nebulousthree

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by nebulousthree 3y ago
It's the flip flopping of liberal investment in government and public services, followed by conservative slashing of those services, followed by a condemnation of government's ability to provide after having been slashed, followed
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
When you get on a plane do you think they fuel it to run out exactly at the moment the plane stops at its final destination, and not a drop more? Don't you think that they reserve fuel for emergencies? Why shouldn't a business con
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
It doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be convincing. That takes a lot less data and is much more tolerant to simplifications. Just look at the claims that were thrown around GPT's abilities at first.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Hear me out here: what if the realization that the conscious effort was in the way of optimization was part of the optimization all along??
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
This is some of the most disingenuous crap I've read in a while. Flip it on its head: "If c-suite really only cares about $ spent on labor, they would accept the productivity outcome of their salary proposals to employees. But the
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Do you see ads to play solitaire on a regular basis but "control yourself" to not play it? I also don't see ads for magazines like I see ads for cars, food, gambling, etc. The magazines themselves contain ads, sure, but I ha
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Mustard would be way better
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Allow me to spell it out: if IBM could guarantee themselves a maintenance or growth of market share in the short-term while simultaneously clamping down on licenses that are anything but closed-source, they would. iBM didn't buy redhat
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
It's more like saying that Germans like shitty meat because the best selling kind was the cheap, low-quality sausages at the corner store. Your attestation is the cherry on top.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Stop complaining and bring back apprenticeships. A university's objective is to create more professors and researchers, not industry workers.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
It appears the honesty experts were more skillful than the dishonesty expert.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
In a way, students trust the aggregate of "authority checking" that the school and the professors go through in order to develop the curriculum. The school acts as the jeweller friend that vouches for the stories you're told.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
You shouldn't trust any old certificate more than it looking shiny. But if a third party that you recognise and trust happens to recognise the jewelry or the jeweler themselves, and goes so far as to issue a certificate attesting to
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
You go to a jewelry store to buy gold. The salesperson tells you that the piece you want is 18karat gold, and charges you accordingly. How can you confirm the legitimacy of the 18k claim? Both 18k and 9k look just as shiny and golden to you
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
It's only in recent history that it became free to play. What you pay for now is a "verified" badge, so you can play with others who have bought the verified token, reducing the amount of low effort hackers you play competiti
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Try to imagine yourself as a worker with little to no asset ownership. One day you decide voluntarily to cut yourself off from your job. You no longer are able to pay rent/mortgage, and you are on the streets. You're hungry but ha
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
UI trends are likely similar to fashion in that they are cyclical. I'm sure the old-school skeuomorphism will be back soon, hand in hand with the maximalist interior design trends du-jour.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Because not-for-profit at least guarantees that the primary incentive is..not profit. Especially not profit over the well-being of the consumer. Now, does that mean that the primary incentive will be the well-being of the consumer? Time wil
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
That's great. Now interviews will be even more easily gameable, and companies that use AI to judge culture fit will be easy to spot as ones to avoid (they don't care about culture so much as compliance).
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
They mean that the software relies on the user understanding its, or the industry-it-serves's, jargon, to be used effectively.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Unfortunately this is an extremely naive take. 2015: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-hig...
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
The system is a little more nuanced than that because there is a "private review" portion of reviewing where you send a final message to the host specifically about the things they can improve about the space they are renting. The
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Checks and balances are a perpetual game of cat and mouse. While yes, they do raise the barrier of entry, it doesn't account for nepotism or favouritism, which would be the equivalent of lifting the ribbon to let someone through. It ca
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Capitalist philosophy is about maximizing profit and minimizing expenditures. One is led to believe that the end result is a flourishing competitive environment but, in reality, the best way to achieve the above is to collude with your &quo
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
They are advocating for self-worth to be intrinsic to oneself. The reason for this is the acknowledgement of at least 2 things: that every human is a victim of their starting circumstances, and the potential in every human being to alter th
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
If you are asking yourself this question seriously, I implore you (whoever is reading this) to explore the incentives the different players have in every decision that is made.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
The pleasure of working out only becomes obvious after you've built the habit to do so. You'll know you've built the habit when it starts to feel bad when you don't work out on a day you're normally supposed to. It&
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
> we couldn't do anything about the 2008 bonuses that were paid out We could've.. Not bailed them out?
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
I agree that the expression is tired but it is not wrong. The context has changed.
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by nebulousthree 3y ago
Given the Linux bent, it makes sense considering AMD's relationship with the open source community relative to Intel's, and to an even greater extent NVIDIA's. You already know this clip: https://www.youtube.com&#x

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