slivym

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by slivym 9y ago
Well they certainly won't have to worry about running out of source material... I really hope this is good but they need to go full game of thrones in terms of scope and adherence to the source material. I'm so tired of seeing &qu
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by slivym 9y ago
What you're describing is re-purposes car parking spaces as locations for docking stations.
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by slivym 9y ago
Ask a Brit how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning everything is going fine and they're happy. Ask a Californian how their day is they'll say "Not bad" - meaning something is seriously wrong, and
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by slivym 9y ago
This is the problem with wikileaks. This has nothing to do with protecting people, or informing them of shady goings on. Wikileaks doesn't like The Guardian's reporting. So they're trying to claim that they're doing some
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by slivym 9y ago
Even if they're not collecting your personal data, they can still present you with adverts. Your local TV company of Newspaper don't have information about you - they still sell advertising. Facebook's model is still viable w
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by slivym 9y ago
I've got to take issue with you there. Tesla Engineering knows better than anybody what updates they did and how often they update etc. Tesla PR knows nothing about what updates the engineering team did. At least some people in Tesla P
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by slivym 9y ago
I understand people WANT to defend Tesla here, but there are some really rubbish arguments people are trying to push and especially some that border on conspiracy theories. Tesla has real problems: The first is that it's failing to mee
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by slivym 9y ago
I don't think that maintaining different strategies in different areas is the more costly procedure. The assumption you're making here is that GDPR is one and done. In all likelihood, most major jurisdictions are going to introduc
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by slivym 9y ago
Presumably there are some googlers around here that can explain the difference in detail,but Fei Fei Li is R&D in Google Cloud whereas Jeff Dean is taking the organisational role as head of AI. So much more of the organisation will be i
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by slivym 9y ago
I bet that each time they do the lay offs they genuinely believe that they're doing one more deep round and that's it.
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by slivym 9y ago
I don't know who Sam Harris is, but everything he writes seems to discredit himself more and more. It's just basic stuff really. Like "Klein published fringe, ideologically-driven, and cherry-picked science as though it were
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by slivym 9y ago
Or to put it another way. Why is the guy running a car company busy putting rockets into space?
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by slivym 9y ago
Google is known to remove bad suggestions. I suspect they deliberately avoid anything contentious. If you try "Donald Trump" and then start typing Collusion, it won't suggest collusion until it gets to "Donald Trump Coll
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by slivym 9y ago
It may be a bit of a political problem. "Hey, why are the potholes on my road not getting fixed, but Tesla gets the government to paint new chevrons on some fancy highway"
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by slivym 9y ago
This seems like a misunderstanding of the problem. The problem is that it's very difficult paying attention to something you have no control over or interaction with. To stick in a prod to punish people isn't going to make it easi
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by slivym 9y ago
The turning point for this seems to have been the anti-competitive agreement between Apple, Google and others to avoid poaching of top talent. This new generation of companies seem intent on making all the same mistakes of their predecessor
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by slivym 9y ago
I don't believe this because whilst there are costs for the state of allowing self-driving cars, there are also massive upsides. The CompSci jobs that are involved in self-driving cars are highly sought after and by enticing testing of
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by slivym 9y ago
There's a big difference between a theoretical "Well technically they have all our data and they could share it with anyone and they could use it to target ads quite precisely" In fact, that statement is true of the governmen
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by slivym 9y ago
Do you think you have the right to share with people your call logs without the permission of the people you were calling? I would say you do. So I don't see how you can reasonably object to someone sharing with Facebook the fact that
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by slivym 9y ago
It's much more than that. What if the next time someone posted a conspiracy theory on Reddit about Hilary Clinton she filed a libel claim against Reddit in the UK. The UK court will consider that under it's jurisdiction because th
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by slivym 9y ago
Well for a start, Reddit is a privately owned company run by Steve Huffman and he's been very open that he will use his own moral judgement. Companies are capable of making moral decisions - I agree that most companies morals boil down
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by slivym 9y ago
I disagree with this, I think it's fine for large web companies to apply their own morals. The problem I have is that they're having their cake and eating it. To me there are two models: - You are a platform, you don't modera
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by slivym 9y ago
I'm too young to remember the first cold war, but it seems totally insane to me that Russia is carrying out repeated war crimes routinely now, and the West is literally doing nothing to address it.
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by slivym 9y ago
No, because what you risk is associating your brand with death, rather than AD. Uber already has a terrible reputation with everyone in the tech industry for the sexism, bullying, law breaking, and IP theft. Do they really want to be the se
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by slivym 9y ago
Well there's three parts to this: One is that data was collected without consent - ie, the third party can collect information about me because my friend gave consent. That's something that facebook has actually stopped now - but
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by slivym 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but VAT is only applied to goods sold to consumers, not to companies. If I'm a VAT registered company (like Facebook) and I buy a VAT-able item like a computer (from MSFT), I don't pay VAT. So similar
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by slivym 9y ago
The difference is the monopolistic element. Apple didn't get screwed for bundling Safari with Mac OS because it isn't a monopoly. Microsoft did get screwed for bundling IE because they are. In the same way if you subscribe to the
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by slivym 9y ago
I think the point I would make in favour of actually using LateX is that whilst evidence may indicate Word is quicker, the time I spend in Latex is (as a programmer) better spent. I mean that in the sense that because the interface is basic
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by slivym 9y ago
Toys r' us isn't some wonderland of childrens toys. It was piled high with plastic crap which is why it hasn't survived. There are still plenty of small independent toy shops where kids can get really nice and quality toys. T
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by slivym 9y ago
I have no idea where I got India from :)

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