polarix

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by polarix 3mo ago
I’m not sure it “works”. I would still drastically prefer if Tesla had CarPlay.
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by polarix 11mo ago
Do you have a mailing list?
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by polarix 1y ago
Sure, those headlines are misleading. But all of those other headlines are wrong and misleading as well, in their own way. The "court"(s) cannot "block" Trump from doing anything. They don't control the military
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by polarix 1y ago
It is not just a login wall, they have restricted access even for logged in users, presumably to only the uploaders. A magnet would be nice.
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by polarix 1y ago
One obvious benefit of this link and the bsky ones is that it is actually possible to read the comments on them, unlike the last one.
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by polarix 3y ago
True! There might be other solutions, like having management treat people as they themselves would want to be treated. That kind of thing just sounds fairly unrealistic.
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by polarix 3y ago
(presumably Geis’s comment was sarcasm?)
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by polarix 3y ago
No, of course it’s not easy to quit. But perhaps it’s wrong to even offer these terrible jobs as an “opportunity” to people who have so little choice.
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by polarix 3y ago
I hope courts worldwide continue to punish Amazon for these kinds of things. They need to change the calculus — to ensure that the total operational cost of hiring people to do these terrible jobs is much higher than using robots.
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by polarix 3y ago
Yep. Switched to Apple Maps and (as backup) Organic Maps recently.
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by polarix 3y ago
Purpose is a really helpful way of organizing thought about the world. But “purposeful” does not mean “having to do with the concept of purpose”, so “teleological” ends up being a pretty useful word. Despite the smell of old books it carrie
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by polarix 3y ago
A large helium balloon with an open lip perhaps?
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by polarix 4y ago
This has been available for a while but it's great to see some acknowledgement especially since the most recent data set was stuck in 2019 for a while. Here are the datasets: http://download.kiwix.org/zim/stack_exc
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by polarix 8y ago
Looks like these were cancelled -- https://www.china-airlines.com/us/en/fly/on-board/fleet/fami...
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by polarix 8y ago
I see the number of children a couple has as a vote on how many people should exist on earth. If you have 0 or 1 child as a couple, you are voting that there should be fewer people. If you have 2 children, you're voting that there shou
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by polarix 8y ago
Clearly they just always write everything that needs to be said on a topic!
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by polarix 8y ago
> Facebook's "data privacy" problem is not fixable if they have to ultimately run valuable ads against that data. Do you have a citation for this? I've been trying to clarify the argument recently and am looking for o
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by polarix 8y ago
It's Hard to connect with someone if they're dead.
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by polarix 9y ago
I liked "The Friendly Orange Glow: The Untold Story of the PLATO System and the Dawn of Cyberculture" which sounds related... I hadn't heard about PLATO before, and the book was strongly redolent of "online culture"
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by polarix 9y ago
One value of an unordered unannotated book list is in reinforcing books you've already read, and providing a little extra push towards the action potential on the ones you haven't.
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by polarix 10y ago
1. To be able to live well and pursue my hobbies without a partner or cohabitant. 2. To travel comfortably. More generally, to be able to seek out distant experiences without fear.
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by polarix 10y ago
If "profit" is defined as: "generating more value than is consumed in the production process"... Then yes, we damn well better demand that profit be the correct goal for every action regardless of organizational struct
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by polarix 10y ago
Conversely, with LSD, there is no such thing as a harmful dose, so... Logic and health are not the issue here, entrenchment of economic interests is the point.
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by polarix 10y ago
Right. We've added instrumentation to our recognition capabilities in order to socialize and gossip about derived categories through language. In addition, we (can sometimes) use the formalized expressions of these categories prepared
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by polarix 10y ago
Have we considered crafting an agency as an information infrastructure policy steward, with the explicit intent to prohibit and prosecute any local and state regulations which would harm the proliferation of information infrastructure. Prob
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by polarix 10y ago
This isn't quite the same thing -- to be completely analogous, we'd need the fabricator to also recognize that it was fabricating another fabricator, and then change THAT generated fabricator to have the same intervention but
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by polarix 10y ago
> if we all stopped believing it tomorrow Similarly, money provides no power in society to the person controlling it. Because if we all stopped believing that it would continue to work in the future, it wouldn't. ... This is an obvi
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by polarix 10y ago
One thing we're missing is whether the company is "too big to fail".
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by polarix 10y ago
http://bioinformare.blogspot.com.au/2016/02/survival-analysi... has graphs of survival rate over time broken down by manufacturer and model. Far more informative, you're right. I don't think Backblaze us
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by polarix 10y ago
Yeah, I guess we're at the point where 50tb arrays are not infeasible. Not sure where I'd get 50tb of bandwidth though without someone gnawing off my left foot.

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