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by sgift 3y ago
Sure, here's an easy example: The GDR had childcare for everyone. And the reason for that was based in the system, namely that communism says everyone is equal, men and women both work. Western Germany said childcare is the work of the
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by sgift 3y ago
I don't think these are ethical either.
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by sgift 3y ago
> It isn’t as though we were doing anything ethically or legally wrong. Legally? Well, they probably have a "if we think you do something we don't like we can kick you off" clause. Ethically? Eh .. Crypto. Ethical. Opinion
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by sgift 3y ago
> Safari on the other hand has only ever seen ~20% marketshare, has never been truly abandoned, and at least covers core competencies well (recall that IE couldn’t even handle transparent PNGs without DirectX filter hackery). IE made eve
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by sgift 3y ago
As someone who works with Java all the time I'm the first to admit that something like TypeToken in GSON or comparable things in other libraries is not the greatest of things. I've also more than once wished I could to if(xy insta
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by sgift 3y ago
Pedantic, but interesting - didn't know that. Thanks!
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by sgift 3y ago
To allow backward compatibility Java introduced Generics with type erasure, which in short means they only exist at compile-time, not at runtime (there are some hacks around that, which various devs have used with great success to still get
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by sgift 3y ago
I love Go. Especially how the devs stubbornly refuse to learn anything from Java, but stumble boneheaded into everything that Java solved over the years. Generics? We don't need that .. (time goes on) .. okay, damn it. Here! Generics!
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by sgift 3y ago
Yes, and the compiler does that. That's one of the reasons that iterators are preferred over for-loops with manual access in Rust. While compilers can for very simple cases determine that you will always stay within the bounds (as in y
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by sgift 3y ago
If the author of a system writes in every blog post that they tested their system to remove/manipulate things and the skewing of the results fit extremely will with what they - in their own words - deemed as things to remove then .. ye
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by sgift 3y ago
I very much doubt that if you ask for a 1943 German soldier "most Americans" would agree seeing the examples provided in the article. And it's obvious that this is very different from filtering search results, but still provi
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by sgift 3y ago
> What could be more marxist? What has marxism have to do with any of this?
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by sgift 3y ago
The trade secrets in question seem to be yield and inventory numbers according to the article. Certainly interesting, but not sure how this helps Intel with their foundry business?
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by sgift 3y ago
Why are the sanctions self-defeating? I don't remember anyone saying China could never do the same thing domestically. They are a powerhouse of industrial espionage after all. Doesn't mean the west has to make it easier for them.
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by sgift 3y ago
Correct. Good friend of mine couldn't do service due to a physical disability and paid it. He wasn't unhappy with it. His reasoning is that defending the country is a good thing and if you cannot do it yourself - for whatever reas
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by sgift 3y ago
Why should it be too late? You increase bone density by training. If the military finds people have not enough bone density they need to add more fitness exercises (e.g. strength training) to initial training.
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by sgift 3y ago
so, tldr: Apple tries to bullshit the EU again. EU commission - get them. They say themselves it would be possible to be compliant with the DMA without removing what is obviously competition they don't like. But they try to take the ro
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by sgift 3y ago
Society already has a certain level of enforced moral behavior. Making murder or torture illegal is based in morality. Problems arise if we get to less universal. That some things are illegal in one society, but legal in another is also oft
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by sgift 3y ago
That's what I don't understand: Why would anyone want to try to get a patent for an AI. Let the machine crunch the numbers, test the most promising candidates as your "significant contribution" and patent the result.
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by sgift 3y ago
Having read it at the time and now again I'd be surprised if Apple would do any better in his performance metrics. Big companies are, almost by definition, slow. The breakneck speed he wants to see will never happen in a company with t
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by sgift 3y ago
I think this is the article from *PNI Gizmodo is referencing: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article... - and here's the detail page for the AI Bot in question: https://founda
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by sgift 3y ago
Not GP, but usually things are missing or not up to date. Also, people are really bad at defining what exactly is a "good" result. When we introduce scheduling at customers it can take twenty to thirty iterations until we have a g
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by sgift 3y ago
Justice for Pluto.
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by sgift 3y ago
Only if 100% of everything is powered by renewables that could be a good argument (but see below), because there's always opportunity costs: The energy production capacity used for crypto cannot be used for anything else, which means
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by sgift 3y ago
I have no knowledge how common queries with ORDER BY vs no ORDER BY are, but that sounds like a first implementation which only works if ORDER BY is present would be easier and still useful? Or do you think that's not common enough to
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by sgift 3y ago
Well .. which one is better for your chances to get more money in the performance review?
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by sgift 3y ago
Because NATO did not expand. Countries decided to join NATO. You may think this is the same with other words, but it isn't. In the first version there's only two actors in the world, who can make decisions: Russia and NATO (or rat
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by sgift 3y ago
Uh yeah .. Michelle Baker, who is one of the founders of Mozilla, the writer of the MPL and who played a role (for a time as the volunteer general manager of the mozilla org, then later again as an employee) in everything from Mozillas rise
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by sgift 3y ago
> Also, a journalist interviewed this person, wrote it as an article, and a bunch of people upvoted it here. So clearly there's a market. Yeah, but that market needs empathy. Seems to be in rather short supply for some HN commenters
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by sgift 3y ago
That's not a hot take, that's just being an asshole for the sake of being one. "I don't like the games of the last few years, so let's dunk on people who have been part of a mass layoff with some thoughtful 'hu

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