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by mLuby 7y ago
I think it's the same outrage as when someone uses a telephoto lens to takes pictures of the inside of your home from the street. It's all technically possible, legal(ish), and should have been anticipated by anyone who leaves the
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by mLuby 7y ago
> Are there any examples so far around gross mis-use of this data? To flip the question: how many databases like this haven't been abused? When a corporation or government claims new powers over citizens/customers, the burden
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by mLuby 7y ago
I like where your head's at, but guardians speak on behalf of minors, lawyers speak on behalf of clients, and representatives speak on behalf of their electorate (in theory), so executives speaking on behalf of groups of employees isn&
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by mLuby 7y ago
Browser extension to auto-de-photoshop?
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by mLuby 7y ago
Good for you for leaving things better than you found them. But when management compares your output with Cowboy Chris, the fastest code-slinger in the West, they'll think he's better for the company even though he's racking
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by mLuby 7y ago
Whether individuals shouldn't be worth billions is orthogonal to whether governments or companies should spend money on opening new technological and territorial frontiers. The Kardashev Scale is just a scale, like the Richter Scale. I
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by mLuby 7y ago
Awesome 1min clip of Sea Dragon launching from the ocean from "For All Mankind." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRMDcC0QvFQ Really gives you the sense of scale.
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by mLuby 7y ago
That's a good point. Though it's worth remembering that the Americas held valuable resources just ready for collecting (eg furs, timber). So far, that's much less true of extraterrestrial lands (yeah yeah, He3).
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by mLuby 7y ago
When I learned that the (more talented) women on a team earned less than the men (maybe less negotiating, IDK), I said something to the team manager. No idea if it did anything, but I hope it did. And I certainly wouldn't have said any
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by mLuby 7y ago
> driving competitors out of the market,… raising prices, and lowering payments to drivers So, textbook monopoly behavior.
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by mLuby 7y ago
> 23 interviews and I didn’t get a single offer That's… an unusually consistent signal. Suggests to me that either this person is getting into the wrong interviews (eg junior interviewing for senior role—though they say that's
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by mLuby 7y ago
2007: Breakthrough Internet Communicator 2011: Black Mirror 2020: Nightmare Rectangle
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by mLuby 7y ago
Reductio! Someone who can make a boxy UI, hook those boxes up to {{text templates}}, and make GET/POST/PUT/DELETE calls (to RESTful API just thinly wrapping a SQL DB) can recreate a shocking number of popular web and mobile
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by mLuby 7y ago
That's why it's cool; coolness is value, independence, and self-control (lit. "keeping your cool").
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by mLuby 7y ago
> we’re encouraged to keep buying, buying, buying, and to not worry about waste disposal: recycling will take care of all that excess waste. …plastics industry groups['s] goal is to create a false sense of security that recycling ef
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by mLuby 7y ago
There are so many CRUD apps out there, they could be spec'd with such specificity that they only need a "coder" to complete the tickets. But the tech industry's combined architects/engineers and construction worke
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by mLuby 7y ago
There exist cheap, dangerous DIY aircraft and expensive ultra-performant bug-free programs, but mostly we see expensive, safe airplanes and buggy but cheap(ish) software. Also SWEs do a lot more "on-the-fly" modifications than phy
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by mLuby 7y ago
The problem with creating custom spacecraft each time is it's expensive and takes a while. It's done to get the most out of a single rocket launch (and because it extracts the most money from the customer AKA Congress AKA taxpayer
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by mLuby 7y ago
Agreed on taking a collective breath and evaluating. For "real" engineers, is it fair to say their ethical questions are more easily constrained than those in software? I assume it usually reduces to "should I accept a lower-
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by mLuby 7y ago
Why is "impacting" better than "affecting?"
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by mLuby 7y ago
Endless Sky is a well-polished FOSS version of the same thing. https://endless-sky.github.io
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by mLuby 7y ago
While the servers are down, do you have a demo video you could post?
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by mLuby 7y ago
Love these! Here's Emoji Tetris in 240 lines. Live demo: https://gist.github.com/mLuby/73316b08c31015e1da813e1fbbed89... Can also run in NodeJS like so: $ node tetris.html
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by mLuby 7y ago
The number of human jobs will shrink over time as the machines approach human intelligence. Fewer jobs with more people seeking them will drive wages down . So the last gasp of human labor will look like a few excessively educated, qualifi
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by mLuby 7y ago
Improve the economy. Humans confronted with scarcity (real or imagined) react with rational self-interest. They react more easily and strongly to perceived threats, become selfish for themselves and their in-group, and over-demonstrate thei
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by mLuby 7y ago
Are there really aquifers that move water ≥ 1km upward? I thought they were mostly lateral or downward moving.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Yep, excellent point. Oh well, back to squinting at traffic lights…
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by mLuby 7y ago
Can this be CAPTCHA instead of goddamn crosswalks? Asking for a friend…
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by mLuby 7y ago
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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by mLuby 7y ago
It's not that confusing, just a bit needy† 1. How many memes are there? Still, this is the most unlikely brag which is probably why it's first. 2. I've had great ideas that turned into things too (causality not confirmed). Fr

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