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by 627467 2y ago
We really live in end of times. When will we see the rise of a new apocalyptic religion with news gods and churches?
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by 627467 2y ago
There was a time that taxes were extorted through force by strongmen and it was immoral. But now "nationalism" created these pseudomoralists that bend over backward to justify the morality for extorsion
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by 627467 2y ago
There's an interesting parallel between the subjective nature of LLMs (being blackboxes of nondeterministic output) and brands. The whole point of investing in brands is to create a moat. And maybe LLM are converging but because they a
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by 627467 2y ago
It's stalking and it's objectifying the person for publicity decades later. Failing to locate her privately and now doxing her name in a major paper
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by 627467 2y ago
Not the Academy of Magical Arts at Magic Castle?
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by 627467 2y ago
With all the "green" restrictions in place in many european cities - forbidding cars as recent as 2005 to enter them - cars are only for life if you live in the middle of nowhere or have a short life
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by 627467 2y ago
Yeah, trade secrets will become bigger, so? You need to expose the product. Or the process, things get reverse engineer. Overall, the net effect will likely be positive if monopolies end.
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by 627467 2y ago
"large corpus of unsecured unsecured local data" is this much worse than unencrypted outlook mailbox (pst or est)? Or offline files from your Dropbox/GDrive/etc? Or your browser profile? I guess it's worse in the se
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by 627467 2y ago
but I thought the US protected Taiwan because of democracy and stuff?
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by 627467 2y ago
Why would US vote at UN general assembly be worth the same as China or India at 3 times it's population?
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by 627467 2y ago
Think of the extra weight given as Affirmative Action. It isn't hard to get it. It is as socially progressive as any type of affirmative action. Plus, these tend to be remote underconnected areas: why should they be ruled by mobs from
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by 627467 2y ago
Exactly, it's always the sore losers who complain about this. There's are good reasons to keep the system as it is, regardless of who wins. But the discussion is always driven by losers.
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by 627467 2y ago
> If you're American living in one of the majority of states that aren't "swing" states, I don't think you can escape the feeling when you vote for president that you're going through a kind of charade since
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by 627467 2y ago
One reason I'm always skeptical of the IP moralists. IP is not property. If it was it wouldnt need the classifier. It's really just a rent seeking mechanism
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by 627467 2y ago
> making Democrats chance of winning less likely Do you vote according to what others tell you to? Or do you believe most other people do so blindly? Dem voters will stay home because they didn't read a papers opinion? Or you believ
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by 627467 2y ago
Is the ownership information as public? Possibly it is, but the implication that specific people are on a given flight seems NOT public information. Or maybe the problem here is that these ultra wealthy people are wealthy enough to one a co
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by 627467 2y ago
Why do you need to lock the phones for this? If the point is to lock customer to a subsidizing contract just do that: use the contract to enforce the lockin. What do they care if I use another sim card on the phone if I'm paying the mo
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by 627467 2y ago
I agree with the feeling, but State orgs are effectively eternal (think the various level of government) and still great at diffusing accountability to various scapegoats
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by 627467 2y ago
What's does cloudflare do to search crawlers by default? Does it block them too?
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by 627467 2y ago
It's a testament to the quality/function of the existing types of ROMs available to uxn and the community that forms around it? Uxn type initiatives are forward-backward looking: how do I ensure future retro compatibility of softw
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by 627467 2y ago
I have never seen devine mention where he hosts his website, and haven't come across a uxn web server so I think the answer is "no", it's not hosted on uxn. Would be cool to have a web hoster that follows some of the p
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by 627467 2y ago
I understand the argument, and feel good about it. I too would rather our software was made with simplicity and performance in mind not only following the premise that hw resources will only increase so let's ignore those constrains to
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by 627467 2y ago
This. Everyone and their grandma decided it's cool for Google and others to decide what should display on your website next to your content because of "magic online advertising". How much of the efficiency of online advertisi
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by 627467 2y ago
It's really about jealousy and populist measures
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by 627467 2y ago
Then: tie that funding to rule changes. If you want government funds, do as we say. Why do things the other way around?
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by 627467 2y ago
In that case why not just tie government funding to admission rule changes, instead of blanket regulate private institutions? Are businesses not allowed to pick their customers in the US?
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by 627467 2y ago
what do you think will happen faster? some "social" agreement that technology CANNOT be used to its full extent (ie. I can't use my tech to its fullest extend, like augmenting my own personal recording keeping) or just societ
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by 627467 2y ago
IP - unlike actual real property - is not really defensible by property owners, other than using state monopoly forces. IP is also very hard to globally enforce. Why should society - all societies - pay for such enforcement? IP can only be
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by 627467 2y ago
Show us 1 author available in shadow libraries who would literally starve. It's ridiculous. If you can pay, you'll pay. And if you can't you were never part of the market
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by 627467 2y ago
> global cabal Is that what we are calling business now? As if industry players don't buy media outlets precisely to push their narratives (look at tech outlets, crypto outlets, pharma etc). How is this a "cabal"? It'

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