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by smsm42 1y ago
If a person assumes that there is any information storage on the internet, not securely encrypted with keys only available to himself, that is not easily available to the law enforcement - or anybody else with enough budget - that person is
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Roman empire had ~500 year run on the western part, and 1500 years on the eastern. That's after another 500 republican years. Not too shabby.
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That's not a "problem" and not a "cruft" - it's how it was built by design. You may not like it - your right, of course, but don't pretend it's because it's "old" or "out of date&q
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There are 13 Senators, out of 120, who are over 75, as far as I can see. I don't think we can attribute all the problems to them - there's not enough of them. I mean, some of the elders in Congress - like Pelosi, Waters, Nadler, D
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If that is true - which I don't think it is - then I am happy I live in a country run by lawyers. I am not a huge fan of lawyers, but at least lawyers do not put millions of people into concentration camps and don't disassemble th
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Wait why do they ask about a sentence? In the US at least juries don't set sentences, judges do.
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Just 10k? And this is presented as historically huge fine? I don't know about thst particulat lawyer, but I heard lawyers charging multiple hundreds of dollars per hour, so that's what, less than week's wages? What kind of cr
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Public toilets in China are making people watch ads for toilet paper(dexerto.com)
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OK, I admit "common" is a better description than "standard" - I know not everybody did this, just it was a common failure mode.
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Until the rise of modern fundamentalist Islam, the Islamic countries had been one of the most religiously tolerant around. When Western Christian rulers expelled the Jews (which they regularly did when the loan payments were due) the Jews u
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> We don't have anything near as extreme in Western culture. Of course we do. Just try to have a political debate in your work place (no, please don't) and you'd find out.
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That's pretty standard model for those times - when dealing with "inferior" peoples, its pretty much either "noble savage" or "inscrutable deceitful liar". The latter is especially convenient - if the obse
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The immediate manager will be informed, but they can do nothing about it or in any way change the process or the result.
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One data point - I borrowed audiobook in the library some time ago, before all the brouhaha started. For reasons, I only got through about 2/3 of it, and had to return it. Now I wanted to finish it - I see I am 114th in line. No line a
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by smsm42 1y ago
> they respond with "I don't know, claude did that" A huge red flag right here. Its ok to not know things, its ok to use LLM to fill the gaps. Its ok to fail. It is in no way ok to not care and only fess up to having a ma
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Or maybe she wasn't that naive but thrilled by the proximity to the power working for facebook and shmoozing with heads of state gave her, and neglected everything else in service of that. She may not be the most reluable narrator for
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True but not the ones who will be firing you. At least not in big corp, it would be some HR worker who doesn't know you from Adam and couldn't care less about you.
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Nope, they'd have security show you the door and maybe threaten to sue you into the ground if you talk. They choose mkney because money is easier, but if you take this option away, you just get the stick and no carrot.
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6 months of senior executive wages is nothing to sneeze at.
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The book describes Zuckerberg personally thanking her, repeatedly, for her work. It doen't look like something he didn't care about.
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How much is not high? I mean compared to bilionaires a lot of people are paupers, but what about compared to regular people?
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How it's not voluntary? She didn't face prison if she didn't sign, she faced having less money. She chose more money. What other threat coukd facebook apply beyond not paying severance?
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by smsm42 1y ago
What are they teaching then? I mean, if you're doing a backend - and I don't mean tiny wrapper that wraps user input into queries, I mean the database engine itself - it's Java/Scala or C++ (hopefully not C)? Maybe Go? W
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Unless you realize no LLM is good at what you need and you just wasted weeks of time walking in circles.
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Outside of working for Antropic etc., there's no way you can make an LLM better at anything. You can train a junior though.
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Psychopatic behavior seems to be a major problem for these (of course it doesn't think so it can't be called that but that's the closest term that fits). They are trained to arrive at the result, and if the most likely path t
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by smsm42 1y ago
True, that's why they use aggregate measures like gdp per capita, to get the big picture. And China's one is still quite low. Compared even to Britain (which is not a rich country, below average in Europe), though of course there
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What do you mean "suggest"? Every single job application I've ever seen has a question about citizenship/status. And of course they'd know whether they need to file legal papers to employ you as H1B or not - it&#x27
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And that's why it is called "developing" - because some parts are developed but some are massively underdeveloped.
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Sending humans to orbit while leaving millions of other humans starving on Earth is not a sign of great economy. China undoubtedly made a lot of progress in recent decades, but it also started from a very low point. Its GDP per capita has i

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