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> The original claim, as I understand it, is basically this: you can’t be an honest actor in a dishonest system. Right, but, taken to its logical conclusion, you cannot earn any am…

I don't know which FAANGs you have experience with, but the companies and teams I worked for were very numbers- and impact-oriented. No amount of posturing and politics would help …

> the uniqueness of your starter is defined by the local climate, local flour, and the way you feed it to keep it alive. The weather in Greece is much warmer... There's actually a …

As someone who knows English and is learning German, the words "Handy" for smartphone, or "Beamer" for overhead projector, or "Oldtimer" for classic car all sound very out of place…

That's exactly what ruined it for me. The few apparent survivors of the human race are huddled in a tin can, running out of resources - fade to black - and suddenly, by divine prov…

GPL defines the “source code” of a work as the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. If Meta released a petabyte of raw training data, would that really be eas…

Paolo Bacigalupi’s novel “Ship Breaker” deserves a mention here. It’s set in Paolo’s dystopian solarpunk universe, where old tankers are cut up to extract the last tons of fossil f…

> Property that is used by the public should be owned by the public. Not sure why that follows, or how it would avoid the tragedy of the commons, or why we should act as if that’s …

> absolute bare minimum Doing the bare minimum for a "Meets Expectations" rating after performance review and calibrations still means working a lot and delivering on the projects …

Not an umlaut, a diaeresis - it shows that the letter has its own sound (unlike the word "coop", for example). You'd generally use it for proper nouns (like Brontë or Boötes) and r…

Not sure about police officers, but the other professions you named have to complete graduate or post-graduate studies in their field, pass a formal examination, maybe publish a fe…

Technically true, just as if you replace Meta with Amazon, Google Cloud, Etsy, eBay, the local city council, etc. If you don't have a diversified, multi-market, preferably internat…

Funnily enough, "MMAcevedo" doesn't break my suspension of disbelief, while "Clippy" does, hard - even though it tries to stay grounded in reality and drown you in quotes and refer…

The Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos had a $40M salary in 2022, which is definitely too much money. However, it's a drop in the bucket compared to the company's $31 billion revenue. So I'm…

So there are two different things here: you're talking about building an individual profile for someone and including their home address as part of it, and I meant tailoring the ad…

Does anyone have any specific details on the ban, maybe a link to the legal document? The article seems to use "personalized advertising" and "behavioral advertising" interchangeab…

A good starting point for that would be http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/gameprog.html#adv - or maybe, if you're interested in the prose more than the scaffolding, https:…

It's refreshingly earnest and twee, and always technical and to the point (as opposed to other vacuous and rambling bloggers). Also, it's reassuring to see someone say "I don't kno…

> Only four nations have successfully landed on the moon, the U.S., Russia, China and India. Correction: the U.S., the Soviet Union, China, and India.

The telescope could have been invented thousands of years ago - ancient Egyptians could polish lenses. Ditto for the sextant, optical telegraph, the printing press... > It would be…

On a similar note: the P and V semaphore operation names are very intuitive, because passering means "pass" and vrijgave means "release" in Dutch, as clearly noted by Edsger Dijkst…

BofA is Bank of America. VDI is Virtual Desktop Infrastructure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_virtualization

The Bitcoin whitepaper, probably.