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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Check out Hess v Commissioner. For certain types of businesses the individual is almost indistinguishable from the business.
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Not disagreeing with you. It didn't matter if he was wrong or right, his mistake was entertaining the notion that people would entertain an earnest (if misguided) discussion when in fact that whole topic was taboo.
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Applying for government contracts, academia, NGOs - but also a lot of "big company" procurement processes - required DEI statements etc.
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What you are describing is the motte. What happened to James Damore was the bailey. Did he fail a critical vibe check / badly fail to read the room? Sure. Given the political climate I'm not surprised he was fired. But is everyone
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
It's puckerooed
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An interesting aside to this is the MIS BAIR study in Melbourne, which is looking at whether the BCG vaccine reduces the incidence of food allergies, eczema and asthma. https://www.mcri.edu.au/research/projects/mis
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Nobody in the supply chain seems incentivised to get this right. Our feeds at work are swamped with low quality CVEs and the commercial vendors we pay for "intelligence" just leech off community feeds and add zero value. We get to
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You would need much less "agreeable" AI to reliably steer a company. With current models an AI C-suite would quickly get "captured" by almost anyone interacting with it.
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So, it's software for driving super-fast resin printers that work similar to beam radiation therapy (but with lasers and resin). Very cool.
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I'd give good odds it was a mistake by a staff member (or small group) who overstepped and was not part of any formal work. Most companies where I've worked as a security researcher, you get some time as part of your job to hack o
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
For me it's not about population growth so much as societal risk; our current population is only sustainable due to a complex web of interdependent systems. How often do complex societies break down or decline in such a way that the co
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It seems unlikely that the Soviets would manipulate their statistics in a way that makes them look politically "worse", i.e. if the data are false then imports are likely to be higher, and exports lower than reported which would t
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Java historically has had so many logging frameworks it needs logging framework adapters to deal with the problem that in any significant program you will end up with dependencies that log in incompatible ways :/ It probably has the mo
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This makes sense as long as they're replaced on a regular schedule, which again is low effort and easy to verify.
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Ok I read the article carefully and you're right.
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I think the problem is that the words "communism" and "capitalism" are too big and mean too many inter-twingled things all at once. Also that they tend to mean different things to different people. Despite purported diff
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Right but what are they going to do with the keys being exchanged? Load them into networked traditional computers? If the computers are secure they can presumably do authenticated key agreement perfectly well and if they are not then I don&
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Is there any projected practical use for QKD apart from being a jobs program for researchers? (This is a thing I am fine with, research is research and it doesn't necessarily need a near-term practical outcome, but why is it "sold
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
We also need regulation (and effective enforcement) as much as research. Even if you discover a groundbreaking new antibiotic under current incentives it's going to get fed to pigs in China until it's useless. Arguably the kinds o
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I'm not an implementor but this particular set of requirements has been explored pretty extensively by blockchain developers wanting smart contract execution environments. See e.g: https://www.nervos.org/knowledge-base&
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Thank you for the correction there have been way more of these than I thought. It seems they are referring to this as a "landmark" ruling because it's the first one with a "payout" condition.
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I don't see how you could do what a table tennis player does in 10 bits/sec. Even if we "distil" the torrent of visual information to (e.g. simplified) heading/speed/spin estimates of the ball and do something
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At least this looks like "proper zoonosis" - big obvious reservoirs of infected animals, lots of little jumps that fizzle, all the things you expect to see. COVID was very "dog that didn't bark" by comparison, we st
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It means that every few years politicians can roll out "tax cuts" which are actually just bracket adjustments.
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I think this is the first actual settlement in the 20 years those rules have been on the books?
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As I understand it you can configure api rate limiting per-user but you'd need to work out "reasonable" values on your own to allow enough headroom for admin requests. This would require per-cluster testing (and is complex to
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The Australian government is targeting Meta on a wide range of issues and will keep doing so until they transfer more money to news oligarchs to compensate them for "loss of business model".
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He'll probably win, poor children are actually not such good fighters.
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These kinds of consultants have the same issue as LLMs: they say the maximally plausible thing without knowing (or necessarily caring) if what they are saying is actually true. I don't think strategy advice is worth much unless it&#x27
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I think he is less worried about competitors than the government itself. Specifically, unelected bureaucrats with lots of power and few responsibilities.

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