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by VSerge 21d ago
Gotta love that they picked sonnet as default for the CEO and most execs..
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by VSerge 21d ago
Former French president Jacques Chirac was famous for often adding an adverb like "naturely" to his sentences when he was lying.
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by VSerge 6mo ago
^this. The person described here appears like a crook who pocketed millions and stiffed investors, so why just a contempt charge? In any case, probably not a romantic explorer figure as the clickbaity title suggests.
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by VSerge 1y ago
Wouldn't you know whether a teacher is reliable or not? If reliable, they probably have this reputation also because they can also say when they don't know something. And if you found out a given teacher isn't reliable, you&#
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by VSerge 1y ago
On the topic of "24. A Sony Walkman-style device that you can give to children so they can ask questions to an LLM...", I would strongly caution against this: - short of AGI, what a child will hear are explanations given with auth
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by VSerge 1y ago
Fair point in your case, but my experience across companies and industries is that people just don't read. It's true in any customer facing experience where tutorials etc are routinely unread and ignored, it's true for execs
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by VSerge 1y ago
Looking at the link shared in another comment with the actual study, it seems that only 55% of private sector workers are happy with the new arrangement, and that higher satisfaction rates are in the public sector. I am a bit skeptical abou
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by VSerge 1y ago
Can't help but notice that their reduced 4-days work week still is 36h long. 9h work days would be considered long in most European countries, where the norm is around 40h for a five-days work week. So they are not just cutting a day,
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by VSerge 1y ago
Ongoing demo of integrations with Claude by a bunch of A-list companies: Linear, Stripe, Paypal, Intercom, etc.. It's live now on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njBGqr-BU54 In case the above link doesn't work la
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by VSerge 2y ago
Qwant is infamous in France for having made big claims and failed repeatedly. It was for the longest time just a wrapper around Bing, while claiming otherwise.
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by VSerge 2y ago
Impossible, even in the current crazy atmosphere. An actual ban would mean an all-out commercial war and a very serious dent in globalization.
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by VSerge 2y ago
All families can't afford meat daily, let alone any type of meat they want. So, some families might favor chicken and certain processed meats here and there, but most cuts of beef and lamb for example might be out of the question, and
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by VSerge 2y ago
I think many people have very positive experiences and data, at scale, speaking to the kind of success Edtech can have. I was involved with a study by the Center for Game Science (University of Washington), led by Zoran Popovic (of Foldit f
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by VSerge 2y ago
A scientist that causes, through willful fraud, the death of people seems to be guilty of something like manslaughter. Using fake data is a pretty clear-cut example of willful fraud, and a reasearcher fudging data over such a life and death
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by VSerge 2y ago
Thank you very much for sharing this, and the accompanying documentation. I had no idea that Ireland had such a system in place. It seems really elegant and efficient, and better than say the Condorcet voting method. ( https://en.
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by VSerge 2y ago
^ This, exactly. In France, digital rights isn't at the forefront of people's worries either (environment, inflation and buying power, societal questions, security, etc). That being said, at least in France, they also stand for a
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by VSerge 3y ago
.. and don't ever want to buy a place in the city itself, since a square meter costs more than 10k€ in most of Paris.
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by VSerge 3y ago
yup, I can imagine some adversarial changes being made to the effect that the document generated by this online form can be refused by the administration in question. OR if there are people interested in efficiency in this administration, d
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by VSerge 3y ago
The end of coal has not happened on Germany, who went back to using massive amounts of coal as Russian gas stopped being available : 33.2% of all German electricity came from coal in 2022. https://www.energy-charts.info/down
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Incorporated/pro devs only? Google to ask app developers for a DUNS number
1 points by VSerge 3y ago|1 comments
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by VSerge 3y ago
Hi, from the tweet exchange in 2, it seems like your agent bought something, as opposed to selling it. Am I missing something?
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by VSerge 3y ago
To paraphrase, western democracies have problems, but the other systems are worse. If one accepts that democracy remains our best bet, the question becomes how to make democracy function better. This isn't just a question of what syste
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by VSerge 3y ago
Information relevant to oneself, ie to the life and management of one's local and larger communities, are what will ultimately make the difference between a well-informed and enlightened citizenry able to make collective choices that r
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by VSerge 3y ago
Yes, and recent examples show it: - News coverage allowed whole populations to understand a pandemic was happening and what actions were being taken by governments to tackle this issue. News also allowed public debates over policies to be k
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by VSerge 4y ago
This would indeed be very interesting to see these pictures side by side, excluding the color / lighting correction of the picture as a whole. I wouldn't discount them entirely though, as I think at least a while back some pretty
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by VSerge 4y ago
If you have to be a photographer to see the changes (and the focus on jaws is just so odd), and you won't notice the difference if you are just a regular Joe/Jane, then what purpose do these alterations serve? As a non-photograph
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by VSerge 4y ago
If I understand it correctly, the version entering the public domain would also include the author's own editions (as the limit to copyright of an author is 70 years). In Dahl's case, he had removed some elements that were offensi
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by VSerge 4y ago
Arrested in Romania, along with his brother, on rape and human trafficking charges.
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Andrew Tate reveals location, gets arrested in Twitter exchange w Greta Thunberg(twitter.com)
22 points by VSerge 4y ago|20 comments
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by VSerge 4y ago
For one thing, the high level of saturated fats in beyond meat patties (25% of max daily recommended intake) could be considered unhealthy. On some other aspects it seems pretty decent, with good protein content and some added vitamins as w

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