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by scandox 2y ago
Those banks are very far from being more trustworthy.
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by scandox 2y ago
Arbitrary power can achieve a lot of good things but it always ends the same way. So better WiFi on the plane but one day you find you can't get on a plane anymore because you said the wrong thing.
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Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram with Violent Content(wsj.com)
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by scandox 2y ago
Very focused chap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Webb_(Hong_Kong_activist... Born 1965 Commercial Computer Games c. 1981 - 1985 Investment Banker London c. 1986 - 1991 Investment Banker Hong Kong c. 1991 - 1998 So
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by scandox 2y ago
You're right! AI makes us ask really important questions about our own intelligence. I think it will lead to greater recognition that we are first and foremost animals: creatures of intention and action. I think we've put way too
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by scandox 2y ago
Well if you look at history it is a story of almost continuous war so it would be very optimistic indeed not to consider it.
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by scandox 2y ago
Well it's all relative dude
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by scandox 2y ago
I agree the original idea is an over-simplification. But the feeling it captures when you do find yourself obsolete in some way is accurate.
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by scandox 2y ago
With Folded Hands (1947) by Jack Williamson is my favourite vision of such a future I've ever read. From the Dad losing his job to the kids giving up violin because they can't compete with their Humanoid "servants" it ca
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by scandox 2y ago
Interesting article but unfortunately, as is often the case with serious literary folk talking about technology, I find his concluding observations (hopes) about augmented books completely unconvincing as well as vague. >> The prospec
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by scandox 2y ago
The purpose of most educational productions is not to produce some correct thing but to undergo a process of learning required to produce the thing.
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by scandox 2y ago
My biggest problem as a small business is larger organizations saying "you're too small" or "what if you go out of business" or "we love your proposal but we're worried that [next management level up] will
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by scandox 2y ago
Access to markets. Trust from large customers. Maybe tools that would enable small business to act in consortia for larger contracts?
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by scandox 2y ago
> One day the collapse is apparent to us all, and complete. This only happens in historical retrospect. The sacking of Rome in 476 theoretically marked the collapse of The Roman Empire in Western Europe but nonetheless people all over Eu
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by scandox 2y ago
Meh. They're enormous amounts of fun and my kids spent many happy hours in the one in Nice without any ill effects. It's a big dirty world.
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by scandox 2y ago
The lumpen don't get enough credit
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by scandox 2y ago
The book in which they read the essay but not it seems the essay itself.
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by scandox 2y ago
In fairness many people will feel they are better than you because they don't agree with the idea of people being better than each other. While you oppose their view you should approve of them feeling that they are better for some reas
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by scandox 2y ago
What is the term for cursed knowledge that may also be untrue?
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by scandox 2y ago
Well I'm not assigning any moral value to either situation. I'm maybe more just commenting on my own obsolescence.
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by scandox 2y ago
> books that give voice to the experiences of people who look and live like the young readers in my classroom This is the change that has left a reader like me stranded on an alien shore. I never in my life looked for this kind of identi
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by scandox 2y ago
Open disdain for audience is rarely in the mind of the artist and often in the mind of someone that doesn't like what they created and for some reason interprets this as an attack. Many artists have a small audience in mind and that is
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by scandox 2y ago
Sincerity is what counts in this business kid and if you can fake that you'll go all the way to the top.
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by scandox 2y ago
Heard Adrian Edmondson on Desert Island Discs and one of the interesting things he said about comedy was that there were a limited number of jokes all of which he believed are contained in the recorded works of Laurel and Hardy and that he
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by scandox 2y ago
Well if you're giving sources it would be interesting to see the source on Adam Mosseri.
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by scandox 2y ago
Lenin eventually took the same view - that chess was distracting him from a higher purpose. Perhaps a harmless game would have been a better use of his time.
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by scandox 2y ago
Weirdly that HN article you linked to is flagged
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by scandox 2y ago
Sound of goose slaughtering knives being sharpened...
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by scandox 2y ago
Would be an easy way to conduct an adhoc trade war...AWS doesn't need competition from a pesky German host let's just make things faintly awkward...
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by scandox 2y ago
Well if you have personnel who regularly carry weapons and/or explosives maybe those checks don't apply...but anyway this is mere speculation.

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