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You are mixing up what authoritarian leaders want to know with what they want the public to know.

If you measure ‘bang’ by hardware metrics, they’re clearly orders of magnitude better value today. But if ‘bang’ means usefulness at solving life’s problems, it’s harder to compare…

That is a glaring false dichotomy.

Can someone who got past the paywall tell me what the definition of “fully autonomous” is here? I’m guessing it means the software selected targets based on something the human ope…

You’re missing the point. OK, it’s not ‘thinking’ in a pure sense; the point is it’s private notes. If someone says something to you, they are allowed to privately prepare it first…

I disagree with the sentiment. The prompt is not what you meant to say. It is part of the private act of thinking, of choosing your words. The thing you send is what you meant to s…

Funny story no one will believe, but it’s true. A good friend of mine joined a startup as CTO 10 years ago, high growth phase, maybe 200 devs… In his first week he discovered the c…

I have read it. I don’t think you get my point. I said ‘access to’. If you think about it, there is plenty of data freely available about the company in most job applications (ofte…

What are you talking about? You have access to far more info on them than they do on you.

You are not under attack. It’s just someone disagreeing with you. Please keep things civil.

I think that’s normal, I would expect RAM use to dwarf network transfer on most modern JS-heavy sites. If a page downloads 1MB JSON, that could easily take 10MB (maybe much more?) …

Because it’s a lot easier to refuse to buy an expensive gadget for your kids than to refuse to press a few buttons to set them free.

You can't really 'sacrifice' data. A more technically correct phrasing would be "I'm happy to reveal some data about me in return to get top notch search results". But even that ob…

No one suggested that driving a cab is not work. The ruling was about whether they are employed by Uber or self-employed contractors.

I don't think there's anything unreasonable about your feelings towards the NYT, and maybe if you'd expressed them in a standalone comment it might not have been downvoted. It's ju…

You are wrong here, at least in my case. I feel very strongly that the NYT was wrong to dox Scott Alexander, and I cancelled my subscription over it. But I also downvoted the comme…

Upvoting/downvoting is not supposed to be used to express agreement/disagreement. It's about whether the comment contributes to the discussion. The comment from DarkWiiPlayer was v…

I would write back to them very politely, something like this: Hello, Thank you for your email. I initially reacted by pulling the extension, in fear of possible legal consequences…