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by floe 4y ago
This website just looks like an SEO farm.
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by floe 4y ago
Well, it was spun off into its own company in 2020. In the West we have similar companies like Replika. Also translating 'XiaoIce' as 'Little Bing' is extremely misleading given that Bing's branding in China is &#x2
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by floe 4y ago
> For instance, the well-documented decline of productivity of the American white-collar worker has convincingly been linked to over-automation of the American office, but the “negative” outcome of this study has been totally ignored, in
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The Instagram Reels Gold Rush(newyorker.com)
5 points by floe 4y ago|0 comments
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by floe 4y ago
Although it doesn't make sense to have prediction markets for truly catasclymic events -- anyone who believes nuclear war is imminent is gonna prefer to buy canned food over prediction market contracts.
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by floe 4y ago
Pokemon cards fail the Howey test
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by floe 4y ago
Same for the monthly mortgage payment, at least the part that goes towards the principal.
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by floe 5y ago
> you can't even hide them I changed my trends location to Tokyo on someone's recommendation, and it's been a great workaround. I don't speak Japanese, so it's the same as 'hiding' the trends to my brai
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by floe 5y ago
Damn, I guess I should become poor
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by floe 5y ago
I see, that's interesting! I guess there's another causal chain, which is 'buying ETH to pay gas fees -> price of ETH goes up -> value of block reward to miners goes up -> more miners find it profitable to operate ri
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by floe 5y ago
Driving up gas fees increases the number of miners who find it profitable to operate their rigs, no?
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by floe 5y ago
Then why have all countries abandoned the gold standard? What makes bitcoin more suitable than gold for this purpose?
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by floe 5y ago
What makes this an 'oral history'?
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by floe 5y ago
OTOH, you do have a lot of control in many cases. I realized that I was way too emotionally invested in a lot of work interactions because I just hadn't thought through what I actually wanted. Once I realized that, I was able to dial d
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by floe 5y ago
> Ask the candidate. I would often straight out ask people how effective they were at GSD, and how did they compare to their peers? It was surprising how honest some (very smart) people would be on this. E.g. "I am average compar
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by floe 5y ago
I think the target audience is 'people who believe that they have to believe the strawman', if that makes sense. Pointing out that certain statements are self-defeating and (by definition) have no proponents can help someone escap
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by floe 5y ago
+1. I think it's dangerous to try to tell yourself there's a win-win (make more money AND make the world better) when there isn't one. I really like the way Anand Giridharadas talks about this. https://www.theatlan
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by floe 6y ago
I'm amused by the implication that if Google has even one piece of incorrect information in its knowledge corpus, it's justified in returning absolutely any answer to any question. You can deduce anything from a contradiction, aft
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by floe 6y ago
> isn't given the game rules, so it doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal moves But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state, and a way to determine whether a state is winnin
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by floe 6y ago
They're verifiably hard to guess. That is fundamentally different. (At least when passwords are generated with enough entropy.)
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by floe 6y ago
> In chess, AlphaZero initially doesn’t know it can take an opponent’s pieces. Over hours of high-speed play against successively more powerful incarnations of itself, it becomes more skilled, and to some eyes more natural, than prior ch
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by floe 7y ago
My (low-information) understanding is that coronaviruses have much lower mutation rates than flu viruses!
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by floe 7y ago
> Notable that these articles about the doubtful value of a university degree are written exclusively by people who have one. Why is it notable?
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by floe 7y ago
'Ownership' is a pretty overloaded term. It's never really clear which sense of 'ownership' the author is invoking at any given moment. Also, lol. "100 years ago, food came from a farm, then it came for [sic] a
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Privacy Dependencies(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by floe 7y ago|0 comments
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by floe 7y ago
Ah, then you should be able to provide some sources.
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by floe 7y ago
First paragraph: > Shares of Tesla plunge after news of a pair of C-suite executive resignations and a bizarre video showing CEO Elon Musk smoking pot on a podcast.
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by floe 7y ago
In theory, the recourse is that the people can exert power over the banks by electing different politicians. Obviously, sometimes that doesn't work as well as we'd like, but there's not even such a possibility of recourse whe
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by floe 7y ago
"I lost it under the seat"? And the point is it's not actively asking for location updates, which would drain battery. You just leave it with cellular off and it sends the standard Find My pulse over Bluetooth.
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by floe 7y ago
That doesn't have plausible deniability if detected, though.

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