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by passivate 4y ago
You're absolutely right, it is extremely hard to emulate the programming experience via such games. If you break down the skills you need in most (with obvious caveats) programming related jobs - reading others' code, explaining y
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by passivate 4y ago
The article also says "In reality, all of us are at least a little narcissistic. ", so make of that what you will. Me personally, I'm always cautious when research people claim to have found "truths" about human psy
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by passivate 4y ago
But what does proof even mean? They can pass any audit you throw at them, and then immediately switch to being bad actors.
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by passivate 4y ago
Its not only complicated, its bordering on the impossible. They are simply hand-waving the "analyze your past decisions" part. Its extremely difficult to be introspective like that. You don't know why someone said "yes&q
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by passivate 4y ago
If you still have them, can you share those emails with names redacted?
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by passivate 4y ago
The next time CCTVs and bodycams are used to catch a criminal, perhaps you can volunteer to be the one telling the victims family about liberty and government over-reach. In any case, we already have existing tech that is serving as a techn
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by passivate 4y ago
>That’s because, while Google expected apps to use Google’s own billing system for purchasing digital goods, it rarely actually enforced the expectation >The billing system crackdown >Starting June 1st, Google said it would remove
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by passivate 4y ago
That's how I read it. Okay, we just have a difference of opinion, its no big deal.
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by passivate 4y ago
From the article: " That’s because, while Google expected apps to use Google’s own billing system for purchasing digital goods, it rarely actually enforced the expectation." "But Google is currently cracking down on app devel
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by passivate 4y ago
From the article: " That’s because, while Google expected apps to use Google’s own billing system for purchasing digital goods, it rarely actually enforced the expectation." "But Google is currently cracking down on app devel
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by passivate 4y ago
Grabbing 30% of sales just to run a billing system is absurd.
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by passivate 4y ago
I have no issues going to any lengths preventing drunk people from driving.
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by passivate 4y ago
I have no issues going to any lengths preventing drunk people from driving.
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by passivate 4y ago
You can say that about anything though. Most people aren't writing code or building binaries, so you might as well take the ability of the end user to write code or run any unsigned unauthorized executables on their PCs. Also most peop
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by passivate 4y ago
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/infrastructure-bill-track-...
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by passivate 4y ago
Also, FWIW Apple is no longer part of this lobbying group. And I'm no fan of Apple - they're a greedy anti-repair company. https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/04/07/apple-leaves-priv... But ev
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by passivate 4y ago
>completely subjective because it depends on what you think the educational system should be doing in the first place. Yup, you nailed it. That is the crux of the argument. I think it also leads into the meta discussion of what it means
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by passivate 4y ago
>These are very hard questions, and it’s frustrating to read the phrase “we need to fix the system” because yes, obviously we do, but agreeing that things are bad isn’t the hard part, and probably input from people who have never worked
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by passivate 4y ago
> They won't go to the best schools or get the best jobs because they aren't cramming flash cards of likely test answers. Can you clarify what you meant by this? As it stands it sort of reads like you claiming actually smart pe
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by passivate 4y ago
What do you mean by "current state of affairs"? There are plenty of reputable products coming out of China. I purchased the Little Dot mk3 tube amp directly from a Chinese manufacturer (no website, direct paypal payment) around 20
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by passivate 4y ago
And the authors are using their rights to free expression to criticize Google. No rights have been taken away. So its all good.
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by passivate 4y ago
I have friends that work at these companies and they're not toxic. Its like saying US citizens should renounce their citizenship and move to another country because of the warcrimes of the US that they didn't stop.
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by passivate 4y ago
My point was not political, but just that overly broad use of words dilutes their effects.
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by passivate 4y ago
I wonder what the best way is to strike a balance between calling an entire organization as having 'toxic culture' to highlighting the obvious egregious violations that we all want to eliminate. Like, can we call out America as ha
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by passivate 4y ago
If it is "definitely not true" as you claim, surely someone has done an analysis and published data on electrical, flooring, structural strength, etc. Lets see some of that. Data is easier to discuss than opinions.
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by passivate 4y ago
>The computerized "knowledge at your fingertips" is a common slogan of computer-age propaganda, but it's probably true that a greater fraction of that "knowledge" is in fact garbage and overall may just be a marg
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by passivate 4y ago
That is an elitist viewpoint. Things that have mass appeal are just that - things that most people like/enjoy/prefer. There will always be niche areas with limited appeal to more critical audiences, or audiences who value other th
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by passivate 4y ago
I'm in favor of specific criticism rather than lumping everyone together or painting with a broad brush, so on that specific point, I agree with the OP. There is no mention about needing to satisfy any specific 'standard' as
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by passivate 4y ago
>The grandparent misunderstood why the author was being vague Perhaps, but only the author can confirm this.
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by passivate 4y ago
>We conclusively demonstrated that kinetic models of folding are critical to do better drug discovery against GPCRs and other target classes. How was this demonstration done? Or are you referring to building a better high throughput scre

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