BrainVirus

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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Concise Go code has a high signal-to-noise ratio. A few lines later: // Good: if err := doSomething(); err != nil { // ... } "Tell me, how many lights you see?"
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's unreasonable to expect researchers vet someone who promises them $500K? In what insane world does this statement make any sense? It's not just common sense, but also necessary for keeping track of conflicts of interest.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>SBF was treated as the king of crypto by the mainstream for whatever reason. I think the reason is getting more and more obvious with every passing day. His father and mother are professors of Law (and Business) at Stanford. (The moth
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>It this real? Is he really THAT stupid? No, it's media damage control. Gets you to think about unverifiable stuff like personal motivation instead of what his company actually did. It revelatory that VOX interviews him instead of
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Does it strand legitimate scientists or does it indicate that there is corruption in science? From what I'm hearing, this whole FTX thing reeks of clever, politically connected fraud and money laundering: https://odysee.com&
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Nevertheless, the attitude-change techniques used by so-called “brainwashers” are no different than standard persuasive methods identified by social psychologists, such as encouraging commitment to goals, manufacturing source credibili
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Wikipedia is one of the worst things that was ever launched on the web. Many people say that it's reliable, except in cases of controversy. That's a spin. A more honest way of describing it is that it's a system designed to a
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
There is no such thing as "mild" heart damage. Moreover, clinical myocarditis and pericarditis are only tips of the iceberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vveMHtVk_mY People who have no significant symptoms can
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
It's almost as if building a hypercentralized faux-communication system that tries to encourage mindless behavior and doesn't have any notion of locality is an inherently bad idea that will always lead to misery and suffering. Hm.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The reality is that W3C and Mozilla do not matter anymore. I'm not saying this because I like it, I'm saying this because it's the obvious state of things. Google controls the standards and protocols for the Web.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Yeah, US was a very trusting society until it started using money, cars and converted to individualism. If only we could go back to our Communist roots. /s
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
That's all nice and well, but I no longer can tell the difference between Big Tech's "Abuse Prevention" and abuse. They need transparency not because it's going to make their job easier. They need transparency becau
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
A lot of really good points. >Sure, we use the word "learn" to describe what they do, which is one word that we also use to describe what people do. But ML models are always wielded by people or corporations for particular pur
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Council for Responsible Social Media(issueone.org)
1 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>Why does no government anywhere run a non-profit dating site from tax-payer money when this is becoming the most popular way people are meeting? Sounds like a great idea. I nominate NSA as the host organization. You wouldn't even
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Maybe. The real question is how many people in tech saying this would say the same thing without that Tweet by Musk.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>They will tell you that Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are pretty important to them. Drugs are important to drug addicts. That's not a reason to praise the dealers for their business acumen. Facebook and Instagram are exploitat
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UN says gamers leverage “toxic masculinity” to disguise extremism(reclaimthenet.org)
9 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|9 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
The article is full of misrepresentations, some of which were already pointed out. One I have to point out myself: ">People really, really, hate Peter Thiel and Elon Musk. So much so that they will refuse to give my small business
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The News Is Just Guesswork Now(taibbi.substack.com)
2 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
We keep seeing more and more abstractions, but unfortunately they are the wrong abstractions. We need working process isolation, not endless VMs inside other VMs. We need a logical layer on top of TCP/IP, not crazy complicated VPN sche
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
https://www.thelightphone.com/
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
This command seems like a no-brainer that should be in all OSes by default. It's mind-boggling that most systems don't have a standard tool for observing file changes. The only language I know of that has a platform-agnostic API f
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
https://jalammar.github.io/images/stable-diffusion/article-F... Can you say with a straight face that this image (from the original paper) was intended to explain rather than obfuscate?
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Home of the Underdogs Revival Project (2009)(web.archive.org)
1 points by BrainVirus 4y ago|0 comments
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
You're asking tech bros who get paid $250K/year running those very scams you've just outlined.
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
>That logic suggests Microsoft should simply never sell development tools You employ faulty economic reasoning here. Most MS tools are not unique and aren't even best in their class. In cases where they are close, MS charges a lo
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Imagine that you are a CEO of Microsoft. Someone in your company invented an AI tool that makes an average developer much better at coding (more productive, etc.). As a reminder: you company is a software company that itself employs tens of
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
I hate this meme. Essentially, an arrogant and condescending straw man argument. Here is what really happens. People who are not familiar with programming assume that some mental faculty is necessary to solve a particular problem. Indeed, i
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by BrainVirus 4y ago
Yeah, the article seems to be more about promoting a certain political meta-narrative than actually analyzing the bill. Parts of it are misleading and it doesn't link to the actual bill, which any normal blogger would do within the ver

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