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   by ponker 6y ago

   Lol, like more than 2% of these inmates even know what that is.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   I have been on this earth for 40 years and I’ve visited 30+ countries and not once, NOT ONCE, have I ever seen a woodpecker. David Attenborough is lying.
3. 393.▲
   by ponker 6y ago

   I don’t have any expertise here, but “no it’s not” is not an argument, regardless of how loud you say it.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   Seems like OpenAI is following the Google path... hire a lot of top talent with a cheerful message of "fighting the man" and "Don't be Evil" and then allowing power to corrupt them as it always does.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   Good point, USCIS formalized the two month window in 2016.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   Also a failed product from Google will be worth no more than $1 billion which is hard to get the Google C-suite excited about.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   Could you explain these differences to someone with no experience in flying?
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   by ponker 6y ago

   President Obama formalized the 2 month window.
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   by ponker 6y ago

   It can't be anything to do with the fact that the US is ~0.05% Dalit and 13% black.
10. 400.▲
    by ponker 6y ago

    I didn't say you -- I said many people.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    They don't really need a website. Most VCs operate under the assumption that "if you are resourceful and connected enough to get introduced to the people you'll need to make your company successful then you'll find a way
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Many people have more empathy for animals than for humans. The idea of a monkey forced/encouraged to climb a tree for a coconut tugs at their heartstrings the way a person does not.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Perhaps this is why, to everyone’s astonishment, Google and Facebook have moved well ahead of Microsoft in the generally accepted “evil” rankings.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    I wonder about the confounders of Politics. In today’s America, the political party that opposes unions is also dismissive of Covid with such subgroups as “anti-maskers.” Could be correlated.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    It’s almost impossible to predict how any knowledge will be used in the future. What is certain is that if you look at almost anything that exists in modern society, its existence depends on thousands of knowledge morsels, few of which were
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Not getting what this article is trying to say. So alu is a word for some ineffable charm? Like “mojo”?
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Apple generally doesn’t own its direct manufacturing. They use TSMC, Foxconn, etc.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    They can raid the offices, shut down the company’s access to the banking system, seize assets and funds, and arrest the top executives and throw them into what is effectively a torture chamber.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/06/ubiome-suspends-clinical-ope...
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Even when the system was “overwhelmed” it didn’t cause complete systemic breakdown. There was no superlinear mortality.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    That kind of collaboration can’t exist if there are two sides who believe that most issues are zero sum.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Goes to show how 80+% of countries have basically solved Covid.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Amazing. Bezos outsourcing compliance to the federal government, saving money and getting access to harsher punishments than he can dispense himself. Genius
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    by ponker 6y ago

    I frankly think Zuckerberg started out as a “good” guy. When you think about connecting the world it sounded great at the time, what could be better than more contact with more people? Especially when you can make billions of dollars doing
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Very glad to work somewhere where people just don’t talk politics or anything serious at work. I have kids and I don’t want to risk my job over saying the wrong thing. I don’t need you to be my partner in discovering myself, let’s just disc
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    by ponker 6y ago

    This is why the cloud flare CEO has lobbied for regulation that takes these decisions off his hands.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    And a Tesla is just a Power Wheels.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Is there anything wrong with this? You're only entitled to what you bought or were promised at the time of purchase (and security updates). If the manufacturer comes along later and improves your product there aren't any obligatio
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    by ponker 6y ago

    So it takes a $500+ billion company to crack this nut.
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    by ponker 6y ago

    Facebook is probably selling this at a loss... who can compete with that?