olefoo

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by olefoo 6y ago
It could be a collective defense mechanism. The idea of animal intelligence being a threat to what many people perceive as the necessary status quo of being able to endlessly consume the resources of nature without consequence.
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by olefoo 6y ago
This is engineering. Not art. We learn from our failures and build better than before.
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by olefoo 6y ago
And not a single director goes to jail. Not even for a weekend.
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by olefoo 6y ago
In the wake of an unprecedented attack on the core institutions of a democracy; forums and websites that were being used to plot violence against lawmakers are discovering that all available sources of pressure on them to change their behav
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by olefoo 6y ago
There is also the viewpoint that bitcoin was a crime from beginning to end. That the goals of it's creation were to provide an unpreventable vector for money laundering. That it's current function of undermining the dollar order i
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by olefoo 6y ago
You seem to think that teams of economists don't cherry pick metrics that suit their perspective.
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by olefoo 6y ago
Is it the phone people are addicted to, or the media available through it? Especially Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp and Twitter. All of which seem designed to cultivate obsessive compulsive behavior in their users with social proof, intermi
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by olefoo 6y ago
So if you are wondering why Clearview is so bad specifically for black people; it might help to know that the company has extensive ties to Right-wing white supremacists. And that many of those relatioinships were formed in Peter Thiel&#x27
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by olefoo 6y ago
What we're seeing is a "stochastic insurgency" where loosely affiliated groups and individuals conceive, plan and execute infrastructure attacks and targeted assassinations. Relatively little operational coordination; but lot
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by olefoo 6y ago
Construction companies seem to do fine even though building codes exist. It's not uncommon for a mature industry to face a reckoning around damaging practices that were common when they were nascent industries. Would you like to live b
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by olefoo 6y ago
This is an idea that should be explored more fully. The downside is that it will make information technology a much less freewheeling and innovative field.
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by olefoo 6y ago
Police work a _lot_ of overtime in most jurisdictions. So the base salary may be misleadingly low. Especially since many police contracts have a 2x or even 3x payout for overtime under some conditions. As with many statistics around policin
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by olefoo 6y ago
For such a high value target why aren't they using MFA built in to the hardware? They're a networking company but they apparently build stuff like it's still 1996.
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by olefoo 6y ago
Remember that these individuals are usually hired and given responsibility based on their ability to game class signalling games; they exist to justify the status quo. If the status quo were more justifiable their actual job responsibilitie
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by olefoo 6y ago
I wonder how long until we see the first lawsuits for stock price manipulation using this feedback loop? If an unscrupulous executive were to make factually true statements that were engineered to mislead automated assessment algorithms so
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by olefoo 6y ago
Imagine if an automobile manufacturer allowed you to configure the safety features of your car and had the defaults set to unsafe but convenient values to help sell vehicles... do you think the manufacturers should evade liability?
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by olefoo 6y ago
This is all the result of confusing 1st amendment rights with the right to access the audience that gathers at a particular URL. What Taibbi is asking for is that the guy who tells you that drinking rat poison is good for you should be allo
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by olefoo 6y ago
Let's just say that it is a strong tell that one's ethics may not be defensible if your ethics watchdog is threatening to resign. Consider for instance the exit of Walter Shaub from the Trump Administration. https://www
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by olefoo 6y ago
Well, of course billionaires don't directly exploit people. They just build systems and take advantage of large scale features of the social environment that exploit people. It's a completely different morally. I mean, you can&#x2
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by olefoo 6y ago
When you can't help yourself from firing ethicists; you might have an ethics problem.
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by olefoo 6y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." -- J.M. Keynes Also applies to competitors of Venture funded vortexes like Uber/Lyft/Doordash. Sure, in the long run your cloud kitchen with guest ch
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by olefoo 6y ago
With this release Tesla has become a very attractive platform for assassins; if your target drives a Tesla it can be subverted and their death will look like an accident.
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by olefoo 6y ago
Your ideological sophistication is questionable. If you've ever spent time in left discourse you'd know that leftists argue about everything. And it's not just leftists who hate fascists. It's pretty much anybody with a
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by olefoo 6y ago
So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise? And how does this protocol help reach them.
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by olefoo 6y ago
So what are the KPI's for a mission focused enterprise? What does the protocol do to hold orgs accountable?
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by olefoo 6y ago
If your config files don't have more comments than code; you're doing it wrong. Filed under things that have been true since the 1970's if not before.
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by olefoo 6y ago
Twitter is a private platform, it's true. But the GOVERNMENT is prohibited from using the services of a private contractor to chill the exercise of one's first amendment rights. Not that that will limit the creation of ethically d
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by olefoo 6y ago
And once again the tech workforce wakes up in the gutter wearing clown makeup and wondering what happened. In a functioning economic regulatory environment the whole "Spend big money upfront to Capture & Control $MARKET" game
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by olefoo 6y ago
if it doesn't work for you; it doesn't work for you. Your personal productivity story doesn't have to be like anyone elses. As you work, start paying attention to what conditions seem to work better for you. Different brains
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by olefoo 6y ago
Long overdue.

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