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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • He’s not wrong though. Tech isn’t being developed to improve people’s lives. It’s being developed to deepen pockets. There is a very low chance of a future in which NY becomes some “old school holdout championing people’s rights against the tyranny of self driving cars,” so better to work on regulation, adoption, and putting systems in place now to provide the best public benefit rather than either banning it outright until market forces overwhelm that, or ignoring regulation and letting market forces dictate what rules would be in place there (hint: none). Hate capitalism, not the Mayor that is trying to plan ahead for the city






  • You’re being very black and white here. Engineering work both uses the scientific method (e.g. test a hypothesis to prove it true) and the literal science (e.g. proven hypotheses) to achieve the structures we have today.

    In the same way, the formal study of computer science is through the scientific method, but that often comes as a byproduct of trying something new through software development, and proving, through hypotheses and testing, that the outcome is repeatable. Many computer science white papers have come out of hacky software engineering projects that were then formalized.

    You’re saying pure cryptography is science though. Is it only science if you are a tenured professor or research professional, or it gets published in a journal? (Which as I outlined, software dev does all the time). I’m confused