yahna

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by yahna 9y ago
Yes. America is stuck in the stone age when it comes to this stuff.
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by yahna 9y ago
> Pichai is beset on all sides by people who expect Google to move mountains, reinvent itself TIL not showing fake news or having your advertisers associated with ISIS videos is "moving mountains".
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by yahna 9y ago
> Discussing the issue, Pichai deploys the vocabulary of an apologetic CEO that’s become de rigueur in Silicon Valley since last November. He says the word “thoughtful” 13 times and “deeply” (feeling, listening, en I'm reminded of t
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by yahna 9y ago
It was an unintended side effect of attempting to use gene augmentation developed for humans, causing a mutation and disease to spread. They developed a cure with help from the crew of the enterprise/phlox but that cure didn't imm
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by yahna 9y ago
I'm not. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/everyth... > A lawsuit challenging the doctrine on First Amendment grounds, Red Lion Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Federal Communications Comm
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by yahna 9y ago
The fairness doctrine was not found to be unconstitutional.
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by yahna 9y ago
They have literally had laws enforcing fairness in media. Fox news is heavily criticized for their biased reporting and editorial standards. That would be the comparison to criticism of HN modding policies.
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by yahna 9y ago
You're argument seems like a strawman. I don't think anyone has argued that HN should operate with no moderation whatsoever.
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by yahna 9y ago
It's still censorship either way.
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by yahna 9y ago
I too prefer my echo chambers to be free of wrong-think. None of that controversy in my safe space either.
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by yahna 9y ago
Generations, These are the voyages.
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by yahna 9y ago
I still think that the Klingons just got plastic surgery after they accidentally turned themselves into human looking peoples in Enterprise.
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by yahna 9y ago
> It leaves the impression that McFarlane is a genuine Star Trek fan and The Orville is more an homage than a ripoff If you didn't realize that you must have done exactly zero research. Notice how he's had the entire cast of TN
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by yahna 9y ago
"We're developing an OS" "It's linux" Boring.
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by yahna 9y ago
> I believe Google has considerably more goodwill I wish this idea would die. They are an ad company. They want to stuff themselves into every facet of your life and milk you for information.
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by yahna 9y ago
There is lots of reasons to not buy better stuff. I own mostly cheap furniture because good stuff is a very expensive commitment, for example.
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by yahna 9y ago
> 500 apt My shitty apartment in a small city (80k) was 615 a month. 100 dollars a month for gas/water/power? You need internet for that media consumption. You need gas for that car. Cell phone? Food?
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by yahna 9y ago
It's not more than enough for a person without dependents to live comfortably. it's enough that you won't starve to death.
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by yahna 9y ago
and do those people live lifestyles I would want?
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by yahna 9y ago
Maybe millenials think that this whole "if you don't let white supremacists march through the streets with guns then democracy will fail" is a rather silly notion.
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by yahna 9y ago
No it's not.
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by yahna 9y ago
It's ridiculous to whine about skill shortages while simultaneously having a strange amount of pride in your overwrought false-negative prone hiring process.
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by yahna 9y ago
I think reusable rockets are cool, and I think musk is impressive. I'm just not a member of the cult of Elon. I think he follows a path of aim impossibly high, be happy with getting pretty far. People instead take it as "he's
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by yahna 9y ago
heh. Reminds me of when an actual AI expert pointed out that by making dire predictions about smart AI, that we are nowhere near having, keeps eyes off the autopilot system and the issues with that.
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by yahna 9y ago
But I thought this all came to our god king in a dream.
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by yahna 9y ago
I wonder where this company would be if the original paper was written by pretty much anyone other than Musk.
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by yahna 9y ago
I can buy an overpriced condo in Seattle. rather have a place with a bit of space.
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by yahna 9y ago
It's also way cheaper to hire software devs, and they can bring in immigrants easily. If they put it in Calgary I'd consider moving. That salary hit is massive though.
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by yahna 9y ago
Seattle does face real problems with housing prices and poor transit infrastructure.
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by yahna 9y ago
dumb title. nitpicking. equating innocent, if terse, comments with threats. Why am I reading what this person has to say?

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