BLKNSLVR

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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Thankfully, malevolence, bad faith, and crime are unsustainable as governmental motivations. Unfortunately, they do stir the populace in a cadence long enough that prior examples are are only fragments of memory. More unfortunately, however
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I do find it interesting that the 'small government' and 'individual freedom above all else' types seem hellbent on regulating and restricting the freedoms of things outside of their own experience and taste. The freedom
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
My phrasing was just to point out things moving in the opposite direction to what has previously been considered normal (which is also the economically intended 'normal').
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
"landslide" According to Alex Karp, who leads a data analysis company. And therefore it should be impossible to trust any data analysis coming from said company.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Absolutely. Anyone who still voted for Trump is tacitly in support of the Jan 6th rioters and therefore, essentially, no rule of law, no Constitution, just "what this guy says, goes". And a majority of voters choose that. That&#x2
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Sorry for the long response, I didn't have time to write a short one. But this should not be an excuse applicable to an LLM.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I have profited richly from my children, but not in a monetary sense. However much it has cost me monetarily, it has repaid itself ten times over in value to my very soul.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Aren't things like this seeing 'negative depreciation' these days?
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Can you imagine wanting to go into advertising? Surely it must be a last resort, or they were tricked into it, like going to work for Facebook or Google to do important bleeding edge work. The 'advertising' part only makes sense
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Google are talking to their customers; those who purchase the advertising. They're not talking to users of the internet.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I use an ad blocker, but I'm occasionally exposed to YouTube outside of my ad-free bubble and I find the ads useful for identifying brands to actively avoid.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
That's the way I got all my stuff. Knocking on doors. If there's no answer then I see if the door is unlocked. If it is... new stuff! I've tried to match the absurdity of your example.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Yes. The first gets blasted all over the internet to be shoved in the faces of all and sundry. The second goes quietly and efficiently to the professionals tasked with helping the individuals in society with problems that may directly benef
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Are you the said doctor, drfloyd51? If so, I'm not so sure it is advertising, as being discussed here, that you're referring to. If not, funny coincidence.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
So what you're saying is that when Google says 'helpful ads' they mean helpful to the companies selling the things that are being advertised, ie. Google's real customers, not helpful to the people who get the ads smeared
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Like searching for an app in the store. The first result(s) are paid promotions that often have absolutely no relation to what I was searching for.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Picturing the scene from Where The Buffalo Roam. ... but I think that was a fax machine.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
> A lot of the benefits of intervening in Iran seem to be paying off right now I, umm, disagree fairly wholeheartedly. Maybe there's some long term <something> that has changed direction slightly as a result, but right now lit
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
My local: https://threedradio.com/ ("My" meaning local to me, not that it belongs to me)
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
The Pantheon animated series is pretty amazing. I enthusiastically second that recommendation.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Blindsight made some amount of sense to me, but Echopraxia lost me at some point.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Title sounds conspiratorial, but it lines up well with the controversy around TrueCrypt's discontinuation which, I believe, specifically called out BitLocker as an alternative to use in future.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Just finished watching the last episode of season 2 with my daughter this morning. Now biting my nails for another 6-12 months awaiting season 3... Dammit.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
I was wondering about that with the hantavirus, whereby if it's got a higher fatality rate then it's less likely to be easily transmitted. Is that like a general rule, or pure bunk? (I'd probably assume the answer 'depen
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
As long as death isn't on the line. They wouldn't want to fall for one of the classic blunders. I'm just wondering when the US will finally put boots on the ground in Iran...
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
Awareness of the dark forest theory would cause AI to stay as silent as possible.
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by BLKNSLVR 5mo ago
> There are a lot of legit scanners that look for problems to proactively warn the owner In my experience, most of the scanner firms seem to be creating their own maps of as much of the internet as they can get their grubby hands on, and
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by BLKNSLVR 6mo ago
I kinda switched to Linux when I realized that Microsoft had fractured the control panel into different areas in "Settings" and there was almost no pattern in how to get to the various system settings and diagnostic tools that had
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by BLKNSLVR 6mo ago
Even if Windows didn't have those weird things, there are a bunch of intended behavior things that make Windows a more frustrating experience than the occasional weird things a Linux system may do.
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by BLKNSLVR 6mo ago
I thought, and still think, it's a good analogy.

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