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by vladms 3y ago
Feeling sad and depressed can be a medical condition rather than a reality issue. There are many numerically things (can't check everything) that are not much worse than 20 years ago (and some even better), but people seem more and mor
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by vladms 3y ago
I think you make the assumption that the person writing the test will be able to write a test that will trigger only when the same bug would happen. This could happen for some very narrow unit tests (as in the examples), but in real life th
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by vladms 3y ago
To progress in the same direction: what about having a static deadly hunk of metal at second floor of your house? The point I am trying to make: most of things flying seem more dangerous (higher speed, higher reach, different fuel) than car
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by vladms 3y ago
Really? "none of them liberated"? Have you checked life expectancy in the last hundreds of years? Doubling life span is not a liberation? And we are on a tech website, do you see open source being a part of the capitalist system?
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by vladms 3y ago
UK had special conditions and various exceptions while it was part of the EU. If they would like to rejoin (and doubt that would happen soon, the polls show there are at least some people thinking it was good, and lots of undecided ones) th
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by vladms 3y ago
As another post exemplifies, at least some of these pages are results of people seeing the news and looking something related on Wikipedia. So this, gets you a filter of "what are many people looking after reading the news". Wonde
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by vladms 3y ago
Depends what you mean by "development", as the article does not describe developments on treating scurvy, but rather somehow random actions based on wrong assumptions (ex: limes are the same as lemons; acidity is all that matters)
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by vladms 3y ago
The companies respond mostly to what the public is willing to do about something. If the only thing people do is complaining on social networks then companies will not address the issue. If people will avoid a certain company based on their
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by vladms 3y ago
If the emissions (of CO2, etc) have an impact on global climate doesn't that mean a measurable effect on emissions has an impact on global climate? If you have doubts about emissions impacting climate say that, but that's another
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by vladms 3y ago
This is a great game that I play for many years. I tried various other RTS-es but none had the right combination of crazy strategies, good balance, lots of use of physics (not perfect but at last tries and mostly succeeds to make you feel l
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by vladms 3y ago
Each time when I hear a phrase starting with "we ..." I feel a bit offended. Who is this "we" you use in the phrase? Does it include me? Because I am pretty sure I did not publicized that much what I decided on various t
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by vladms 3y ago
These are some strong statements without any reference. Haven't you personally dealt with any situation in which you have to take a decision based on incomplete information? That was covid for most part of it. You could compare it with
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by vladms 3y ago
The article could be interpreted as advertising, if the person is perceived to have an interest. If the "effective altruism" people seem to enjoy being labeled as such (as opposed to just generic altruist/normal human beings)
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by vladms 3y ago
Yet, many CEO-s seem to be appearing again and again (even bad ones as others pointed out). I do not know many, but the few CEO-s I have personally interacted with seem completely driven by the wish to succeed, having some form of lacking e
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by vladms 3y ago
I wonder what the author would say if he would view now a couple of the cartoons he saw as a child. When I stumbled upon an old cartoon I was seeing I was kind of amazed/put-off by how stupid it felt and how many "bad messages&quo
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by vladms 3y ago
Most people have a tendency to take the easy path and think stuff is perfect rather than accept everything works "approximately", although we see again and again proofs of the contrary. But as an engineer I find this natural and e
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by vladms 3y ago
What do you mean by "doesn't really exist" or "fiction" though? We use words to describe things and there is always some abstraction involved (when you say "this is a rock", by rock you mean a complex comb
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by vladms 3y ago
Same can be said by a lot of technologies (or pandemics, or climate change). Imagination is a tool - using it for what it can go bad does not seem to be the the most efficient way to use it.
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by vladms 3y ago
That was the case just for the anglican church, which is only one "part" of the reformation.
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by vladms 3y ago
It is clear now that the objective of Ostpolitik was not achieved, but the simple alternative (don't trade) does not seem to be obviously better either (Russians would have had even less reasons not to invade more). If that Ostpolitik
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by vladms 3y ago
While people (ex: dictators) are often used as the face of evil, the influence of one person is always limited. Assuming that "killing Hitler" would have prevented WWII (and the other atrocities) could easily lead to the mindset o
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by vladms 3y ago
I was expecting though a more comprehensive result on the "bad use" of the data, the section "How Economists Use MJ", mentions ~14 papers (out of how many? out of how many checked? any quantitative analysis?) that will b
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by vladms 3y ago
Depends what you mean by platform and depends what you mean by FB. If by FB you mean Meta, they have also https://www.workplace.com/ (which is like an internal facebook), instagram, whatsapp and some others. Integration of
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by vladms 3y ago
I think the name "European" is badly chosen - there are many languages not represented there if you consider the whole Europe. This might be "western Europe" although I am not an expert to confirm nothing is missing ther
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by vladms 3y ago
Maybe replication should (and probably does) happen when the published thing is relevant to some entity and also interesting. I never seen papers as "truth", but more as "possibilities". After many other "proofs&quo
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by vladms 3y ago
It's not like they don't build them, it's just that it takes a long time. I know about the French plans, an order for 115 trains takes ~18 years (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCF_TGV_M ). And if yo
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by vladms 3y ago
Ok, but you have to worry about detecting fraud. Without a PIN/MFA attackers have it much easier time doing fraudulent transactions from the start => more time spent by everybody checking transactions. And even if you have peace of
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by vladms 3y ago
"Hassle free peace of mind" meaning you do not need to remember a 4 digit code (or clicking "yes" in a phone app), while you need to check your credit card transaction list regularly to reject fraudulent transactions? I
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by vladms 4y ago
Might be an example of how an AI just integrates whatever biases are out there (as there are probably more people complaining than saying they are happy) My experience with Dell was great. I have a Dell Latitude (business line) that works w
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by vladms 4y ago
What's wrong with Samsung S22? It is 6.1 inches (author mentions 6' but I find this close enough), cameras are great and while not stock Android the OneUI stuff is not annoying for me at least. Plus it does have some of the other

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