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> Always important to remember that the equity-left is only about 20% of Americans, and the US is the global stronghold for such ideals What ? The U.S main ideological exports of t…

Exactly, and the prupose of these legislation was supposed to be exactly that : force companies to integrate privacy in the core of their products, not to create a list of items to…

didn't they ? There is 4x more advertising for 4x less content and the recommendations are pretty crappy.

Don't mean to make Americans sad but "the US" doesn't win AI, a few oligarchs win AI (if US companies end up winning). The question is not US v China, it's Peter Thiel and Elon Mus…

Successfully ? Maybe the OG survivor bias here..

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Do you think your organisation as a whole is doing more ? Is the more being done actually useful ? i.e: is the outcome better ?

This looks like a fairly typical engineer's solution to a complex social problem: it doesn't really solve the problem, introduces other issues / is gameable, yet unlikely to create…

But humans react to this extremely differently than a self driving car. Humans take responsability, and the self-driving disengages and say : WELP. Oh sorry were you "enjoying your…

4 thousand :)

ECB is doing one reckless thing after another which will inevitably lead to Germany leaving Eurozone at some point. I'm not even sure what you're trying to say with the rest of it …

M1&2 yes with slight caveats, m3-5 not really (at least yet)

landlords need people to pay the rent. Or to spell it out more precisely : the construction/housing industry off of which land lords extract value needs external value creation to …

It's particularly well suited for backups

Historically news outlet run as public service (with sufficient guardrails for autonomy) such as the BBC, PBS, France Television, Arte (naming only those I know well) have produce …

There is very little hardware that would actually be ipv6 incompatible. We're talking network equipment from 15+ years ago, which is also obsolete because it's 1Gbps at 10x the pow…

Yes they did, at least twice in the 19th century. It was the largest financial crisis before 1929

Unless you are a personal assistant, your job probably is not to "make the life of your hiring manager easier". You have responsibilities, which ideally should be stipulated in som…

It has more words put together in seemingly correct sentences, so it's long enough his boss won't actually read it to proof it.

It is literally the ONE thing that every AI critic has been talking about for years. Several things can be true at the same time : it's possible for the wild claims of great effici…

It solves a problem for Stripe : potentially evading some incoming regulations in payments in the UK/EU (and U.S probably). Regulations in payments tend to be very technical, and i…

The why becoming stale is a feature, that's when you know there is a VALID reason you thought this looked weird and convoluted, instead of you completely missing the inherent compl…

> If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall. That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :) It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever th…

Every year someone figures out that encoding complex logic in type systems leads to complex type systems. YES. Types will not simplify your logic, they mean to represent it, in all…

7 days a week ? lmao.