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by aplusbi 11mo ago
Perhaps I'm being uncharitable but this line "each person will be more load-bearing" reads to me as "each person will be expected to do more work for the same pay".
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by aplusbi 2y ago
Cellphones used to operate on a frequency band that was very close to the same band used by ground proximity warning systems, so theoretically they could interfere with the safety systems on a plane. Modern phones use different frequency ba
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by aplusbi 2y ago
Remember, the product is the stock and the customers are the shareholders. And oh boy do the customers want AI.
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by aplusbi 2y ago
Honestly this feels like a better policy than most AI training - Meta actually has explicit rights to the content it is using. Sure it was EULA click-through but at least it's something that the content creator ostensibly agreed to. Of
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by aplusbi 2y ago
Branching in Subversion was fine, but merging was quite painful (at least at the time I was using it, around 2008ish). From my recollection, SVN didn't try to figure out the base commit for a merge - you had to do that manually. I reme
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by aplusbi 3y ago
Minor spoilers ahead: I still can't get over the fact that Trisolaris is actually a four body problem, not a three body problem. I've heard some explanations that this is because you can ignore the mass of the planet. While I&#x27
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by aplusbi 3y ago
Food is heavily regulated though, in a large part because markets failed to prevent food-borne illnesses.
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by aplusbi 3y ago
Perhaps I worded it a bit poorly - I don't think most workers have a purely non-financial agenda. But most workers have multiple agendas for working, the financial agenda probably being the strongest. But it's not a purely transac
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by aplusbi 3y ago
Most workers do have an agenda other than enriching themselves though: * Self-satisfaction * Sense of identity * Belief in the company * Desire to improve the world * Puritanical work ethic * etc
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by aplusbi 3y ago
Fortunately owners will forever remain entitled to the profits of others' work.
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by aplusbi 3y ago
It was my understanding that many of the studies on moderate alcohol consumption included people in the study who could not drink for medical reasons (or were former alcoholics) which skewed the results for the zero-alcohol groups. Studies
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by aplusbi 3y ago
The best way that I've thought about it is like this: You pick a door, then Monty let's you switch to the two remaining doors and if the car is behind either of them you win. Obviously choosing the two remaining doors is better. T
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by aplusbi 3y ago
The `ac` in `actime24` probably means `arrival city`.
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by aplusbi 3y ago
I do like this (and the way you phrased it!) but I do think it has a dark side - there will come a time in your life where your skills plateau, and another time in your life where your skills start to decrease. Actually both of these will p
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by aplusbi 3y ago
A lot of addiction is caused by social issues or mental health issues, but it's really hard to deal with those issues when someone is also dealing with the effects of addiction. A drug like this could provide an opportunity to fix the
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by aplusbi 3y ago
You are correct, the US has very few rights for workers, at least federally. Different states have different work protection laws, California has a lot of well known work protection laws. 49 states out of 50 are what are known as "at w
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by aplusbi 4y ago
I would bet that the majority of non-techies couldn't name a single discontinued Google product. Outside of the tech world Google still has a stellar reputation. Most people don't seem to care/know/notice any of the priv
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by aplusbi 4y ago
I feel like this would end up with a bunch of interns in prison for the crimes of executives. It would be too easy to find a scapegoat.
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by aplusbi 4y ago
I worked for a New York based company once, and I was moving to Washington State and planned to continue to work remotely. I told my manager, he told his manager, everything was approved...until I sent out my goodbye email - turns out they
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by aplusbi 4y ago
A friend of mine built a device specifically for using a digital camera to "scan" 35mm film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEDWeAbd6J4
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by aplusbi 4y ago
I worked for a while on a dating app (that was never released). It had over a dozen gender options and allowed selecting more than one gender. In the case of a dating app allowing multiple genders wasn't just about inclusivity, it was
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by aplusbi 4y ago
OCaml isn't indentation sensitive, BTW.
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by aplusbi 4y ago
I doubt I'm going to change your mind on this, but I think you are under-estimating the difficulty of getting ID in certain parts of the country, for certain people. For example, people living on reservations often have difficulty gett
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by aplusbi 4y ago
Doesn't sound like they controlled for it or even considered it. While they did have a control group that excluded non-drinkers and heavy drinkers, that was solely to control for bias at the extreme ends, and not to control for sober a
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by aplusbi 5y ago
I think the major problem with CICO is that advocates for it present it as if it is a diet when it's actually just an explanation for why diets work (or fail). I've seen a lot of threads with people asking for advice on losing wei
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by aplusbi 5y ago
Maybe, but it might be inversely correlated. I have an expensive bike, but I also have the means to replace it if stolen. When I was younger and had less disposable income, the theft of my less expensive bike would have been more devastatin
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by aplusbi 5y ago
This can get sticky with employee contracts, that may (and likely do) forbid an employee from doing contract work for another company, at least without permission.
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by aplusbi 6y ago
I know this isn't your point, but I actually did lean too far back in a chair and crack my head open on the table behind me. I had to go to the ER and get sutures.
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by aplusbi 6y ago
Perhaps I'm being a little pedantic here, but NYC is not bounded on all sides by water - the Bronx is part of mainland NYS. But yes - for the most part NYC is geographically constrained.
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by aplusbi 6y ago
I have started subscribing to the believe that it is not about motivation, it's about discipline. There is only so much you can do to motivate yourself to do a tedious or onerous task. But if you have discipline, you don't need th

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