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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This article is a little ridiculous. > FLoC can and will reveal sensitive information, we cannot surely prevent that because it's difficult, fuck you. This is an inaccurate and frankly dishonest summary of the draft's CYA langu
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
There's a weird[1] dynamic where people dislike "big tech" but are wildly favorable towards individual big tech colonies: Google, Amazon, Apple all have favorability ratings in the 80s and 90s, while Facebook, Twitter, and Sl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Interesting, where do retirement savings go? I don't know much about the European context beyond the S = I identity from my intro macro courses back in the day.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> My college US history course ~20 years ago very much drove home the fact that (at least at the time) social mobility in the US was the same as in India. This is flatly false, and to be honest it's a little embarrassing that you wo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
My parents are non-Christian immigrants to the US and we celebrated Christmas every year growing up. Have you really not seen this? Especially in the cosmopolitan urban environments that Christmas movie settings skew towards?
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's difficult because you're so drastically limiting your sources (to ones that are all low-quality IMO). Every time you read an article and care about the topic, just.... Google it. There are a thousand and one independent sourc
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Is this not a reference to uptime (as in servers)? > We can't can't even keep a computer up and running that well That's the comparison that I quoted in my comment and that I was responding to. You're comparing contin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> seems to imply I’ve was attacking your position, but that wasn’t my intent. Not quite attacking, but disagreeing with an implied assumption that I didn't make (ie, that I was arguing that AVs were ready for primetime instead of na
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
How is that wokeness, and how does it contradict the Mission Protocol approach? Believing in and focusing on your organization's mission is not the same thing as the "our battles belong on every battlefield" approach that the
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, I'm saying that environments with diet and gravel roads are a much easier perception problem than dense urban environments, and perception is one of autonomous driving's weak spots. Conversely, quick physics computation and r
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Does automobile software development have the level of oversight that aircraft development has in terms of regulation and approval for use? Nothing in my comment implied this, and I don't disagree that it doesn't. The questio
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Humans drive correctly 99.99999% of the time. We can't can't even keep a computer up and running that well, never mind driving perfectly. This comparison doesn't make any sense. You're comparing _continuous_ operati
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
From a technology standpoint, this seems much much easier for AVs vs humans than many other AV challenges. When it comes to measuring physics precisely, complex computation, and rapid control, computers beat humans by a million miles. This
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> This is just taking advantage of the poor-middle class' inability to pay a larger upfront cost, to extort them for more over a larger period of time. How on earth is charging more money for a lower upfront cost "extortion&quo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I guess most have forgotten that you should not believe everything you see on the internet The article exclusively focuses on the Global South, ie developing countries. There are a couple billion people for whom social media, and indee
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Biopsies aren't cost- and risk-free, including from a patient health and mental health perspective. On top of that, the decision space isn't simply binary: there are multiple types of biopsy procedure, and understanding (even impl
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, I agree. I was responding narrowly to the parent comment's premise, about full replacement (in theory). It's still useful to think about as a theoretical threshold, even if the path to commercialization is almost definitely t
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> That said, my gut feeling as an outsider is that they feel genuinely burnt by a former employee making something similar to their product. Not just cynically trying to smash the competition. Not that that justifies anything—everyone th
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Why would they offer him a job right before saying that? A few people have mentioned that on this thread, but I don't think it's in sync with the reality of how incredibly hard it is to hire technical talent right now, esp ta
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> If the code is well-documented and everything is nicely set up, you just need the right person who has access to VC and an untapped market (e.g. China) to pick it up and spin off from there I think the idea is that it's trivial to
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's not the whole picture, but the article links to the full email exchange. It's difficult for me to imagine what missing information would lead to the CEO's messages being appropriate.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> In practice, much of their thinking is profoundly rational and bayesian. Right, this was the third option I mentioned; I'm certainly not leaping all the way to the conclusion that one shouldn't listen to a doctor about the be
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I spent 10 years in mammography software, and I saw first hand how many outside factors can impact a physician's decision to biopsy or not a given artifact on an image. This is slightly tangential, but I'm curious about your
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Not only do you avoid looking like a jerk by trying to end a conversation with "look it up" or something similar What on Earth are you talking about? Your whole comment is in reference to rebuffing a request for more details
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
"fire org" and "fire civil liberties" both return the correct result in the first ranking. It really isn't that difficult
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I held them up for years and years as an example of an actually principled organization in an age where every other institution was compromising their stated beliefs in favor of genuflection to fashionable slogans. Like you, I stopped doing
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, the title is incredibly misleading
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The first link is about Germany. I specifically mentioned the US. It's also about anti-Semitic _violence_, not public statements, another thing that I made sure to clarify. I'd be pretty comfortable guessing that anti-Semitic vio
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> far left employees, which don’t like insensitivity to the Jews, The far left doesn't like insensivity to Jews? Which far left are you thinking of? In the US, the far left is the most reliable source of public anti-Semitism. (Note
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's not a contradiction in the slightest. It's possible to disagree with a belief/norm system while still respecting those that adhere to it as reasonable moral entities. This is the foundation of Enlightenment pluralism: yo

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