Braggadocious

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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Yeah your motives are so pure. You're a real WK Kellogg. A real Lewis Terman.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
The entire point of prison is to remove them from society. Why are we spending more resources on prisoners than people who've never commited a crime?
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
There is no separation between corporations from government.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
You're effectively describing trickle-down economics. "Help out rich people so they pay more taxes which will trickle down to poor people" That's not a real thing. The economy is trickle-up. Income inequality is widening
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
I love how inmates get a better education and more support from tech companies than the adults who live in the bay area. The bay area has the worst income inequality of anywhere in any developed country. Bootcamps are a scam and cost tens o
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Today I learned there was a giant balloon cow god that existed 44000 years ago.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
If you didnt like the ISP market in the USA wouldnt you want to be able to open a portal to an alternate ISP markets?
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
The brutality of the dark ages has been debunked. The timeline I just gave you about illiteracy, the printing press, the enlightenment, and our 400 year old education system remains in tact. Neil postman's a good source for the histor
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
That's sortof what the enlightenment was about... The enlightenment period was a decentralization of information caused by the reinvention and widespread use of the printing press in europe. During the dark ages europe's literacy
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Off topic but that still sounds like it's framed within the enlightenment period. If you're reading books and valuing literacy, (ie individual interpretations of texts, as opposed to being told what a book means) then you're
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
I like how a liberal arts education is "divergent from the norm" now. The primary function of university is to make people read for four years. Business degrees, CS degrees, essentially job training programs are a bastardization
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Yeah no i see what you're goin for. Maybe comparing public roads to air travel would be a better analogy? Idk im just being a nudge.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
I think side projects over 30 will be more common pretty soon. Income inequality is getting worse and worse, other industry incomes are falling like crazy and lots of people are career changing to tech.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
You ever think about how much we subsidize businesses by paying for college ourselves? The older I get the more I think the university to corporation pipeline is a fucking racket. It also sucks for employees because here comes these kids wh
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
not really a faster road as anyone stuck in an expresslane behind a prius will tell you, but a less congested road free of peasants. Not really sure how this analogy syncs up but just throwing in my $0.02.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
If you want net neutrality you should be excited by companies building private networks because it means there's a competitive market that no one ISP or government can control.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
>No-one (at least I don't think anyone) is suggesting that knowledge, experience and skills belong to your employer. That's the whole argument. There's literally no other argument. There is no separation between "prev
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
"I make some furniture from home" is a completely different analogy from the one i just made. Either you didn't get it or that's willful contextomy. Every company started by someone uses experience they've generated
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Are side projects really that big of a deal? This is tech. Everybody has side projects. Can you imagine if a herman miller furniture designer was sued for making chairs on the side?
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
How many algorithms are there in chrome alone? I remember when people realized that they could game Facebook shares for higher rankings on chrome and for a while buzzfeed top ten lists outranked Wikipedia every fucking time. I guess that’s
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
it's literally the same engine as chrome. the only reason i use chrome is for the dev tools.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
That's pretty absurd considering the average american has a screen in front of their face 8-10 hours a day. You're basically saying what people do for 8-10 hours a day, every day, for their entire lives isnt useful information to
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
teeny tiny use case for general AI, yes.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
targeting ads is only one teeny tiny use case for user data. Building general AI is a race and the more user data you have the faster your AI will learn. You definitely want to limit the amount of data your competitors have.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
I've done a lot of reading on this, from neil postman, to nicholas carr, sherry turkle, jaron lanier, tim wu, to plato's allegory of the cave. We've been worried about these issues for eternity. As a consumer of information,
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
More data is more data.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
1. User/Business Data 2. They have the computing and engineering power to optimize pretty much anything beyond where it is today. 3. User/Business Data
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
The lack of explanation is intentional because they dont want people gaming the system and getting around the filters. That's the idea anyway.
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
I fear all of this will be used as part of a prediction program to find the best employees based on performance metrics. Imagine if before you even gave an applicant a callback you could see if they've ever had a bout of depression, in
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by Braggadocious 7y ago
Right. can't say taxation created something that existed before taxation. If I had to guess, most marijuana users simply dont want to pay club prices, and don't want to support the government.

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