maym86

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by maym86 8y ago
This guy is all talk and represents one problem with Silicon Valley. There are a lot of people now who can talk the talk and get the attention needed to get money but with no ability to deliver. Stop giving him attention until he actually s
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Algorithms are taking over – and woe betide anyone they class as a 'deadbeat'(theguardian.com)
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Where are you testing?
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> That’s isn’t a matter of smart vs dumb. It was a reference to the quote above which is saying the reason individual people loose is not because they are dumb but because they are unable to match their opponents resources. > “Well I
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by maym86 8y ago
> It's much easier to make a scooter or a bicycle autonomous than a car. No it's not. Less stable platform. Exact same issues with obstacle detection and avoiance, path planning and scene understanding with less available power
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It's the bare minimum of what a living wage should be. You seem to ignore that I keep saying minimum. I am not discounting families etc. just wondering if America can at least get to this point where a 40 hour work week at minimum wage
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by maym86 8y ago
I guess it depends on if you think low paying jobs in America are enough to live on without welfare support. If the jobs just paid more then your last paragraph wouldn't be true and people would be happier to leave their welfare behind
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I agree strongly with your final paragraph.
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Right but the first link I shared explained why even $11 isn't enough. And to the original point, the minimum wage should be a living wage. I hope you are clearer about what that means now.
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by maym86 8y ago
Yeah that's not actually true for a minimum wage (7.25 USD per hour is fedral minimum) employee in most states. Start by at least making the minimum wage a living wage for most individuals as the bare minimum. https://www.us
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by maym86 8y ago
I appreciate your response but respectfully disagree. Companies like Amazon are notorious for hiding their profits for these reasons. http://evonomics.com/amazon-accounting-corporate-profits-ric...
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How about enough to sustain an individual with accommodation, healthcare, transportation to and from work and enough to feed themselves on a 40ish hour work week. Some jobs don't offer that. Let's start there before talking about
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It's a function of big industry lobbying to keep wages low and block laws that protect workers plus the systematic weakening of unions. There is plenty of money in large corporations to pay workers more but it goes to the executives an
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It would be better if they paid people well and treated them with dignity. You could argue that Walmart created more poverty by crushing wages and benefits of it's employees and forcing them to work long hours just to earn enough to li
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Are there a lot of good jobs in the American South that pay enough to live on? What's the minimum wage?
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> To give out some money is one thing, we have that in Brazil, but to give out so much money it is better not to work is shocking. You miss the point. It's not that welfare is so much, it's that the jobs you get that knock you
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by maym86 8y ago
Because the business costs don't scale well unless they can invent technology to remove the humans and for harder ML problems that currently isn't possible. The business is only based on being able to sell they hype of "AI&qu
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There is a difference between labeling training data and just using humans to do the work. Some things cannot be achieved yet even with lots of labeled training data but companies are pretending they have solved hard ML problems at a high l
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Will this apply to bank accounts and credit cards? That would be fantastic.
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I think large companies and industries outside of Silicon Valley waste money internally on projects that never see the light of day. I think one of the big differences with SV is it's all on show for the world to see exactly how the mo
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Do whatever you enjoy. If you like taking photos and want to spend your time doing it good for you. https://xkcd.com/1314/
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Generally not unless there is an actual need for the decentralization. Otherwise it's easier and more profitable to build a centralized platform. BitTorrent is a decentralized success because there is an actual requirement that it is d
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by maym86 8y ago
This is smart. It can help move the responsibility away from Twitter's issues with policing it's own platform and onto the people paying for the advertising. Without transparency the blame stops at the platform. With this people
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by maym86 8y ago
In the first image why are all the flights from Madagascar stopping at an intermediate island between it and mainland Africa?
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Reminds me of the issues with women being rejected from orchestras because of gender bias. It was improved by introducing blind auditions where all that could be judged was the quality of the performance. http://gap.hks.harvard.e
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Who of us can really judge another person's personality objectively anyway especially from a short interview. Anyone with a history of high academic performance clearly has the personality to succeed academicly.
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I don't think this is necessary. You can sign the rights away without a transfer of money.
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For technology that is obselete in 5 years.
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If you work in a tech company you don't really have a choice. The company will patent your work whatever you think and this is part of the job. Giving them ideas to patent that you haven't implemented and are unrelated of your act
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> For each one, I donate a portion to the EFF; for what it's worth... What a great idea. Thanks

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