darpa_escapee

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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Tesla owners are known to be willing put up with things other car owners aren't. I don't want to fool around with a touchscreen in traffic.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Not really, it's a very old observation. For example, Cicero observed that " whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves " And there are many types of slavery that are not chattel sl
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Glassdoor is only useful when there are a significant amount of negative reviews for an employer. It means that the employer is bad, so bad that they don't care enough to pay a firm to pad their Glassdoor page with glowing reviews.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Total health expenditures have skyrocketed[1] along with the amount of hospital administrators[2] over the last few decades. This particular hospital is unlikely to have escaped the trend. [1] https://img.datawrapper.de/z8Ve
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
The worst is the blog spam that reaches the top of Google's search results. I don't think it's a coincidence that those poor quality results are given precedence when they also happen to be littered with, and optimized for, A
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Automated bureaucracy without a means for recourse is nightmare fuel.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Rich people can afford to insure and rebuild on disaster-prone, but otherwise highly desirable, property. I lived near a barrier island that would get hit with hurricanes each season, and every 5-10 years a storm would devastate it. Despite
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> For instance "requests" vs. "aiohttp". "asks" implements a requests-like interface over asyncio/trio.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Also, assume that states have access to root certificates.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
You don't believe Democrats because they compromised with Republicans to get a bill passed? If you recall, Republicans used the filibuster in the Senate, which meant Democrats needed a 60 vote supermajority to get a healthcare bill p
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> I do not want to write a "service" that has some "only run once and then discard" flag or whatever. Then just use cron.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Amazon is AliExpress with a domestic retailer's markup. At least with Walmart I know that when they stock something on their shelves, they care about liability and bad PR.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Very few problems are solved by simply ignoring them. General awareness of a problem is needed to mobilize political action. If the solution to the problem is political, awareness of the issue might inspire direct action, or at least voting
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> Merely being aware of some tragedy occurring far away doesn’t do anything. The first step on the long road of change is acknowledging that a problem exists. Just because you can't imagine how you can effect change, doesn't
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
AI is gradient descent?
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
For reference, 80% of antibiotics used in the US are used in agriculture [1]. Animals are fed antibiotics to prevent infection, but they’re also fed to animals as “growth promoters” [2]. 60% of infectious diseases in humans originate in ani
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> Either they were sold a dream by a company making bogus claims, or they just don't give a shit about false postives in the slightest and they use it as justification to randomly stop and search people. You hit the nail on the he
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Wait until you need to deploy to a platform that doesn’t have a precompiled version of a dependency uploaded to PIP. Docker shines in that regard.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
A few years ago Adobe, Apple, Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay all successfully kept engineer pay down through anti-poaching agreements[1]. Unions provide checks and balances against that type of abuse. [1] https:/&#x2
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> With the previous generation of MagSafe/MagSafe II power supplies, if the cable gets frayed, you have to replace the entire power supply. If the MagSafe connector gets hosed, you have to replace the entire power supply. Basically
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Best Buy’s USB-C offerings are lacking and almost entirely Apple related. What other stores will I have to avoid if I buy a MacBook in 2019?
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Consumer desktop apps? Maybe. Enterprise, industry specific and desktop apps for professionals? No.
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
That's a strange claim without any evidence to back it up. It's the first video on their "Autopilot" page. There's absolutely no mention of features that don't exist yet in the video. You have to scroll all the
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
That's a stretch. The video is directly under the headline of "Autopilot". Absolutely nothing on the page suggests that the video is demonstrating features that don't exist yet. Both the Center For Auto Safety and Consum
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
Weird, when I go to Tesla's Autopilot page[1], I'm presented with a video demo where the driver has his hands off of the wheel. The video has the following caption: > The person in the driver's seat is only there for lega
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
From Tesla's Autopilot page, during the first 5 seconds of their video demo[1]: > The person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He is not doing anything. The car is driving itself. [1] https://ww
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> I wonder why there isn't a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety. With the addition of `var`, I think J
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
This is butts-in-seats mentality, but for remote workers: > most of the time when people are video muting it's because they are hiding their distraction and lack of attention The OP assumes that those who have their camera off a
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
> As someone who did the software route, there are days I deeply wish I had done this sort of thing instead. Don't. As an office worker, you have to worry about carpal tunnel syndrome, your back going and cardiovascular disease fr
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by darpa_escapee 7y ago
You've read the figure incorrectly. Smaller values for Intergenerational Earnings Elasticity represent greater equality of opportunity[1] and correlate with less inequality. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/intergene

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