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by wharvle 3y ago
You can have: 1) An “ethical” system in which a bunch of people are losing money and are surprised by this, unaware of it, or intend to stop it, haven’t yet, but absolutely would if it were as easy as thinking “stop that”. But they said yes
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by wharvle 3y ago
The NES also had “multitaps”. One model was wired (the “Four Score”), the other was wireless (battery powered; the “Satellite”) with an IR receiver unit that plugged into both controller ports. The IR wireless one was, in my experience (it
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by wharvle 3y ago
I’m not even sure it takes more work than, say, getting good with language. Hell, it might take less! I think the main difference is that practicing language is far more rewarding for most people, than practicing math. They also have way mo
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by wharvle 3y ago
> “Late Capitalism" is just polisci brain-damage. I dislike that term, but do think post-war optimization of management and finance have built toward… something, which we are now in, which is different from how things were earlier i
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by wharvle 3y ago
Facts like that would be more likely to be a T&C issue than a copyright one. Unless you scraped the data as screenshots that you presented directly to the user, or something nutty like that. Of course, if Google decided to fight it as a
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by wharvle 3y ago
One of the most celebrated-in-America works on our national character and form of government is precisely one of these cases of a foreigner providing an outsider’s perspective—and one sent by his government to investigate the US, even! Alex
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by wharvle 3y ago
Shapes, areas of simple polygons and circles, Pythagorean theorem, volume of solids, graphing, translation, all that stuff and more that one might call “geometry”, is scattered between roughly ages 6 and 12. I think the high school level “g
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by wharvle 3y ago
I just mean in the usual way that another component in the stack is another way for things to go wrong, another thing to update that might mean api changes that require further effort, and so on. It was plenty solid, but I’ve definitely see
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by wharvle 3y ago
Turns out things are usually better, easier, and cheaper, overall, if you can trust your peers. You only need stuff like Bitcoin if you have to operate entirely in a very low-trust environment, and for some reason don't have access t
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by wharvle 3y ago
I've been amazed at the resilience and convenience of a handful of shell scripts calling "docker" commands on Debian for my server at home. - Figured I'd need to screw with Systemd at some point. Nope, whatever Docker&#x
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by wharvle 3y ago
I've seen real-world connectivity, latency, and bandwidth problems crop up with enough frequency to be a real problem on a major budget "cloud" provider. It looked liked they'd badly cheaped out on their peering agreem
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by wharvle 3y ago
Seconded, surprisingly-solid primer on the basic structure of modern capitalist economies. Nice balance of not just assuming the pro-capital language and narrative is the most accurate or enlightening one at every turn, but also not falli
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by wharvle 3y ago
I sometimes wonder if all the time spent inputing and tracking various not-naturally-generated "metrics" is worth it. Manager and executive hours analyzing this stuff and devising systems for it and arguing over which systems to u
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by wharvle 3y ago
> But it's tough to measure, and impossible to convey to someone who can just afford to pay a person to do their dishes. My least-favorite genre of C-suite-sort LinkedIn post is the kind that explains how they manage to be CEO of st
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by wharvle 3y ago
In my experience, remote takes already-inefficient and error-prone workplace communication cultures that manage to muddle by with in-office workers at "merely" a significant productivity cost, and makes it totally unworkable. The
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by wharvle 3y ago
Yep, I prefer the office. ... but not even close to enough to car-commute more than about 10 minutes to it, given the option. That's roughly the cut-off. Under 1.5 bikeable miles (that's ideal!) or maybe 5 miles by car. And to g
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by wharvle 3y ago
1) The timing of when the term and the push for more "STEM" education got a huge boost and became far more prominent (again—you're right that there was another freak-out over science and math education during the space race,
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by wharvle 3y ago
My suspicion, and what I'm getting at, is that the people selling "STEM education is vital!" were likely on the payroll of places that mostly just wanted to have more workers to sell ads better. They had the money to make the
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by wharvle 3y ago
Huge market distortions can come from a small absolute proportion of the market. Say, those with spying-advertising money-spigots. Nothing I wrote contradicts what you've written—rather, and the phenomenon paying incredible wages to ca
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by wharvle 3y ago
The top-comp tier skews toward harmful things, though, and if not for those bad things... would there be a shortage? It doesn't take a majority of the market—not even close—seeing such huge price- and demand-distortion to mess things u
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by wharvle 3y ago
And how bad would the "STEM shortage" (... but mostly just computer folks) be if, say, we outlawed dragnet-spying in the name of advertising, and the air went out of that market? We might have more than enough "STEM" fol
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by wharvle 3y ago
That's my point, and why I quoted that part. The only bit of this that needed some kind of big training push was computer nerdery, and that, mostly for selling ads better. Putting that under the "STEM" umbrella gave that cr
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by wharvle 3y ago
What's truly amazing about this whole situation is that Brin and Page literally called it : http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Everyone— Everyone , who mattered (plus many others who didn&#x27
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by wharvle 3y ago
> The Census Bureau reported in 2021 that a paltry 28% of STEM grads are working in these supposedly in-demand, highly paid and important STEM jobs. These include diverse sectors such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals and energy, but about h
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by wharvle 3y ago
They used to. For most of the '00s Google'd noticeably exhibit a kind of wave pattern: webspam would creep onto page 1 of results, more and more, then abruptly vanish. Repeat. Cycle of, IDK, a few months. To all external appearanc
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by wharvle 3y ago
I posted elsewhere in the thread that, with the limited dataset I have (which includes families at a few schools of very different kinds, not just, like, my friend group) it sure looks to me like there's a sharp difference between th
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by wharvle 3y ago
Part of your job is to keep kids on a schedule. Shit gets messed up and learning is disrupted for many students if you don't. It's also your ass on the line if you don't know where kids are, within reason, all day long. Dev
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by wharvle 3y ago
> Afaik every school bans devices in class. They super, duper, do not :-(
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by wharvle 3y ago
Honestly: some movies are better that way. I realized during a pre-Endgame re-watch that I liked a lot of the marvel movies better at home than I had in the theater, and after some reflection figured out that it’s because when I get really
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by wharvle 3y ago
What's wild to me is that almost all the individual devices a smartphone represents, not even counting the phone itself, would have been confiscated if used in class, for my generation (and I'm a millennial!) Flashlight? LOL, th

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