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Indeed. Also, companies with a genuine and socially at least somewhat useful business model prefer focusing on customers buying their actual products as the main revenue source. Th…

It may not be sloppiness. Consider the official statement as shared in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=47789061 . The ministry of defense will issue an 'excepti…

What would be a balanced perspective? Perhaps that oAI may now be another "boring" startup in that it is no longer primarily about moving the technology frontier, but about further…

Couldn't one interpret "magical systems thinking" as a fallacy that people may commit when applying systems thinking? More broadly, I find some of the comments here rather harsh, a…

They do not allow this any more. So _that_ problem has actually been addressed.

> That's not as inspiring as it could be, but it's a lot better than the tech industry overall. I regularly see both worlds. What I find more troubling in academia is that it is di…

It is well-known that top-conferences had and still have many problems. Some examples: There used to be the problem with authors adding new co-authors after acceptance, aka "sellin…

This is an interesting perspective, and I assume your definition is the technically correct one. Still, many SEs receive substantial compensation in RSUs, direct stocks, shares in …

Well, for the time SEs are substantially better paid than working-class jobs, they are not the working class. For now, this applies at least to some regions, not only within the US…

The narrative reflects a broader cultural shift, from "we are all in this together" (pandemic) to "our organizations are bloated and people don't work hard enough" (already pre-LLM…

Is it really that LLM-based tools make developers so much more productive or rather that organizations have found out they can do with less -- and less privileged -- developers? Wh…

Why is it a terrible take? You first have to understand a community in order to reform it. You can't just say "I actually have no idea how to do research in this field, have not co…

You are introducing a straw-man argument here (that obviously ignores basic facts about population sizes of Sweden and China, so it's wrong on both meta- and object-level). But fol…

In the ethno-nationalistic sense, Sweden is not a nation state. In its current reality, Sweden is ethnically diverse and it (partially) covers the homelands of several peoples/"nat…

The historic reality begs to differ: Sweden covers large parts of the traditional homelands of non-Swedish people. Current reality differs as well, obviously. No matter how you twi…

Based on practical experience, NPS is garbage because: 1) Even with stable mean and median, NPS tends to vary month over month, at least for my B2B settings where samples are proba…

Without knowing the specific context: I think this really is a good example of how errors should be disclosed. We need to acknowledge that scientists/academics are human; even very…

The Corchado issue is merely an extreme "black and white" case, whereas the overall problem is more nuanced. E.g., there is no clear line between an implicit citation cartel and a …

> performance doesn't matter for the staff to be paid. That's not the case for the people who are in the key phase of establishing themselves as academics and who are generally not…

Note that "false positives" may appear in the Google Scholar results for such queries. For example, a high-profile AI researcher shared a screenshot of https://scholar.google.com/s…

I would still assume that with apps like Snapchat, there are inherent problems on meta-level (from an E2EE view) because for the users, Snapchat is essentially a trusted third part…

Sorry, to refine my comment: what typical B2C messengers and social media apps sell as end-to-end encryption does not help. Is this correct?

The article somewhat suggests that the guy used the airport's wifi. In this case and assuming that the wifi network supports government surveillance by design, end-to-end encryptio…

What I disagree with in the article is the _I never make mistakes_ attitude; it could be worse, but I still think it's good to discuss. The author writes that because they are "ser…

If so, let's start with the former (god) and point us not only to the proof, but also to the theorem and the underlying definitions. There are many logicians with a scientific inte…