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by throwaway789257 5y ago
I would recommend reading Daniel Boorstin's book, The Americans: The Democratic Experience. https://www.amazon.com/Americans-Democratic-Experience-Danie... There are fascinating chapters about how the combination of ra
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
France has a long history of attempting to protect its cultural industries, including film and publishing. It's not wrong. There are other things that are important aside from customer purchasing power. Amazon is using its economies of
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
There are plenty of people piloting drones from trailers in New Mexico. They can take the blame. But they are not exactly pilots in the Chuck Yeager sense.
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
Text of article behind paywall https://archive.md/C4l1g
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
This makes me think that pilots are going the way of cavalry officers. An exclusive club of people with skills that matter less and less. I wonder which activities, in the future, will require the Right Stuff...
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
It is often worth it in the short term to trick sources. But it has consequences for the individual doing the tricking, over the long term. And it has negative externalities for reporters as a whole. I'm not saying it shouldn't be
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
I used to work as a technical recruiter and made several hires out of coding bootcamps (though never from Lambda, which didn't exist at the time). One rule of thumb that we drew after many trials was that, if a candidate coming out of
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by throwaway789257 5y ago
I clicked expected to see big ML ideas explained, and all I found was Google scrubbing its AI ethics reputation after the debacle last year. I hope they devote their energies to actually explaining some ideas about ML rather than nattering