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by sverige 7y ago
Wow, wait till you hear about unrefrigerated milk! https://newrepublic.com/article/119086/europes-unrefrigerate...
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by sverige 7y ago
As a class, lawyers and doctors are some of the cheapest people you'll ever meet. They don't want to pay full price for anything. I have tons of stories about this; one of the most egregious was a lawyer who made over a million a
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by sverige 7y ago
I knew a biker who had a beautiful girlfriend he was thinking of marrying. Every winter he tore his motorcycle apart in the living room and rebuilt it with incremental improvements. His buddy said to him, Will she let you overhaul your bik
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by sverige 7y ago
> In a surveillance era, some version of GoogleCIA will have the ability to move or alter elections in any way they like. It's always for the best reasons of course. I think we're past that tipping point already.
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by sverige 7y ago
I'm probably the only one who thinks it's really stupid to connect things like refrigerators and washing machines to the internet, but I'm going to say it anyway.
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by sverige 7y ago
There are indications that missing 15 minutes of sleep can throw you off. https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/774372/sleep-insomnia-...
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by sverige 7y ago
I once spoke to a reporter 25 years ago when I was involved in politics. The reporter was friendly to my point of view. After reading what I allegedly said, I resolved to never again agree to an interview with any journalist. These days, I
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A Silicon Valley Apostate Launches ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ for Tech(wsj.com)
7 points by sverige 8y ago|1 comments
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I don't understand the argument that someone participating on an ethics panel has to be an expert on the tech. The more important thing is that they should be conversant with ethics. The questions involved have to do with should we b
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by sverige 8y ago
How is an outside ethics panel going to affect their working conditions? The people on the panel don't have any say on employees' pay, promotions, disciplinary actions, assignments, or anything else that might affect their working
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by sverige 8y ago
Google telling Whittaker that they don't want her doing work on AI ethics after she torpedoed their first effort to have a public discussion is not even close to firebombing her or hiring mercenaries to shoot her. Nor was she engaged i
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She was active in organizing the petition drive that successfully pressured Google to keep Kay Coles James off the committee. [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/apr/01/goo
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by sverige 8y ago
That's a really huge assumption, considering they never met (afaict), let alone deliberated anything or issued recommendations. Google sought input from outside their bubble and those inside the bubble immediately protested based on id
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by sverige 8y ago
> Meredith Whittaker, who leads Google’s Open Research, said that after Google disbanded its external AI ethics council on April 4, she was told that her role would be “changed dramatically.” Whittaker said she was told that, in order to
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by sverige 8y ago
Money quote: "Which unit are you from?"
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by sverige 8y ago
It is perfectly understandable for christians to be concerned about the welfare of all people.
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I was wrong, he was English, not Welsh, apparently. But he was born in Crowborough, East Sussex, not in Jamaica. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-27426329
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I understand, but from that perspective, pretty much everything in "developed" countries is non-essential, including personal computers (whether desktop, laptop, smartphone, or tablet) and forums like this one to discuss such thin
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by sverige 8y ago
So far, all of the experiments to make everyone equal have resulted in soviet-style housing for the many and well-appointed dachas for the few -- and that's at best. I'm doubtful that future experiments will have a different resul
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by sverige 8y ago
Why aren't you arguing directly that we should all live in soviet-style housing blocks? Concrete is good enough, right? Then we'd all be equal.
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I've noticed that almost no one talks about Bob Marley's Welsh father.
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> the recruiter thought the candidate was lying > they don't trust candidates ...which is a great tell for what kind of relationship you would be starting if you did take the offer.
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I'm not sure about that. I know their site used to mention the patents. Their website says this now: "Unicomp was started in 1996 when we purchased keyboard technology from Lexmark International and IBM. You may recall that Lexmar
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You can still buy brand new IBM Model M keyboards in several configurations from the people who bought the patent. I love this keyboard. It's the best ever made imo and I'll never switch for desktop. Sometimes I dock my laptop jus
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by sverige 8y ago
A friend of mine who is 75 years old was a mason his entire adult life. His father was as well. He told me how sad it is that so much knowledge and skill has been lost. He attributes a lot of that to the change in the management of the way
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I'd be mildly interested to see a list of these failed democracies. My other question is, did they fail because Twitter allowed unfettered tweeting of all kinds of unsavory thoughts and ideas? Or are they places where most people don&#
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> “It’s democracy at stake, it’s our culture at stake,” Anderson said. Christ, the self-importance of the Twitterverse is astonishing. What they don't say out loud is that Trump and Brexiteers and others they oppose have used the pl
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Microsoft's work with Chinese military university raises eyebrows(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
8 points by sverige 8y ago|0 comments
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No, if the homework didn't get done, the coach went home at his usual time and the next day the kid had to come back to ISS instead of going back to regular classes. Expulsion was a real punishment back then. It may be less so nowaday
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My high school solved that by making all suspensions "in school" suspensions. You were sequestered in a classroom with the other miscreants. You were not allowed to talk to anyone but the ISS teacher, who was a mean wrestling coac

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