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by sgustard 8y ago
Given that AI has no "intent" for the foreseeable future, we can only judge AI in terms of outcomes. Is a robot arm that kills anyone who stands near it a murderer?
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by sgustard 8y ago
"willing to do what it takes to secure that job and maintain it" Some (most?) of that is innate ability and intelligence. Sure, there are well-paying jobs that are unpleasant. But for many others the company literally gets to choo
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by sgustard 8y ago
The press as "enemy of the people" is one of the primary memes in the US right now. Are you comfortable with the side you're taking on that?
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by sgustard 8y ago
Tivo, a California company: "We currently don’t offer the ability to cancel service online." https://www.tivo.com/my-account/cancel They deserve a public and vocal PR backlash over this.
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by sgustard 8y ago
> I'm glad I've wasted their time That's an odd attitude. You've also wasted your own time, yes? I can see how it's problematic to bring it up ahead of time. "By the way, I won't sign a non-compete.&quo
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by sgustard 8y ago
This link provides a better overview of the font: http://input.fontbureau.com/info/
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Google shareholder sues for allegedly covering up sexual misconduct(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by sgustard 8y ago|0 comments
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by sgustard 8y ago
Can you traverse an array? Do you know that a string is an array? Do you know how the end or length of a string is represented in your language of choise? Do you know how each character is represented? Do you understand Unicode? Do you unde
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by sgustard 8y ago
As a hiring manager, I agree 100%. These people are everywhere. I've also given someone the benefit of the doubt -- he wrote a Java book! once we hire him, I'm sure it will work out -- only to find, nope, he can't code on the
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by sgustard 8y ago
Clearly the spiral algorithm is useful when you forgot where you buried your survival cache.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Flight paths change. It's been a big issue for these folks in some pricey neighborhoods: "The FAA implemented NextGen, changed flight procedures, and moved vast quantities of jet traffic over Palo Alto." http://www
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by sgustard 8y ago
My neighborhood has car alarms which serve a similar function (to warn of excessive noise or vibration by emitting louder noise.)
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by sgustard 8y ago
You're correct, but its inflation-adjusted Feb 2000 peak was 6970. Source: https://www.macrotrends.net/1320/nasdaq-historical-chart
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by sgustard 8y ago
An index fund by definition just tracks an indicator. You don't have leave the USA to see a long-term decline; the Nasdaq is currently below its Feb 2000 peak. All index-fund investing advice includes diversification across several ass
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by sgustard 8y ago
True in other domains too. My brother's a doctor and prefers working in a lower-income neighborhood, where he never gets challenged by patients doing internet research. Of course the lack of knowledge of the "rules" that allo
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by sgustard 8y ago
Is there a reason to believe, given how little we trust Facebook, that deletion and deactivation are different things? I've built multiple consumer web apps and if there's one rule, it's that rows are never really deleted fr
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by sgustard 8y ago
Great. Is "milk chocolate" one item or two?
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by sgustard 8y ago
I prefer the rougher edges of the Apple II Red Book. At times, the prose is a bit flowery: "Computers can perform marvelous feats of mathematical computation at well beyond the speed capable of most human minds. They are fast, cold and
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by sgustard 8y ago
Any office I've worked in with at least three people will inevitably end up with the heat running at 75 degrees over Christmas break for two weeks while nobody's there.
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by sgustard 8y ago
"Not dystopian except for the thought police" doesn't cut it for me.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Silent Night is interesting (and by that, I mean boring) in that it's your basic three-chord I/IV/V melody. One might think this structure is only a recent invention with early blues and rock & roll. Is it unusual for a 2
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by sgustard 8y ago
While visiting, am I free to loudly denounce the government?
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by sgustard 8y ago
And that central grid in places like California is already 50% non-carbon and improving rapidly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California "California is the only state with extensive deployment of wind,
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by sgustard 8y ago
I have a sizable salary requirement, for one.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Do I like going to work every day? Do I like my coworkers and the kind of work I'm doing? These questions have always guided me well.
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by sgustard 8y ago
"I predict that within fifteen years, AI will be able to replace 40 to 50 percent of jobs in the US." - Kai-Fu Lee
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by sgustard 8y ago
It's not just US culture, the Constitution itself prohibits "excessive fines" in the 8th Amendment. The framers were pretty good at predicting future kinds of vigilante justice that people thought up.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Nation-state actors conducted information warfare on Facebook's platform. Solely blaming Facebook for that is a little like blaming United & American Airlines for 9/11. They are just the most obvious attack vector, but it&#x27
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Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren’t the only ones(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by sgustard 8y ago|2 comments
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by sgustard 8y ago
Amazon's been well known for relentless A/B testing of every last pixel in their checkout UI. This is simply an extension of that A/B testing mentality to individual products. Flood the user's search results with a litan

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