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by seadan83 3y ago
Isn't that only true for civil trials? When pleading the 5th in a criminal trial, the jury is not to make an inference about the lack of testimony. Otherwise pleading the 5th would be pretty meaningless if it was always inferred to mea
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by seadan83 3y ago
In slavery, the enslaved is property. Their spouse and children can be sold off, you can be used as a breeder of more slaves, you eat what you can forage or what is handed to you, if you don't work harder you and your family are physic
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by seadan83 3y ago
Will be shifting all meetings back by 30 minutes. I would want to do the full hour, but having our first meeting be at "8:30" would be painful for the team (conflicts with school schedule). On the next day lights savings time rese
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by seadan83 3y ago
A plane provides lift while flying which then counter-acts gravity pushing it down - it stays at the same altitude. Increasing money supply & lower prices can happen at the same time. Though, my understanding is that the post-pandemic i
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by seadan83 3y ago
"Just causes issues" is discounting what humans are good at and discounts the idea that AI technology in cars could complement humans. Rather, that point of view I think is most useful if you are trying to get to 100% AI cars so t
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by seadan83 3y ago
Additional response to: > Or imagine the first time a self-driving car encounters a road-obstacle it flags Perhaps the most common road obstacle is falling rocks. They shift around, there are many of them. They are 'repaired' b
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by seadan83 3y ago
> it flags it so that it can be repaired and all other cars avoid it automatically Doesn't help if you already have a multi-car pile up collision. OP said bumper to bumper at high speeds. Anything goes wrong and physics take over. &
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by seadan83 3y ago
> Then imagine cars halve in size and drive bumper to bumper and twice the speed. And now imagine one of those cars hitting a large pothole Beyond this, how will there ever be 100% adoption to support that dream? There will always be a d
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by seadan83 3y ago
If you believe that AI cars are snake-oil in a near peak hype-cycle, then there would be a real concern that that non-solution is distracting from the very real problem of how to move people at scale.
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by seadan83 3y ago
I agree. Rocket science is a good analogy here, there is no way to simulate space, on the other hand there are a number of smart checks you can do when a rocket is updated before putting it back on the launchpad.
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by seadan83 3y ago
"under" implies a relationship to something else, a point of reference. That point of reference would vary (which is getting close to a definition of subjective). Reminds me of the parable of the fisherman and banker: https:&#x2F
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by seadan83 3y ago
Alternative response: >> Code that has been thoroughly tested is akin to a running system for a year > Except that isn't even remotely true. Perhaps if you system has a purely machine interface, with a limited 'dictionary
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by seadan83 3y ago
> and I can guarantee any significant refactoring will introduce a regression Refactoring suffers from having almost no meaning. I would interpret what you are saying as re-architecture and/or update of system design. That is what m
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by seadan83 3y ago
Sounds like the dose was before general anesthesia. If ketamine helps with depression, we should expect to see improvements in depressed people who were given ketamine vs placebo. The surgery is immaterial, just a clever way to try and hide
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by seadan83 3y ago
If time is cost, then yes, everything has an increasing total cost. The question is more about complexity and interactions. Does a specific subsystem interact with N modules, or with 1. If N+1 module interacts with N, then the cost of maint
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by seadan83 3y ago
Testing is a form of battle testing. Code that has been thoroughly tested is akin to a running system for a year. On the other hand, modify that legacy system without test, that "battle test counter" resets to zero and you get to
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by seadan83 3y ago
Point [1] is a good thing to watch for, but if you update the graphs, they do not change much. Point [2], traffic fatalities doubling in under 5 years does not need normalization. The population did not double in that time. Which is a way t
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by seadan83 3y ago
First day of a new job, a new commute all have exceedingly high cognitive loads. Come back from that, all you did was just HR stuff and a new commute and are exhausted! After a year, suddenly that commute, the byzantine policy stuff has a c
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by seadan83 3y ago
You make some interesting points. I'm just trying to say this conversation thread is starting to talk past one another. The 'we' was referring to the full population of people and basically stated a significant subset of that
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by seadan83 3y ago
The "we" clearly refers to society at large. (I suspect you read what you wanted to read) > Some people want to give up their cars, but you need everyone to want this, and they don’t This is moving the goal posts, nobody said e
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by seadan83 3y ago
As someone that is deciding between AWS, Google and Azure - could give an outline of some of the Azure painpoints? Are there any blogs or other articles that outlines what your concerns would be? I'm pretty aware of how painful it can
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by seadan83 3y ago
Drawing on my experience from working with an Ad-Tech: > Don’t most companies have budgets? Yes > Wouldn’t raising prices just cause companies to buy less? Not necessarily, the "ad-spend" typically remains a fixed budget unt
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by seadan83 3y ago
I believe your statements to be virtuous - but also fascinating that you felt the need to make the counterpoint. The counterpoint stated allows the situation to be a dog whistle. It's a regrettable situation. (caveat, our personal beli
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by seadan83 3y ago
Ah, thank you for the clarification! :) I really did not read your statement carefully enough and I apologize for that.
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by seadan83 3y ago
> such that even auto-completing it is considered 'problematic'. We don't know what the auto-complete would be. It's hard to know how problematic those auto-complete suggestions are. > Are you suggesting that searc
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by seadan83 3y ago
Proud boys and 1776 is not necessarily to celebrate history of course and is more a call to action (with plausible deniability).. YouTube has to deal with issues of disproportionate volume. I would not be surprised if it were a 100:1 ratio
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The renewed interest and new mantra of 1776 is a backlash to the 1619 project. This right leaning resource summarizes that point of view: " the New York Times Magazine’s 1619 Project ... attempts to reframe our understanding of America
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by seadan83 3y ago
Sprint planning is typically 4 hours [1]. I think there are further reasonable quibbles to be made that would revise that 7% number up to a reasonable 13% or 18%. The 13% takes into account the time tax of context switching. 18% if we consi
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by seadan83 3y ago
The scrum guide [1] says team gives a forecast and not a commitment. I have yet to know any other scrum practitioners aware of that update. Unless a person has no shame, failing a commitment I certainly believe is intrinsically shameful. So
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by seadan83 3y ago
If everyone keeps their private vehicle, and that is still at over 90%, why would any part of society change due to AI cars? The parent post described a situation where strip malls would be redone in the image of AI cars. I'm not sure

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