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by repolfx 7y ago
They patented a pizza robot last year https://www.zdnet.com/article/little-caesars-just-patented-a...
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yeah. Google is actually a much better example of this mentality than Amazon is, if I'm reading the thread right. Google Cloud isn't behind AWS because of some service architecture nonsense. It's behind because Google started
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by repolfx 7y ago
Stated vs actual goals. Listen to the rhetoric of the people who campaign for affirmative action and then judge what they'll really do, not what they say they'll do.
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by repolfx 7y ago
How do you blind an admissions process to race, and then offer spots for people who have suffered racial prejudice? That sounds like a contradiction.
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by repolfx 7y ago
But you have no evidence for any of this. It's literally a theory about some hidden deeper motive of a government or leader, like all conspiracy theories. There isn't one shred of evidence Boris makes up non existent hobbies to (u
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well, because building a decentralised Reddit is really hard. Decentralised user accounts and reputation alone is a research-level problem, let alone questions like "who will run nodes", "why would anyone run a node" a
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The rules you mention are completely non-functional. What would it mean to prevent bias in TV broadcast? Bias can show up in all sorts of subtle ways. You can't really demand people don't have opinions. You also can't ask peo
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, Jobs believed Objective-C was fine and nobody would ever need or want another language. Swift had to wait until Jobs passed away, as he'd have never authorised it otherwise despite lots of people telling him Objective-C was out of
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by repolfx 7y ago
But using the word "model" to mean "a model of good behaviour" which is what it meant in that context is totally normal English. And Boris has been associated with buses for ages, in his time as London mayor a revamp of
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by repolfx 7y ago
I didn't know that! Thanks. I wonder why that's the case. Is that normal in the States?
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by repolfx 7y ago
You may expect that about firefighters, but people with the same definition of progress as you see that as a problem to be solved by lowering the bar. I think you're also drawing a rather arbitrary line here, based on assuming the di
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by repolfx 7y ago
New President would be nominated ... by the same people who nominated the last one. The Parliament doesn't get to choose the leader. They can only ratify or delay the decision of those who do. That makes them useless. Even if they fire
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by repolfx 7y ago
In this case actually MEPs were told who to vote for by the Council. The Parliament was presented with a vote on who to run the Commission ... which had a single name on it. The only obtains were to vote for von der Leyen or not vote at all
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by repolfx 7y ago
If Apple was primarily an algorithms company then yes, he'd have been a failure. Apple's relative disinterest in R&D during Jobs' tenure was quite legendary though. They were first and foremost a design company. Once th
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by repolfx 7y ago
Don't even look away. Just accept that people do differ by birth characteristics and that there are often legitimate reasons to discriminate based on those factors. There's no shame in that. Look at firefighters. To get a female f
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by repolfx 7y ago
How many firms don't offer maternity leave? Outside of tiny 5 person startups that don't have any HR policies at all that seems like a strawman. As for men making condescending comments towards women, that's not a systematic
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by repolfx 7y ago
To mathematicians, Welcome to our world! https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2019/09/27/does-anyone-kno... Actually working through some of [the details], when formalising them, made me understand that some of
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think the intended implication is that Wiles has not read or understood all of the proofs he built on. If someone said, "nobody dead or alive understands all the details of Windows" I doubt anyone here would find it controversia
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by repolfx 7y ago
Former Apple employees disagree btw: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2018/12/13/how-did-steve-...
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by repolfx 7y ago
The boards of firms like Google, Apple and Facebook are hardly composed of school flunkies. Aren't they mostly made up of former tech CEOs and similar? I think the reality is that CEOs can get paid a lot because the number of executive
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by repolfx 7y ago
That sounds completely alien to the high output corporate environments I recognise. Sounds like the book may well be a wrong summary of Grove after all. The best executives are people who understand their reports work well enough to do it t
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Isn't the more obvious way to defend his belief pointing out the cases where teenagers above the age of consent, in consensual relationships with each other, keep getting arrested and jailed for making child porn because they took nude
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by repolfx 7y ago
There's no way to link to a news story without at least excerpting the headline, as otherwise you'd not know what you were clicking on. And snippets have always been a part of search engines, which is why I didn't separate th
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by repolfx 7y ago
I'm not sure you fully follow what's happened here, as the post you're replying to is comprehensive. Here's a history of this whole sordid affair. Publishers have always been able to control their appearance in Google an
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by repolfx 7y ago
this is basically the point of representative democracy! The EU isn't a democracy or even a representative democracy. Notice how lots of people wrote to their MEPs and nothing happened other than MEPs calling their voters stupid? Tha
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Journalists are qualified in nothing and can't possibly have any weight on the question of whether something will or will not work. That's why they always speak through experts. Why would anyone care what a journalist thinks? Th
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't know. I believe mankind is emitting lots of CO2, that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, that this might well be increasing the temperature of the Earth. Beyond that I am filled with doubt. I've read a lot about the replication cris
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by repolfx 7y ago
But if you as a journalist are talking about AOC's proposal, your main job is to communicate her proposal to the masses, your secondary job is to talk about why it may or may not work. Journalists don't believe it's their j
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes. The USSR collapsed because they tried to use huge committees of economic experts to plan everything, and their models and knowledge were simply not up to the task.
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Have you considered the possibility that these kids are actually just passionate about it? Yes, but so what? 8 year olds are passionate about eating endless amounts of ice cream. Doesn't mean that passion should be acted on. There i

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