Another similar “shortcut” I’ve heard about was that a system that analyzed job performance determined that the two key factors were being named “Jared” and playing lacrosse in high school.
And, these are the easy-to-figure-out ones we know about.
If the bias is more complicated, it might never be spotted.
Yes, “Bias Automation” is always an issue with the training data, and it’s always harder to resolve than anyone thinks.
All EVs come with Level 1 chargers that plug in to your standard house outlet.
Sure, but if you use those it takes a very long time to charge. Like, from empty it can take 40+ hours to charge a battery EV from empty to 80%. If you’re using your car to commute and your commute is anywhere near the max range of your car, that isn’t a viable option.
Hopefully it won’t be, but charging an electric car is still not a standard thing for apartment buildings to offer tenants. So, for the moment, that’s a major reason for renters to not take the plunge.
it’s super convenient to never go to a gas station again, and to wake up to a full tank
But, to make that possible, you basically have to have a “gas station” at home. If you own your own house you can modify it to install a charging spot. If you rent, you might not have that option.
I don’t have a parking space at my apartment
A way to charge it at home is also a major issue for anybody who lives in an apartment.
The one freedom the GPL removes is the freedom to be a leech. If you’re linking to GPL code, you are agreeing to follow the same rules as everybody else who has contributed to that code. Nobody gets a pass
Work for hire is a completely different situation. You have to accept the terms of whoever’s paying you to do the work.
This comic is more about someone doing something as a hobby project, or writing their own software not under someone else’s direction, where they have full freedom to choose their own license.
Backed by $1 in the legacy banking system
Yes, other memecoins used to also be pegged to the dollar, but they lost their peg, like TerraUSD and Tether.
which represents exactly $1.
Until it doesn’t.
It’s no different than a number in your banks database, except it’s in your custody, like cash.
And it’s not a real currency, it’s a memecoin.
Is your bank’s database a currency?
No, my bank’s database is a database, it refers to a currency that is real because it is accepted for paying taxes, fines, etc.
but I’m happy to teach you about the industry if you’re interested
There’s nothing you could teach that would be valuable to learn. You seem to be in on the grift, looking for another person to get in on the pyramid scheme. Good luck with that, but I’m not interested.
Like a number in the database at your bank. No different than that.
Except that my bank stores dollars, not memecoins.
Are you saying that is a different concept than usdc
Yes, because “USDC” isn’t a currency.
USDC is absolutely a token on many different ledgers that represents a currency.
No, it is a speculative investment. If it were a currency it would be something people were using to buy things, accepting for selling things, using to pay taxes and fines, using to invest in something else, etc.
It’s not a currency, it’s at best some kind of intermediate thing used to buy even more speculative “investments”.
The customer was using cloudflare IP addresses, which is causing a knock-on effect for the rest of cloudflare’s customers and putting cloudflare as a business themselves at risk.
Right, so sales should not be involved in any way.
The alternative was for the customer to use their own IP addresses as cloudflare advised .
Again, sales should not have been involved in any way.
I’m not sure what you think ‘Business development’ teams do but I certainly wouldn’t be expecting engineering advice from them.
They are at least not identical to sales. They work with sales, but there’s at least some engineering component of the job. In this case if you were told you were meeting with the business development team, you’d expect that there would be talk about an engineering solution to the problem. Not just paying cloudflare more money.
I’m 100% on the side of CF.
100%?
We scheduled a call with their “Business Development” department. Turns out the meeting was with their Sales team,
…
So we scheduled another call, now with their “Trust and Safety” team. But it turns out, we were actually talking to Sales again.
This is the part that’s ridiculous to me. If CloudFlare thinks they’re violating TOS that’s fine. If they’re willing to let them continue with their business as-is as long as they pay more? That’s fine. But, scheduling calls with one group and it turns out it’s actually CloudFlare’s sales team on the phone, that’s ridiculous.
And most of that history tells us why it’s a good idea to democratize currency.
No… that history tells us that currency only exists when there’s a state / religion in control. There’s no reason for currency without a state / religion. Not only would it not work, it’s also unnecessary.
Decentralized currencies were in place
Uh huh… like when?
The difference is that medicine, as a concept, is useful.
Interestingly, for a currency to actually be useful, there needs to be a demand for it, something that you can only pay for in that currency. For real currencies that is normally taxes. England only accepts taxes paid in pounds, so there’s a demand for pounds from every person who has to pay taxes in England. For crypto, extortion is basically the only source of demand.
Sure, occasionally there are places that accept both real currencies and crypto currencies, but for legit businesses almost none of the revenue comes from the crypto side. But, for ransomware, etc. the hackers only accept crypto. That means there’s a demand for crypto, which means that it has some value.
I actually considered a non-governmental, community regulated currency as a pretty good idea.
That goes against the entire history of currencies. Every successful currency in history has been controlled by either the state or a religion (which was effectively state-like).
The full scene if anyone’s interested.
Carl Weathers is an interesting contrast to Arnold. Arnold got his muscles by focusing on how he looked, on bodybuilding. Weathers developed his physique training for professional gridiron football. He played college football, then in the NFL (coached by John Madden) and CFL. Arnold used his unique physique as a way to get into movies without ever training as an actor. Weathers was studying theatre arts while playing college football, and finally finished the degree in 1974 just after retiring from pro football. He went on to get a master of theatre arts later.
Both of them pivoted extremely successfully to comedy later in their careers, with Weathers doing Happy Gilmore and Arrested Development, and Arnold doing his whole variety of comedy movies.
Also, good to know that Weathers loved this scene:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/baby-carl-weathers-has-a-stew-going