throwawaykeno

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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
FWIW the answer to all of the questions you ask in the first paragraph is "yes, but come on, that level of skepticism is a waste of time and money". It's like demanding proof that the reviewer wasn't hallucinating when
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> What recourse does Oracle have now Your parent already answered that question (although I don't blame you for not noticing): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_notwithstanding_verdi...
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to call this law suit frivolous. From a developer perspective, the ideal and just end result has always seemed rather obvious. However, the multi-year history of this case demonstrates the correct legal ans
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> (or don't goto any college) I don't remember that being part of the conclusions. Also, it's hard for me to take that study seriously. Good state schools can be as good as or better than Harvard. Basically I took the co
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Sorry, I wasn't implying that anyone cares. I even state a few times in this thread that people specifically don't care in aggregate. And even if people did care, it wouldn't have a major impact on the extent to which baris
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
I'm not sure why you're being down-voted. People driving their own truck for a living are probably not swimming in capital, and outfitting a truck with self-driving capabilities (or buying a new truck) is likely to be expensive. F
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Right, but that's a captive market. No one goes to Sheetz for food; they stop there for gas and grab something to eat while they're stopped. So making the food ordering process a bit less pleasant is NBD. McDonalds has to compete
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
The choice between NK/Iranian levels of isolation and complete free trade is a false choice. Plenty of countries have high tariffs for certain types of goods and do just fine. Even today. More-over, I hardly think a tariff on the outpu
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> Why on earth... 1. Security 2. Friends 3. Family 4. Security
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> but it does sound from your checklist that a lot of those qualities could eventually be automated Totally. But the current generation of dead-reckoning-and-maybe-a-bit-of-very-simple-sensing style of control for grinding/tamping
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Actually, Marx foresaw exactly "a renewing demand for labor" (although foresaw is kind of the wrong word; directly observed would be more accurate.) See "Capital". He also foresaw the shift from manual labor to intellect
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> brewing the coffee and even foaming milk is something that a machine can do easily, and arguably better than most people, heck even latte drawing can probably be better done with a 2-axis drip nozzle than a barista with a bamboo Is
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
A good barista pays attention to their work: * A good barista will notice when they screw up the shot and pull pull another. * A good barista will not burn or under-steam milk. * A good barista will make sure you have the proper amount of m
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
And then I'll introduce tariffs on goods produced using your robots. These are, fundamentally, political-economic questions. Not merely one or the other.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
IMO self-driving trucks won't displace humans behind the wheel. Trucks on public roads will be self-driving in the same way that planes are self-flying.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Automating good baristas in a cost-effective way is actually a pretty hard problem, but automating your typical Starbucks espresso machine button pusher is trivial -- machines that can make passable cappuccinos already exist. But people d
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Yes, the entire institution's purpose is to help the FBI. There isn't a single biologist, computer scientist, chemist, or neuroscientist in the entire institution who isn't hell-bent on helping the FBI /s.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> Another model is UBI and government as employer of last resort (or a equivalent strong labour movement). Exactly. It's amazing to me that people claim there just isn't enough work. There is more than enough work -- there&#x
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Successful researchers are almost by definition under-paid when their research (area) reaches the top of a hype curve; the success of their research (area) directly causes a massive increase in their value. 10-15 years ago, researchers wo
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
Then why not just fingerprint everyone at birth (or shortly there-after)? Because that would be an blatantly unconstitutional violation of privacy. Disincentivizing people from volunteering at a school by forcing them to surrender biometric
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
And I can sympathize with that. But those prints should be destroyed -- with a verifiable chain of evidence witnessing their destruction -- immediately after the background check. And people should have the right to inquire about whether pr
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> Aside from criminals, suspects and detainees, the system includes data from people fingerprinted for jobs... or volunteer service, background checks, ... Gotta make sure we keep tabs on those shady volunteers ... Jesus.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
TL;DR: Don't send email to people unless they specifically solicit email from you and confirm their identity. I.e., don't send unsolicited email. I.e., don't send spam.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
The land lord I use allows paying with plastic. There is a ~2% fee. It's better than a wash financially, but just barely. But it's net win for me even when it's a wash because I don't have to worry about mailing a check
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
I make less than 30k/year, so I'm not exactly rolling in it. Although I'm highly unusual because my very realistic earning potential is 3x what I currently make (STEM grad student). Still, putting only rent on a CC = 1k+&#x
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> Average credit card debt per U.S. adult, excluding zero-balance cards and store cards: $5,232.43 That is amazing and terrifying.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
One thing that's unclear for the article: does this include debt that never incurs any interest? I typically have an outstanding balance in the 3-4 figures on my credit card because I pay for rent, gas, and airline tickets with credit.
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> You could theoretically make it into a board game But not actually. Program synthesis is hard even if you have perfect formal requirements. In practice, gathering formal requirements is by far the most difficult task. You're pro
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
> Editorial control and algorithmic control are two different things. It's also a meaningless distinction. The point of contention is the bias, not whether the bias is imposed by an algorithm or by a human. People would still be
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by throwawaykeno 10y ago
"Fair and balanced" isn't either. We can argue about whether there's an ethical problem, but the assertion that there's any sort of legal problem seems completely arbitrary and partisan IMO.

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