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by slackstation 10y ago
Makes me feel better about my rents. I pay about the same here in Los Angeles except I'm walking distance from work and have the beach and sunny weather. $3400 is the median for the high end there, here is about the higher end of the h
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IBM needs to look past all this goofy theatrics if they want to be a household name for AI. Being a household name for AI is tough in that eventually AI will mean and do just about everything. Already, it's strained. Does Watson play c
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Newspapers used to make a healthy profit from tiny ads. Network news used to be run at a loss by the tv networks. The introduction of CNN made news into a huge money maker. Craigslist ate the lunch of most newspapers. Now, the internet (esp
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If we replaced every car in America with a Tesla with Autopilot, do you think we would see more road fatalites or less? Less by a long shot. We ignore tens of thousands of deaths per year and focus the one fatality of someone who was using
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How does one make you primary artistic medium the internet for a decade and yet don't know how it works enough to have backups of your work? It's as if I worked in artistic welding but, never learned anything about the dangers of
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It's always amazed me how much England is a polic state with information and the internet while being firmly in West as far as democracy and in the line of history that that extends back to the Greeks. Seriously, banning End-to-End Enc
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It's not that there would be no work or that there would be no jobs or companies staffed with people. The point is that the average median person might not be good enough to get a job. If automation makes it so that only 20% of people
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A high percentage of unemployed young men roaming the streets of your civilization is a dangerous thing. But, if those young men aren't angry for not having a job and are entertained by things like video games all day. I don't thi
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I enjoyed Serial but, later read critiques of how the Serial podcast was making entertainment out of someone's actual life and another person's actual murder. As much as I enjoy fictional murder in various mediums, it started to t
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Why is it that there is a cultural meme and expectation for an Employee to give notice to an Employer but, none the other way around? In fact, it largely happens only because it's mandated by law. If I have loyalty to an organization a
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by slackstation 10y ago
>> How often do adult women actually share clothes? >I've seen my wife share clothes with her best friend in the last week. (They have similar size/tastes and frequently shop together.) If they already know each other and
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by slackstation 10y ago
Facebook manages the public and private lives of over a billion people and is publicly traded. They will use the former every way legal plausibly deniable to help the latter. This much power, I'm surprised that people are surprised. At
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by slackstation 10y ago
These are startup problems. Larger mature tech companies (there are many of them) shouldn't be that hostile. I work at one with 1000+ employees and while it's not 50/50, I can't imagine it being that bad. Also, I'm
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Women tend to prefer men that are higher status than themselves. For a working woman (especially one in tech that earns alot) they tend find partners who are also employed. This makes a dichotomy where if a man makes $100k+ in most places i
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by slackstation 10y ago
Man, Forbes and others just keep hammering her with hit pieces. We get it, you don't like her. Her company's tech didn't pan out. Everyone wanted so desperately for her to succeed that they praised her as a fully formed, late
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by slackstation 10y ago
I think this is a bridge until the driver-less car can be developed. Once they hit the market, automation will take over but, that same automation will allow for a company with hyper-thin margins or people to loan out their car to a service
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This is a direct consequence of the world wide web turning from a self-publishing culture (blogging + RSS) to a posting culture (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, etc.) It's trivial to exert political and social pressure globally
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Snapchat and the like are low hanging fruit. Someone should start a DAO where users can either see ads or pay a small annual fee to pay for the service and also invest in their own security and sanity. There are programmers who are interest
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by slackstation 10y ago
> ...he was making sure that Makinde wouldn't be too politically assertive about race issues. Well, if he were truely politically assertive, he would answer smoothly and to the interviewers full satisfaction, take the job, wear a mi
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What possible purpose could it serve to ask that question in a job interview? I always believe that job interviews are two ways; the applicant interviews the company as much as the company interviews the applicant. Also, he didn't whin
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While in general, there are sometimes people who feel put upon and don't feel like answering questions and/or having that difficult discussion of race, a job interview isn't the place to have it. The power dynamic is too skew
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I was implying the Western First World. Large swathes of the world still teem with violence as common and inescapable as daybreak.
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The real meta problem is that if you don't work, you don't eat. Who cares if they have a job or they just sit at home and play videogames. Basic Income would allow people the freedom to pursue the things that truly interest them.
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The greatest luxury we live in today is a freedom from violence so total we barely even register it. In antiquity, violence was so common, so total and such a fact of life that we can't even imagine it.
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> come over and eat us if we said hello It's so expensive in energy to do this that it's unlikely. Even the moon, if it was made of gold bars stacked at the ready to be picked up and brought back to Earth, it wouldn't be w
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No, the newspaper or magazine has clear editorial. It's very clear that this is what Fox News or The New York Times or Wall Street Journal is saying. People think that Facebook is a place where their friends, and family post things. By
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Their use of contractors is subtle. I'm sure employees manipulated the feed. The research they did in 2012 with Cornell had Facebook directly manipulating feeds to illicit emotional outcomes and they measured how those emotions propaga
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The crazy thing is that you don't need to do any "intense indoctrination". Facebook has both numbers and time on their side. The same large numbers that makes A/B testing and "growth hacking" so effective for
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It should be relatively easy to detect bias if Facebook is open with their algorithm. Facebook has conducted research on how even small changes to the overall system can materially affect the mood and how that mood was contagious to a given
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Two main takeaways here: 1. Community doesn't scale well. Reddit is a thimbleful of awesome floating in a bucket of shit. As I grow older, the best communities and sources online are small. I love watching youtube videos with less than

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