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by neilk 3y ago
According to some recent articles from mainstream media: There are about 550 full-time engineers at Twitter. [1] There are about 625-670 H1-B holders working at Twitter.[2] This isn't quite the full story since of course H1-B holders m
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by neilk 3y ago
I appreciate the spirit of the attempt, but the author has no evidence their “rules” would work. The one empirical example is Amazon. Does anyone think Amazon is not already parasitizing their partners? The author is missing the point. Amaz
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by neilk 3y ago
The original exegesis, which prompted this blog post, was by me. I am currently transitioning to a different blog engine, so the page is offline right now, but it's still available here https://web.archive.org/web/
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by neilk 3y ago
Let's set aside your idea for aggregating federated content - it's pretty close to what the fediverse does, but it doesn't explain why the individual fediverse instances themselves need to be moderated. You're looking at
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by neilk 3y ago
A scholar of Hume has speculated that Hume might have heard about Buddhism from a traveling Jesuit priest. http://alisongopnik.com/Papers_Alison/Gopnik_HumeStudies_wit...
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by neilk 3y ago
Friend, every person gets benefits from the state. Be thankful that all the help you got was education, policing, infrastructure, community wealth, tax policies that favor asset owners, indirect subsidies, or privatized profits from public
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by neilk 3y ago
These are real problems. But I'm just going to say: I've lived in San Francisco. I currently live in Vancouver, not far from the epicentre of unhoused and addicted people. Vancouver has many of the same problems and for the same r
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by neilk 3y ago
Those are the homeless you can see. You're right that people who have several physical or mental health issues would be hard to help, in any system. But the number one cause of homelessness isn't addiction; it's poverty. And
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by neilk 3y ago
Humiliation is essential to any fascist project. You can see this in any of the statements from fascist and authoritarian leaders. They’ll emphasize how tricky and duplicitous the enemies are, how the good and honest people were defrauded,
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by neilk 3y ago
It’s absolutely true, and even in the sense of losing technology. The effect of British rule on India is sometimes called “de-industrialization”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-industrialisation_of_India?... The Brit
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by neilk 3y ago
I have no idea exactly how much this particular curriculum change is influenced by religion. But your assertion that science is depoliticized in India is very wrong. In 2018, the education minister declared Darwin was wrong. https:/&#
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by neilk 3y ago
When the JT drama happened a few days ago, a friend of mine, a much younger developer, expressed sadness that there had to be politics. Why couldn't it just be about code? There's a dual meaning to politics there: casually, it is
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by neilk 3y ago
No, I will not. “You just have to do more research to understand” is the crypto founder’s refuge from all criticism. You have not demonstrated that your claim is worthy of investigation. While I am not the most intelligent person you have m
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by neilk 3y ago
I wanted to see what "crossed swords" meant, so I searched for what leashless might have meant. Some examples of threads that I felt were representative. https://twitter.com/molly0xFFF/status/151318418749
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by neilk 3y ago
VLC Media Player is 22 years old PuTTY SSH client is 24 years old The mIRC IRC Client is 28 years old Theatre Manager ( https://www.artsman.com/about/ ) is, depending on how you count, up to 37 years old.
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by neilk 3y ago
Well, let's give people a break. It sounded plausible. We've all heard of the story of the waggle dance, often in grade school, in a simplified form. TIL 3-2-1 Contact lied to me. That said, I don't believe that computer prog
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by neilk 3y ago
I couldn't find any other reference to this rogue bee thing (except other inspirational essays). Wikipedia's entry on the waggle dance seems to suggest that bees often don't make use of the information in the dance. It's
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by neilk 3y ago
Vagrancy laws in the United States were dramatically expanded after the Civil War, to restrict and control the recently freed slaves. In some cases, the penalty for vagrancy was to be forced to work for someone for free. (Imagine if you wer
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by neilk 3y ago
Thank you. As some might say, you're doing the Lord's work. :)
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by neilk 3y ago
I just tried with ChatGPT-4 and it is not easy to get it to argue in favor of YEC. Even if you ask it about the theory, it will caveat it in many ways, saying that it isn't a believer, and that YEC is not accepted by most scientists. I
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by neilk 3y ago
It’s not Uber for Offices. It’s AWS for offices. The AWS bet is that some companies, especially when starting out, will pay a high premium to not have to manage certain physical resources, and to have the flexibility to scale up or down eas
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by neilk 3y ago
Possibly, but private entities don’t have the right incentives to solve public problems. They’ll try to solve this so they get the maximum benefit from their spending. For an employer, that could mean housing subsidies, on-site housing, eve
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by neilk 3y ago
Are we sure this really was a joke gone wrong / social experiment, or is this someone walking back a scam? Or maybe a bit of both?
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by neilk 3y ago
Good observations and I've observed more than a few in computerland, especially in startups. However, it's not true that cult leaders are always grandiose. They can be strategically vulnerable too! When confronted -- especially by
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by neilk 3y ago
I like it a lot, but it’s also frustrating. Perhaps it’s being hugged to death right now but the lookups are very slow, so when I disagree with the results it’s a bit painful. If the results were quicker it would not be so bad, I could try
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by neilk 3y ago
Let's consider what Google did to the previous paradigm: libraries and books. Books had editors and were expensive to publish, which imparted some automatic credibility. You might even have involved a librarian or other expert in your
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by neilk 3y ago
Nobody was arguing that Hinton should be listened to uncritically. You were the one asserting that he should not be listened to at all. With respect, you seem to be shifting goalposts, from the indefensible (Hinton doesn't know what he
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by neilk 3y ago
Your viewpoint is fascinating. So the inventor of backpropagation, Turing award winner, Google researcher, mentor to the CTO of OpenAI, doesn’t have any special insights about AI and the tech industry that’s forming around it? He might as w
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by neilk 3y ago
> Resilience is provided by the protocol being simple enough to implement in a weekend, in your language of choice. Platform lock-in is impossible, since any client can republish any note to a different relay if one misbehaves or enacts
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by neilk 4y ago
For the last few hundred years, huge numbers of European-descended men took up tobacco. Moreover, cities were grossly polluted. I wonder if that affected the intuitions of scientists, who were mostly from such places. Maybe they really coul

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