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by simsla 6y ago
No, not in any material way. - When there's a rise in payroll tax across the board, I'd be extremely surprised all companies across the board raise their salaries. By default, a payroll tax hike will go out of the employee's
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by simsla 6y ago
It's about laziness and efficiency rather than snobbery, IMHO. You're outsourcing the QC to a trusted third party. Reading papers takes up enough time and effort as it is. I do not have the time to reproduce all of them.
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by simsla 6y ago
This fallacy is addressed in the article, I suggest you read it. The key point is that wages are being kept artificially low by monopsonies. And the evidence supports this. (Current hyperlocal minimum wage laws make for good A/B-ish te
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by simsla 6y ago
An interesting idea (which would need to be integrated in the conferencing apps) might be too do quality improvement on the receiver side. Turning low bandwidth and compressed video into higher quality video.
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by simsla 6y ago
That might be jumping the gun a bit. Malice for the sake of malice is usually one of the least credible options. Other valid possibilities: - They don't agree with me on the first point. - Someone followed an un-nuanced SOP. - They exp
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by simsla 6y ago
IANAL, but in general there are two reasons for things like this. 1 - Preventing trademark erosion. Companies have a duty to be proactive and continually challenge trademark infringements. If not, the trademark can become invalid. e.g. this
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by simsla 6y ago
You could probably write a wrapper that uses the plist + spotlight (mdfind) to get a functional wrapper. That being said, I agree that support should be native.
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by simsla 6y ago
Sometimes you should. Apart from it being zero-sum and this depriving other people of opportunity, with some of these services there's a promise of "starting fulfillment" upon acceptance. This is voided when a bot picks it up
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by simsla 6y ago
Yes, but enabling this kind of lobbying is the responsibility of government.
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by simsla 6y ago
A fact used to imply completely unsubstantiated facts.
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by simsla 6y ago
There's also almost definitely an evolutionary advantage. Groups are stronger than individuals. Selfish people are undesirable for a group.
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by simsla 6y ago
> GitHub projects, OSS contributions, stack overflow All of these are great signals IF present, but IMO not beyond. I have a decent track record in the software industry (FAANG and other), but I don't tend to work beyond work (the r
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by simsla 6y ago
Can you elaborate what you think the main reasons should be? (Genuinely interested.)
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by simsla 6y ago
I've been overbreathing (essentially, chronic hyperventilation that you don't notice) ever since I had a bit of a health scare. It's horrible. Your CO2 levels drop, which inhibits your body's blood pH regulation. An incr
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by simsla 7y ago
That's a strawman. I think we're allowed to judge the government by the actions of the government.
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by simsla 7y ago
Thanks for sharing that. Really interesting read.
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by simsla 7y ago
Tried that as well. (extensively documented to show they swapped street names.) Ticket was closed after half a year without comment. They have a system but seem to be missing the processes.
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by simsla 7y ago
Sure, but this is only an initial prototype. I'm sure we could make it work faster/more efficient with a few more design iterations.
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by simsla 7y ago
In Europe, neither of these is viable without a complete overhaul. - There are online-only providers. E.g. Giffgaff in the UK, Mobile Vikings in Belgium, etc. - Many European countries offer prepaid SIMs that aren't tied to ID. Instead
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by simsla 7y ago
People dying, because cutting costs was considered more important than due diligence. Might doesn't make right.
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by simsla 7y ago
My company disallows me from doing open source (without an incredibly rigorous review process that makes it honestly not worth the hassle). Nice plus? Sure. Near-mandatory? Fuck no.
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by simsla 7y ago
Very much so. It's also not included in the original title, so not much of an excuse here. If "Facebook Portal" is not descriptive enough, a case might be made for minor editorializing, but e.g. "Facebook Portal: Privacy
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by simsla 7y ago
Email him? He might send it to you for free. Or just pay the middleman, and he'll get paid too.
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by simsla 8y ago
You're right about the first two papers (which used the same approach). Ruling out a FP result would be difficult, which is why it wasn't fully embraced by the scientific community. The third team took a different approach [1], wi
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by simsla 8y ago
I agree, but Google doesn't just get rid of prefixes. news.ycombinator.www.com would get normalized to news.ycombinator.com (not sure what would happen when using the www tld) That's an extreme example, but there's an obvious
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by simsla 8y ago
No. Any data exhibits random patterns, especially if you try too hard. If you check for 10 patterns, each at the 95% significance level (p<0.05), there's a 40% chance of getting at least one false positive. Look for 20 patterns and
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by simsla 8y ago
For what it's worth, this video appears to be bull. For most questions, it will just read you the first line (or first paragraph) of the corresponding Wikipedia page. There have been cases that Alexa has said some embarrassing things,
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by simsla 8y ago
Not really. You're paying for the additional content. The tracking is external to that deal. I'm not saying I like it that way, but you're conflating two unrelated things.
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by simsla 8y ago
If murder is bad because you're taking away the life that might've been lived by a third party, then one could argue that false incarceration is similarly grave as murder. That being said, I don't agree with your premise. Fac
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by simsla 8y ago
It just needs to be framed as a search problem (many results), rather than recognition (one result). E.g. "Here are the 200 people the system thinks kinda look like that picture you gave me. The one you're looking for might be in

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