jasaloo

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by jasaloo 4y ago
Sounds like you were motivated, hard-working, and played the game as best you could. Though it sounds like you might've overlooked two of the most important ingredients entrepreneurs need when getting something off the ground: - vast w
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by jasaloo 4y ago
Sure. Some people can pull that off. Doesn’t sound like OPs problem. Also there’s a difference between over-preparing and coming in with a desperate attitude. You’re right that if you have the latter, you’re fucked. Going in with confidence
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by jasaloo 4y ago
I find my interview anxiety is directly connected to how much sheer preparation I do. There is no substitute for this. Spend several hours: scouring the internet for common AND uncommon interview questions. Draft strong responses to all of
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by jasaloo 7y ago
What a delightfully garbage take! Also: “The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk. You don't get to pick and choose.” PG has clearly never encountered two leftist
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing..." Well, how do principals emerge in the first place? Often by intense research, data gathering, and sound argu
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"Meanwhile, Amazon’s Echo and voice-assisted personal assistant, Alexa, was in an estimated 24% of US households as of the fourth quarter of 2018..." Well that's unnerving.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
did the same a while back. Though it likely doesn't change much, never hurts to tell them that this is the specific reason you're leaving.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
shout out to the guy who put down two Chomsky books. Manufacturing Consent is one of the most important works of the 20th century. You'll never read the news the same way again.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
I think the ire is necessary. The article gives a fair range of the different baseline operations and their carbon footprint. Sure the title is provocative, but it’s accurate. And even the operation that’s still “435x less” is just under
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by jasaloo 7y ago
“In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equival
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Training a single AI can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes(technologyreview.com)
11 points by jasaloo 7y ago|3 comments
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by jasaloo 7y ago
Can someone help me out here... this is not a charter school, correct? "Indeed, half of Pathfinder’s inaugural class was previously homeschooled, Wilder says. Legally, they still are. Despite its name, Pathfinder isn’t actually a sch
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by jasaloo 7y ago
yes precisely my thought
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by jasaloo 7y ago
I hear you. Liu's outlook is deeply pessimistic. His obvious scientific background knowledge seems to be infused with a dash of western, neoliberal ideology-- that it's just dog-eat-dog out there, and we're all in it for our
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by jasaloo 7y ago
yes- I hate to nitpick with these sort of things since I really enjoyed the essay, but as a lover of Liu's series I took issue with the dark forest analogy. I think the author was rather describing Liu's concept of a "black d
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by jasaloo 7y ago
Re/ oura rings... anyone else paranoid of a private company having access to intensely personal data? If I were an insurance company I'd be lobbying the shit out of these guys to see how much they'd charge me to get my hands
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"In general, Facebook candidates are asking much tougher questions about the company’s approach to privacy, according to multiple former recruiters." That made me smile <3
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"To be fair, wouldn't that suggest strong oversight might work then?" Fair point, that might work if: 1. a public safety/citizens oversight committee does its job consistently, 2. isn't loaded with police-friendly
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by jasaloo 7y ago
yeah, maybe... but the question is always 'at what cost?' There are ways of cutting down on racial profiling that don't require turning our city into a panopticon.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"Perhaps a better argument for an early and complete local ban might be that it allows other regions to be the test subjects." It's a valid thought, honestly. Though seeing how tightly the police hold onto this tech once they
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by jasaloo 7y ago
Fully agree, also having multiple municipalities push through legislation like this can indicate to the state, which can take years to legislate to these issues, that there is a growing appetite. Also- many activist coalitions will simultan
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by jasaloo 7y ago
You sound pretty cynical on the issue. Maybe you should come advocate with us and see for yourself the opportunities we still have to create meaningful change in this space.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
reposting my comment below: "please remember that there are coalitions of activists advocating multiple issues for civil rights simultaneously, and that a victory in one area (e.g. fighting the surveillance state) is neither mutually e
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by jasaloo 7y ago
would if we could. that genie's been long out of the bottle, but facial recognition hasn't been adopted to the same extent, yet, because the technology is so nascent.
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by jasaloo 7y ago
I can understand that viewpoint. But if we look at the track record of how authorities actually use surveillance technology, it is aggressively used to squash dissent, rather than prevent/investigate crimes. Yes, facial recognition cou
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by jasaloo 7y ago
"That's again why I'm in favor of regulating the problematic uses of information and technology..." We agree on this in principle. But again, once authorities have any of this data in their possession, abuse always hap
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by jasaloo 7y ago
seeing plenty of comments along the lines of "don't they have better things to do?" please remember that there are coalitions of activists advocating multiple issues for civil rights simultaneously, and that a victory in one
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by jasaloo 7y ago
the point is to prevent the capture of such data to begin with. As a privacy activist, we've seen that simply developing a 'use-policy,' while effective, can only go so far. Once local/state/fed authorities possess
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by jasaloo 7y ago
Anyone who found this story intriguing should immediately go buy "Climate: A New Story" by Charles Eisenstein. He explores how we use "war language" when talking about environmental issues and how that undercuts our effo
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by jasaloo 7y ago
Bingo: "'We submit that these data reinforce the notion that [Little Free Libraries] are examples of performative community enhancement, driven more so by the desire to showcase one’s passion for books and education than a genuine

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