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by yunwal 4y ago
> who do we trust less, technologists or populist politicians? Neither. Luckily you only have to stop the technologists, since politicians are all technologically illiterate.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Cool, I'll add you to the list :) > try to control others behavior Ah yes, speech is what controls other's behavior, not violence!
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by yunwal 4y ago
In all seriousness, working on projects like this should be a Mark of Death in the tech community. Programmers, VCs, anyone who actually gives a shit should outright refuse to work with people who make things like this.
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by yunwal 4y ago
Derailments of this type have been increasing a lot over the past few years due to premature automation of rail lines and increased length of freight trains. Ultimately this is a story about cutting costs at the expense of lives and the env
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by yunwal 4y ago
I’ve pretty much given up hope on finding productive treatment for mental health issues. The default provider/patient relationship in the U.S. is parasitic, and the only way to escape it is to settle down in one place and find someone
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by yunwal 4y ago
I’m not sure this is relevant to the original discussion. Pro-metropolitan bias doesn’t explain the difference between how the 2 stories are being treated. Media’s class-alignment with railroad execs and politicians responsible for the disa
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by yunwal 4y ago
And even when all the facts are obtainable, you have to choose to present some and not others, since it’s not possible to report every true fact in the world. Which facts you find important, interesting, or worthy of publication is heavil
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Stop raising low-income kids with high-income kids. Luckily we’ve already got this covered. Schools are getting more and more segregated every year and it seems to be working great /s https://news.yahoo.com/schools
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by yunwal 4y ago
The question I have is whether the tools to moderate ChatGPT and correct its' wrong answers should be in place for humans anyway. It's not like human workers are 100% reliable processes, and in some cases we scale human work to da
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by yunwal 4y ago
> If ICEs still represent a desirable choice for enough people/purposes, the support for them will be there. This means that of the people who want ICEs, a select few people with money will be able to afford it while those without m
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by yunwal 4y ago
> ”China conducts surveillance on US” gets plenty of clicks/attention. Does it? As far as I can tell, the “TikTok spies on people” stories have all been met with “yeah, so does Facebook”. This is across pretty much the entire politi
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by yunwal 4y ago
Sounds like you’re ignoring more important issues like the train derailment to focus on sports.
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by yunwal 4y ago
There is no such thing as objective journalism. Or rather, objectivity and neutrality are 2 separate concepts, and you can’t avoid engaging in side-choosing and still report on news.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> There is no way I ever will go back to doing some chores manually, like grocery shopping. Awesome, these companies can pay good wages to their workers and pass on the cost knowing they won’t lose you as a customer.
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by yunwal 4y ago
”China conducts surveillance on US” is still not particularly exciting or novel news either way. Train derailment poisons an entire town is definitely the more eye-catching headline.
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by yunwal 4y ago
In what way is a fiery train derailment and cows dropping dead all over the region not a good story for clicks and attention? I guess the balloon feels a bit more whimsical but it feels like the more boring story. In this instance, the simp
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by yunwal 4y ago
I mean, no we are not aware of a connection to any metropolitan area. Which is the point. If the lack of derailment coverage was just pro-metropolitan bias you wouldn’t expect Billings, MT to be receiving the entire attention of the media r
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by yunwal 4y ago
> Profit is a strong incentive to optimize. Optimize what? Certainly not costs, since for-profit hospitals have every incentive to push for unneeded expensive operations. Maybe you’re mistaking healthcare for a market where meaningful co
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by yunwal 4y ago
The Chinese balloons weren’t in a large metropolitan area. more likely explanation is that this story has a pro-labor narrative, and that’s not what media companies are paid to push.
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by yunwal 4y ago
You might dismiss it, but for me AirPods are the biggest QOL improvement from tech since smartphones. Bluetooth headphones were atrociously hard to use before them.
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by yunwal 4y ago
California is planning on preventing sale of new ICE vehicles in 12 years. So within 20 years, you’d expect it to be a prohibitively huge hassle to source a reasonably in-shape ICE vehicle. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08&
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by yunwal 4y ago
Hmm, this almost seems like the logical conclusion of a government with no revenue.
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by yunwal 4y ago
If you really don’t drive on public roads or use any public services, you can probably get away with not paying taxes.
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by yunwal 4y ago
> £33k That seems… incredibly low for a licensed profession
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by yunwal 4y ago
> assuming the US does not have other healthcare related taxes which I do not know about The U.S. government pays about the same amount per capita (1.2 trillion for ~400 million people or $3000/person) on healthcare as the UK gov. T
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by yunwal 4y ago
If you’re talking about physical hardware, Google pales in comparison to Amazon, and Gcloud is still smaller than Azure. It’s possible google’s private compute makes up for the Azure difference but it’s not like they’re in different leagues
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by yunwal 4y ago
Seems weird as a customer of a search engine to not care about an innovation that's so tightly related to search. The ability to accurately synthesize information is something that will almost definitely be used to improve results and
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by yunwal 4y ago
Yeah, I think this'll be a case where like >50% of it gets automated and salaries drop. Like you said, big cos are always going to need people thinking wholistically about this stuff, but I do think we're exiting an era where e
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by yunwal 4y ago
I just transitioned to doing MLOps for our deep learning team, so yeah I'm kind of already on that track :)
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by yunwal 4y ago
Cosigning security as a stable job, but also noting that security at the vast majority of companies is tremendously boring. Usually, it means you're a SOCII check-box checker. Pays well though and, like the parent says, it's only

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