AnonCoward42

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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> Why do cats knead? > So why do cats knead? Although the reason is uncertain, the most likely explanation is that it is a leftover behavior from kittenhood, Susan Hazel, an associate professor of animal behavior, welfare and ethics a
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
Isn't ChatGPT also using SO? If SO would stop and there would be no replacement, then the answers might get worse. My take is that these two currently complement. In my opinion the issue with SO and with most social media is the obsess
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
Of all of them isn't Google the only one that is actually incentivized to keep the data they get on you to themselves, because of their business model? It sounds bad for Google when they sell their data to others, so they'd feed a
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> There was no genocide by Ukrainians in Donbass, this Russian propaganda has been a persistent narrative that has any had a single word of truth to it. I used double-quotes, mostly because both sides claim a genocide. It's clear th
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> The mentioned Baikal company is a supplier for russian army. The guy behind the patch every morning go to the work, knowing his job will help to launch the missiles to the Ukrainian cities killing children. Given that the bombardment o
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> Having every transaction recorded in a public append only but otherwise immutable ledger does not afford the privacy choice you have with fiat. This would be good or bad for scams? For me this sounds worse for scams. Regarding choice:
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> What difference you mean, aside from the lack of a regulatory framework, pseudonymity (and paradoxically, lack of privacy), lack of recourse in the face of user error, and custodial issues? Is anonymity the issue? Cash is anonymous, bu
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
What difference does the currency make in terms of scams? I do not see the point here. For me it makes no difference if I am being scammed in BTC, LTC, or USD or Rouble. Then there are the obvious scam coins, but these are not the primary a
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> Something is legal if the society has decided it to be. Isn't that the difference between legitimate and legal? Maybe `legitimate == legal` would be the ideal world (not thought hard enough about it).
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
You underestimate the selection pressure. While I agree that many people would become corrupted, the profession (so to speak) attracts certain people. It is even to the point where you need some negative traits (explicitly: skeletons in the
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
Actually the name for it previously was spyware or the act of spying. The term telemetry is/was more neutral, but it also has a bad reputation by now (euphemism treadmill).
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> What's a good source of truth? In my opinion none. > You say that people who want to corrupt will be attracted to it. Aren't there protections against that? Does it happen often? Is it so frequent that you have zero trust
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
Among the reasons is that it comes with great power and authority and therefore attracts the wrong people. It is really effective to slander people for example. Another reason is that an established source of truth is inflexible and hard to
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
The point that is (probably) wrong is "at request". The remaining part however is true. You can see it in the edits and discussions. In Germany the Wikipedia has a bunch of people with almost universal power in the Wikipedia - ino
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
If you put yourself on a pedestal don't be surprised if you get knocked off of it. The response from @GSR6669 resonates with me: > Wikipedia suspended edits & changed the definition of recession at request of the US Government.
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
I don't think it makes a difference in what tone you're being lied to.
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
It's highly likely that aliens have to deal with that as well. It's to combat the mismatched division of the planet doing a full rotation around the sun and the planet doing a full rotation itself. They might even have more odditi
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
The alpha-variant was in decline and not the most common iirc, when the widespread vaccination started. Either it rains or it doesn't, but having a rainmaker tell you why his service is necessary is comforting. > Against the early v
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> The alternative was panic and worse. Either panic or (false) advertising an experimental vaccine. This does look like a false dichotomy. You might instead educate people about the potential risks and clarify the limits, so they may dec
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
At least BingAI does provide its sources and ChatGPT/BingAI are made to be conversational, so you get the opportunity to ask actual questions and get an answer. As with everything on the internet take the answers with a couple of grain
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
> [...] A good search engine is an investment that could pay phenomenal dividends for me, allowing me to make better decisions for my business by having better information as input. [...] It sounds a bit like the use case of ChatGPT&#x2
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by AnonCoward42 3y ago
Just a small reminder that the CCD with V-Cache has way lower boost clocks and therefore performs worse in almost everything beside gaming. For casual use this is irrelevant I think, but it is still significant in many workloads. The only w
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
Coal power plants, wind turbines and mostly anything else. They can end up catastrophic in a sense, but not to the same degree nuclear fission plants can end up.
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
The standards for what constitutes adware are a bit higher than on other OSes, however I also see this as a warning sign and I despise snap. As someone who also vets Linux installs for some relatives I used Ubuntu on these and I regret it a
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
Similar story here, but with Windows 10 instead of Windows 8. Adding advertisement to the basic UI is unacceptable and not even Android does this by default (I think even the Pixel isn't doing that). However there are some Android deri
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
It depends. With new hardware you're bound to have some trouble especially on "old" Linux versions (i.e. using Ubuntu 22.04), however these issues are very often fixed by installing a newer kernel. YMMV
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
Good point. It's still not clear if our way of surviving as a species is more successful as the "old" selection method. For the individual this is also an arbitrary goal even if some buy it as-is.
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
> I wasn't born Richard Alpert. I was just born as a human being and then I learned this whole business of who I am, whether I'm good or bad, achieving or not - all that's learned along the way. And you see all those learn
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
> I don't think that requiring the original game files is a huge hurdle, unless the game is very esoteric and hard to find. There are many widely-used game engines that require the game files, such as ScummVM, Rollercoaster tycoon,
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by AnonCoward42 4y ago
It fits a common narrative in that all humans are absolutely equal in mostly everything and can be sculptured like clay.

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