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by ivell 3mo ago
>are you not speaking out of jealousy here? I am not envying your situation at all. People who are getting hurt are people like you and me. Employers are seeing your comments. They are reading about others who do this. They are losing tr
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by ivell 3mo ago
> No they don't know and if they did I would get fired obviously. This already shows the problem. They assume they are paying for your time exclusively, while you are doing just enough to satisfy them. The fact you go such lengths t
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by ivell 3mo ago
It's not only reaction against child marriages. Thr prevailing culture is to marry off girls as early as possible, affecting their higher education. It also causes lower workforce participation among women as at the point of marriage t
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by ivell 4mo ago
I think we are missing another angle of getting the data. Information is also power. Power to influence people (e.g. Cambridge Analytica). So paying will not stop the data collection. Actually I doubt anything will, unless people really pus
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by ivell 4mo ago
Not many movies are made on people getting hit by lightning. Perception beats stats and facts.
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by ivell 4mo ago
We don't know how many things in nature work. For example, we don't fully understand our own brain. As long as it can be replicated, we are fine. In case of AI we have a better chance to understand what it is doing through chain o
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by ivell 4mo ago
Frankly nowadays Windows is rage inducing. Dark patterns, annoying pop-ups, mandatory single sign-on.
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by ivell 4mo ago
> Google has confirmed that it's testing a 5GB storage limit for some new Gmail users, unless they add their number. If 5GB users don't have to enter phone, then I think they will not be able to stop unlimited usage anyway.
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by ivell 4mo ago
It is more of an attempt to get real world IDs. Yesterday I was forced to enter phone number for first time for "login verification". I didn't request any 2FA. They also made it clear they would save the number. Alternative w
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by ivell 4mo ago
And for society as a whole, we are getting to a state where corporations have incredibly large amount of money and gradually, hard power too. OSS is kind of small rebellion that we need to sustain so that we don't that tiny bit of free
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by ivell 5mo ago
To be frank, I have always thought of "Now I switched to Linux and am happy" to be some kind of meme that appears on every Windows discussion. Until it happened to me last month. The ads in Windows somehow popped up during importa
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by ivell 5mo ago
I have a feeling that people in the West have assumptions about democracy being better for the society based on their own education levels and social advancement. Democracy is better if the general population have cultural affinity towards
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by ivell 5mo ago
We can use them today as general purpose computers, if we make a large effort to do so. In my Linux and Mac, I dont think twice to quickly write a script to automate some pain-in-the-butt issues. But with my phone, it is pain-in-the-butt to
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by ivell 5mo ago
LSD has unconnected strands in the air. I guess this is expected.
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by ivell 5mo ago
I think Mojo has a good chance to become suitable for HPC.
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by ivell 5mo ago
In this particular type of abuse, the issue arises because humans value hiding reproductive organs. A similar social constraint applies to women's virginity. So if the society was not so focused on hiding reproductive organs, this part
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by ivell 5mo ago
But it does also show lack of accessible medical care in early years, that could have influenced his health overall.
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by ivell 5mo ago
> We are too invested in tides that lift all boats. These boats may contain Tesla, Ramanujam, Röntgen and other talent people with poor circumstances. Good social security is also investment in potential talent that could contribute to e
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by ivell 5mo ago
> This is why the EU member states (and the UK member states as well) should become US territories so that they can benefit from federal law without necessarily destabilizing domestic US politics This is a very strange suggestion. The US
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by ivell 5mo ago
While the crisis would be worse, I am not that sure that China will confront US on this militarily. So far they have stayed out of other's fights.
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by ivell 5mo ago
I think the price can only increase. There is not much competition for Hormuz. If it is exorbitant now, it can only be more expensive later on. The demand for oil is not going to go down drastically for quite a few years. If there was anot
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by ivell 5mo ago
Seems reasonable given their advantageous position. > Iran would split these fees with Oman Hard to imagine Trump splitting any fees if he was the leader of Iran.
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by ivell 5mo ago
And if you can't trade your stocks when the company is in a downward spiral, you lose actual money. I doubt if this gets compensated.
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by ivell 5mo ago
I think many academics are often specialized in one area of their expertise and overfit in that dimension. Journalists pick this up and promote those views a bit too much. This results in non-optimal decisions due to skewed public perceptio
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by ivell 6mo ago
I think there is a realization that (1) US' checks and balances do not work, (2) Trump is not a "mistake" of voters and can repeat again. This is the main reason that things are different. Most presidents were reasonable in t
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by ivell 6mo ago
I don't think it is about raising children perfectly. I think people knowadays are more educated about negative psychological impact to children and therefore there is a change in parenting style which takes more effort. More quality t
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by ivell 6mo ago
I would say still better than reality TV stars and ignorant podcasters.
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by ivell 6mo ago
Can also be a tree. Growth does not mean customers have to be disrespected. It just happens to be an easy way out for companies.
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by ivell 6mo ago
"You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain" It is only a matter of time...
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by ivell 6mo ago
This is the unfair part. Quite often salary is reduced with the excuse of having stock options. So this is more like a cut in earned salary along with getting fired.

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