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This article, while probably true an accurate, seems designed to make SBF the fall guy by portraying him as a uniquely bad actor in the crypto space. In reality, the crypto space is full of fraud that is probably criminal and he is just the latest example. That doesn't excuse his behavior and he should probably go to prison for this but it would be a shame if people get taken in by thinking of him as just a bad apple.

What an embarrassing article to publish. I can't believe someone was paid for writing this many words about this particular topic. Regardless of if you agree with his politics, there is nothing opulent about having a net worth of $2 million at his age with his level of success. Much of his money was made through writing a book and you know he would be willing to pay the increased taxes himself. Just stupid.

Fitting that in a world where all the same old labor fights that were settled in the past are happening again that someone would un-ironically invent a new form of indentured servitude.

Makes me laugh at people who think that non STEM subjects have no value. Perhaps opening a book in one of those non STEM fields once in a while would help you avoid reinventing things consigned to the dust bin of history without realizing it.

Nearly but not quite as rich as when ride-sharing companies accidentally invent the city bus.

The man truly is his own worst enemy. Seemed clear that something was up with him when he called that cave diver a "pedo" for no apparent reason. I hope that being held accountable for his actions deflates his head a little bit. Smart guy who is working on some good stuff that most people support and he doesn't need to keep lying about it.

> "Private by design"

Lol

It's me, the company that hoards your personal data and just got hacked in a huge way, please put a camera in your house that I control which I _swear_ won't be used to spy on you.

Sort of hilariously tone deaf that they launch this right after they just got hacked.

Best news from them in months. I wish Instagram would do the same. The "smart" ordering of tweets and photos just makes my experience with both the apps worse.

I didn't downvote you :(

> Some analysis is better than no analysis.

I don't agree with that. Doing some analysis on a limited and possibly skewed data set can lull you into a false sense of understanding. It makes your ideas seems objective when they can in fact be completely baseless.

This idea always struck me as fairly misguided. It of course makes sense to try to muster evidence and data when making decisions but it's not some sort of panacea. The book The Tyranny of Metrics (https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Metrics-Jerry-Z-Muller/dp/069...) goes into the successes and failures of various attempts to use data for decision making in some detail. Found it to be an interesting read.

In terms of public policy you have to decide what you're optimizing for and that decision can't be made with data alone because it does not help resolve questions of value and fairness.

He doesn't seem to have done well on a lot of these predictions. These are slated to happen in the early 2000s:

> Translating telephones allow people to speak to each other in different languages.

This is sort of possible, but not fluently really.

> Machines designed to transcribe speech into computer text allow deaf people to understand spoken words.

This one basically exists.

> Exoskeletal, robotic leg prostheses allow the paraplegic to walk.

I think there are some prototypes of this type of stuff but nothing in widespread use.

> Telephone calls are routinely screened by intelligent answering machines that ask questions to determine the call's nature and priority.

Not really, we have IVRs but they are in no sense "smart"

> "Cybernetic chauffeurs" can drive cars for humans and can be retrofitted into existing cars. They work by communicating with other vehicles and with sensors embedded along the roads.

Not even close

Seems like Ray Kurzweil might not be the best predictor of what is actually going to happen in the future. Seems like a bit of a snake oil salesman to me.

Szilard features prominently in Richard Rhodes' "The Making of the Atomic Bomb." Definitely worth the read if you have an interest in early nuclear science. Really filled in a lot of details about scientists that I remember learning about in school but never knew much about personally. Highly recommend it!

Really great visualization here, kudos to the author. Really makes is clear what's going on. Made me think that things like this could be useful in textbooks as well if they were more digital. Maybe in the next few years there will be a better way to integrate this kind of stuff into courses, I guess today they could always happen in lectures.

I suspect this will be a fairly regular story in the next few months/years. Self-driving tech seems to be a lot further off than people think so a lot of companies that were formerly very exciting will not be able to deliver and will need to close up shop. I think there's some possibility that it will go the way of flying cars at least for now.

Fortunately a lot of the tech that does work can find a second life as progressive enhancement for human drivers. Blind spot detection, auto lane following, and smart cruise control are great features that ease some of the burden in driving and I think it's good to see them being more widely distributed in newer cars.

If you believe that a company whose whole purpose is to use data on you to sell ads won't use data on you that it collects to sell ads then I have a bridge to sell you.

Funny that people complained so much about GDPR being bad for business and then get upset when things like this happen. It's almost like the two are related or something...

Was really hoping that "No Reservations" was the Anthony Bourdain show rather than the movie. Somehow I don't think so though.

Amazon really has to take this back to the drawing board. ~5% accuracy is pretty terrible...

I think that's the most important message of the book. It's not enough to sympathize with the Lorax, you have to do something about it if you want it to be any different.

Funny how they needed to make the story serious by applying machine learning to determine exactly which type of monkey the Lorax was based on. One would think that just looking at them would be sufficient.

The Lorax living on that land does make him even more sympathetic but it's not like he was un-sympathetic before that. Funny that a popular children's story has the message "Capitalism will destroy the environment" at a time when the politics of that statement and environmental policy in general are so fraught.

> The FAA rubber-stamped those measures Friday.

Not sure what this line is supposed to mean. Is he referring to them approving them without knowing what they are?

I'm glad for the FAA's rules. U.S. air travel is extremely safe despite constant efforts on the part of airlines to reduce costs for themselves without enough concern for safety. I don't think we can trust any transportation company to value the lives of its passengers at an appropriately high level so they need to be forced with regulation.

Read "Ev Williams" and thought of "Evan Williams" the bourbon and was like I don't see how the maker of a cheap alcohol is going to help fix the internet.

Until people start going to jail for their illegal activity rather than just paying out nominal fines I wouldn't expect their behavior to change. This is at least the 3rd major fine Wells Fargo has paid in the last few years.

If only people remembered that the second half of the expression about "a few bad apples" is that they "spoil the bunch."

As the internet hippo said: "Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and chanting 'Better things aren't possible.'"

Shocking news that a company aiming to put a microphone in every house is also working on how to analyze all the voice information it can gather.

I haven't had much luck using Instacart at all. At my last job we would order normal sized bottled water for our office fairly regularly and 9/10 times they would bring the tiny bottles. Also they claim on their website that "Fresh produce picked perfectly" but this couldn't be further from the truth. The produce you get seems to be chosen at random and is often mediocre or bad.

Seems likely that the shoppers are under too much pressure to rush so that they can barely earn a living and this leads to much lower quality for the customer.

Best endorsement of GDPR they could possibly make. Everyone knows Facebook collects more data than most people probably want so it follows that a privacy law they don't want to roll out everywhere must help curtail that to some degree.

Some great suggestions here. One thing I've found is that developers commonly don't take the time to set themselves tooling-wise. Even simple things like linting built into your editor can provide a big lift by helping catch certain classes of bugs. That's especially true in a dynamic language. But in my experience many people don't want to take the time for that sort of thing.

> Whenever you find something in the code you do not understand - it is too complex.

+100 to this. The general measure of whether code is good should be something like the median understanding of all the people working on the project. Something that makes a lot of sense to only one developer ultimately does not serve the group. I think people forget this quite a bit.

Excited to check out this series and glad that Antirez took the time to make it. Would be cool to see more people make this kind of thing in the same mold of this and the DHH series from the last few weeks. Very interesting to hear something like a person's inner monologue while they're writing and reading code.

It's about time. Blatantly lying to investors is fraud and should be prosecuted as such. People who defraud others should face consequences for doing so.

This is a fantastic result. The main issue with Ruby has always been the tradeoff of speed for an expressive and powerful language. In my experience the ecosystem around Rails is amazingly productive vs other languages and getting this much of a speed increase makes choosing it even more viable than it was already. Excited to see where Ruby and Rails go from here.

It's a shame we moved a lot of the US industrial base to an authoritarian and potentially hostile country like China. A bit scary to think of the generation or two of people who won't have the knowledge to manufacture things should they ever need to because of conflict in some form. Seems like it reduces any leverage the US has for holding China accountable for much that it does.