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debt··on Google under investigation for ‘Thanksgiving Four’ firings, discouraging unions
You’re saying that now when times are good. Ain’t gonna be this way forever.
debt··on Building a Search Engine from Scratch
google's suggested autocorrect is one it's most impressive features; idk I'd say the relevance of the search results almost comes in a near second to that.

so make a competitive "suggested autocorrect" solution and then I think you'd have a stew going.

debt··on The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
"US intelligence agencies do the same, no?"

Yes, definitely, again another thing beyond dispute. Not sure what the point is you're trying to make though.

debt··on The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
Yes so buyer beware. Russian government currently engaged in global disinformation campaigns, use app at your own risk.
debt··on The FBI considers FaceApp to be a potential counterintelligence threat [pdf]
It’s worth noting that the heads of CIA, FBI, NSA, DHS and the Justice Department have all confirmed the Russian government are currently actively engaged in ongoing global disinformation campaigns propagated primarily on social media designed to sway elections in democracies abroad.

It’s beyond dispute.

The Russian government has breached confidentiality.

debt··on Yes, And – How to be effective in the theatre of work
Furthermore, work doesn’t speak so you’ll have to speak for it. And defend it. And sell it.
debt··on Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players
whats being lost here I think idk is the fact that the robot lost once because lee de-dol exploited a bug in alpha go. lee seems to play it down as “just a bug” but it seems like that might be a pretty good strategy.
debt··on Google Fires Four Workers, Including Staffer Tied to Protest
Pretty remarkable that all 4 of them engaged in the exact same alleged snooping activity, were all union organizers and were all fired.

In a company with thousands of employees, what are the odds.

debt··on The revolution of machine learning has been exaggerated
The concept of AI to the average person outside of the computer bubble is "human intelligence made artificial"

So if it's not actually thinking, then technically, from the perspective of an average layperson, it is not real AI. However, the "AI effect" is still real, but it's related to a problem local to academics and AI laypeople.

Most non-AI-laypeople/AI academics believe AI is a machine that can think like how a person thinks.

debt··on Tesla Cybertruck
It's no coincidence the hull of the Starship will also be made of cold-rolled stainless steel.
debt··on Google Kills Cloud Print
I mean they kept it around for 10 years before killing it. They certainly tried.

It's printing physical paper. It's 2019, does it really confuse anyone as to why they would kill a product that prints paper? Even if it was successful in the short term, which it wasn't, it seems very rational to kill Cloud Print from a business perspective in the long term.

The developed world been moving far, far away from print for a while now. I imagine if you look at the graph of overall paper usage, you'll see it going down and to the right for some time into the future until it's near zero. Definitely the wrong business to be in.

It has no long-term prospects.

debt··on The Making of Margaret Atwood
It’s also a marketing strategy. She’d serve a wider audience as speculative fiction than as science fiction.
debt··on Office noise bothers some people more than others
“I unplugged it and put it in a dumpster. Nobody ever complained.”

Amazing. Good work.

debt··on John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence
We still haven’t solved language nor intelligence.

Like what is language, what is intelligence? Some of the smartest linguists and philosophers would proudly declare they have no fucking clue.

Making Alexa turn on the lights or using Google Translate are cool party tricks though.

Idc how many Doom games ya made, but I’m sorry to say a bunch of software engineers aren’t gonna crack this one.

debt··on Disney+ hit by technical glitches on launch day
“Wouldn't the moral choice be to just not watch?”

I agree with you here but people grew up with Disney. Certain people have an affinity for Disney like I’ve never seen for any other brand.

They will bend over backwards to justify watching it, even if it means making some serious moral compromises.

debt··on No Shenanigans
I've always wondered: what's the purpose of company values?

I genuinely don't know.

debt··on Amazon’s roadmap for Alexa is scarier than anything Facebook or Twitter is doing
None of that is scary. Moreso invasive and annoying. Perfecting Alexa in any meaningful way will take decades unless business interest shift away from it completely.

This is jus another hack some suit is probably pitching Bezos on but has no real roadmap for actually achieving it.

Propping the product up with more crap.

debt··on The Strange Rise of Music Holograms
A hologram is a light field captured onto a film.

These live displays are usually just some sort of optical illusion.

A real hologram shows you the actual light from the captured event as it’s the entire light field from the event. So your eyes are receiving essentially stored light.

debt··on The Strange Rise of Music Holograms
They're technically not holograms but Pepper's ghost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper%27s_ghost

Calling them a hologram is like calling a lenticular a gif.

debt··on AT&T to pay $60M over U.S. allegations it lied in 'unlimited data' pledge
If you wanna have a good laugh:

Go to an AT&T store and purchase a plan with a phone using installments. Then, wait a day, and try to return it at a different AT&T store.

You will go through the absolutely worst customer experience imaginable; so bad, in fact, it'll make you laugh out loud. Their printers won't work, they'll be too slow, the systems will go down, the batteries will die in their payment devices. At least that's what I experienced on every one of the three times they asked me to come back to the store to return the phone(because each time their systems simply were unable to do it).

So it's no surprise to me that they got caught lying to their customers.

debt··on U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly
Yet we got Lil Nas X out of it.

Their censorship algorithm must be broken.

debt··on Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
I don’t think they were only using microwaves.
debt··on Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
I’ve heard the microwave radiation exposure(to communicate with the drones in terrain that wouldn’t allow it) during the Iraq War endured by drone pilots was obviously way higher than legally allowed within the United States at least. Definitely high enough to cause cancer.
debt··on Veterans want answers as new data shows rise in cancers over two decades of war
The VA prioritizes veterans who served in areas of Vietnam that were exposed to Agent Orange. They have a special designation that is, I believe, the highest priority of care at the VA. Second only to something like WWII veterans.
debt··on Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study
Poor guy. Maybe you should hang out with your dad and show him?
debt··on Facebook employees speak out on political ads
They don't want to exercise editorial control of their ads because "fact checking" crosses the chasm of media company vs not-a-media company.

They super duper don't want to be called a media company.

They're simply a publisher. ;)

debt··on Early-Career Setbacks Can Set You Up for Success
"Family problems, leaving school, bad boss, bad partner, spiteful interviewer, health/injury problems"

Ruthlessly competitive people are affected by all of those things. But because they're ruthlessly competitive, they usually won't allow those things to set them back.

Now, you don't have to be ruthlessly competitive, but you should at least be aware that other people are, so don't think they'll be set back by the same things that set you back.

debt··on The decline in U.S. life expectancy is unlike anything seen in a century (2018)
Simple economics: expensive legal prescription drugs drives people to source cheaper alternatives. Unfortunately, the cheaper alternative is also much more lethal.

I think there's a narrative that is the opioid crisis is driven by addiction, when it seems to be, and has historically has been, inefficient drug pricing.

debt··on I just lost my wallet on the way home from work
What's a "reference"? You can enter arbitrary info during a transaction?

Genuinely curious. Is this a UK thing or available everywhere?

debt··on Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram Restricted in Southern Turkey
Sneakernet is the most future-proof solution. It's impossible to stop by design. It can be discouraged with arrest, but not stopped completely.
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