rschneid

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by rschneid 3y ago
There's no scalar measurement for stability, quality, or strength so there's no direct comparison to be made. It's comparing vectors and the properties of each vector may or may not be things you care about but leaving them u
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by rschneid 3y ago
What about this statement is so hard to take seriously? There are a variety of concerns one could have about either fiat/fiscal policy or cryptocurrency development/deployment/stewardship. One is a highly centralized system,
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by rschneid 3y ago
The idea of ZIRP seems to be relatively new... How are you sure the consequences and effects aren't still playing out? It seems SVB and FRC'd recent collapses were related to bets made during ZIRP and it wasn't ZIRP but the s
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by rschneid 3y ago
I'm agreeing with you that there are many reasons why the music Industry doesn't share stems but also concluding that many among those could be rationally considered gatekeeping by various groups. I'm not disparaging the in
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by rschneid 3y ago
Gatekeeping isn't boolean, it falls on a spectrum. If your rationale about preventing un 'authorized' use is in fact true, the process must be effectively keeping some notional gate some kind of closed even if it's only
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by rschneid 4y ago
Reading this polite exchange I couldn't help but be reminded of the classic: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM :) Glad we're all nice to each other in this corner of the web!
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by rschneid 4y ago
The 'words on a page' weren't specified and the idea of 'fix' isn't an absolute notion. I can think of a simple rule change that might be an improvement without forcing any procedural changes raised earlier in
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by rschneid 4y ago
Somehow I don't think this country will have trouble finding folks to perform 'national-level policing'. From pop culture, I've gleaned that it's more often the opposite case: investigations are fragmented as a resu
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by rschneid 4y ago
I think it's a bit of an oversimplification to define equality as 'current distribution of wealth.' A very important part of wealth is being able to actually use it, and there are many ways holders or would-be-recipients of U
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by rschneid 5y ago
>And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial. I think this argument misses a potentially deeper point about the true magical power of reading... I did resonate with the majority of the piece, however.
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by rschneid 5y ago
Okay, I'll bite. I believe ads can exist if I consent to being shown them BEFOREHAND and alternatives, such as paying to opt-out completely are offered. The world is vast and changing with increasing velocity. I cannot keep up with all
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by rschneid 6y ago
Since you study this stuff, do you mind sharing a description of the kinds of situations in which the 'sharp appearance' or related type of tactic has a negative effect?
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by rschneid 6y ago
Twitter is a platform used widely by some of the most powerful people in the world and in the US government. As a result, there is plenty of justification and precedent for said gov't to regulate their security practices and procedures
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by rschneid 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree! I think this is a stumbling block that all too many folks encounter and then give up on seeing the idea as a solution to climate change altogether, but there's a rather clever fellow named Klaus Lackner who fram
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by rschneid 6y ago
I think it's a mistake to assume that technology advancements will come in great leaps and bounds since the day of the wright brothers are over... we've been out of our atmosphere and to the bottom of the sea and made nukes++ and
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by rschneid 6y ago
Neat website. However it seems to provide a poor experience to users who deny the geolocation browser permission, as there's no way to type in any address as a string on the few pages under the search header I took the time to explore.
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by rschneid 6y ago
Come now, I think we all know code is not its line count. 1000 lines of clear code in a mission-critical place is worth far more than a 1-liner which accomplishes the same task and only one person in the company understands...
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by rschneid 6y ago
False dichotomy. Progress can be made along multiple fronts simultaneously. 'Defunding police' isn't a single action so can hardly be labeled 'shallow' but it's definitely a step towards addressing racism since
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by rschneid 8y ago
Nonprofits are relatively underserved by tech workers. I've tried to get many of my friends to join me but the allure of bigco paychecks is simply too much. This is a pretty general answer but so's your question :) I think if you
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by rschneid 9y ago
Shooting firearms is definitely not the only way to retaliate against an oppressive government.
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by rschneid 9y ago
The government needs to employ lots of people. This necessarily means they will employ some low-quality people. It's such a difficult problem to produce high-quality work with low-quality employees that most tech companies of scale hav
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by rschneid 9y ago
The very specialized things that ASR, NLP, and Image recognition can currently accomplish is very nearly sufficient for creation of lots of autonomous and devastating weaponry. WW-III is a somewhat arbitrary yardstick, but sufficient techno
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by rschneid 9y ago
I'm not op but I can think of a few reasons why hiring older talent poses a risk to political control. 1) More capable of starting their own, competing business. Even if the old guys won't be eating google's lunch, they have
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by rschneid 9y ago
So invest in education ;)
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by rschneid 9y ago
I agree that a wide range of potential effects and side-effects should be considered. I'm sure a key metric in this experiment involves collecting data on how it influences users' further treatment. I think this will either put yo
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by rschneid 9y ago
Imagine in the future, a really smart shrink AI is invented that can provide useful insight on how mental health of an individual might be improved. Then, everyone who has logs with this bot, or similar technologies, will be able to benefit
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by rschneid 9y ago
Nearly any new method of treatment opens up new doors for human failings and there will inevitably be some nonzero number of people whose lives are made worse by an overwhelmingly positive experience for humanity and mental health. Let&#x27
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by rschneid 9y ago
This is the right idea; it isn't about digitally replacing treatment. It's entirely about augmenting it. This kind of technology in medicine is about enabling human doctors to treat patients better with more (hopefully meaningful)