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by sambe 10y ago
Sorry, I should have referred to the grandparent's claim (which is also not backed by the case studies, good examples though they are).
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by sambe 10y ago
Great link, thanks. However, it doesn't back up the claim you made. A few quotes: "In Europe, there is technically no uniform body of “European law” that directly applies between employers and employees" "Courts and scho
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by sambe 10y ago
Reference? I've worked at several companies claiming they are allowed to do this (which I don't necessarily believe, of course). Has it been tested in court?
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by sambe 10y ago
Educational and 100% free are not the same. It's not remotely hard to imagine them having other trade-offs to make and being most concerned with getting devices in hands. "Abomination" is ridiculous.
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by sambe 10y ago
Keeping your best people has always been an advantage. When you keep telling them "if you don't like it, leave", sometimes they take your advice and the problems they saw still exist after they're gone.
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by sambe 10y ago
The article is very light on details, direct link to email: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4yHnbgE5ocJbUJpWFJGYUVVajg... Is this really NIMBYism? People honestly can't stand a small utility building? It&#x
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by sambe 10y ago
To clarify: secret chats have been present on Telegram as a platform for a long time. The desktop client doesn't seem to support them though. This often leads to people saying things like "Telegram doesn't have end-to-end enc
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by sambe 10y ago
Today I'm reading (again) that the only battery issues are a Safari bug (which is bad at release, but presumably easily rectified). Is the CPU not also more efficient, or is the bug in power-saving, so load remains the same?
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by sambe 10y ago
I don't think it's so obvious. Most people seem to be obsessing about the Touch Bar, which really doesn't seem like a deal-breaker to me (caveat: haven't tried it), especially with models available with real keys. If you
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by sambe 10y ago
Yeah, massive surprise for me to see Australia/NZ not have anything dedicated. Network reliability over the whole region must be pretty poor and although in population terms it's probably too low, you'd think in purchasing po
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Reckonings; a Rent Affair (2000)(nytimes.com)
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by sambe 10y ago
Regardless of what you think of the tests, it might just be possible that writing poems and analysing them is not an identical skill. I'm pretty sure that most professional sportsmen can't analyse why they play a particular shot o
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by sambe 10y ago
Most have no comments/less than 5 points or only happen to contain the word "general". Many are simply asking questions such as "what does GAI mean?" and "is it possible at all?". You can count that as hyp
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by sambe 10y ago
I can't recall a single instance of a story or serious comment. Do you have some example stories?
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by sambe 10y ago
Are there examples of similar things where we have failed? i.e. nature gives us an example, we expend massive resources on it over a long period of time and cannot even make substantial progress? Probably I'd just say "tech in tha
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by sambe 10y ago
My comment was in the context of GAI feasibility - possibly "the brain" would have been clearer than "a brain"? I didn't want to exclude non-human/non-mammalian brains, even if very similar. Simulating an exist
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by sambe 10y ago
I'm not following completely – surely there were people arguing that human flight was impossible, without strong reasons, and they were wrong? EDIT: missed "unaided". I think you can make a strong case for that impossibility
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by sambe 10y ago
Maybe, but the employment situation still changes the dynamics. You probably couldn't get away with this argument if you worked in customer support, for example.
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by sambe 10y ago
Out of context it indeed sounds rather fuzzy and weak. It's not even intuitive to me that consciousness comes first. Maybe they are even independent. I should probably read the book though. More generally, I don't think invoking q
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by sambe 10y ago
What is the strongest argument for impossibility being a possibility?
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by sambe 10y ago
Or it might just have a higher expected value. Dead people don't eat dinner.
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by sambe 10y ago
There are plenty of things that you can take up as a hobby which are legal (and moral or amoral) that can negatively affect your life (job, social status). You can argue that most of this is due to bigotry and missing legal protections, but
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by sambe 10y ago
Why?
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by sambe 10y ago
If your company pays you to give your attention when requested then it kind of does create such an obligation. I'll grant you that if they have to choose, they probably choose total productivity over all emails answered. However, clear
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by sambe 10y ago
I'm not sure you're going to the same kind of meetings as the ancestors. Of course you need context and feedback. The kind of meetings that often happen in a certain type of business involve way more people than necessary, most of
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by sambe 10y ago
As usual, this is simply not true in general. If your system is doing 10 other things and is memory/CPU constrained then, sure, you probably know why it's taking so long. If you have 100 tabs open of which 10 are rather badly-beha
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by sambe 10y ago
I tried to use the FB API, expecting a mature API with bindings and libraries all over the place, lots of simplifying modules etc. I was left with the impression that I wasn't really allowed to use it all, because I wasn't writing
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by sambe 10y ago
Easy to say yes and then shirk it in future though. Unfortunately common in practice.
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by sambe 10y ago
There's not "a lot" of guess work. It's quite clear to read that it is mostly about GC trade-offs and technologies in the general sense, not especially critical of Go's implementation. There are very few absolute cl
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by sambe 10y ago
Most of the article is about GC being a set trade-offs. I don't think that's an elephant here. The official promotional wording around Go is being criticised for not acknowledging the drawbacks of the approach.

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