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by yannyu 11mo ago
It's about as accurate a Buzzfeed headline, but I guess that's par for the course on the internet these days. It's not a "DNA sample" in the way that most people would consider it these days, no more than a used cup
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by yannyu 11mo ago
This is a particularly incendiary way of putting this information out there. What is collected and stored is a small blood-spot sample from a heel prick on a newborn. This is used to test for various kinds of conditions that affect newborns
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by yannyu 11mo ago
As a US citizen, you likely have your photo in a state or federal database somewhere from getting your ID or driver's license. Depending on your job, background check history, or interactions with the police, your fingerprints might be
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by yannyu 1y ago
If you as a hiring manager are so busy you can't invest in a thoughtful recruitment process, what's that going to mean when I come onboard? Will I be left to fend for myself in those first few months, feeling overwhelmed by all th
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by yannyu 1y ago
That's what makes people feel valued and human, needing to get past a robot before they're allowed to talk to people. And to be clear, I think hiring today is completely broken already. This kind of thing is just one more step in
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by yannyu 1y ago
If as a hiring organization, you aren't willing to spend the effort, time, and money to provide a good recruiting process, that's a huge red flag for the kind of candidates you want and the kind of employee experience you provide.
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by yannyu 1y ago
It's so bizarre to think that harvesting free energy from the sun could be considered a political or status position. Is it not logically obvious that harvesting as much free energy as possible is the strategically stronger position? W
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by yannyu 1y ago
How does your total solution work? Today, there's a lot of convenience with Nest. Is there an equivalent experience that doesn't involve exposing your data to megacorps?
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by yannyu 1y ago
I agree, and cigarettes are a fitting analogy, as "engagement driven design" is basically designing to inculcate addiction. And just like cigarettes, the companies swear up, down, left and right that this stuff isn't harmful
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by yannyu 1y ago
Even simpler, ask ChatGPT "How would you describe my dietary preferences and restrictions?", maybe throw in some personality guidance of "You are training my executive assistant".
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by yannyu 1y ago
We know backchannel references happen all the time, but are those strictly speaking legal?
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by yannyu 1y ago
Yes, but also we've eroded state and city rights in favor of federalism and standardization in the US as well. It's arguable that many steps in that direction have been for the better, but the consequence still remains that we&#x2
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by yannyu 1y ago
A relevant joke, paraphrased from the internet: Two economists are walking in a forest when they come across a pile of shit. The first economist says to the other “I’ll pay you $100 to eat that pile of shit.” The second economist takes the
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by yannyu 1y ago
Fox News is technically cable, as the other poster under you has noted, which is a favored defense for this sort of discussion. What they ignore is that local Fox affiliate stations who are also licensed by the FCC have a history of alignin
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by yannyu 1y ago
You have a good point, they're lying. The sane-washing works even when we know it's happening.
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by yannyu 1y ago
That's fair, though at least resetting would indicate that an attack happened. Default passwords and printed passwords can result in undetected attacks, which are arguably worse.
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by yannyu 1y ago
AT&T routers, for example, ship like this. There's a wifi network and a wifi password printed onto the device. But that also means then that often anyone with physical access can easily get into the device. The complicated password
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by yannyu 1y ago
In addition to everything that is terrifying about Kilmar Ábrego García's case, we have the VP and President of this country making clearly biased remarks on an active criminal case against a resident of the United States who is marrie
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by yannyu 1y ago
> Then the grid starts to degrade due to lack of maintenance, and the people that can't afford local storage become dependent essentially on a government maintained service. Many services that we use in our daily lives are governmen
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by yannyu 1y ago
You're right, but we also underestimated how easy it would be to game these systems and how the owners of these platforms would be incentivized to allow or even assist in gaming these systems. Voting solved a problem that existed, but
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by yannyu 1y ago
> When I see the term social media, I associate it with one way relationships I agree entirely with this. I think that it's helpful to remember that "social media" arose to differentiate itself from "traditional media
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by yannyu 1y ago
Babel is a story structured like a certain YA wizard series with very clear antagonists that are not remotely good people with very little in terms of shades of gray. Kuang has very clear themes and ideas that she wants to convey, and she l
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by yannyu 1y ago
> Things like massively increased energy cost, strain on the grid This is a peculiarly USA-localized problem. For a large number of reasons, datacenters are going up all over the world now, and proportionally more of them are outside the
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by yannyu 1y ago
It's one thing to have a community that has tendencies towards cynicism, skepticism, and assuming the worst. It's another thing to build an algorithm optimized for "engagement" which prioritizes polarizing content above
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by yannyu 1y ago
We know what you're saying is true because Wells Fargo execs were originally charged with penalties for opening accounts on behalf of customers who didn't ask for them, and then those customers were charged overdraft and inactive
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by yannyu 1y ago
It seems like you're saying almost the exact opposite of the person you're responding to. "Reading" an article through its comments makes the assumption that those commenting actually read and understood the article. Thi
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by yannyu 1y ago
Similar musings by speculative/science fiction author Ted Chiang: Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey? – https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intel...
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by yannyu 2y ago
Fun fact, Rusty was originally going to be the main character. And if you put Bluey next to Rusty, you'll see they're the same shape, just colored differently. And yeah, absolutely amazing episode.
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by yannyu 2y ago
There's a great article recently by Ted Chiang that elaborated on this idea: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
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by yannyu 2y ago
It has to both be useful and economical. If that answer cost $2 to get you and a search+youtube video would have been just as effective and much cheaper, then it's possible that the new way to get the answer isn't significantly be

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