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by mfDjB 3y ago
I wonder where does this end? I do feel like nearly once a year some country in western world tries to ban encryption. Can we just make it a right to encrypt communications and be done with this endless debate?
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by mfDjB 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. I always found it odd that the transition from labour to capital seemed to be so hard, even with mid-figure 6 income TC's it always seemed like you can't quite escape the rat race, you can definitely live
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by mfDjB 4y ago
Google is slow in the AI space because it isn't willing to take the risks its competitors are willing to take due to PR and branding factors. Anthropic with its focus on AI safety is the wrong choice here, it will slow them down not sp
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by mfDjB 4y ago
For me, Google Search just doesn't seem to be getting better over the years, if anything its getting worse. I honestly feel like its hard to get what I want half the time with all the SEO spam, most of the time I have to input "in
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by mfDjB 4y ago
It seems like every time a new UI framework comes around, a tradeoff is made between convenience and flexibility, with the advertising always being around "look how easy it is to make a table view", but this doesn't particula
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by mfDjB 4y ago
What I've learned from Google is that you are always talking to a bot, it just happens to be that some of those bots are human. Even though they are walking and talking simians they are executing a conversation script and have no agenc
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by mfDjB 4y ago
His audience disagrees that he needs a filter. The filtered content you are talking about is abundant, authentic content is scarce, that's why he pulls the audience size he pulls. His reach would be smaller if we took the filters off o
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by mfDjB 4y ago
Just started a position in a FAANG as a remote worker, funnily enough accidentally. I am in Seattle working for a team in NYC. I didn't realise that it was technically a remote position, I just thought I would go into the Seattle offic
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by mfDjB 4y ago
I find that most support you receive these days (whether its from the public or the private sector) feels like it is coming from a bot. Even if it is another human on the other end. Google in particular feels like they create inflexible non
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by mfDjB 4y ago
No matter what country I am in and whether they had consumer affairs ombudsmen, filing a chargeback dispute with the merchant (in my case Visa) was the best protection I ever got from dodgy vendors charging me after I cancel a subscription
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by mfDjB 4y ago
This is a real disappointment. Had a great job lined up at Coinbase that I was quite excited about, was in the middle of visa processing when this happened (why I had to quit my previous job, can’t have two visas in the US). This was for a
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by mfDjB 5y ago
Is there a historical precedent for this outcome?
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by mfDjB 5y ago
Which one?
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by mfDjB 5y ago
It might be worth noting that not all Proof-of-Work is just finding hashes, newer cryptocurrencies make more economic and intelligent use of the work used for proof.
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by mfDjB 5y ago
It's very nice to see Eleuther fulfill the Open promise of OpenAI. I'm scared that more and more big model advancements are being denied access from the general public, which will just make the inequality between big corporations
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by mfDjB 6y ago
I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake? I was under the impression that one was more destructive than the other, and that proof of work was very outdated. I would imagine NFTs being somewhat new that t
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by mfDjB 6y ago
All of these amendments favour Facebook. It also buys them time. I guess we will have to wait and see after the 2 month mediation period is up who has the upper hand. I guess the answer to who won, Facebook or the Australian government depe
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by mfDjB 6y ago
The Australian government did a last-minute deal in which it pushed through changes to its laws that are amenable to Facebook. I wouldn't say it was a win for them.
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by mfDjB 6y ago
I've never really understood this argument, the content is still on the news sites right? The news sites provide blurbs and descriptions through OpenGraph metadata that Facebook use, if they don't want entities to use metadata to
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by mfDjB 6y ago
Having been under lockdown (or more broadly hard restrictions) for at least 9 months of the last year I've come to the opposite conclusion, I would like to be a dual national of the USA just to take advantage of the idea that I can vot
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by mfDjB 6y ago
Currently in the UK, I had a really bad experience with 3, where I tried to cancel, I was informed that I had my account cancelled and then they kept billing me (for months). I consulted with some lawyers and they told me since I had only d
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by mfDjB 6y ago
As an extension developer, I am keen to put my extension on Safari however what is preventing me at this moment is dealing with Dun & Bradstreet to get a DUNS number. A DUNS number is required to sign up to the Apple Developer Program a
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by mfDjB 6y ago
To quote your post: "Nope, December was pretty free and easy (comparatively speaking) and Christmas Day was not a lockdown" For people living in London, Christmas Day was indeed a lockdown.
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by mfDjB 6y ago
The article being discussed is specifically about London, and the articles I reference refer to London.
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by mfDjB 6y ago
I am afraid I don't understand your point, are you saying London did in fact loosen it's lockdown over Christmas?
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by mfDjB 6y ago
No it wasn't. I live in London. Also from the article: "London saw wild scenes of a weekend mass exodus before the start of a Christmas lockdown and travel ban sparked by a new, more infectious mutation of COVID-19."
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by mfDjB 6y ago
I am British and living in London. From the article: "London saw wild scenes of a weekend mass exodus before the start of a Christmas lockdown and travel ban sparked by a new, more infectious mutation of COVID-19."
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by mfDjB 6y ago
The lockdown was tightened for Christmas. [1] 1: https://nypost.com/2020/12/20/londons-covid-19-christmas-loc... EDIT: It's weird that people don't believe me. Here is a BBC article talking about th
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by mfDjB 6y ago
This is great thanks for sharing!
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by mfDjB 6y ago
The reason these bigger apps just put "Bugfixes" and "Performance Improvements" in their changelog is because when you have many teams contributing to the software not only through actual code editing but also feature fl

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