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CreateAccntAgn commented on Time Doesn’t Belong to Physics – When Bergson met Einstein   iai.tv/articles/time-does... · Posted by u/mellosouls
robertlagrant · 2 years ago
> Bergson emphasised the cultural and technological context in which Einstein formulated relativity and argued that a theory of time that relies on clocks but doesn’t understand their history and significance, is incomplete

This is hard to get on board with. A theory of time is incomplete without a history of clocks? Have I misunderstood?

CreateAccntAgn · 2 years ago
It is incomplete in that it cannot replace older ideas of time in all contexts. It is perfectly valid/complete for use in scientific contexts. But the general population's use the idea of time for other purposes as well where Einsteins purely Relativistic formulation cannot be a stand in replacement is how I read it.
CreateAccntAgn commented on Twitter bans ads that contradict science on climate change   apnews.com/article/climat... · Posted by u/DocFeind
CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
Scientific consensus on climate change is pretty well defined. Is anyone saying that messages that contradict them are correct sometimes and so Twitter is wrong in this action? Corps have been abusing capital to amplify their speech intentionally misleading public on this subject regardless of its harm. This imho is the right move.
CreateAccntAgn commented on Nearly half of Mariupol has suffered grave damage   economist.com/graphic-det... · Posted by u/nathan_phoenix
tosser0001 · 4 years ago
There is a Twitter satire account that said something I thought was subtly profound:

If you ever wondered what you would have done to stop Hitler, you're doing it now.

CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
Is that aimed at Germany/Europe for bankrolling Russia via energy purchases or the common man?

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CreateAccntAgn commented on Nvidia R&D chief on how AI is improving chip design   hpcwire.com/2022/04/18/nv... · Posted by u/chuckjchen
maxwells-daemon · 4 years ago
I work on this team! (Specifically: applied deep learning research, chip design).

It's a shame to see so many people dismissing this work as marketing. I see lots of clever people working hard on really novel and interesting stuff, and I really do think that ML has real potential to customize a design much more "deeply" than traditional automation tools.

CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
Any word on how the accuracy/quality of final results compare to traditional flows? Are process variations handled differently (with regards to training or modelling) compared to IR? I assume traditional vendors (CDNS/SNPS/MENT) all have (or working on) AI driven tools as well. How do they compare?
CreateAccntAgn commented on Google hired union-busting consultants to convince employees “unions suck”   arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/60654
tnel77 · 4 years ago
I am very pro-union, but I feel like a part of situation you are describing is because we needs businesses. We don’t necessarily need unions. Without unions, businesses would still be here. Without businesses, where would the unions be?

Edit: I would like to reiterate that I am pro-union. I am just saying that unions are optional, but businesses (or the government as some have pointed out) are more necessary from the standpoint you don’t usually form a union and then start a business. I like unions, but they are technically optional and I think that fact is what leads to people being more critical of them. When businesses/government sucks, there’s kind of a “well that’s how it is I guess.” When a union sucks, there’s a “why even do this then?”

CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
The are police and other public sector unions. The point of unions is to protect labor interests. Unions can exist as long as labor does.
CreateAccntAgn commented on The Amazon Empire Strikes Back   stratechery.com/2021/the-... · Posted by u/feross
CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
Wonder how China feels about Amazon growing as a vital link to markets globally or atleast to the US.
CreateAccntAgn commented on Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place   element.io/blog/element-o... · Posted by u/mcjiggerlog
pmlnr · 4 years ago
I want this to take off. I'm tired of having to follow trends because people suddenly think there's a new shinyshinytrendy thing around: IRC to ICQ to MSN to Skype to Google Talk to Facebook Messenger to Whatsapp to Signal.

Pidgin is good (I also miss the ancient Trillian, even though it was closed source), but limited to a local device.

There are XMPP Transports as well for these (see https://git.eta.st/eta/whatsxmpp , https://gitlab.com/nicocool84/spectrum2_signald , but sadly https://spectrum.im/ is surprisingly finicky to set up.)

EDIT: for encryption fans, I've been wondering for a long time now: why would you trust ANY 3rd party with your so sensitive data instead of running your own service? Are you not aware of OMEMO for XMPP? (See https://omemo.top/ )

CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
I dont have a PhD in crypography and am not sure I will do a good enough job in covering even potential mid-level vulnerabilities. I still care about privacy and so use Signal.
CreateAccntAgn commented on S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'   reuters.com/business/medi... · Posted by u/pseudolus
CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
"The move comes after a Seoul court said Netflix should "reasonably" give something in return to the internet service provider for network usage"

Any additional info on why the courts said so?

CreateAccntAgn commented on Google, Apple remove Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin   reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/exizt88
oliwarner · 4 years ago
Except that by this point, all this is expected behaviour.

If companies don't want to be complicit in these crimes, they need to extricate themselves from the country and cut all ties.

If they do want to put profit ahead of everything else, then whatever, but you don't get to defend them as doing the right thing for their employees. They're enabling the whole situation.

[Edit to bring in a sister question] "Why don't Apple pull out of China then?" - because they put profit and cheap manufacturing ahead of their morals. And apparently we don't care enough that China effected a genocide while we watched.

CreateAccntAgn · 4 years ago
Some of Americas closest allies are authoritarian regimes. Why would anyone expect profit moticated companies like Google or Apple to have higher moral standards than the elected representative US goverment where it operates from itself?

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