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by rumcajz 8y ago
Statement from Satya Nadella: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-views-us-immigration-polic...
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I won't work flights that separate immigrant kids from families(houstonchronicle.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It's not just software industry btw: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/...
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by rumcajz 8y ago
This is kind of orthogonal issue. Making sure that technology is used ethically. Google now has ethical charter. Hopefully, Microsoft will do something similar. Then it's Amazon's turn: https://twitter.com/amanda_m
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Microsoft Employees Pressure Leadership to Cancel ICE Contract(gizmodo.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It would be interesting to know whether there's any dissent in other big players besides Google and Microsoft. Is anything going on in Amazon?
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Microsoft employees criticize ICE contract amid recent reports(engadget.com)
8 points by rumcajz 8y ago|1 comments
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by rumcajz 8y ago
If you are working in Microsoft and reading this: Don't give up! Google managed to get an ethical charter. It was done once. And it can be done in Microsoft too. Just don't get distracted and carry on pushing for the change.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Oops!
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I can't tell about Finnegan's Wake. I am not a native English speaker and that kind of prevents me reading it. I've enjoyed Ulysses though. Even on the most simple level, you can, for example, read the book with a clock and a
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It requires a person that loves to solve riddles. Think of a crossword aficionado escalated to the next level.
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What people often forget about classical books: They were written to be enjoyed. That's true even for Finnegan's Wake although it requires a special kind of person to enjoy it.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Seconded. I've learnt history forwards at the school and all I've got was a mess on weakly connected facts. Since then I was learning about the history the other way round: I kind of know what happened during my lifetime, I have a
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by rumcajz 8y ago
The language is really ugly and painful to use. Have someone considered making a nicer language that would compile to R?
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How Instagram Threads Became the WikiHow for Gen Z(theatlantic.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
It's nice that in addition to the compulsory Google-bashing this article explicitly points out the other companies involved. Specifically, it mentions Amazon and Microsoft who did much less yet ethics-wise than Google did and yet are r
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Interesting work is done by open source hobbyists at night. What remains is what you get paid for.
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On the other hand, you could think of it as a moral-compass-as-a-service thing. If you are running on Google cloud, it would be a strong signal that you don't do questionable work for military. That may seem as something that's no
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by rumcajz 8y ago
This may be an evolutionary stable strategy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionarily_stable_strategy ). If nitrgoen-fixating species already cover N% of the niche, other species may not be pressed too hard to retai
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by rumcajz 8y ago
I think it boils down to having or not having, let's call it "religious mindset". If you have religious mindset (it doesn't matter if you are an atheist) you donate to "save your soul", or, to be less vague, to
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by rumcajz 8y ago
That's because saving a life in a poor country is cheaper that in rich country. If your goal is no maximize number of lives saved you'd naturally look at poor countries.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
> One day, two of our "world leaders" are going to commit to a war and all the soldiers of both sides are going to look at eachother and say 'nah, you fight it!' Nah. With autonomous weapons that's not going to h
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Even Alan Turing have done some biology-related work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_Basis_of_Morphoge...
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Not sure this world needs any more risk taking.
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Also see the history of anarchist "Free Territory" in present-day Ukraine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Territory
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by rumcajz 8y ago
For those who are not aware, GiveDirectly is a charity, not some kind of government agency. If you are pro-UBI, put your money where your mouth is and help with the experiment by donating.
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Iran's Rohani Strongly Criticizes Court Block on Telegram Service(rferl.org)
2 points by rumcajz 8y ago|0 comments
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How news is being turned into pop to bypass repressive regimes(theguardian.com)
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by rumcajz 8y ago
Any interesting links to academic research of higher-level structured concurrency?
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Structured Concurrency in High-Level Languages(250bpm.com)
130 points by rumcajz 8y ago|35 comments

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