surfaceTensi0n

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by surfaceTensi0n 9y ago
That's a really great framing of this issue. Thanks!
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by surfaceTensi0n 9y ago
Sometimes you have to take a bum deal, even if you know you're being exploited. This article isn't about telling Uber drivers that they're being exploited (the article references a number of cases where the drivers have sued
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
OwnCloud[0] has a password manager (Passman) that I've been thinking about. [0] - https://owncloud.org/features/
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
>God forbid Trump actually does something bad Uhm, is this a joke? How about having an anti-Semite for a chief strategist[0]? Or selecting a woefully unqualified campaign donor to to lead the Department of Education[1]? How are you fee
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Are You More Than Okay: The State of Mental Health in Tech in 2016(modelviewculture.com)
2 points by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago|0 comments
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Doesn't sonos already have integration with spotify? Or is that only available if you're paying for spotify?
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The long road to San Francisco(cityobservatory.org)
1 points by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago|0 comments
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
How about Chicago?
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
I'm arguing that the "intended outcome" isn't always complete recovery. If a patient with terminal cancer dies, that doesn't necessarily mean that the chemo didn't achieve its intended outcome.
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
I don't think your example would qualify unless a real error was made e.g. the chemo killed them so there was a planning error in putting them on chemo. The truth is that many people with cancer will not survive. In those cases, chem
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Really? What about Jurassic Bark[0]? That episode is extremely sad and precisely about the fallout of being cryogenically frozen. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Bark
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Warren Ellis' excellent Transmetropolitan touches on this as well. [0] - http://amzn.to/1Tzbd5T
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A neoliberal case for a basic income, or something like it(adamsmith.org)
1 points by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago|0 comments
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
I don't think your assertions are correct. This article[0] is a bit old (2015), but it puts the number of SUVs on the road at 35%. There absolutely are things you can do, though obviously you, personally, aren't going to solve t
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Yeah, I guess that assumption is an optimistic one. I tend to mostly think of UBI as a left/progressive issue. I only have a passing familiarity with what folks on the right think about UBI but mostly historically, not present day.
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
I would say that cutting out the middle person is part of how you pay for UBI. To me the highest benefit of UBI is that people wouldn't need to work/struggle to live anymore.
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Why do you think UBI would be paid for by people who need it most? My assumption is that it would be paid for with a combination of cuts to social programs (i.e. those replaced by UBI) and more progressive taxes and/or corporations.
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
That's interesting. I guess I just assumed the user would have to add the bots. Otherwise how would they know what the meta-bot is capable of doing? Also, discovery of bots, especially ones that aren't "mainstream" (I
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Even before you get to burnout you get saturation where more advertising yields lower returns. There is a whole industry around advertising analytics and helping advertisers figure out how to allocate their budgets for maximum penetration
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
I think you may be overthinking 3 a bit. You only need to use the new bot enough to get enough info for the normal ranking method to work. Some simple solutions: 1. When a new bot is added, always use that bot first. This assumes that th
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
In advertising there is a concept called effective frequency which is, essentially, how many times someone needs to be exposed to your ad before they make a purchase. This is tied pretty directly to the complexity of your message. The mor
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Just to counter your anecdata with my own, I deleted the Uber app because I wasn't happy with their business practices (especially wrt their treatment of drivers).
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Anecdotally this is absolutely something women take into account when evaluating places to work. The solution isn't to hide the problem but it does mean that the later you try to fix your diversity problems the harder they will be to f
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by surfaceTensi0n 10y ago
Does your company's team page show the all male engineering team? Or is it otherwise possible for potential applicants to see that your team is all men? A homogeneous team sends signals to women and minorities that may have them ruli
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by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago
>I interpreted the argument made in the OP as 'it only becomes an achievement when the computer constrains itself to the boundaries the human has by its nature' I don't think this is a particularly accurate interpretation
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by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago
I'm pretty confused by that as well. Isn't Snapchat making their money off advertising primarily? I know they have plans to expand the kind of user data they track (including "browsing and searches beyond the app"). h
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What Computer Games Taught Me About Urban Planning (And What They Didn't)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago|0 comments
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by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago
Mine tends to be python but JS makes a lot of sense for things that need GUIs.
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What's Your Secondary Language?(prog21.dadgum.com)
1 points by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago|1 comments
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Mindful Cyborgs(mindfulcyborgs.com)
1 points by surfaceTensi0n 11y ago|0 comments

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