ryanmercer

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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>Ingested microplastic particles can physically damage organs and leach hazardous chemicals—from the hormone-disrupting bisphenol A (BPA) to pesticides—that can compromise immune function and stymie growth and reproduction. Both micropla
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>Asbestos kills people. What plastic risk are you referring to, environmental pollution? Plastic likely has all sorts of medical complications, that we will probably start to see manifest here in the near future now that it is now in the
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>In this scenario - a single client might be able to influence their immediate surrounding if there aren't enough redundant checks in place. When it came out, hex editing was still the easiest way to cheat at computer games and as s
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>Their Github Pages page was censored. They are unable to participate in the maintenance of an open source repository. This was done, according to Github, as a requirement to comply with the laws of its state. Software export is restrict
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I'm guessing the same then applies to SY, CU, IR, KP and SD which are also embargoed countries. Possibly also BL, BY, CF, CI, CD, IQ, LB, LY,, SO, SS, UA, VE, YE and ZW which have current sanctions.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
> You making $X/year has no bearing on how another company pays its employees. Yes it does, because I and many many many many other people are doing fine on one amount outside of the Bay Area. My job equates to effectively any non-c
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>You're a software dev I never said this, not everyone on HN is a coder...
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>you're being grossly underpaid. I'm making 62% of my state's -household- median income. This is the problem with HN, everyone thinks that everyone in America makes 100-200k. Minimum wage is 7.25 and there are TONS of mini
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I'm doing better than a lot of my friends, this is America outside of STEM...
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
To -user5994461-, I can't reply directly to you but: Commercial real estate is pretty cheap in most of the country, we have 3 shifts in my building and are open almost 6 days a week, sharing desks with another shift, my company isn&#x2
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
My 34k salary does not cost my company 200k, I don't know what benefits you get but for me to cost my company that they'd have to feed me multiple times every day (worth pointing out here, most companies do not provide ANY food or
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>One way to think about it is that each employees costs $100k or $200k a year. Those are some expensive employees, me and my friends don't cost anywhere remotely near that. I make 34k a year after 13 years on the job. A company does
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I truly don't understand why a payroll company would need to raise 200 million dollars and what they could possibly do with the bulk of it aside from buying 24k gold toilets. You're not going to hire 200 million worth of people, o
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
Link now gives a 404 error.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>What should concierge say? I'm sorry sir, the system is not allowing me to do this, You will need to contact corporate offices.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
Yes and? 'several times 1000' is multiple year's salary starting at $6800, $6800 for a prototype of a flagship device, or even a structural prototype of a flagship device, isn't unreasonable. Now compare that to minimum
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>Assuming the person gets caught, You've never worked at a FedEx or UPS hub. Everything gets x-ray going in and out, you go through metal detector in and out, no open containers/phones/electronics/watches etc you can
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I would imagine he handed his phone over and said "put in your address".
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I: - Wish I drove for Lyft - Lived in Chicago - Had gotten him as a passenger After 10-15 miles I would have said "So Mr. Scalzi, I'm going to need you to tell me what the Perry family is up to. Go ahead, I'll give you a few
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
I imagine engineering it to absorb less of a given substance would almost certainly cause it to absorb less of things it needs as well. Besides, if editing plants were that easy, we'd have C4 rice already.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
That's more a soil contamination problem than a rice problem.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>I find that anyone who isn't a PhD (or could easily have been if they hadn't gone into industry) might as well be a paper shell Wow, so wasting years and years of your life studying texts and churning out reworded content abou
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>What problems? - Privacy (How do you get an artificial intelligence to recognize, and respect, privacy? What sources is it allowed to use, how must it handle data about individuals? About groups? When should it be allowed to violate&#x2
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>but it freaks me out that Musk left, Why? He left due to possible conflict of interest, Tesla is researching AI for self-driving vehicles and it wouldn't surprise me if SpaceX does at some point too (assuming they aren't alrea
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
> This included several whimsical stuff that wasn't research like Experience Music Project and Museum of Science Fiction. While not research, those things can have profound impacts on people. Several years ago a Star Wars exhibit ca
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
Exactly, and if they do create an AGI it's probably going to be a lot like the creators as its original parameters were set by them. Just look at Amazon's warehouse algorithm: ~Biotic unit achieved goal, raise goal~ ~Biotic unit a
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>I can't tell if you're serious, but assuming you are, I assume he is, given he is Greg Brockman the CTO and a co-founder. I know Sam Altman is similarly optimistic, having told me on multiple occasions something along the line
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
If it was the only instance, I'd say sure, but: - Lindows - Microwindows - wxWindows - Windows Commander - Suing Amish Shah - MikeRoweSoft Then all of the various anti-trust/anti-competition lawsuits against them by both companies
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
>(I work at OpenAI.) Humble understatement. *co-founded and co-run.
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by ryanmercer 7y ago
OpenAi to for-profit OpenAI to billion dollar partnership with Microsoft doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy feelings I had when I first heard of OpenAI. I saw it as "we're going to save the world by building an AGI before som

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