Avicebron

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by Avicebron 5d ago
How do you opt out when someone rocks up to the restaurant you are in or the publoc restroom wearing these?
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by Avicebron 5d ago
Not sure about the noise, but Japan did something likr it with a constant light when the device was recording. I believe it was combatting the same kind of issues though.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
It seems to me that oligarchies as a whole function a lot like PE's taking over a socially unstable polity. The west has been an oligarchy for several decades at least, so it's not that people in the west don't believe in soc
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by Avicebron 6d ago
That's not the issue, it's because an insurer's absolute profit only grows if the premium base grows. This removes any reason to compete on reduced costs and an incentive to have the costs go up.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
Look up "Medical Loss Ratio" from the ACA if you want to find out where the perverse incentives for health care pricing comes from..
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by Avicebron 6d ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by Avicebron 6d ago
> The outcome is that very little serious technology or influential companies come out of Europe. And salaries for things like engineer are about a third of that in the US. So your argument is abusive practices are required for the creat
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by Avicebron 6d ago
7. Reflect on that goal?
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by Avicebron 6d ago
> The average person is largely indifferent to mass surveillance I think you would be surprised. Now, whether or not the average local politician is indifferent is not the same as the average person.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
I think word is spreading about Axon as well, I'm heartened by the amount of pushback surveillance and abuses of privacy are getting.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
Which makes it more surprising that something like this didn't exist. I'm relieved it does though.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
Well... they aren't the serious people... which is probably a good thing. You don't really want to know the serious people.
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by Avicebron 6d ago
Don't hate the game, hate the players.
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Ask HN: Are LLMs the antithesis of Hegel's universal spirit?
2 points by Avicebron 7d ago|0 comments
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by Avicebron 7d ago
You're likely not familiar with TEMPEST/EMSEC but this stuff was known about and discussed when designing air gaps going back to the 60s.. https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/
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by Avicebron 7d ago
I think someone from OpenAI said something like "air gapping AI can't (hypothetically) work because it will figure out a way to basically morse code across the airgap". (I think this was in response to people calling them out
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by Avicebron 7d ago
Maybe if there were fewer people foaming at the mouth to enrich themselves while destroying the planet, and putting people out of work, there would be less pushback.
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by Avicebron 7d ago
Sure, but what's interesting is if you tell it to "behave unpredictably" or "don't use tropes" it usually fails down the same curve. Which is predictable, but telling.
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by Avicebron 7d ago
What will the kids think up next?
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by Avicebron 8d ago
I don't dislike Bernie, I'm pointing out a trend among politicians.
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by Avicebron 8d ago
The greatest career move a politician can make is to take an issue that lots of people are suffering from and make sure it is never solved but people still think they are the one who can solve it. This is Bernie's whole career (among o
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by Avicebron 8d ago
https://archive.is/kiyVO > “If you’re a white working-class guy in an elite profession, you’re also facing pretty serious barriers.” Always has been. We need a few heads to roll before this kind of behavior is stamped ou
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by Avicebron 8d ago
I never said it wasn't going to be an incompetence slugfest
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by Avicebron 8d ago
Because they are flailing? Fuel prices will decide the midterms. There are pockets of die hards but after asking plenty of trump voters, they aren't happy. As long as the democrats in the US keep the identity shit to a minimum and mak
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by Avicebron 8d ago
Can confirm that non-greek Americans do this as well.
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by Avicebron 8d ago
In a way their future labor was? If i recorded you 24/7, then went to your employer and told them I had masterfully trained a chimpanzee to perform your jpb, and it was good enough your employer considered getting rid of you. Would you
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by Avicebron 9d ago
https://archive.is/7jYWq
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by Avicebron 10d ago
Not to be callous but even the 3-2-1 rule is pretty basic, the issue is that people don't apply it. But that's a hiring and strategy thing.
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by Avicebron 11d ago
https://archive.is/QqNT2
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by Avicebron 12d ago
They aren't open source? And no one said anything about cops.

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