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811.
by sigstoat 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_authenticity...
812.
by sigstoat 8y ago
there were a lot of years between the introduction of TV, and betamax.
813.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> ...but if we have access to published architecture specs/layouts, it might be easier to audit the chip design... there are no "architecture specs/layouts" provided by RISC-V. it's an ISA. companies making RISC-
814.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> this sounds like some bureaucrat who likes HTT ...did you read that after you typed it? do you think there is a actually some US federal government bureaucrat running around who has an opinion on HTT?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
what counts is between them, and doesn't require the approval of internet randos.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do. I'm saying that it isn't as important to humanity. and i'm saying you can extol the virtues of JPL without taking a shit on anything else. i don't even particularly d
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Will we be teaching about high-frequency trading? markets will still want liquidity, so if there's a functioning economy, there will be HFT. JPL can be great without taking digs at other activities.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> > We believe that if we do create AGI, we'll create orders of magnitude more value than any existing company. > That sounds like the delusion of most start-up founders in the world. huh? are you disputing that AGI would crea
819.
by sigstoat 8y ago
if you rephrase that as "Amazon has competition, but what competitor can afford to intentionally give consumers millions or billions of value a year in order to dominate a market segment?" it seems sort of generous? they're t
820.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> ...(in areas where demand is high... or areas/weather conditions which they know are difficult for their autonomous cars to navigate.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
that will replace slowness with crashes, as very few programs are written to survive being told that no more memory is available.
822.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> I could see an Amazon/Walmart/etc store where you reserve the shelf space for presentation, but the goods are actually stored on higher floors and delivered to the customer upon checkout? let's you decouple storage locat
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by sigstoat 8y ago
well, you guys were sneakier than i initially expected, and clearly more clever than me, as i can't figure out the pattern. oh well.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
i'd find it more compelling if they'd base it on the tech they used circa 2004-2008. it's been years since their recommendations were valuable.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> Again, I'm being swatted for suggesting that it might be a good thing for Amazon to plan around accidents. you're being swatted for the disingenuous grandstanding of suggesting they should have a plan, when you already know w
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by sigstoat 8y ago
it wasn't surveillance software, and couldn't have been repurposed to that end. it was for recording people being interviewed in connection with military police investigations. it even did its best to prevent the investigators fro
827.
by sigstoat 8y ago
i worked on software used by military police to record criminal interviews. should i be concerned that it's used by the military, or should i be relieved that the military courts have more accurate/complete recordings?
828.
by sigstoat 8y ago
you're talking about self-description. i wasn't.
829.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> That's why they get classified as right-wing by most everyone except themselves. "libertarians are always classified as X" reliably identifies a person as opposite-of-X. if you hit up the conservative forums, you'll
830.
by sigstoat 8y ago
now that my solver has been chugging along for awhile, and i'm sort of bored of fiddling around with the supporting bits, i find myself wondering: since there's a politely-requested limit on submission rate, isn't the person
831.
by sigstoat 8y ago
when you're not slumming it online, do you speak old english, middle english, or early modern english?
832.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> If you mean "The world sucks" then say that instead of saying "the world is fallen". If you mean that you don't like the author's choice of words, then that that instead of saying "the entire article
833.
by sigstoat 8y ago
> LED lights? you need to be addressing the larger chunks of these pie charts: https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> The layoffs, which will mostly be in non-game-development areas like publishing... > Currently, staffing levels on some teams are out of proportion with our current release slate. hint: they've got nothing on the release slate
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> So something is dangerous and people are going to do it anyway so they legalize it and try to make it safer instead of criminalizing it. The US could learn from China on this one. every country could stand to learn that lesson.
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> What is the point of having ethical standards if there isn't a high cost for breaking them? society is already harmed by the initial crime, and now it has to pay the price a second time by forgetting? strip the researchers' n
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by sigstoat 8y ago
> The same applies to tax avoidance. It might be legal but it's still wrong. how is a company supposed to determine the morally correct amount of taxes? if they hire incompetent accountants who pay excess taxes, are they more moral?
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by sigstoat 8y ago
"SAT/SMT by Example" that appeared on the front page a day or two ago is also good, if you missed it. https://yurichev.com/SAT_SMT.html
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by sigstoat 8y ago
the US legal system relies on prosecution and defense both functioning. when expert testimony comes into play, that means there should be prosecution and defense experts. unfortunately public defenders are underfunded and frequently inexper
840.
by sigstoat 8y ago
this is nonsense. there are certainly a number of forensic fields which are garbage. other portions are fine, and are effectively analytical chemistry applied to legal cases. are you aware of a lot of double blind studies in analytical chem

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