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3001.
by vasco 4y ago
Even that isn't true, there's history of cooperation and sharing markets by delineating borders among criminal groups. But ultimately they simply can do a normal job instead of crime. It's not like they're born and &quot
3002.
by vasco 4y ago
You mention it like they haven't done a ton of user hostile releases, like the constant UX dark patterns to push you to a mobile app, etc. This argument is so strange, should we refute anything against Meta with "but the original
3003.
by vasco 4y ago
You can do that from EEG. You usually get an API which exposes a number of wave "channels". Depending on the person, if you for example make your hand into a fist, you might get an isolated spike on one of the channels. When devel
3004.
by vasco 4y ago
Going to be interesting when incidents start popping up from automated drone strikes and robot home assistants snapping some person's head off.
3005.
by vasco 4y ago
They have plenty of choices, like not doing crime or participate in black markets, what are you talking about.
3006.
by vasco 4y ago
Okay but my answer was about these countries never coming up in regular life, they do come up! You not researching random countries that come up in life is obviously normal - but they do come up. I've pooped every day of my life, somet
3007.
by vasco 4y ago
> never come up in regular life in the western world If you watch any kind of global sports like the Olympics or football (not american), you immediately hear about these countries. And if you live in Europe you also know a lot about Sur
3008.
by vasco 4y ago
The war in Ukraine started in 2014.
3009.
by vasco 4y ago
> When people don’t sort their trash properly, batches of recyclables can become contaminated and compost can be improperly discarded into landfills. I've read this many times over the years, but my intuition tells me that if this w
3010.
by vasco 4y ago
Can't wait to have to restart a kubernetes cluster to get sensor metrics from the engine to start again.
3011.
by vasco 4y ago
> Unironically get them partners So how do you practically do that? Is there a state run harem for the young men you mention to get a partner? Maybe I just lack imagination but money to spend on outside activities seemed like an OK appro
3012.
by vasco 4y ago
It seems like you're a manager, but how do these two sentiments go together: > You must be willing to say "I don't know" 10x more than as an IC > All other approaches will lead to you failing to deliver results, fa
3013.
by vasco 4y ago
Also quality of google search after the first few years didn't meaningfully improve as a user. I'd expect the big ramp up we're in to taper off as well. Once you reach the point where you train a model on the corpus of "
3014.
by vasco 4y ago
> Insurance costs might become a problem I believe this was the first big use of insurance too, sailing cargo across the world in ships.
3015.
by vasco 4y ago
> You paint a picture of America as an evil empire, but what do the alternatives look like? The nice alternatives don't have big enough militaries to be considered seriously, one could point at some European nations for a more measu
3016.
by vasco 4y ago
When nobody tells lawyers no, this is what happens. This protects nobody other than some lawyers feeling fuzzy that they "mitigated risks" for their customer.
3017.
by vasco 4y ago
> There are some weekly meetings to review changes and incidents for a 100+ person department, where they work through changes and incidents one by one, in random order - basically you have to listen in for the whole hour+ so you can res
3018.
by vasco 4y ago
We can't track kids so instead we'll track every single internet user so that we can stop tracking kids. Nevermind you'll need to remember this is a kid in the browser session to show them the nerfed / non-tracking versi
3019.
by vasco 4y ago
The business is so profitable they can't handle all the cash or have a place to store it.
3020.
by vasco 4y ago
The simulation runners got angry with the banning of ChatGPT in Italy as it risks diverting from the most fun universe-simulation mainline and have started to send signals to get us back on track.
3021.
by vasco 4y ago
As I understand it, Head is what you call someone that's leading a group of people and they don't have the on-paper experience to do it, or you don't want to give them the title for any other reason. Also why startups tend to
3022.
by vasco 4y ago
Everything benefits from expertise, I'm now 3 layers down repeating the same thing. The whole point is that you don't need any tech knowledge to respect the basic ratified human right of access to information. That is all you need
3023.
by vasco 4y ago
> Who is hiring in tech right now? Honest question The company I work for, among tens of thousands of other companies. I'm starting to think you're not commenting in good faith. > the main issue is having a say. > nobody
3024.
by vasco 4y ago
> How's that going for the folks that have been recently laid off from checks notes... Amazon, Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, EA, Indeed, Yahoo, Github, Zoom, Dell, Paypal, IBM, Spotify, Goldman Sachs, C
3025.
by vasco 4y ago
It has lifted the largest amount of people from poverty in the history of the world.
3026.
by vasco 4y ago
You are not dependent on your employer. You're dependent on society having enough employers at any point that would match with the skills you can provide in exchange for salary, you can switch employers at any time you want. It's
3027.
by vasco 4y ago
> Think more like "everyone gets $30k/year for free so nobody lives paycheck-to-paycheck What impact would UBI have on inflation? I've read some things about minimum wage increases largely going to landlords. If everyone h
3028.
by vasco 4y ago
Of course more expertise is better when all else is equal, I thought the quote stood on its own to not be interpreted as asking for less expertise. Rather that the source of the problems is a disregard for people's rights and other mor
3029.
by vasco 4y ago
"The technocratic illusion is that poverty results from a shortage of expertise, whereas poverty is really about a shortage of rights." William Easterly. I too wish they'd know more about what they decide on, but really they
3030.
by vasco 4y ago
> The internet in general can have filters and many Parents activate personal firewalls for this purpose. These tools exist where a non technical user can install it in their own network and block websites by URL. I don't know what

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