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by mseebach 9y ago
But then you start doing violence to the categories. Twitter/Facebook certainly have entertainment functions, but they also have tentacles reaching deep into publishing and news. Now, suddenly a like for like comparison needs to includ
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by mseebach 9y ago
> there will be no-one to do the more open-ended tasks, or tasks specific to the work of a particular person or group. Staffs still exists. It's not unheard of for a manager in a company to instruct his department to undertake some
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by mseebach 9y ago
The idea that anyone is entitled to a secretary, that a secretary is a kind of status symbol, is rightfully falling out of fashion, and not just in Sweden. But it's not being replaced by nothing, it being replaced by (non-personal) fun
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by mseebach 9y ago
The nervous people were the telephone workers inside the building, presumably not experts. By having having his own wife and child inside the building, the responsible engineer puts his money where his mouth is, so to speak. This is similar
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by mseebach 9y ago
I used to feel that way, but I finally came to terms with the fact that my work-life was a mess, and I was basically lying to myself. I was working (and struggling, hard, in the way you describe) on a project I was telling myself would beco
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, they didn't issue warnings because they didn't have to . If they did have to, they would have issued a warning, then found that no action he might take could have remedied the situation (the things in the memo that were con
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's a spectrum, not black and white. The self driving car is a lot closer to one end, and the other examples are closer to the other. None are perfect examples of the extremities.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, but at least the person bearing the cost is the same that decided to let the AI drive. That doesn't mean what you describe is desirable, but the fall out is rather contained to people who have consented to using the AI. Not so wit
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by mseebach 9y ago
There is a huge swathe of problems where AI can provide tons of value, and where most of the benefits and costs of getting it wrong lies with the person deciding to trust the AI in the first place. Your AI self driving car doesn't need
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's just a detail. Google didn't hire or fire Damore in Denmark, so obviously they didn't bother to follow Danish law. My point is that Google could most likely fairly easily have argued that the memo caused insurmountable
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> Internationally recognised leader in timber engineering, Equilibrium Consulting, provided expertise on structural matters.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't remember the details, but on a previous article on wooden skyscapers, it was explained how the engineering of the wood, which is also required for the necessary structural strength, made it very dense and practically incombusti
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm not sure how the GDPR would apply to interactions that happens entirely inside a non-GDPR country, such as an EU citizen signing on to wifi in, say, China or the US, or in a hypothetical post-brexit UK that repealed the GDPR. There
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's the point. Under some of the more liberal legislations in eg. Denmark, you can fire people for "cooperation difficulties". The bar is higher than at-will, but it's not very difficult to meet. The employer just hav
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's no externality to speak off here, so Coase doesn't apply. The costs, even if unexpected, are borne by the people who buy the chips, not random bystanders.
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that Europe certainly isn't one place when it comes to labour regulations. Some places you barely fire people at all (prevalent in the South, apparently getting reformed in France) and in some places it
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by mseebach 9y ago
Generally by leveraging the fact that Facebook probably wants to remain on reasonable terms with most governments. Modulo appeals etc, once they've finally lost (provided that's the final decision), they'll probably just co
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's not about offence. I'm not offended. I'm challenging your misrepresentation of a debate. The idea that predatory pricing not only exists, but is prevalent, is the main plank of the argument that competition doesn't
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by mseebach 9y ago
face-palm Okie dokie, forget what I said. Sorry.
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by mseebach 9y ago
My interpretation of your comments is that the state of North Carolina used as an argument against deregulating its taxi market to an extent that would allow Uber to operate in the state that Uber might not survive the ensuing competition
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by mseebach 9y ago
It is (mildy, granted) pejorative in the description of a participant in a debate, especially when only one party is it. Search for the truth is about collecting and reviewing evidence. Being passionate (synonym of ardent) about one side (r
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, and that this group wasn't ardent.
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by mseebach 9y ago
So they did not base any decision on the observation?
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by mseebach 9y ago
Any? So Gmail users can't email any sane corporation? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Please provide just a single reference to this claim.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Before you said "spamhole", now it's security. In both cases it makes literally no sense to block Gmail and allow random personal domains. I suppose the setup could be based on whitelisting domains, and because Gmail is so bi
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by mseebach 9y ago
So they would have preferred it, possibly come to a different conclusion, if Uber would have been likely to be established as a perpetual monopoly?
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by mseebach 9y ago
You only said half of that. That was what you were missing.
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by mseebach 9y ago
In that case they make very bad arguments, because such an equilibrium would be expected to be quite stable (although Uber might not be part of it).
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by mseebach 9y ago
You've misrepresented the conflict as being one-sided, when it's not. There's a real difference of opinion and analysis, and plenty of "ardency" on both sides.
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by mseebach 9y ago
That can't be it either. Giving 65 million brits even £5,500 would cost £357b EDIT: oh, what's a million or a billion between friends?

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