xcavier

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by xcavier 1mo ago
Guy whose business model is predicated on hoovering up everyone's personal data so he can sell advertising (and similar targeting services) now wants to give everyone a "fatter" pipe for hoovering even more (and different typ
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by xcavier 5mo ago
When linking my Google Mail, Composio was asking for some concerning data (DOB, exact street address). I noped out of that
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by xcavier 7mo ago
Can't we get proper noise cancellation first before they worry about gesture control…
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by xcavier 1y ago
I'm sure this would be interesting if it actually rendered on my device…
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by xcavier 2y ago
I agree. He did not misspeak. He said exactly what he believes, and he's now being called out for it.
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by xcavier 2y ago
Is this where we request commentators to ‘out’ themselves as Australian citizens/residents (or not) before they respond (born Brisvegas 1970 here)
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by xcavier 2y ago
Chances this is a shonky attempt to drag new training data from private users?
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by xcavier 2y ago
In addition to the environmental issues, surely a wide disparity in dialects and speech patterns must have played a role? ML/NLP models largely be trained on clear, precise - and predictable - English language must struggle when you ad
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by xcavier 2y ago
Just the other day I was wishing there was a uBlock but for podcasts...
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by xcavier 2y ago
Also... McDonalds isn't in the business of selling food. It is in the business of owning real estate and selling "inputs" to its franchise holders. It makes money by selling equipment and food inputs to franchisors. It can&#x
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by xcavier 2y ago
I think the biggest issue with the decentralised crowd is they think their target market is their (technical) peers. Web publishing was a cul de sac until it went WYSIWYG. Dialup internet didn’t take off until the likes of AOL dumbed it dow
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The ugly truth about sleep(okdoomer.io)
5 points by xcavier 3y ago|2 comments
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by xcavier 3y ago
I think the key language here is pause "commercial use". They're not asking for a pause on R&D - just not making the tech/products available to the market (to quote: "temporarily pause commercial use"), unt
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by xcavier 3y ago
I've seen an increase in strangers messaging me on WhatsApp. When I ask them how we know each other, they tell me a friend passed on my details and said I was a good person to know, they're new to the city etc. If I press on the d
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by xcavier 3y ago
I read that headline as precisely the opposite: oh, bugger, they are not doing well and that money won’t help
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by xcavier 4y ago
Is the strategy that he wants to force traffic to twitter.com, thus maximising ad revenue?
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by xcavier 4y ago
>> > If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right as owner. Is it? >> Yes, this is the sentence that stopped me in my tracks. No-one has tha
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by xcavier 4y ago
>>The actual human connection features of Facebook turned out to be a novelty<< I don't agree. FB play(ed) an important role for me: helping me keep my extended family across the goings on in my child's life (they all
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by xcavier 4y ago
Personally I am curious why no one is exploring the M2M applications of crypto. If we look forward to the time all (most?) vehicles are autonomous, I can see a need for a ‘market mechanism’ which allows vehicles to request/cede priorit
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by xcavier 5y ago
Because small dick energy just doesn’t work for me. Some 95% of commentary on the topic is off the rails. The 5% rarely gets a mention here.
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by xcavier 5y ago
My take is that it is a leadership skill weakness. It is an outgrowth of the (poor) management principle of: if you can't measure it, you can't manage it. A lot of executives have little experience working with/managing staff
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by xcavier 5y ago
When I embarked on writing my first (of 10) books, my publisher shared a wise quote/insight, which I have never forgotten: [The quote has been attributed to many authors, so I won’t engage in that debate] “I don’t enjoy writing. But I
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by xcavier 6y ago
Any beer consumption index that doesn’t include Australia is suspect...
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by xcavier 6y ago
I honestly doubt this - especially if the photo is indicative of his ‘rig’
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by xcavier 6y ago
So, in essence, our (Australia’s) government blinked
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by xcavier 6y ago
Appears to have been removed...
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by xcavier 6y ago
Absolutely agree. The main takeaway was an accelerated stratification. The big got bigger, small companies shrank (went niche), and the (major) middle collapsed. That doesn’t bode well for the average employee.
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by xcavier 6y ago
MC’s no.1 source of work is it’s global network of former-MC alumni
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by xcavier 6y ago
Millions of customers - including many not in the US. He couldn’t even be assed enough to at least segment his client list before spamming them...(said as an Aussie who received his email)
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by xcavier 6y ago
I’ll ignore the “won’t someone think of the children” argument, and highlight the research into how frequently DNA evidence is misused, and how poor juries are at understanding both DNA science and probability/stats.

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