playeren

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Comment · 2 years ago
According to The Economist it was Jensen Huang (NVIDIA).
Comment · 2 years ago
Oh I'm sure editorial staff across all major media is prepping for the right moment to pop that front page. I'm guessing that we're not long from seeing the first "personhood for software" mainstream (premature) discussions popping up. I personally can't wait for it - it's going to be a real shitshow :D
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
> These people just want a dependable platform they control

Are you referencing Apollo/Reddit users? If so, I'm not convinced that 'control' is their main concern. I would guess that most users outside of the HN crowd care more about a nice UI, and of course being wherever all the action is. Both points do not seem in focus in any of the federated platforms I've seen so far. The UI is usually a carbon copy (at best) of whatever platform they're trying to replace, and the federation makes it less obvious for users where and how they get access to most engaging content. I am happy to be proven wrong though. The federated route is appealing to me on paper, but I'm not yet convinced it has good product/market fit with the general population on the internet.

Comment · 3 years ago
Has anyone got Canvas to work on the Android client? Any canvas files won't show up in the vault.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The important point of this story is not whether VIN plates should or shouldn't be affixed with rivets. It is whether the state should be able to _administratively_ confiscate personal and valuable property without a court order. Civil forfeiture laws have no place in democratic societies.
Comment · 4 years ago
I made this mistake once, albeit with Newtons second law instead. I was explaining my estimations for changing some key processes in a company. As a kind of mental aid, I used 'F' as the total effort needed to make the change, while 'm' represented the size of the organization, and 'a' would represent the speed we wanted to perform the change with. F = m * a. A simple way of illustrating the exponential relationship between these factors.

But it blew their mind. It took on 'mystical' properties, as if we had distilled change management into pure Newtonian motion. I started seeing not only F = ma in memos on other issues, but also other equations like E = mc^2, trying to wrestle management lingo into relativistic conservation of energy.

Lesson learned, I guess.

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