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by mfer 3y ago
> But in the real world this happens with some regularity and editorial boards have set ways of dealing with this sort of situation Conflicts of interest are things to know and look out for. This is not the case of an editorial board. An
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by mfer 3y ago
The conflict of interest is that he is writing about an organization he works for.
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by mfer 3y ago
> By David Folkenflik According to Wikipedia... > David Folkenflik ... is an American reporter based in New York City and serving as media correspondent for National Public Radio. Interesting conflict of interest in news reporting.
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by mfer 3y ago
When I see this I wonder, is the FBI warning us about something the CIA or NSA are doing?
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by mfer 4y ago
While I would agree there isn't a "bad" word there are phrases and words that have meaning in context. I try to teach my kids to know the context and to not tear others down. For example, I have friends I can call a b&%@h
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by mfer 4y ago
So side stepped the context of my question (group vs individual) and answered to the context of the parent.
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by mfer 4y ago
> Russians have never had any real individual rights. To take a step back and think about things (not that I'm suggesting what I think)... in most places for most of history it's been about the group. The collective. Being heav
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by mfer 4y ago
Taking data for a whole country and drawing conclusions about a specific region may not be so good. For example, in the paper there is a lot of talk about bad data in the US but when they turn to the blue zone in the US there is no issue wi
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by mfer 4y ago
Interesting that the publication is from 2020 and doesn't appear to have ever been peer reviewed. Reading through it, the data doesn't support some of the conclusions. I would take this with a grain of salt.
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by mfer 4y ago
> Some stuff is less damning than it sounds This takes the paper at face value and I would suggest the paper is misleading. For example, the paper says... > However, alternative explanations for the distribution of remarkable age reco
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by mfer 4y ago
I wonder how they are going to handle fault tolerance when machines go offline? So as to avoid being paged in the middle of the night, I grew to really like automation that keeps things online.
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by mfer 4y ago
In testing and studies, buttons appear to perform better than touch screens. For example, https://www.vibilagare.se/english/physical-buttons-outperfor... Aside from the studies, on a personal level I have a car with a
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by mfer 4y ago
> When you live in a stable society and have gotten a free education and a nice job The education isn't free. It's covered by taxes so you, and everyone else, pays for it for a long time. There's quite an expense to have t
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by mfer 4y ago
It's not created out of thin air. There is a lot of reasoning and background on it. Whether I agree with it or like it is entirely different.
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by mfer 4y ago
If laws are created in this space than the judicial legal principle MUST to be reworked/updated/changed to accommodate it. The law is a higher priority.
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by mfer 4y ago
As a friendly reminder, the legislature crafts the laws while the courts judge if they are followed or not. There is a definite place for the legislature to step in and be clear here.
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by mfer 4y ago
> society is much better off when more of the public is educated. To what extent of educated? What do you mean by educated? A lot of what the general public gets isn't deep thought. It's being told what to think. A lot of the w
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by mfer 4y ago
Who defines good quality? Is this compensation? Is this satisfaction with what you do? Is this ability to pay your bills and save enough? How much does one need (what's enough)? This is all complicated and we tend to focus on compensat
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by mfer 4y ago
> But I wouldn’t dismiss its value in being taught how to think. Few universities teach how to think. Most teach what to think. Critical thinking, reasoning through ideas and concepts, and research are often lacking. > I wish there wa
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by mfer 4y ago
Getting out of a self inflicted problem isn't so easy. They have spent a long time trying. For example, putting distribution in the CNCF, working with the OCI on specs (like the distribution spec), making it possible to use other regis
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by mfer 4y ago
Docker Hub is a massive expense when you consider the data storage and egress. To do that for open source projects you have to wither (a) have a lot of income to cover such an expense, (b) a pile of VC funding to cover the expense, or (c) p
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by mfer 4y ago
For one, school book authors create books. GPt-4 is the tech industry. You shift who picks the views.
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by mfer 4y ago
Who is "we all"? For instance, the US is 5% of the worlds population. What we call the west is 20% of the global population? Not even to a quarter of it. Most of the population is outside the west. And, within the west there are a
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by mfer 4y ago
A lot of what GPT-4 can return is ideas based on assumptions and beliefs. Who chooses what of these to train the system? Those subtle ideas will then lead students who are mostly children.
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by mfer 4y ago
I'm typing this to you on a daily use machine that's running pop!_os, has a CalDigit hub connected, and is driving two 30 inch displays. My only issues are what I do to myself with my Linux setup.
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by mfer 4y ago
> he believes the current state of advertising is less profitable for sites now than it was before widespread tracking was in place When he talks about advertisers stealing the Internet he's talking about how they operate now. Inter
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by mfer 4y ago
The article has a description of what an operator is wrong. The definition of an operator originally was... > An Operator is an application-specific controller that extends the Kubernetes API to create, configure, and manage instances of
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by mfer 4y ago
> the sentiment still feels like it should be applied The FTC doesn't operate based on sentiment. Even if the people who work on this have the same feelings they need to operate within laws.
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by mfer 4y ago
Do you realize that you are talking about two very different situations. In one situation you have a company sharing data with other companies and the laws around that form of data sharing. In the other situation you have what companies can
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by mfer 4y ago
There are a few areas where housing values are massively higher than the rest of the country. You are in one of them. Have you looked at how many people need to commute there to work because they can’t afford to live there

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