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People look for different things for "beauty" in men and women. Taller people--an area where men have a very distinct advantage--make more money and have an easier go of things. ht…

The tradeoff here is a classic false-positive vs false-negative issue. If the cost of the bad-bot false positive (which blocks your bot out) is lower than the cost of the bad-bot f…

All the time. The billboards are very often about fertilizer, tractors, and shipping. And if that is the argument, there are plenty of local business billboards in the Bay Area as …

If you drive through Las Vegas, all the billboards are about casinos. If you drive through farm country, all the billboards are about the local cash crop. Advertisers target the pe…

True, but for whom? The cure here isn't perfect, but much better than the disease of paying hundreds of dollars a month for scrapers which will never be beneficial. Worse for the s…

Except no one was singing "How do you solve a problem like Jeff and Sanjay?" prior to this.

The company is developing an application, or a class of applications. Not a new model.

I have no doubt that internal Google friction is one of the reasons they are moving. But the Gebru incident was almost seven years ago now. It is very unlikely to be a proximate ca…

They are leaving Google, but Google is an investor in the new company. So a split, but not exactly a divorce. Or something.

Kermit had licensing issues in those days. And many bbs were focused on one specific system so many of the auto translate and nice compatibility features of Kermit weren’t that imp…

Bill Catchings (the undergrad who helped Frank da Cruz with the original spec and coding) still blogs. It has been a while since he spoke specifically about kermit, but he has one …

I have yet to see anyone at all claim that bad code didn't exist before AI. In fact, the famously viral "WTFs per minute" comic demonstrates that such an insightful joke resonates …

Maybe. The courts haven't exactly ruled yet. And it is the risk here that the GNU project wants to avoid. Will things probably be OK? Sure. Probably. But GNU is particularly risk a…

Full text is linked below, but it is getting revised pretty regularly. tl;dr: Requirement is that a human must be in the loop; the contributor must have reviewed the change by hand…

All of that is true, but has nothing to do with the new payment plan apple just released.

"We might, maybe, have some article go viral some day. With unknown revenue implications." is a weak argument for trying to figure out and maintain GDPR compliance, which costs rea…

And I gave a reason why that isn't true. There are many, many others.

But we aren’t talking probability. Your claim was that deeper pockets means you are more sophisticated. That simply isn’t true. The inheritance argument is just one example to show…

Indeed. But that doesn't invalidate the point that deeper-pockets is not equivalent to a more sophisticated or better investor.

If I inherit a billion dollars tomorrow, I will have zero additional information and be no more sophisticated than I am today. But I will have deeper pockets than any retail invest…