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Do most people even care about this question/topic? Maybe that's part of the answer. Culturally, fertility topic has gone through "we will never be able to feed everyone in the world" to "we should have absolute con
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> I've just lobotomised myself Good thing they didn't actually lobotomized themselves, right? Why is his carbon storage system not enough? Do you need to keep you RAM data persistent as well as your ROM data?
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Writers have been experimenting with paywalls (substacks etc) - musicians aren't? Indies keep complaining about streaming and platforms killing their livelihood but I wonder if this is just because the target for "justice" se
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They aren't but does it matter? iranian regime (similar to CCP) prioritize long term goals and regime survival - which makes sense if you actually have long term goals - while we count short term victories and wait for next election cy
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I'm not questioning that PhD programmes infuse skills/knowledge useful in big tech but I wonder if here we're are also looking at useless grade/degree inflation. Surely if there's surplus of "overqualified indi
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> This is not the same issue you are talking about. > Cars are repairable, phones are not, this is why this regulation is coming about Anything is repairable given enough resources. It's very obvious electronics are targeted but
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What else would be meaningful in this context? Are sovereign countries currently restricted in trading gold backed securities when stored abroad? I don't think so.
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You just discovered the concept of natural monopoly
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"AI welfare" ... I thought it was about the popular idea that job displacemnt due to AI is fixed by more welfare but it is an even more ridiculous idea than that. I shouldn't keep getting amazed by how humans (in time of long
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Yeah... "Combined 100 years of experience" and in previous article [0] it was "combined 80+ years" for the same people... What happened there? Accelerated aging? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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Unrelated: but the whole glitch labour union that lasted a year before it dissolved itself is the first thing that comes to mind when I read about glitch.
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> Notifications are the main thing Maybe you mean types of notifications that I'm not used to using, because notifications were the first thing I would turn off on any smart watch I've used (pebble, Amazfit, galaxy). The last t
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Last time I used DeX you phone does become a TouchPad for the desktop when plugged to a monitor
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Isn't it depressing that a single private company wield such influence in society that Stockholm syndrome develops? I don't know about you, but accepting this is true is way worse than loosing gapps
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Cheating implies there's a game. There isn't. > Titles and headlines grab attention, summarize content, and entice readers to engage with the material I'm sorry you felt defrauded instead. To me the title was very good at
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The article’s angst over X’s “manufactured consensus” is overblown. Influence has always been curated—editors, town criers, or whoever grabbed the mic were the analog algorithms. X’s sin isn’t some evil algo: it’s just running at planetary
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Who's overthinking? This is not an example of a bad title: the main message of the piece is that a (prosecuting?) witness is demonstrating how the alleged antitrust behavior of one of the signatory parties prevents them from operating
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> They signed the agreement, and now are going to courts to claim they had no choice. Did the title change? They (Lenovo) are going to court? This is an antitrust case against Google and the witness is not part of the agreement signed. I
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Hey we all want to keep and eat the cake, but I'm (kinda?) surprised that people expect these services that have been trained on large swaths of "available" data and now don't want to contribute. Even if you're payi
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> if something is not aligned to human interests and norms, they won’t do it. I won't litigate strongly against this statement because its obvious this matters, but human interests and norms are not immutable and the mechanism to ch
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> Ancient beliefs, behaviors and norms – what archaeologists call culture – were fundamentally integrated into technological solutions in this part of Peru in ancient times. Isolating and removing the tools from that knowledge made them
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I'm surprised this is something taken seriously only now by stock android. Isn't it known universally that AFU devices are insecure? What's the point of adding strict password policies, biometrics etc, if data from a stolen p
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Not only win the job. Deal with management, process, meetings...
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Isn't it easier to Google then? Also, what's next? "Care to explain what is this `linux` thing?"
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> we mocked the Chinese as being able only to copy American technology As you state they haven't been "only" copying for a while and my problem with people keep repeating this "logic" (mea culpa) is precisely wha
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Actually, you can find "pix accepted here" in shops/exchanges in neighboring countries. It's probably more wide spread near the border. Similar to east Asia, were alipat/wechat is widely accepted in areas flooded wi
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> In fact, the author touts as a benefit that you'd stop populists being able to talk to their audience. This is destroying the village of liberal democracy in order to save it! the irony is the author is using propaganda to spread
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You know what is an example of propaganda/advertising? Peta, extinction rebellion et al antics. Marching for right to bear arms. Standing outside of Tesla dealers dissuading shoppers. Militancy, activism in general. At this stage of so
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I don't think this is religious institution v non-religious institutions scenario where the first stopped caring and the second cares. I think it's: more comfortable/complacent societies don't care about eliminating suff
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The problem is precisely that most things have been (and continue to be) "unthinkable" "impossible" "unreal" in Europe for a long time. The unthinkable has the tendency to hit the many walls that exist in the c

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