paulus_magnus2

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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
I am ever surprised how much self loathing the tech workers can take on themselves. If you fix 1 bug related to privacy are you complicit? What about a bug not related to privacy but in a company that is later found out to be a bad actor (W
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
I'm looking for a easy way to introduce programming to my kids. In my time Pascal was the way to do it. There was an integrated IDE, one click build, simple syntax, ways to output text and graphics. User interface / forms had t
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
I think what we did during the lockdown doesn't count as a proper test of home schooling / remote working. What we did here in Belgium is to force kids to stay at home and force parents to work from home WHILE the kids are there.
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
It would be really interesting to see code simplification via neural network. While working in enterprise I see plenty of code that after some massaging collapses into a much simpler form (for the programmer) and equivalent for the computer
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
A rather lazy / uninformed article by someone who grossly underestimates the complexity of what would it would take to completely automate business processes of a company. The title question is equivalent to asking: a robot cannot buil
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
There is a conflict of interests: -- as a society we should strive for what Warren buffet calls "lottery of birth" [1]. Egalitarian society will better maximize utility of it's gifted population. -- as individuals we try to g
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
> there are no other good alternatives for your investment said the billionaires, and continued pumping money into rent seeking, cornering existing markets. then one of them got inpatient and built "new" things - SpaceX [$36b]
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Anything an existing AI "invented" is not an invention. It should go directly to common knowledge. One could argue the AI that did the inventing could be patented somehow.
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
If you order from delivery service you'll get convinient delivery and commodity food. If you order from restaurant the relationship reverses. (*)Market is efficient and all theory aside, it matters who owns the customer as the rest of
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by paulus_magnus2 6y ago
Is there a good reason why we allow capital to organise itself and not labour? Adam smith was already commenting on this asymmetry [can't find the quote]. In the end, labour can "capitalise itself" by having all employees res
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
indirect Proof: To all Googlers, does your contract include clauses about Confidential Information, Trade Secrets, NDA-type clauses etc? Great penalties for breaking these? -- Q.E.D
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
I was surprised Bruce Aylward was so easily caught off guard by the interviewee, WHO is mostly a political organisation. An easy way out was to interpret the question geographically (Taiwan is also the name of their main Island): Taipei did
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
I can't shake off the thought half of the comments defending Apple are written by people working at/for Apple. Or earning 300k+ 1 - 2 hours are required https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+11+Battery+Replaceme
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
Can we stop the self hate already? There definitely are 10x musicians, 10x painters, sportsmen and 10x programmers. You know what never exists in 10x form? Burocrats and middle managers who write articles like this one. I suggest to flag th
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
The same reason why intelligent people don't win lottery jackpots? [can explain my reasoning if needed]
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
Housing is only expensive in (big) cities but we all need to go there because of jobs. Good hobs are only created in (big) cities because that's where the talent is. Solution is to build more cities and provide seed / anchor jobs.
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
Actually yes [1], but penalties seam to only be imposed on foreign companies. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/03/hyundai-and...
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
False advertising is normally a crime ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising ) I think (suspect) the trick FB is using is not unlike Uber / Airbnb where they fall just outside regulation. Meaning that spo
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
There are more interesting questions: - what if Excite bought Google and killed it. And kept buying all competitors before they become a threat .... like Google does these days. - following from there: which companies have been bought and k
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
The resentment of big capital is not entirely without a reason. Most money right now is "passively" deployed into pre-existing securities. This means it's used to extract existing value by market cornering / scarcity gen
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
Noticing in itself isn't but we're talking about amassing surveillance intel on people, bundling into packages and selling to the highest bidder. Or selling to hackers on black market. Normally you'd need a private detective
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by paulus_magnus2 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group towards another person.[1] Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
Let's stop discriminating against people who have a family or other things to do except work. Start by enforcing 40 hour work week and make overtime paid 150%. Employers prefer frugal workaholics with no obligations but these individ
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
FAPP, a company is a bunch of people (mostly a bunch of managers who make the decissions) so at some point some manager decided to squeeze his workers beyond reason - this would be bottom up opression. Or perhaps a higher manager wrote the
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
Wages are as low as employers can get away with. The problem would disappear if all workers had 10 employers to choose from. Lack of demand for labour is due to not enough market competition. We need to push corporations into a innovation r
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
capital required for going private would be funded by equity rather than debt, approximately two-thirds of shares owned by all current investors would roll over into a private Tesla. Musk needs to find 23 friends willing to put $1b in
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
There is no legitimate use for so much surveillance. I dare anyone to prove me wrong by listing 3 reasons. I've been asking myself where's the red line? It's useful for businesses to know how many people are passing by their
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
This site shows a rare glimpse to what is happening underneath that enables "free" web [1] -> View List of Cookies Used on this Site [1] https://www.cycleworld.com/consent.php?redirect=https%3a%2f%...
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by paulus_magnus2 8y ago
This will be interesting. Most actions we people and ALL actions corporations take are optimised for maximal self / personal gain and not for justice (which is hard or impossible to define). This is the basis of neoliberalism. It will

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