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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The problem when you start throwing around empathy alongside such concepts as 'helping' abusers 'mend their ways' is that one rather feels that anyone whose views do not rather closely match your own political angle, esp
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Isn't that essentially what Cortana, Siri and whatever that Google assistant (Google Now?) are supposed to be? They don't seem to work very well atm.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I agree with forest, someone should not be penalised for answering a question honestly.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Roles can help to keep conversations civil when the participants are benign as well as malign by removing communication friction. For malign actors they make it easier to pick out specific behaviours to review in one on ones and - if they p
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Would it make it worse (easier to get drugs) or better (less stigma about treatment). That may not be as binary as it seems on idle reflection. There certainly are drugs that used in extremes, and (occasionally) in moderation, put peop
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Yes, because some people's utility functions are strongly inimical to other's likely happiness. It will be feudalism all over again, with vastly higher stakes. If you have a bunch of the super-rich, and everyone else just at some
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Would you stay at a company in whose purpose you don't believe, if you liked your manager? There are a couple of people on my current project whose company I enjoy and who have personal attributes that I'd like to foster in m
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Despite checking email what appears to be abnormally infrequently, I wonder how prevalent setups like freehunter's are: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736086
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
22.7%, according to the forbes quote that my search engine serves me. - I shan't bother to view their article, for obvious reasons.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
One danger is that driver B will respond by driving without taking out insurance if it becomes too expensive. Which would leave people in a bad situation when he finally runs someone over.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Please in the future consider the concept of rhetorical license. I considered it, but I didn't grant it since it was not clear that it applied - nor for like discussions would it be clear in the future. You adopted an extreme posi
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> [P]eople will continue to pick the "no Evil/no privacy" option If that was an available option, it would be fine. I'd choose no evil and no privacy because I'd know that my information, and more importantly the
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
What evanpw seems to be suggesting grows faster than you might think. There's a neat story on that point: http://mathforum.org/sanders/geometry/GP11Fable.html
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
If it's a mass of stats or something like that, I'll fire up a flash card program. If it's something more abstract, an important concept or the like, then I'll try to apply it to something - use it in a program, try to s
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Mmm. There's a connotation with shields that they are just as you say, protective in nature. There's consequently a negative association with their removal. However, the person's still being protected from undesired input whi
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
As long as I can get the data, it's fine. What I'd be worried about would be if apps become the only way that an end user can get access to information about their environment. That would seem like a massive step backward for all
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The article's title is bad but the core of it seems to be that IFF there's a perceived desires/offers mismatch on the part of the employee, then that employee will investigate the labour market. If your company isn't ali
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The piece given here is how she would look at a CV of that pattern - and as far as it goes that's fair enough. Personally if I see you with a four to eight year gap on your CV my first question, assuming I'm hiring for a significa
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> If you have your heart set on seeing the Pyramids but get frustrated at the Egyptian visa process, are you really willing to settle for, say, Lebanon? No, but I'm probably willing to settle for Germany or France. It's pretty
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Why is it more likely that we're going to develop superintelligent autonomous insect drones than we are to annihilate ourselves with human-controlled mechanical systems, as we've had the capability to do so for many years now
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
It's a long shot gamble funded by some people who maybe should and maybe shouldn't know better - I don't pretend to be in a position to judge the science in this case. So, who cares? I don't mean that in a derogatory sen
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
> Because I'm not taking anything for granted. You seem to be taking that progress ('Towards what?' one is tempted to ask) has value in and of itself for granted.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Maybe we'll finally get some interesting processor architectures. The race for ever more speed has its reasons, but it's not been built on a particularly helpful abstraction layer.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The cost to OP is all the opportunities they don't take in the mean time and whatever mental cost they're paying by persisting in a horrible environment. It might be worth it if they had an awesome relationship with their boss, a
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
In all the successful companies I've ever worked in/with, there have been different sub-cultures depending on what role you were fulfilling and what team you were part of. I suspect that part of the requirement for a successful
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Even assuming 10 ppb of He-3 in the lunar regolith, you'd need to process 150 tons of the stuff to get one gram of fuel. http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/wcsar9311-2.pdf Mind you, if we eventually automate extraction
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Because there's nothing up there you can make enough money on to justify the expense. Not yet anyway.
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
Merry Christmas to you, too And to everyone else here, of course. I hope that you all have good food, better company, and that the server doesn't go down if you're on call. :)
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
That could mean a few things. On the assumption that you mean people will simply copy existing products rather than making their own: It's true enough on the surface, and some degree of protection is warranted, but at the same time eve
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I've been on forums where people said the most atrocious things to each other. But there was never any come back from it because A) The audience was relatively limited and B) None of us used real names or spread out ID around too widel

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