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by scarmig 4y ago
GCP did shut down IoT Core. Only one I know of, though.
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by scarmig 4y ago
If it's likely you'll need layoffs, it's probably best to move as quickly as possible. Otherwise gossip, speculation, and fear have the chance to dominate.
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It's a bit of a conundrum: every company is going to shut down products. What's the best way to launch new, risky things? Startups can simply go all in on the product, and if it fails, the company dissolves, though people rightly
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by scarmig 4y ago
The main outcome will be companies figuring out creative ways to abide by the word of the law while flagrantly flouting its intentions.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Many (most?) professors also do consulting gigs on the side that can be very lucrative.
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by scarmig 4y ago
China.
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by scarmig 4y ago
I would bet 100+ people at a FAANG work remotely in Kentucky (excluding Amazon fulfillment center work). Based off of one that has ~40 remote Kentuckians.
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by scarmig 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see what books each school library makes available to confirm; I'm not aware of a way to find that information. Slightly different, but more recently in Burbank several other books were banned from being inc
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by scarmig 4y ago
Misread, thanks for the correction; it was Anaheim, not Alameda. Early morning brain fart, but the point still stands.
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by scarmig 4y ago
The list of banned books is incomplete. For instance, Gone with the Wind was banned in ~~Alameda~~ Anaheim[0], but California is listed as having no banned books. Students should have access to any books they are likely to have heard of o
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by scarmig 4y ago
Conflict tends toward dualism, and politics is inherently about conflict. The space of possible positions is indeed very wide and multidimensional, but the process of effective contention and coalition building drives everything into two si
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by scarmig 4y ago
People like the sense that their views are coherent. Intelligent people are more likely to see how their point of view is incoherent. So they adopt points of view that are more coherent. Our world, both in its material basis and the ideolog
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by scarmig 4y ago
Going by LSAT scores, which provide a measure of critical reading skills, I don't see a strong trend by major. Math majors score highest [0]. Of course, this is a self selected sample. I'd be curious to see evidence that STEM majo
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by scarmig 4y ago
I don't know anything at all about FB advertising, but is there any way someone could use canary accounts to rollout an ad to prevent this? I.e. start with a small ad buy in a low follower/whatever account, wait 24 hours for it to
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by scarmig 4y ago
Moving, soon enough. I suspect my city government is happy to say good riddance to me, despite me living here for over a decade, volunteering and contributing to the community, and deeply loving many of the aspects of it and the people here
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by scarmig 4y ago
It's hard to take an article seriously when it claims no city has taken a hands off approach to enforcing laws and prosecuting crime. Case in point: there's a guy shooting up outside my condo right now. No one bothers to call the
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by scarmig 4y ago
It actively makes the product worse. E.g. from yesterday, if I search for "high tc record," I'm not looking for the set of bedsheets with the greatest number of threads.
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by scarmig 4y ago
Feudal and socialist systems had access to cheap energy, and they weren't nearly as successful at raising people out of poverty. In the case of classic centrally planned socialist states, they were likely worse for the environment duri
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by scarmig 4y ago
I agree it will be hard or impossible to catch cheaters. But you get it backwards: AI generated art probably is more easily detectable. A chess game can be represented in a relatively small number of bytes, while artwork must represented wi
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by scarmig 4y ago
That's interesting. A large side of fries at Macdonald's would be $50 (though I suppose everything else would also jump a lot in price). Definitely creates a strong incentive to consume less. Implementation wise, it probably would
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by scarmig 4y ago
One way to take down someone you don't like will be to accuse them of using AI. It's an accusation that's impossible to defend against; you could require people to provide a video showing them creating the art, but that adds
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by scarmig 4y ago
Perhaps possible to enforce now, but they're fighting a losing battle. AI art will ultimately be indistinguishable from human art except by being consistently better; they're relying on the good faith of contributors. And anything
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by scarmig 4y ago
I mean, if we were confident one particular food source contributes more to obesity than others, we have a solution that we know would work: tax it (and ideally dedicate revenues to some kind of universal food tax credit). People would cons
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by scarmig 4y ago
To an extent, but we're 10x richer than we were in 1900; we do not eat 10x as many calories. And it's poor people who eat more calories now, not rich people.
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It's weird that we don't think it's reasonable to expect teachers with years of postgraduate study and experience in education to get kids up to grade level algebra and at the same time think having a gifted kid tutor them wi
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by scarmig 4y ago
Sure you can. The ability to establish a noncompetitive monopoly via paying billions of dollars to maintain a market position that allows them to make those payments and still make billions of dollars of profit is perfectly compatible with
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Knowing how to mouth platitudes and shibboleths is an important life skill.
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Fusion covers a lot of different types of processes, some of which release most of their energy in charged particles and photons. Though you'd need something very different from existing photovoltaics to capture the energy from those x
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How does a company faltering or succeeding end up being reflected in its membership of the Dow? If relative shifts in stock price are the main causal mechanism, then that's exactly the issue: universal passive index investing (roughly)
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It wasn't idyllic. The Holy Roman Empire suffered millions of civilian deaths during the 30 years war (on the order of a third of its population). It's just the categories people used were things like region or (especially) religi

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