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starsdaylight — Mon, 11 May 2020 18:22:25 +0800

It's very concerning that some of you accept outright racism like this as normal.

Just encountered racist staff at 99 speedmart, very shocking

While I was paying for items the cashier openly made racist statements in front of me, I was dumbfounded and I thought I heard different but I did not.

Cashier was basically complaining to her supervisor or other staff present that it was at this hour before puasa that customer C likes to buy things at the store, there are so many hours in a day why can't they come in at a different time. Then she said there was a customer C who asked her to hurry up with her goods and she scolded the customer that she wasn't a robot, then proceeded to say the customer was rude to make a complaint against her.

I heard all this while loading my items into my bag, but I decided to record their conversation but was not able to record anything as she was complaining about something else, I decided to take a picture at this point it was very obvious and the staff asked threateningly if I was taking a picture.

I called their HQ and messaged their FB but I suppose this is past their biz hours.

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starsdaylight — Thu, 05 Sep 2019 15:46:46 +0800

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Elon Musk vs Jack Ma debate

starsdaylight — Wed, 04 Sep 2019 10:05:36 +0800

Wall of text sauce
https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intellige...i-with-jack-ma/

Tech moguls Elon Musk and Jack Ma took the stage last week at the 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference in China to talk about AI. What ensued was exactly what you’d expect from two of the most celebrated figures in tech: a strange, awkward, passive-aggressive bicker.

The 45-minute conversation was billed as a debate, but in reality it was a series of meandering TED-esque talks by Musk on how, like, Earth is totally doomed in, like, millions of years or something. Ma, a guy who once played an unbeatable martial arts master in a movie with Jet Li, was having none of it.

Musk lead with the assertion that humanity underestimated how powerful AI would become:

I think generally, people underestimate the capability of AI. They sort of think like, it’s a smart human. But it’s, it’s really much—it’s going to be much more than that. It’ll be much smarter than the smartest human. It’ll be like, can a chimpanzee really understand humans? Not really, you know. We just seem like strange aliens. They mostly just care about other chimpanzees. And this will be how it is more or less in relativity.

He goes on like this for a bit, explaining that human limitations and exponential machine-growth would lead to AI becoming god-like, to which Ma responds:

You have a vision about the technology. I’m not a tech guy. I think I’m all about life. I think AI is going to open a new chapter of the society of the world that people try to understand ourselves better, rather than the outside world. And it’s so difficult to predict the future. 99.99 percent of the predictions that human beings had in history about the future—all wrong.

And with that, mere moments into the so-called debate, we’d learned everything we needed to know. Ma was there to discuss how modern AI technology can make life better for people today. Musk was there to talk about the end of humankind and what he’s personally doing to save us all.

More Musk (on why humans should become a multi-planet species):

I think we should not take it for granted that consciousness will continue. Because we have not encountered any aliens, where are the aliens? This is the Fermi paradox. This is one of the most important questions. How come we have not found any aliens? There are people out there who think we’ve found aliens. Trust me, I would know. We have not. People ask me, “Have you been to Area 51?” Okay, please. SpaceX actually has Area 59, it’s even better, eight better than 51.

It’s important to understand that Musk appeared to be telling jokes throughout the debate, but he doesn’t pause or give any facial clues here – at one point earlier he pointed out to the audience that he’d told a joke and that it was okay for them to laugh, but it’s unclear from watching if this line was meant to be funny (it wasn’t).

Musk plowed through and explained that he believes it’s now possible to inhabit other planets for the first time, and it’s imperative our species does so as soon as possible. Ma’s perfectly-delivered response:

Good. It’s so difficult to secure the future of the earth, but we can secure the future of the next 100 years. I admire your courage for exploring Mars, but I admire a lot of people spending efforts on improving the Earth. It’s great to send 1 million people to Mars but we have to care about the 7.4 billion people on the earth. How can we make the world more sustainable?

And back-and-forth it went. Musk explained that he’s not saying we should give up on Earth “I’m very pro Earth,” but that we should spend a small amount of the planet’s resources and talent coming up with a plan to put people on Mars:

I’m talking about less than 1 percent of Earth‘s resources should be dedicated to making life multi-planetary, or making consciousness multi-planetary. So, you know, I think it should be like, somewhere in between how much we spend on lipstick, and how much we spend on health care.

Musk‘s continued lust for space talk eventually put Ma off, prompting him to respond “Should we pick up another topic? Jobs? Jobs or life. Jobs.”

The entire talk was a study in dichotomy. Perhaps no exchange best captures the men’s different approaches to technology than this one:

Musk: Yeah. If you think of like technology and technology awareness, if there was like a topological map of technology awareness, it’s mostly flat with a few short buildings, and then some very tall spires, very tall spires. And unless you’re on that very tall spire, it’s not obvious what the topology is.

Ma: Yeah, I never worry about the things that I cannot solve. I let other people solve it. If nobody can solve it, just let it be. That’s my life. Oh, let’s talk about education. I’m quite interested in education.

Elon Musk, a billionaire engineer, is hellbent on solving the biggest possible problems through engineering future technology. Ma, a billionaire investor, is an optimist who wants to solve the problems faced by people on Earth right now by investing in and developing current AI technology. These wildly different approaches serve equally different ends.

As Ma put it in one of his responses to Musk:

We need heroes like you. But we need more heroes like us, working hard on the earth, improving things every day. That’s what I want

My friend got beaten up

starsdaylight — Sun, 12 May 2019 11:55:54 +0800

Serious question, because I'm not sure what action can be taken here. My college junior went out on a date with an Indian girl, then few days later her uncle suddenly showed up (we suspect he has been tracked) and beat the hell out of him. My junior not a violent person at all, he never retaliated but just defended himself to not get further injury in the process.

Extra info: he was not in any sexual relations with that girl, they were just getting to know each other. Hes a different race and apparently she was to only date men that her family approved of

Now he's being mocked not to bother lodging a police report at all as it will be treated as a domestic case as he interfered with Indian culture. Is there any further action that can be done in this case?

I would like to kindly ask for those who don't have anything to share to refrain from posting thanks. I'm hoping those who have knowledge on this issue to share what can be done after a report, ie what police can do.

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starsdaylight — Sun, 12 May 2019 11:30:09 +0800

Thread made in serious kopitiam

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starsdaylight — Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:46:26 +0800

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starsdaylight — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:35:17 +0800

Cancelled

Poslaju wrongly delivered my parcel to someone els

starsdaylight — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:34:02 +0800

After some time of my parcel not being delivered, I went to track my parcel and to my surprise it's been delivered to Shah alam post office and was wrongfully received by some strangers name.

Im really pissed off and have sent poslaju an email about this with screenshots that the tracking number and parcel actually belonged to me. Now I can't claim refund from seller as poslaju is clearly in The wrong here. My $$$ spent on my item lost due to poslaju's mistake...

Anyone dealt with this before and what was poslaju's response?

Need help guys, can locks for shelves be replaced?

starsdaylight — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 10:21:48 +0800

I fucked up and lost the keys to my shelves. Can the locks be replaced with new ones?

for example like this type

Any banking expert here? Credit card chargeback

starsdaylight — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 13:54:06 +0800

I received a nasty shock yesterday when I saw that my funds were removed due to a chargeback notification by a client.

This client ordered premium freelance work from me and I delivered, he got me to do a few more revisions and that was it, the deal was completed.

Today after 3 weeks, my payment went *poof* and the client got free service and his money back.

Is it that easy to commit chargeback fraud? You can just call your card company and ask for a chargeback.

How hard is it to learn how to speak mandarin?

starsdaylight — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:29:08 +0800

These days lots of job opportunities want chinese speaking individuals, thinking to start taking classes to speak mandarin on professional level so that I'm more competitive in the job market. On the other hand, I do have some basics from mingling with chinese friends but am afraid that it would be a very difficult and long journey.

Mandarin speaking friends, any input on this?

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starsdaylight — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 23:17:08 +0800

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resolved - thanks for replying

starsdaylight — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 13:29:10 +0800

resolved - thanks for replying

Feeling so down :/

starsdaylight — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:05:51 +0800

I applied for 9 positions, went for 5 interviews, 1 offer me to work for free so I turned it down, thew rest up till now nothing..

So far from my search I can say even looking for an internship position is not easy, they interview me like I'm applying for a permanent position.

Edit:
Looking for

Guys for those of you who didn't read, I'm looking for an internship not a job

advice on jobstreet

starsdaylight — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:26:25 +0800

Hi, I'm looking for advice here

I'm still a student and looking to apply for an internship about 2 months in advance and yes I mentioned that to the companies I'm applying (meaning I'm starting January next year) I have no prior experience with jobstreet whatsoever. I've just applied for 6 internship positions 2 days ago and today I logged in to see that only 4 applications are still active, what does that mean? That the other 2 have been processed by the company?

Also, a friend whos already working mentioned that I would have gotten a call or a response by now if I was selected for an interview, especially since internships are very quick to process. Sounds ridiculous but I'm not sure if thats how fast they work, I was expecting a week or two for a response at the soonest. So does that mean I didn't get any prospects at all?