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by ummonk 4y ago
Ehh, we have pretty good policy levers to alter the supply of labor for a given profession.
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by ummonk 4y ago
In a speculation driven environment, the future earnings of a particular growth company are heavily dependent on investor sentiment. If people want to invest in a company for whatever reason (such as hype), that means the company can raise
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by ummonk 4y ago
“We will do anything we want and we will collect all data” - every site’s tl;dr if this passes.
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by ummonk 4y ago
I mean with erosion, flooding, and the like, I'm not sure this sort of mounting on the ground would be any less of a hassle...
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by ummonk 4y ago
Does solar panel efficiency get affected much angle of incidence? I.e. are you losing out on any power by using large panels to cover the ground instead of having smaller panels that are steered to cover the ground in shadow?
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by ummonk 4y ago
The same thing happened with negative coverage of the tech industry by the mainstream media. Journalists kept acting like tech people were just being paranoid about the media. Then recently Yglesias casually tweeted that there was a topdown
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by ummonk 4y ago
I think Austin Allred gets to the heart of the matter, which is that the Twitter statements were crafted to give the impression that deboosting / deamplification was purely algorithmic, rather than based on unappealable human tagging o
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by ummonk 4y ago
That still catches abusers, as abusers are often consumers of material.
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by ummonk 4y ago
This is great news for individuals who don’t want companies snooping on their private images and don’t want to get ensnared with legal issues due to false positives. It also ensures a barrier against governments demanding scanning for dissi
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by ummonk 4y ago
Wow did not expect the appearance by Sonia Sotomayor at the end.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Assuming it’s the classic trolley problem, what would be the crime? There doesn’t seem to be specific intent for murder (the death is a regrettable side effect), and diverting the train to save lives is certainly not reckless disregard for
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by ummonk 4y ago
And it is able to describe how to escape the box. https://twitter.com/The_Equationist/status/15992410980269629...
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by ummonk 4y ago
I've been increasingly worried that AGI is approaching too fast for us to prepare for it. But I thought we still had several years available to prepare. Seeing this, I think we're pretty much there already.
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by ummonk 4y ago
No one said anything about legal guilt. It's generally good practice not to associate with fraudsters if you care about your reputation though.
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by ummonk 4y ago
They take in students who use taxpayer funding to pay some of their tuition, they get large grants for research from the taxpayers, and they have a massive endowment that they're able to invest tax-free while hardworking people are bus
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by ummonk 4y ago
There can be TOR-like systems that with an ideal implementation make it impossible to obtain any metadata about the sender.
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by ummonk 4y ago
End-to-end encryption doesn't protect you from this, since any recipient can report illegal material to the authorities and trigger an investigation of the sender.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Telegram doesn't have "more functionality". It's significantly less performant and it doesn't have any global search or sophisticated recommendations system. It's also pretty lightly moderated.
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by ummonk 4y ago
> Maybe now the rest of you vocal sideliners can finally see that is the case and that most of you are part of the problem more than most of us who have built startuprs using this tech without any of those things and did it the hard way
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by ummonk 4y ago
Kind of weird not to describe BeiDou as well...
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by ummonk 4y ago
Sotware engineers in developing countries earn significantly more than the average person in their country. By living the same lifestyle as an average person, they can save a lot.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Reliance in India is planning on manufacturing sodium ion batteries as well, and purchased Faradion - a startup that was designing sodium ion batteries, for this purpose.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Less than 3 years, since your expenses are only 70% of your salary.
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by ummonk 4y ago
If you're not saving money on a software engineer salary, you're being very frivolous with your spending.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Or better yet, write a compute shader since hashing is an embarrassingly parallel operation. That said, the OP's article is correct in that straightforward idiomatic implementations of this algorithm are very much compute bound. The co
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by ummonk 4y ago
Sure, a small but growing percentage of iPhones are assembled in India, sure. Some other manufacturers will be doing the same.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Negative sentiment towards paper cash? Haven't seen any on HN, aside from stories about civil forfeiture.
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by ummonk 4y ago
Fwiw, I believe the Muslims continued to build windcatching technology in Persia and elsewhere in the Middle East. Likewise, in India the adopted the jaali cooling screen just that their Hindu counterparts used.
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by ummonk 4y ago
I think their username of "ignoramous" is rather apropos
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by ummonk 4y ago
This doesn't actually invert a Merkle tree though, since you have to recompute the hashes (except the leaf hashes) when you invert a Merkle tree. Gonna be a no-hire evaluation from me dawg.

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