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by strangeloops85 7y ago
X seems a strange blend of overly ambitious and overly critical/ constraining (which is partly related to conception of what is "big" enough). It's also unnecessarily secretive and would benefit from being more open, esp
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Trump’s 2021 budget drowns science agencies in red ink, again(sciencemag.org)
76 points by strangeloops85 7y ago|46 comments
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
To be clear - selective solar absorbers that absorb the solar spectrum well and have low infrared emissivity (so they don't radiate heat well), are a mature concept and can be achieved by multilayer coatings pretty well. This is a nice
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Is the media too tough on tech? Or, maybe, not tough enough?(themargins.substack.com)
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The super-cool materials that send heat to space(nature.com)
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Yes, I suppose the more salient thing here is that they did take out a large loan to meet their opex while (likely) trying to raise a rather large round to keep going and release the next device. I wonder if softbank's current precarit
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Some important context is in this other post and thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20757879
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
As a follow-up to the Harvard connections that remain under-scrutinized, here’s an alarming tweet from a Caltech professor: ‘Around 2007 I attended a dinner at @Harvard during which someone told me about a professor who was flying to New Yo
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
As others pointed out, this goes beyond mere association. It involves being present at his houses (and private island) where multiple underage victims of sex trafficking may have been present. Some of them had extensive and repeated contact
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
Yes I agree as well - did not mean to diminish this news. MIT Media Lab and Joi Ito are definitely more prominent. And the timing (post-2008) is rather damning. His history was a google search away..
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by strangeloops85 7y ago
The related Epstein-academia connection which deserves scrutiny is with Martin Nowak at Harvard. Certainly far more money involved in terms of donations. And many articles referenced him visiting with Epstein extensively, including his isla
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The Greenland ice sheet is experiencing one of its greatest melting events(washingtonpost.com)
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by strangeloops85 8y ago
Recommendations, and autoplaying videos in particular based on them, clearly drive growth and profits. But they are clearly the crux of the problem. Sure, defining harm is not straightforward. But it's possible, and frankly as a privat
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by strangeloops85 8y ago
I would suggest looking through that previous link regarding examples of where one can quickly end up in white nationalist content through recommendations. Again, recommendations are for Youtube's own growth-related ends. However, it i
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by strangeloops85 8y ago
The alternative is that Youtube could choose NOT to recommend videos for large categories of videos, particularly those related to kids or other categories (for example, Rohingya-related videos in Myanmar in the current time period). You ne
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How to decarbonize America – and the world(techcrunch.com)
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by strangeloops85 8y ago
Between their enormous scandal in South Africa, the rather reprehensible work in Saudi Arabia that likely got some dissidents killed and all of this, it does feel like many shoes are yet to drop. The article details some pretty obvious conf
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Pilot AI co-founders and its investor NEA sued for sexual harassment(techcrunch.com)
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by strangeloops85 8y ago
The CIS is a dubious source, at best, on immigration matters. If not an outright hate group: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
Also! As Kim-Mai Cutler pointed out on Twitter, Silicon Valley's positions are not new!: "Andy Grove gave to reproductive rights, Gordon Moore to conservation, HP was one of the very first employers to offer healthcare coverage, t
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
Yeah I don't get it either, especially the "feeling alienated" part. Does that include being feted and having a respectful discussion with your liberal friend and old colleague, Reid Hoffman, on the Stanford campus on Jan. 31
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
I find the notion that this topic is NOT being discussed and being suppressed somewhat hilarious. Find me a single women in STEM who has not read or heard extensively about the idea that men are biologically predisposed to be better than
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
This is explicitly racist: it will primarily only apply to Indians on H-1B seeking permanent residency, some of whom wait 10-15 years for their green cards. I would say that Indian-Americans working with the Trump administration with any de
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
Ahem, 'moonshots' anyone?
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
This elegantly captures something I think I've always observed, but been unable to articulate, in all of the superintelligence literature and the AGI / AI safety line of thinking: There is an implicit set of unarticulated underly
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Robert Scoble and Me(medium.com)
733 points by strangeloops85 9y ago|337 comments
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
I cannot think of a similar trajectory for a company that is today a large platform. The big companies of our, and previous, eras began with small products, targeting markets and grew organically and gradually. Stealth had a purpose, but th
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by strangeloops85 9y ago
Last report I read mentioned two waist-mounted units for computing and battery that would be linked up to the sunglass-sized product (presumably by wires). I'm sure they have made some good technical advances. But the fact that it&#x27
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Upload VR settles sexual harassment suit regarding alleged 'Kink Room'(gizmodo.com)
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Social Finance Faces Sexual Harassment Claims(nytimes.com)
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