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by oytis 1y ago
What kind of government will on its own initiative want to give citizens more privacy not to say actively push for it against other governments? EU parliament cannot propose laws, so it would be nearly impossible to grassroor such an initi
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by oytis 1y ago
Discoverability was an anti-goal for Mastodon initially. People from queer community felt it enables bullying. Mastodon has added search functionality since then, but it's still pretty basic. IMO it's not necessarily bad though. I
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by oytis 1y ago
The problem with web3 is that it's a solution in search of a problem. People have decided they should build something around blockchain instead of starting with what they want to build and why
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by oytis 1y ago
Mastodon might not have broken into the mainstream, but it's surprisingly viable. I am totally OK with its current state to be honest - feels like the cozy internet of 2000s.
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by oytis 1y ago
I feel like I need a guide for the guide
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by oytis 1y ago
True, but given how many breakthroughs we had in AI recently, for text, sound, images and video the odds of new breakthroughs happening are probably higher than otherwise. We have no idea how many of them we need till AGI or at least replac
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by oytis 1y ago
> Unless we have another miraculous breakthrough I guess the argument of AI optimists is that these breakthroughs are likely to happen given the recent history. Deep learning was rediscovered like, what, 15 years ago? "Attention is
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by oytis 1y ago
Not necessarily a reason to dismiss them. If they believe in the bright AI future, it's only natural to work for an AI company.
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by oytis 1y ago
It was the leading git storage at the time of acquisition, for many people synonymous with git itself
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by oytis 1y ago
Covid overhiring was quite a while ago, surely it has been long corrected?
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by oytis 1y ago
Series what?
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by oytis 1y ago
The core of Russian revolution were highly educated nerds who would cancel their friends over slight differences in understanding of obscure socioeconomic theories
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by oytis 1y ago
I've seen this claim a lot, about various countries, but couldn't find any more detail on what the mechanisms of forced deindustrialisation might have been. It's pretty typical for post-communist countries to lose their indus
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by oytis 1y ago
I might be wrong here, but I never heard that PISA has proved that averages matter more than top results, I thought that's just the axiom they are basing their assessments on. I understand why fostering top performants is a hard sell i
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by oytis 1y ago
Oversupply ov elites has been a major factor of political and social progress so far.
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by oytis 1y ago
That's a problem with the opportunity in the country rather with the schools. Being able to produce exceptional students is an advantage, now figure out how to make them stay.
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by oytis 1y ago
I think it's the other way round. There were special schools or special groups in regular schools that prepared Soviet children to STEM careers by making them solve a lot of puzzles. Then IMO appeared on top of that to celebrate highes
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by oytis 1y ago
There aren't universally good teachers. A teacher who can help a good student achieve exceptional results will not necessarily be good at making sure an unmotivated student gets a bare minimum and vice versa. Unmotivated students need
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by oytis 1y ago
Having been through a post-Soviet school system, it's not about rote memorization, at least not in maths. The point is spending as much time with a problem as necessarily, without having a predefined algorithm, until it cracks. It&#x2
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by oytis 1y ago
Looks like it was fixed, was giving me some puppeteer error at the time.
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by oytis 1y ago
Doesn't work on itself by the way
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by oytis 1y ago
Looks like the study pretty arbitrarily picks "exposed industries" and notes that employment rate there has declined.
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by oytis 1y ago
They've seriously set the goal that no-one under 18 should see any porn? What next? Mandatory hands over the blanket?
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by oytis 1y ago
What's the benefit to have rich people in your country if they don't pay taxes and don't create any meaningful amount of jobs?
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by oytis 1y ago
I wouldn't say it is necessary by design, as it is not forbidden and definitely possible. It's just Germany can't handle the complexity of its bureaucracy. Every new government promises to alleviate the bureaucratic burden, b
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by oytis 1y ago
It does make sense, but it also is pretty hard to work as a contractor being located in Germany. The main issue is that contractors don't by default pay pension contributions, so the pension fund hunts down those it considers "fak
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by oytis 1y ago
I think the purpose of digital nomad visa is exactly to get their taxes. As opposed to say Germany where it's close to impossible to work for a overseas company even as a citizen, not to say get a visa for that
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by oytis 1y ago
It's been around for a while, with its advantages and drawbacks. What's going to happen in the future to make it more attractive? The current trend is on deglobalization
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by oytis 1y ago
I can agree that marketing is necessary, but it's not irrational to resent that one's attention is being manipulated with or that internet - which is an amazing technology by itself - has become a lot less useful than it could be
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by oytis 1y ago
Engagement slop is next level, I wouldn't even call this mediocrity. I rather meant genuine thought leaders. E.g. in my area of expertise (embedded systems) there are a couple of people who dominate LinkedIn on advice in that area. The

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