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by rqebmm 11y ago
> why would one be worried at all? Because the CEO holds less than a decision-making stake to himself? It wouldn't matter that everyone has a tiny percentage if an outside party is willing to spend enough money to buy them all.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> Apple does not need to, nor are they being asked to, provide a backdoor that can be used elsewhere. They are, however, being asked to _create_ a backdoor that can be used anywhere. The specific request is to remove the limits on guessi
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by rqebmm 11y ago
"You won't believe these 7 things going on in the Artic. Number 5 will shock you!"
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by rqebmm 11y ago
It's interesting reading that doc in light of this news, as Langer notes that in 2009 the attack vector changed significantly, from a stealthy, bespoke, pressure-oriented attack, to a more vicious but easier to identify rotor-speed att
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by rqebmm 11y ago
>>> “changed the code” (the scare quotes bit) It wasn't scare quotes. It was an actual quote "US Vice President Joe Biden was quoted in the film as saying in a meeting that the Israelis 'changed the code' of the
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Is it? There's plenty of tropes about dumb students who make it through Ivy league schools because their parents "bought a new wing" or somesuch. Same for rich children avoiding military service.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> I would bet that the dominant form of advertising of the 21st century hasn't been invented yet. I agree, Millenials already are innoculated to advertising: http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/consumer&#x2
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by rqebmm 11y ago
When I first started programming professionally a few years ago I, like any beginner, leaned heavily on Stack Overflow. When I became experienced I prided myslf on the ability to solve simple poblems with nothing more than my knowledge of t
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by rqebmm 11y ago
I also think the distribution of water is an important unmeasure factor. It can be less uncomfotable to be a little wet all over than to be soaked in a smaller area.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Ooh I forgot about that feature. It does at least answer my big problem with IB: you execute code you didn't write and can't read. I'll have to give live rendering another look.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
It does a great job of getting you from zero to an app, but it breaks down terribly once you try to do anything custom with it. The fact that it hides code from the developer drives me nuts.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
It must be nice to know that the majority of your customers are familiar enough with the nature of your work that they'll actually understand a relatively complex issue like this. Almost by definition, we've all been there.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Yeah, we have an open-office plan, but we've successfully lobbied to have developer meetings largely moved to one day a week, and engineers on important projects get "office hours" to allow for interruptions during a defined
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by rqebmm 11y ago
The state is absolutely an organization participating in the market. It has special abilities, but it still competes.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> What happens to all of the people that aren't educated or don't have the skills in this new economy What happens now to people who have no education or skills relevant to the economy? AI won't make this new problem, it&#
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by rqebmm 11y ago
They're not incentivized because in the next 5-15 years they're going to be operating fleets of self-driving cars. They just need to float til then with whatever is the cheapest option.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Those who are more creative will create ways for the less creative to contribute. It's not like the tech sector is made up entirely of creative geniuses, or even entirely of engineers, there's plenty of other jobs built around tho
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by rqebmm 11y ago
I agree that in the short term there are things society will have to do to help people who's skills are being obsoleted, but in the long run I'm not afraid of humanity running out of stuff to do.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Technology has always obsoleted jobs[0]. However, humans are unceasingly creative and find new things to do once tedious tasks are automated. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment#His...
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by rqebmm 11y ago
I think this is true of all AI today. Personally I've always been a fan of the distinction between "Virtual Intelligence" and "Artificial Intelligence" (Thanks to Mass Effect!). Currently all "AI" is reall
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by rqebmm 11y ago
This is the counterbalance I find free-market enthusiasts forget about. Rich people need the state, too, once the angry mob starts looking around for torches and pitchforks.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Man, I do love those few brief moments when the internet holds an actual debate. Too bad these poor people had to go through all the trouble for it.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
And he's just unfunny enough to make you think it's true.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_list_of_lists_of_lists
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Thiel doesn't advocate for an immediate monopoly because the alternative _can't_ work, it's because it's _harder_ to get a startup off the ground in an already-competitive market
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by rqebmm 11y ago
The CEO was already fired.
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by rqebmm 11y ago
> there is no reason to believe economies of scale exist for protective agencies Seriously? There is a huge advantage to being the biggest, baddest agency. If you're substantially larger than the competition you just go to them an
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by rqebmm 11y ago
>In the second half of The Problem of Political Authority, I consider how an anarchist society might work, specifically, an “anarcho-capitalist” society. In this society, the services now provided by governmental police would instead be
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by rqebmm 11y ago
Nothing is worthwhile for its own sake, but empirically speaking representative democratic societies have been the most successful in recent history, which makes it a reasonable default. What would you argue is better and more importantly,
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by rqebmm 11y ago
I know I'm being snarky, but literally the only campaign position he has published[0] is his "plan" for immigration reform. [0] https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions

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