neolefty

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by neolefty 9y ago
Yes, I'd say that free speech—like many things—gets harder with scale. When a small number of trolls can derail a conversation, you get denial-of-service attacks against civil discourse and democracy. > having everyone listen to the
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by neolefty 9y ago
In the developing country of 1979 we did quite a bit with a lot less ...
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What if they improve safety on shared roads but aren't perfect?
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And yet Google does want accurate information to show up higher, in general. It's a hard problem.
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Defamation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation > ... communication of a false statement that harms the reputation ... Treated very differently from country to country, but universally considered an illegitimate
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by neolefty 9y ago
Honestly I thought it added to the story. Yes, he's founding a company that seems to be aimed at cyber-bullying in schools, which sounds (1) good for society, and (2) not super-profitable. It seems more like activism-entrepreneurship
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by neolefty 9y ago
Yes, forgetting is sometimes inappropriate, but not every crime is the Holocaust. It's the norm in cases involving childhood offenses, for example—expunging one's juvenile record—and it's the reason for statutes of limitation
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Do you mean devs spending at least half their time on the phone? Or just on call?
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Unfortunately AMD's licensing deals with Intel terminate if AMD is purchased.
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For web development, I think Ubuntu for ARM will be fine: https://www.ubuntu.com/download/server/arm
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by neolefty 9y ago
They wouldn't so much be "at standby" as "in orbit". To enable them to intercept an object, they'd have to burn hard with a lot of fuel, which means we'd have place them in orbit with a lot of fuel. It wou
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by neolefty 9y ago
An excellent point.
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SpaceX will obey local laws and geo-fence the service.
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I think you're basically right, but I'd encourage you to feel comfortable with it as a normal part of the discovery process. I would phrase it as "There's something happening that we see only indirectly—by its diffuse gr
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by neolefty 9y ago
Yes, Uber's opacity is shady, but raising their rates is a business necessity. If rides are still being subsidized by Uber (via losses) and its drivers (via low wages), would it be more accurate to say that new riders are given a promo
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by neolefty 9y ago
Is there a trade-off between safety and usefulness? Chainsaws, C compilers, C-4 ... Certain industries would be crippled without these tools. Safety training helps.
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I think that also points out the value of engaged investors and board. I don't know the details but I am under the impression they really facilitated that process -- recommended the idea, found candidates including Eric Schmidt, did th
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by neolefty 9y ago
It's an abstraction. The question is: Is it a useful abstraction? Clearly, we're all just made of atoms. But it's helpful to think about those atoms in an organized way. It reminds me of the classic chain of abstractions in
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by neolefty 9y ago
Perhaps instead the minds of drivers diffuse into their cars. That's already true for maps. Pedestrians' minds rely on things like Walk signs and sidewalk texturing.
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It's a rhetorical shortcut. A more complete description might be: > The Key to this thing that is commonly assumed to be Good Luck Is actually a skill, an Open Mind which is something that can be learned .
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by neolefty 9y ago
I think the author's argument is that we pretty much know what to expect--a negative result--and all the people arguing otherwise can't give good reasons beyond "I want my funding to continue".
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by neolefty 9y ago
Yes, and the LHC cost about $13 billion. Was it worth it? Would another--probably more expensive--collider be worth a likely negative result? Is there a cheaper way to achieve most of the same goals? Are there more promising things to do wi
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by neolefty 9y ago
Can anything be "forgotten" once it's been determined? For example--can two entangled particles be created, then forced to interact in a way that collapses their wave functions, then sucked into a black hole, without having b
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by neolefty 9y ago
It is probably harder to automate the last few miles. The Uber depots in the video can be standardized, but terminal pickup and dropoff is legacy. That cramped loading bay in the downtown Giant Eagle in Pittsburgh is never gonna get much be
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by neolefty 9y ago
Not including externalities--such as road maintenance--distorts the market. Better to capture them all so that different forms of transportation can compete "fairly". That is, without hidden subsidies.
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by neolefty 9y ago
Is that the old client? Yes, it was never great for me either. I had an alert to switch to "Google Drive File Stream" (and uninstall the old Google Drive client) that is some kind of virtual filesystem. I went ahead and did it but
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by neolefty 9y ago
To rephrase: You could define whether it is being used corruptly by measuring whether it reduces crime. This is a loaded research question, of course, because it's studying something that we find abhorrent: Prosecuting people for crime
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Consider food allergies -- I used to suffer from canker sores and then accidentally stopped drinking milk for 6 months (moved to a place where it wasn't available) and voila they disappeared! (I didn't actually notice that they ha
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At odds with this: Our local utility subsidizes efficient bulbs and appliances.
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I found a 5 by picking two Random article pages: Xyloplax turnerae to Pagolo Arsago -- https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Xyloplax%20tur... I love all the little touches, like the fun facts (2.51% of Wikipe

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