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Comment · 1 year ago
companies are contacting employees who are out of the US, for whatever reason
Comment · 1 year ago
Do we draw a distinction between building a DB for ICE deportations and providing AI services to governments that use it to target and kill civilians?

Google and Microsoft do the latter

Comment · 2 years ago
Useful to consider how many accounts that are not high profile were deleted and if these high profile accounts were a casualty ofa much more aggressive attempt to silence a segment of voices then then next question is, what is the criteria being used?
Comment · 3 years ago
there's a difference between rate limiting the amount of posts you make (to avoid spam) and rate limiting the amount of posts you read
Comment · 3 years ago
potatoes have that in spuds
Comment · 3 years ago
> 8 cups of solid food but intestines can comfortably only process 2-3 cups of food at a time

this is really interesting, do you have any additional references on this?

Comment · 3 years ago
the cool thing is that written Arabic, for the most part, does not suffer from that. A speaker can pick up a book written in the 11th century and find that the grammar, words, structure are all consistent and understandable.

it isn't like English and something like the The Canterbury Tales

Comment · 3 years ago
this is just a sorting of the most popular apps
Comment · 3 years ago
"is at hand"
Comment · 3 years ago
removing some layers of management is not the same as removing all managers. this google writeup discusses removing all managers
Comment · 3 years ago
no, he's referring to the total size of the team, not directly
Comment · 3 years ago
R&D is an investment not a loss. It might be the case Meta is wasting money and isn't finding a viable path to a product, but that is yet to be determined.

do we see headlines describing how much Alphabet has "lost" on Waymo? or how much Toyota has "lost" on EV development?

why fall for that framing here?

Comment · 3 years ago
this would be the headline: "callous tech company lays off tech company then trials unvetted chat bots on them"

along with all the examples of it giving awful advice

Comment · 3 years ago
has anyone ever used the term "code request" in this context before?
Comment · 3 years ago
isn't this exactly why it is more expensive? less supply because of the formula, the formula is more expensive to make --> so higher prices

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