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Sounds like you were motivated, hard-working, and played the game as best you could. Though it sounds like you might've overlooked two of the most important ingredients entrepreneu…

Sure. Some people can pull that off. Doesn’t sound like OPs problem. Also there’s a difference between over-preparing and coming in with a desperate attitude. You’re right that if …

I find my interview anxiety is directly connected to how much sheer preparation I do. There is no substitute for this. Spend several hours: scouring the internet for common AND unc…

What a delightfully garbage take! Also: “The defining quality of an ideologue, whether on the left or the right, is to acquire one's opinions in bulk. You don't get to pick and cho…

"It seems that most people who care already understand the high-level principals of US media propaganda manufacturing..." Well, how do principals emerge in the first place? Often b…

"Meanwhile, Amazon’s Echo and voice-assisted personal assistant, Alexa, was in an estimated 24% of US households as of the fourth quarter of 2018..." Well that's unnerving.

did the same a while back. Though it likely doesn't change much, never hurts to tell them that this is the specific reason you're leaving.

shout out to the guy who put down two Chomsky books. Manufacturing Consent is one of the most important works of the 20th century. You'll never read the news the same way again.

I think the ire is necessary. The article gives a fair range of the different baseline operations and their carbon footprint. Sure the title is provocative, but it’s accurate. And …

“In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, performed a life cycle assessment for training several common large AI models. They found that the process…

Can someone help me out here... this is not a charter school, correct? "Indeed, half of Pathfinder’s inaugural class was previously homeschooled, Wilder says. Legally, they still a…

yes precisely my thought

I hear you. Liu's outlook is deeply pessimistic. His obvious scientific background knowledge seems to be infused with a dash of western, neoliberal ideology-- that it's just dog-ea…

yes- I hate to nitpick with these sort of things since I really enjoyed the essay, but as a lover of Liu's series I took issue with the dark forest analogy. I think the author was …

Re/ oura rings... anyone else paranoid of a private company having access to intensely personal data? If I were an insurance company I'd be lobbying the shit out of these guys to s…

"In general, Facebook candidates are asking much tougher questions about the company’s approach to privacy, according to multiple former recruiters." That made me smile <3

"To be fair, wouldn't that suggest strong oversight might work then?" Fair point, that might work if: 1. a public safety/citizens oversight committee does its job consistently, 2. …

yeah, maybe... but the question is always 'at what cost?' There are ways of cutting down on racial profiling that don't require turning our city into a panopticon.

"Perhaps a better argument for an early and complete local ban might be that it allows other regions to be the test subjects." It's a valid thought, honestly. Though seeing how tig…

Fully agree, also having multiple municipalities push through legislation like this can indicate to the state, which can take years to legislate to these issues, that there is a gr…

You sound pretty cynical on the issue. Maybe you should come advocate with us and see for yourself the opportunities we still have to create meaningful change in this space.

reposting my comment below: "please remember that there are coalitions of activists advocating multiple issues for civil rights simultaneously, and that a victory in one area (e.g.…

would if we could. that genie's been long out of the bottle, but facial recognition hasn't been adopted to the same extent, yet, because the technology is so nascent.

I can understand that viewpoint. But if we look at the track record of how authorities actually use surveillance technology, it is aggressively used to squash dissent, rather than …