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Subject line corrected.
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Age discrimination because the Google employee assumed a byte to be 8 bits.  Even if you are 60 something years old, surely you know that nobody uses other size bytes these days. That's a ridiculous accusation.
"'Do what thou wilt...' is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself."
—Aleister Crowley
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Nice cherry picking there. I would say that the following is more damning...
During one interview process, Fillekes says, a recruiter requested that she submit an updated résumé that showed her graduation dates for college and graduate degrees. When Fillekes asked why this was required, she says the recruiter responded that it was "so the interviewers can see how old you are."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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For many years __has_include was available as an extension in Clang. Now it’s in the Standard! I can haz include?
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This was a long and difficult read (detailed notes about the brain implant) but an interesting take on brain/computer interface.
https://www.wired.com/2016/01/phil-kennedy-mind-control-computer/[^]
Title: The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind
wired article said: It will be a long time before anyone starts sending fully formed thoughts to a computer, he says—and even longer before anyone finds it really useful. Think about speech-recognition software, which has been around for decades, Schalk says. “It was probably 80 percent accurate in 1980 or something, and 80 percent is a pretty remarkable achievement in terms of engineering. But it’s useless in the real world,” he says. “I still don’t use Siri, because it’s not good enough.”
In the meantime, there are far simpler and more functional ways to help people who have trouble speaking. If a patient can move a finger, he can type out messages in Morse code. If a patient can move her eyes, she can use eye-tracking software on a smartphone. “These devices are dirt cheap,” Schalk says. “Now you want to replace one of these with a $100,000 brain implant and get something that’s a little better than chance?”
I try to square this idea with all the stunning cyborg demonstrations that have made their way into the media over the years—people drinking coffee with robotic arms, people getting brain implants in Belize. The future always seems so near at hand, just as it did a half century ago when José Delgado stepped into that bullring. One day soon we’ll all be brains inside computers; one day soon our thoughts and feelings will be uploaded to the Internet; one day soon our mental states will be shared and data-mined. We can already see the outlines of this scary and amazing place just on the horizon—but the closer we get, the more it seems to fall back into the distance.
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OpenAI, a company working on AI for the public good, is committing to build with Microsoft new Azure AI supercomputing technologies, and getting a $1 billion infusion from Microsoft as part of the arrangement. Keep your friends close, and pay your enemies to keep them closer
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could this be an other nokia moment?
ZUCKERBERG: Senator, this is a — a — a very important question and, in general, I think over time we're going to move towards more proactive review, with more A.I. tools to help flag problematic content.
In the near term, we have a lot of content on the platform, and we — it's — it's hard to review every single thing up front. We do a quick screen. But I — I agree with you that I think in — in this specific case, I'm not happy with where we are, and I — I think it makes sense to — to really focus on making sure that these areas get more reviews sooner.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Equifax has agreed to a settlement over its 2017 data breach that saw as many as 147 million people’s personal information, including names, birth dates, addresses, and social security numbers, exposed by the company. Only $5 each - cheaper than a credit report!
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The users won't probably see a dollar of that.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Magic 8-ball says, "Signs point to yes" 
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Magic 8-ball says, "Signs point to yes"
My technological black ball says I will never use a service that equifax profits from.
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From their first years of life, human beings have the innate ability to learn continuously and build mental models of the world, simply by observing and interacting with things or people in their surroundings. Does it involve putting diapers on the AI?
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No, but it does depend on punching you in the face and then laughing hysterically. And then screaming like they are dying when you give them a gummy bear instead of a sour patch.
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goo-goo ... da-da ... cookie ... toy ... cereal ... hamburger ... gun ... more cpu's ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Fingerpainting with its own filth? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Golly.
So these guys have advanced their conceptualisations to the point where we were thirty years ago.
I'm impressed.
Next thing you know, they'll be inventing the Internet.
Or the abacus.
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Many are also not paying attention to internal communications unless they absolutely must. For just pennies a day, you can buy a Brit a decent machine
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I suspect they are vastly overestimating the value of this work.
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According to this guy, they promoted the situation into being themselves.
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The article, para 2: A new report from Insight claims that UK office workers waste 1.8 hours every year (2.4 hours a week), struggling with the technology they’re given as working tools.
Remind me again, how many weeks are there in a year?  They probably spend all that time looking for the right Calendar app.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Sloth, avarice, low wages, corrupt management, stifling bureaucratic regulations, boredom, drugs were excluded from the study ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Back in the '80s, we Brits were way better at wasting time at work - lunch-time drinking, POETS day, office golf, incessant tea making ... you name it. We made our own entertainment in those days and didn't have to rely on technology to slow us down.
We may have been poor but we were happy!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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The biggest technological time waster is in deciding whether to walk around looking busy carrying a laptop or a tablet, or just sticking with the tried-and-trusted clipboard.
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Early this year, we reported about a serious vulnerability in WhatsApp app that will allow hackers to install spyware in your iPhone or Android. Sure is a good thing there aren't any governments that will use this inappropriately
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Kent Sharkey wrote: WhatsApp
What'sThat?
Listen, guys, use something "exotic" like TokBiz or WeChat, eh?
They do the same data reaping, but they DGAF about the data from Western users, so you get security and anonymity via total lack of interest.
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