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by arter45 2mo ago
I get the point, but I assume the people keeping the museum open at 2 AM for some rich dude are the same people who do exactly that kind of job in normal hours. In other words, they are asked to do overtime. So, as long as they are getting
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by arter45 2mo ago
A great lesson for system design job interviews - if this is a popular payment system in a country with 1.5 billion people, your theoretical system you're designing for a small company cargo culting Google interviews will not likely su
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by arter45 3mo ago
>“Anonymization is hard, and you’ve got to have the right technical experts at the table to come up with the solutions,” Adkins told Wired. So Google, with hundreds if not thousands of security engineers, basically infinite budget, more
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by arter45 3mo ago
Let f(t) be the price of RAM per GB from 1960 to 2026. Let F(t) be the price of RAM per byte in the same period. At every point in time t , f(t ) is the price per 1 GB of RAM which is 1GB/1B times the price per byte of RAM. Because 1GB
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by arter45 3mo ago
Well at least Anduril refers to a sword used by the “good guys” so, industrialization aside, it is a somewhat reasonable name for a US defense company. Palantir really doesn’t make sense. It’s like developing a bulletproof vest and naming i
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by arter45 3mo ago
Not just that. Inflation and purchasing power are other concepts describing price and the "value" of your money over time.
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by arter45 3mo ago
>Meanwhile the economic model says, it is impossible for the condition of the car to get worse through a mere passage of time Source?
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by arter45 3mo ago
Also, a gravity-like model makes even more sense in ancient times which were really constrained by distances, unlike modern economies for which this is more true for goods than services (although there are gravity effects for services, too)
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by arter45 3mo ago
Maybe it's just me but this post is written in a confusing way. I think the argument here is: - laws are slow - innovation is faster - if you let laws regulate AI you're basically playing catch up - therefore, let technology regul
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by arter45 3mo ago
Economists can be useful as observers, much like the Universe doesn't need astronomers or the weather doesn't need meteorologists. >The first thing a rational economist would do is tell the government to fire all economists and
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by arter45 3mo ago
Yes, markets have existed for a lot of time, well before established economic theory. I don't think this surprise anyone, especially given that Adam Smith, who is known as the father of modern economics, wrote a book describing stuff t
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by arter45 4mo ago
You lose the concept of DNS forwarding. Usually, if your company has example.com, your DNS server is authoritative for example.com, which means it will actually contain (fqdn,ip) entries belonging to example.com, and it will forward request
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by arter45 4mo ago
systemd list-timers With —-all
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by arter45 4mo ago
Disclaimer: I haven't been able to read the full article because I don't have a subscription. Yes, there are alternatives to GDP, but context is key. If you just to make more meaningful charts or rankings of top 10 countries, you
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by arter45 4mo ago
If the only person who can get the money is you (or your partner or children or whatever), it’s fine as a form of compensation for potential damages. If anyone, including your surgeon, can take that life insurance policy based on your life,
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by arter45 4mo ago
Engineering is not just about the tests. It is also about following standards, making decisions based on data and requirements not just personal preferences or trends, and especially being aware of the legal and ethical implications of what
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by arter45 4mo ago
>Moreover, ownership of data cannot be left solely in private hands but must be appropriately regulated. Data is the product of many contributors and should not be treated as something to be sold off or entrusted to a select few. It is n
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by arter45 4mo ago
It lands on both. "It was just a job" or "I was just following orders" doesn't excuse you from doing unethical stuff.
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by arter45 5mo ago
You can but it’s not part of a plaintext standard. You could certainly build a text editor which can decode a base64 string, but to transform that into a picture you need something implementing the GIF (or JPEG or PNG) specification, otherw
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by arter45 5mo ago
I think the real limit of plain text is pretty obvious: you cannot embed pictures in it. It’s like SMS vs MMS or modern chat. With pure text, you can at best add a link to a picture (which could get rotten or inaccessible for other reasons)
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by arter45 5mo ago
How slow is “too slow”? Do you happen to have any benchmark?
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by arter45 5mo ago
Interesting perspective
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by arter45 5mo ago
Compatibility with existing code, middleware and so on.
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by arter45 5mo ago
Wouldn’t you argue that lower instincts are not well managed by modern humanity, which means religion is still necessary? :)
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by arter45 5mo ago
No, quantum physics is not a sham. Lasers are an application of quantum physics, for example. Usage of quantum physics principles in non scientific (thoughts are entangled!) or arbitrary macroscopic contexts (since electrons can cross a bar
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by arter45 5mo ago
> If you don't care about the user in the UI, you probably don't care about the user in the backend either. Not necessarily. I hate frontend tasks not because I don’t care about the user, but because I don’t have decent graphi
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by arter45 5mo ago
I would say privacy. No telemetry, no targeted ads, no centralized transcripts, possibly end to end encryption. Psychiatrists are bound by professional secrecy, and they touch on very sensitive topics (people’s fears, their private lives, s
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by arter45 5mo ago
Yes, being a monopoly certainly helps, but that monopoly is YouTube, not YouTube Premium. Since the basic offering is free, raising the price for the Premium version only makes sense if they don’t expect a shift from Premium to free users.
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by arter45 5mo ago
Well, transactions in this context are business transactions, which may involve 1 or N remote calls. Imagine checks against no fly lists, fraud detection, flight delay and so on. Speed of light is also another concern. So it’s not as simple
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by arter45 5mo ago
It’s not decentralized either, at least not in the Bitcoin sense of the word. Interactions between participants may be automated but they can ultimately rely on legal contracts and people. IATA is one of those participants, but everyone has

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