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Hungary's homeless fear they are Viktor Orbán's next target(theguardian.com)
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Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now(blog.press.princeton.edu)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
The article asserts that the the conspicuous consumption in Veblen's sense is over. I've tried to find some research to verify that. I've found this, but it's just a blog post, presumably based on research, but I haven&#
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by rumcajz 8y ago
From John Belmonte's blog post: While Trio is a competitor of Python’s standard asyncio package, there are rumblings that the latter will start picking up aspects of structured concurrency soon.
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Tensions with the West are putting the future of China’s Skynet at stake(scmp.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
As for ordered cancellations, my only point was that having five nested blocks is ugly. That may seem to be no big deal, but the goal here is really to get people think in structured way. If the syntactic constructs get into there way (the
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Update on Structured Concurrency(250bpm.com)
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The Eastern Orthodox Churches May Split(vox.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Brothers Strugatsky were influenced by Bulgakov a lot as well. "Limping fate" novel actually copies the layout of Master and Margarita. And Bulgakov himself makes an appearance (without being named).
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God helmet(en.wikipedia.org)
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Why is it so hard for Africans to visit other African countries?(bbc.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
> This article really highlights how odd our methods of valuing output are. Ultimately if someone is idling for 6 years because they've written a program to do their job for them, who cares? They are delivering the same output which
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What Can Philosophers Learn from Programmers?(250bpm.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Bertrand Russell: "But if once such possibilities are admitted, there is no reason to place the creation of the world at one point rather than another. We may have all come into existence five minutes ago, provided with ready-made memo
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I've done a little research into rescuers during Holocaust. You may find that interesting. http://250bpm.com/blog:125
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by rumcajz 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapo_(concentration_camp)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Related: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02404
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It's 73 years since then. They are dying out.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
There is stuff that you can't learn anywhere but classics. Take, for example, Nazi Germany. We tend to have this stereotypical image of it as evil murderous empire where everyone was either a murderer or a victim. Heinrich Böll's
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by rumcajz 8y ago
This is relevant in a way: Modern anti-spam and E2E crypto https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/messaging/2014/000780....
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Clashes Over Ethics at Major Tech Companies Are Causing Problems for Recruiters(buzzfeednews.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Yes, there have been a lot of concern about novels spoiling girls.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Digging holes and filling them in again may be yet another way to go.
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Microsoft calls for regulation of facial recognition tech(blogs.microsoft.com)
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Flowium: Executable documentation of complex processes(flowium.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Try Stanislaw Lem's "His Master's Voice". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
That much for ML fairness.
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ICE hacked its algorithmic risk-assessment tool, it always recommended detention(boingboing.net)
46 points by rumcajz 8y ago|5 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
The answer may be different depending on you treat employees as stakeholders vs. as just simple cogs in the machine.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It would be nice if this spread beyond the US. Although it's kind of hard to imagine workers having any voice in countries like Russia or China.

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