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by pjc50 2mo ago
Absolutely enormous money just for invoicing.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Yeeees, but .. now is very much a time when you're going to have to justify that investment to the funding system and the broader public. I generally agree with the "pursuit of knowledge" framing, but there's a big advoc
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by pjc50 2mo ago
OP is Russian, so perhaps this is an inflection of machine translation.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> That’s a normal-ish bourgeois white-collar HCoL salary that people make fresh out of school? Hold on, that’s basically a starting salary in that world? WHAT? Some people. That's very field-specific and won't last forever. B
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The concept of a "career" as a defined external thing has basically evaporated. There is at best a set of opportunities which you can grab, and a set of dependency credentials and acquaintances which you can use to unlock the oppo
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by pjc50 2mo ago
OP has two problems, one of which is being a Russian national stuck in a state which is collapsing over decades, and the other is being stuck in a postmodernist mire: "Identity, values, ideology, post-modernity; critical discourse anal
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> The value of a PhD is what it brings to you. It will cost vast amounts of unpaid toil and tears, and it will not give you a well-paid job afterwards. This should probably be legally mandated to be printed on the application forms, like
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by pjc50 2mo ago
It is very hard for humans not to anthropomorphize. I was just talking to my cat, who is alive but not human, a small flesh-based neural network that purrs. I know that she is not human, but I map her movements and expression onto human one
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Taking a forklift to the gym increases the number on the bar, but mysteriously your gains go down.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
People do that routinely-ish. https://www.youtube.com/live/Let4NxZRnMA
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Isn't that due to Germany rather than the EU?
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Do you have any more sympathetic examples that aren't enemy propagandists? I feel getting banned from the app store is getting off lightly compared to, say, Julius Streicher.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> Poker - not gambling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg In the distant past of 2011, offering online poker to Americans, even from overseas, brought serious Federal prison time. That was bef
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Having experienced vice signalling, I'm never going to complain about virtue signalling again.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> a policy against everything and employees technically violating the rules to work normally. This is called "normalization of deviance" and generally should be avoided, because it often precedes a serious accident.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
See also "binary options", which are such a bad deal for retail investors that the UK FCA explicitly tells you they're a scam.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The amount of wailing about this was unbelievable. London is a terrible city for driving in in the first place, and the idea of 10% of them having to change cars provoked totally absurd responses. We're going to see the same when EV-on
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Wait, which apps are you referring to having been delisted by EU (which branch? what process?), as opposed to "breaching app store terms and conditions" (which the companies do of their own initiative all the time)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Nope. Distribution is what matters.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I wouldn't even short Bitcoin, and that's been on the way out since the AI rise.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Israel has carried out a massively destructive war of aggression against civilians, and NATO .. hasn't.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> Look at the Millikan measurement of the electron and how in created confirmation bias and an anchoring effect on some property Could you elaborate on this please? But yes, the underlying argument is sound: extracting facts from the mes
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Much of this is local police, who are semantically "the state" even if they are nominally decentralized.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
https://cambridgeanalytica.org/surveillance-privacy/police-f... (ironic URL)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Windows demand is overwhelmingly corporate. Just like Nvidia is barely bothering with gamers at the moment, Windows is not being kept alive for games.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> upon bankruptcy all data will be destroyed So, PBS should lose all their archives? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333344
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Cynically, the purpose of the expert witness is someone to provide something which is treated as fact but isn't subject to penalties of perjury.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
It's likely to get flagged off by users anyway.
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Arguably much of the mid-20th century was the pipeline from "lunatic with pamphlet" => "millions dead".
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Tankie. Possibly mechanized (AI) tankie, these days.

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