government raised taxes the most is about
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by lores 2y ago
It happens often in very big companies. I remember multiple trips to different floors of a building to get the requisition form and authorization for a single notebook and pen that in the end cost the company ~$150. Someone has a KPI &#x27
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by lores 2y ago
That's only in theory, though. Service in France is better than in the US because waiting is respectable and a profession, and tipping in the US is linked to the quality of service by no one I know - tipping less than the standard 15 o
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by lores 2y ago
All 50 states have a law to the effect that minimum wage is minimum wage, and if tips + tipped wage dies not reach it,b the restaurant must make up the difference. With that in mind, why are service staff singled out to receive tips? Why no
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by lores 2y ago
Unfortunately, most people do PhDs when they are young and have limited experience of the world. It's not a problem in sciences, it is in sociology and politics. Those degrees should require the candidate to be a minimum age and/o
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by lores 2y ago
Except a few large ones :)
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by lores 2y ago
Agreed, but I think there's something to be said for allowing light coupling sometimes. Anathema to "proper" design, but not uncommonly the overall complexity of a proper design makes maintenance harder, not less. I'd ra
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by lores 2y ago
Indeed, and "hyperparameter tuning", i.e. "try every combination but give that an impressive name so people don't raise their eyebrow at us"
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by lores 2y ago
We've always been in the brute force phase of AI. Much of AI is throw things at the wall and see what sticks.
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by lores 2y ago
No, although I live there, was that a very British comment?

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