samcday

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by samcday 8y ago
Because the only thing better than building an AI to help identify people to kill with impunity, is building an AI to help identify peopl to kill with impunity using slave labor.
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While I agree that 37 seconds is slow enough to be noticeable in an intense conversation, I don't think it's a deal breaker. I don't think all text messaging is equal. If you want a realtime conversation with someone, you pro
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I would suggest we've been encouraging and rewarding vapidity for much longer than Instagram has been around. The problem is Instagram has sped up the feedback loop and dramatically increased the audience of such behavior. I kinda hate
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Really? Well let me elaborate then. Instead of the majority of people mindlessly consuming media and products without questioning the impact it's having on their minds, their future, the environment, other cultures, etc, they might pau
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The cynic in me fears that most psychs will never be legalized. Can you imagine the threat posed to the elite if you had a large portion of the public regularly engaging in unrestrained free-associative thought?
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That video looks intriguing, I'll check it out! I just wanted to add though, that I think you should never stop writing and adding to the conversation. As a species, we know what we consider to be a lot of stuff. But really, we objecti
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As an uneducated ignoramus, I'm somewhat ashamed to admit I only recently discovered JSTOR Daily ( https://daily.jstor.org/ ). Marrying current events / open policy debates / political trends to hard research i
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Fine, so put sponsored ads on the website that you're running. Just pretty please don't put them in the README :)
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I'll acknowledge this is a pretty good zing! But I do see some difference between the two examples. These Github listicles have a history of being collaborative efforts by developers, in order to crowdsource a high-quality source of in
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I wasn't trying to imply that the money is being misspent, FWIW. I was just illustrating how inflated numbers become in the distortion field that is San Francisco. As to your points: - Sure, preventative measures make complete sense. O
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> and last year voters approved a measure to raise $300 million annually to tackle the issue by taxing local companies. > Yet there are about 7,500 homeless ... Wait, what? 300,000,000 / 7500 is 40,000 per person. Yes, I know Sa
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Aside: why do listicles need a sponsor? According to Github, 452 people have contributed to the list. Are all of them getting some kind of share of the sponsorship dollars?
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At some point in the future, we'll be looking back at news like this in one of two ways. Either with fondness - this was how we reformed companies like Facebook and Google and their rampant invasion of privacy for the individual! Or we
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by samcday 8y ago
I disagree. Firstly, Facebook is much more dangerous than Equifax. Yeah, Equifax has data on hundreds of millions of US citizens, plus a few million more in other countries. Facebook has all that data plus MORE on some 2 billion people. Sec
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by samcday 8y ago
Is Netflix the kind of company we want doing this though? I'd imagine it being some kind of non-profit organization that is funded by a combination of donations + fees for the reshipping service. Put differently, if we want to centrali
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by samcday 8y ago
Really? That must be recent, because when I stopped using Gmail late-ish last year, it was still doing that kinda-cool-but-still-pretty-creepy thing of overlaying airline reservation information gleaned from emails onto Google Maps.
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by samcday 8y ago
It's a good point. As an Aussie who vaguely follows Aussie politics. I know that at the very least the current ruling party has some pretty funny ideas about internet privacy [1][2]. So it kinda scares me that Fastmail is based there.
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Yes, it definitely has the potential to become a major issue. So much so that the DoD is already working on tools to detect deepfakes [1]. Of course this will very likely devolve into an arms race akin to antivirus vendors vs malware develo
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by samcday 8y ago
I like your proposal. I was just thinking about this problem recently too. In an era where people are becoming more privacy conscious online, they can make reasoned decisions about how much of their data they shield from megacorp$ that are
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“Denver is quickly becoming the illicit drug capitol of the world,” Jeff Hunt, director of the Centennial Institute, a conservative think tank at Colorado Christian University. “High potency pot, proposed needle injection sites, and now an
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Kurzgesagt – Building a Marsbase Is a Horrible Idea: Let’s Do It(youtube.com)
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Humanity Has Managed to Change Places We’ve Barely Even Visited(atlasobscura.com)
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High infant mortality rates / Tuberculosis / Spanish flu / AIDS, Malaria, or any other fun epidemics / Large segments of the world completely uninhabitable. Extreme social unrest due to massive influxes of "climate
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What I've found is that milk-alternatives (and actually, even regular milk often times) are extremely varied. One brand of almond milk can taste completely different to another. The best personal example of this is I hate virtually all
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With enzymes, separation, heat treatment and sterilization, apparently. https://www.oatly.com/int/our-process
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This is absolutely fascinating. Do you have any recommendations for books/videos/articles that shed more light on some of the interesting minutiae of cutting edge fab processes?
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Should we brand these people with serial numbers too? Maybe we should also enroll them in a registry and track their movements.
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If the mother did in fact submit a ticket a week ago, it's pretty shameful that the escalation / verification process took more than a week for a bug of this severity.
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For me, New Yorker articles are often about the journey, not the destination :)
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But I wonder: if there was a way to reduce the duration of the cases, would that reduce the impact on whistleblowers? I remember reading somewhere recently about the standard M.O for federal cases. They take a long time in order to

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