shaftoe

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by shaftoe 2mo ago
What the heck is an AI governance role that would remotely require these kinds of ratios? PCI compliance is critical in payments and no one would suggest you need "PCI governance" in a single digit ratio to "builders".
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by shaftoe 3mo ago
This is one sentence. Is this notable because AWS is commenting this?
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by shaftoe 4mo ago
Pretty sure the right generally believes the left has been doing the same. Previously, it was a more libertarian and constitutional argument: progressive causes since the new deal have assumed powers not granted. More recently this has comp
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by shaftoe 4mo ago
A) this court has a number of originalists, more likely to reject grabs for power than more progressive judges. There's worse things than a court that tries to adhere to the constitution when the executive branch and Congress both rou
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by shaftoe 5mo ago
I'm confused where all of this censorship is originating from. What wave of efforts is culminating? I can't really explain this from any movement I can see.
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by shaftoe 5mo ago
Exactly as described in "how to win friends and influence people". Break their stuff and extort money.
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by shaftoe 6mo ago
In this market, neither the producer nor the consumer are responding to price signals and often neither knows what anything costs. The Payer (literal healthcare industry terminology) does but isn't producing nor consuming the service.
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by shaftoe 8mo ago
If you’re just a gladhander for an algorithm, what are you really needed for?
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by shaftoe 9mo ago
I completely agree. It's worth remembering the UN fought in the Korean war and wasn't was always a place for authoritarian regimes to pass useless resolutions and make noise. The fact we, as humanity, have allowed so many genocide
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by shaftoe 1y ago
While bots are possible, another confounding factor is that the most prolific social media posters are strongly correlated with psychiatric disorders. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10129173/ Anecdotally
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by shaftoe 1y ago
(US centric assumption) It might be easier to change today than it was in 1886. Back then, trains were really the only means of travel between cities. Today, there are less passenger trains than back then, though more freight (even with t
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by shaftoe 1y ago
In a hypothetical hacker news guide for how to win friends and influence people, I'm pretty sure "you're so wrong you should go talk to a chat bot" is not a recommended approach. I hope you're right, for what it&#x2
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by shaftoe 1y ago
These socialist countries that are so happy because of the money they pour into healthcare and education, do so at the expense of their future growth and their own self defense. This seems unsustainable. The US is also a much larger and het
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by shaftoe 1y ago
We can agree to disagree without name-calling, but the impact of compounding growth vs intentional stagnation is going to continue to widen the gap that's already opened up over a few generations.
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by shaftoe 2y ago
Your model works when every player provides something of value. What does Europe's self indulgent attitude bring to the international table?
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by shaftoe 2y ago
It is and it's a best practice. I've never heard anyone complain about this. Most security scanning software will ding any site that doesn't use HSTS
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by shaftoe 3y ago
If demand for ownership is such that prices make |cost paying mortgage| + |cost maintenance, insurance, etc| < |income renting| then there's a clear profit from buying and renting as much property as possible. This will continue, i
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by shaftoe 3y ago
It appears to be true. https://github.com/apache/openoffice/activity
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by shaftoe 3y ago
"Some merchants may be seeing a higher-than-usual decline due to Gateway rejections Fraud." Is this really "down"?
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by shaftoe 3y ago
Actually, free markets do lead to better products. But they cost more than the worse products. Look at coffee. The gradual shift from Arabica to more Robusta beans over a generation. Each year, an imperceptible shift was taken that, over
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by shaftoe 3y ago
No, this is pretty typical (I'm American). The only time people who are more than a few years into their career are asked about degrees (and grades) in an interview is at very bureaucratic organizations or when being interviewed by som
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by shaftoe 3y ago
Mild is subjective. Truth isn't determined by a majority. Tyranny is on a dimmer switch.
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by shaftoe 3y ago
As a counterpoint to most of the comments in this thread, maybe cereal (even with all the sugar) isn't as unhealthy as people think. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6950451/ https:/&#x
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by shaftoe 3y ago
Same with my cat. The instincts seem deeply rooted.
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by shaftoe 3y ago
As an American who has attempted to learn other languages, it's amazing to me the concept that spelling should reflect pronunciation. As advice for those folks learning English, don't assume spelling means anything.
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by shaftoe 3y ago
Why do you think so?
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by shaftoe 3y ago
So boiling isn't strictly required, though it has nice benefits on the wort (in a phase called the "hot break"). However, it is necessary to reach certain temperature (140-160 F, though broader may work) to convert starch in
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by shaftoe 3y ago
You weren't alive for billions of years and it didn't bother you. The idea of impermanence can also be liberating. All our mistakes, failures, and problems will ultimately be washed away by the crashing waves of time. It takes t
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by shaftoe 3y ago
There's an old joke that emacs stands for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.
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by shaftoe 3y ago
Hopefully they didn't go to lunch after hitting "merge".

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