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by rfrey 4y ago
Maybe when your mom asked if it was appropriate, she was talking about the scotch?
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by rfrey 4y ago
I'm not sure how satire is relevant to this exchange.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Constructing a beige world around you so that everyone else notices your colourful sweater seems like a dull way to live.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Although not being explicitly illegal does make something legal, the phrasing "has been decided to be legal" suggests a debate, a conscious decision, and perhaps an overturned law. That is not the case as far as I know. It is lega
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by rfrey 4y ago
What I meant is that we know, inside our blood cells, that breaking the build can happen to anyone, and probably will. The trophy is not public shaming, it's the camaraderie that comes from shared humility. You say to somebody downthre
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by rfrey 4y ago
It's not toxic because every single developer knows that it could be them next time around.
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by rfrey 4y ago
The language was proscribed, the tasters (surprise! students from the University) were asked to apply them to the wines. Of course they put the "red wine" words to the "red" wine.
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by rfrey 4y ago
But grapes are not all the same: besides the taste of grapes varying depending on the soil, climate, orientation to the sun etc., there is also the judgement of when to harvest. Once in harvest season grapes can approach and then pass the d
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by rfrey 4y ago
I made a career limiting move at my first job when I arranged a blind wine tasting at the house of the CEO, who was a pretentious wine snob. I'd have been fine if I stuck to $40-50 bottles but I snuck in some Gato Negro from Chile, the
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by rfrey 4y ago
Accounts satirizing Elon Musk get banned. Clearly "free speech" has a bright line drawn at the boundary of Musk's ego.
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by rfrey 4y ago
It struck no nerve. People here just don't like drive-by partisan swipes. They're boring and intellectually lazy.
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by rfrey 4y ago
It must be one of the triumphs of capitalism that forcing employers to pay their workers what they're owed is considered a partisan action.
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by rfrey 4y ago
I think you're conflating "readable" and "uncomplicated" with "familiar". I'm equally infuriated by OO code with dependency-injected-everything from some hidden framework configured by fourteen XML fi
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by rfrey 4y ago
In 2008 depositors got their money back. In the 19th century they lost it.
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by rfrey 4y ago
What's your explanation, then? The "protect advertisers" theory wasn't just born out of outrage IMO, it's also the simplest explanation.
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by rfrey 4y ago
We were naive idealists, but not for the reason the comic says. We thought a lot of societal problems had their roots in centralized control of information by government and big media companies. Democratizing communications would lead to
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by rfrey 4y ago
>Sorry, but this illustrates Graham's point even better than the "mercurial Spaniard" thing Funny, I thought it refuted Graham's point, very effectively.
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by rfrey 4y ago
The important thing is that humans review algorithmic bans, not review every tweet.
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by rfrey 4y ago
I wonder about this a bit. If I'm already storing all the PII in my database, probably on other people's computers via a managed database or at least a cloud server, why are logs different? Is it because they don't receive th
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by rfrey 4y ago
Well, in the early 1900s employers were literally hiring thugs to kill their uncooperative employees, in full view of the public. So I'm not sure it's a new or increasing thing.
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by rfrey 4y ago
If the only way to bring manufacturing back is to copy the inhumane and dehumanizing conditions of "cheap labor" economies, then we're better off not bringing it back. By outsourcing our cruelty and indifference to suffering
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by rfrey 4y ago
They said they don't think it's essential to reduce false negatives, presumably from current levels. That's quite different than your reducto ad absurdum.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Notwithstanding the other replies to your comment estimating as high as 5%, 1% struck me as shockingly high.
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by rfrey 4y ago
> Anyone who succeeds in life has cheated in some form or another Totally unfair. Some of us succeed by being dealt unreasonably good hands at birth.
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by rfrey 4y ago
> Shall we compile a 72 page report on Silicon Valley CEOs who have lied? Hopefully you mean, "a 72 page report"... each.
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by rfrey 4y ago
I have read many ML papers, and even understood a few of them. My understanding of calculus is beyond weak: I know what a derivative (and a partial derivative!) is, and what integration is, but God help me if I have to do one. I've got
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by rfrey 4y ago
It's funny that you consider the biggest threat to "conservatism" is an educated population.
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by rfrey 4y ago
There is exactly one imperialist aggressor in this conflict, and it isn't the US.
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I think, when war is raging and thousands are dying gruesome deaths, it's reasonable to consider malice.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Given the goals of the AI,that seems like a very minor limitation... like you were in a language textbook and in page 34 Ricardo said he enjoys hot peppers but in page 72 he says spicy food upsets his stomach.

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