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Is Mastodon really hard to use for most people? I guess there's some very specific scenarios it may be. Also the article presents a false dichotomy in my view: protocols need services to be useful to virtually 99.9999% of humans (or at
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Show me a FOSS license where a commitment to indefinite maintenance is promised.
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Is "singularity" the new 'rapture' or 'end of the world'? Who are the new nostradami and prophets?
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Caligra Workbench Available for Download(caligra.com)
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> danger of mixing politics, ideology and architecture. Like there's architecture that doesn't mix politics and/ideology? I sense conservatism in your comment which is a perspective/ideology (which i share btw). Ultim
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> not result in societal collapse within a short few lifetimes? Seems like you're more conditioned by apocalyptical Christian logic than you think
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1. What you describe already happens (has always happened?) in some blue collar jobs, its just the agencies dont call them gold or platinum plan, they call them "mandatory traning sessions" or "medical checks" that has b
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But humans have evolved to socialize thinking, haven't we? What is representative democracy if not that? One reason - the main reason? - we live in groups with different roles and skills is to rely on others to think for us.
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More intelligent agents behave less coherently (2023)(sohl-dickstein.github.io)
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But shouldn't it be the prosecution proving the video is real?
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So, what prevents site to do dynamic pricing for bots checking sites for prices?
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Of does affect you, it has always done. Not using social media has been a marker, placing some negative incentive on joining social media will help normalize people like you
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This Zuckerman[0] would like a word [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Zuckerman
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I share the reaction but I'm also aware how easy is it to inventivize (aka subsidize) ineffective old processes in the name of "productive" priorities. The problem is not LLM/DC, the problem is food production, transport
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> documents, collaboration tools, file servers, single-sign on, databases All being (or soon to be) fed through LLM agents running on fibers and datacenters controlled by NOT European entieties. And if you build DC you'll be powerin
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People tend to fixate about cutting edge technology, but my naïve intuition says the problem in Europe is not in lack of some secret sauce: it is hidden in plain sight lack of energy to run the DC - and worse - lack of long term desire to m
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Again, recommending feeeed[0] as a RSS reader that doesn't try to be an email client with never-ending unread counters nor a hostage-taking algorithmic feed. It is a feed, there must be a simple algorithm driving how that feed is order
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And yet... The examples mentioned and the justifications for big errors/fakes in many countries (that historically have been highlighted for scares around overpopulation) are very plausible. "Most countries run census" is not
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Angry Norfolk residents lose lawsuit to stop Flock license plate scanners(arstechnica.com)
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It will mean little if the infrastructure is still dependent on volatile partners (and I'm bundling allies and adversaries in this). The core problem is Europe has been very successful betting and building upon though choices made by o
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> try being a hegemon without... The hypothetical should really be on the vassal or it is just rethorics. This is the time to call each other bluffs and keep revealing the naked emperors
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Seems like the immigration revolution is having an impact on the tech sector after all
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is it so different from founders (and founding team in a pyramid-scheme-like dynamic) that is looking for exit?
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plenty of software business rely on contractors dont they? im sure even pre-acquisition vimeo likely used contractors on many roles some even in "engineering" roles. the idea that software is never done is a double edge sword: yes
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So, it is always going to be a cat and mouse game. As long as the rules are clear let the game begin. Just dont try to tilt the game in your favor by using legal threats (ie Chat control and alike). Anyone can try to break encryption, why c
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> In Japan, workers rely on healthy lunch bowls for under $4 The title doesn't capture that, but the issue is not that the US can't produce $4 lunches. It's it can't enable cheap(er) healthy lunches
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan but for zoning laws(abio.substack.com)
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Maybe most of these regulations already come with these restrictions, but in my view social media apps that cater to under-16 can operate if: - they dont offer an "algorithmic" feed - underage can only see content from who they fo
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Wait, did I misread and the article is suggesting banning the whole internet for under-16?
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The "internet" is different things to different people. For the masses: if you take down the datacenters - or more easily coerce the leadership of the magnificent 7 you effectively turn of the internet for most people

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