ElFitz

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by ElFitz 6y ago
I fail to see how your arguments contradict my words. Each ant constantly exercises it’s autonomy. Would you nonetheless argue that it has any individuality in the way the gp intended the word?
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by ElFitz 6y ago
> At a certain point, we lose our individuality and become subsumed by the global AI, game over. In a way, we already have. Each and every one of us is constantly influenced by and influencing untold numbers of people, and most beliefs a
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by ElFitz 6y ago
> Imagine if we could connect your brain directly to a computer. Please, no. I’d just get even more frustrated at how slow the damn thing is.
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by ElFitz 6y ago
> Unsplash will continue to operate as a standalone brand and division of Getty Images. The entire Unsplash team will be staying and building Unsplash in the direction we have been. The main difference now is we have access to the resour
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Oh, definitely. Existing operations also absolutely can leverage that in order to amplify their reach and capabilities.
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by ElFitz 6y ago
True. But a simple API to generate junk text? It can scale, cheaply, beyond measure. No need for a troll farm, hiring, managing and training tens or hundreds of people. A reasonable amount of cash, a bit of motivation, some moderate technic
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Because you can’t actually force someone to pay up unless you have the actual physical ability to force them to. Such a system would be easy to game. Simply build a physical army and go beat up everyone else while they’re playing dance danc
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Well, yes and no. Where you could ramp up a plane’s production, I’d wager there’s a scarcity problem when it comes to pilots (even though you could ramp up pilot training).
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Well, it shows that the modern moniker for soldiers is "operators". Weapons systems operators, transmissions operators,... The goal never was to have boots on the ground, but rather to have guns that shoot where you want them to,
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by ElFitz 6y ago
That could be a very good way of torturing dissidents without leaving any physical marks. Beyond anything physical harm could accomplish. Or controlling crowds of protesters by inducing pain. Taking it up a notch, reading emotional states c
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Exactly. It may take only 25 minutes. But how many of the people making up this average leave home an hour earlier than most of us just to beat traffic? How much buffer time is then also factored in, and wasted? No even taking into account
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Also, although still a generalization, quite a different attachment to things, especially buildings, partly due to the routine exposure to natural catastrophes. I mean, sure people are attached to old buildings and monuments, but even those
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by ElFitz 6y ago
In French some say "putaclic". But it’s not widespread outside of the "old-ish" French tech sphere and, being composed of the word "pute", a slang for prostitute, quite vulgar...
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by ElFitz 6y ago
There are also numerous examples of companies blatantly and knowingly ignoring the rules or lobbying to have them bent to their wants. Or both.
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Ben from Stratechery touched on that recently. A good point he had is that this kind of thing would, seemingly counter-intuitively (but it makes sense) strengthen the incumbents and stifle both innovation and competition. Innovation -> I
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by ElFitz 6y ago
This just made me realise that the way chess games are written down (move after move, using the strict minimum amount of information) actually is Event Sourced. Quite funny. So, thank you!
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Also, people usually hit their ISPs’, Google’s or Cloudflare’s DNS servers, not the root ones It’s, I believe, those servers that hit the root DNS servers when they don’t have the data.
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by ElFitz 6y ago
The author expanded upon it in his book, Business Adventures . Apparently, the only alternative was for short sellers’ to sell very large amounts of many other stocks, and the Exchange was afraid it would crash most of the other compan
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by ElFitz 6y ago
True, but they are failing very, very , slowly. The big difference between NASA and SpaceX lies in how fast they each move, and what they are failing at. Failing at launching the first private rocket on a tight budget, at landing a rocke
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by ElFitz 6y ago
That’s also an option. However it usually isn’t up to the employees
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Depends on the type of work you do and what the company pays you for. It is the means (your time)? Or the outcome? Had quite a few clients and employers asking and haggling over trying to get it both ways. If you consider a creative job whe
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by ElFitz 6y ago
But then you’d also be able to afford spending it helping your community and giving some to local or non-local charities Heck; I’ve always thought that the first thing I’d do after winning the lottery would be paying off my parents’ mortgag
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Yes. But sometimes, the plane randomly decides it should tenderly hug the ground. See Boeing 737 Max and it’s infamous autopilot
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Can confirm that Retool is amazing. Ran into some limits one or two years ago when using it with Firestore and had to go with something else, but I can’t really blame it for having trouble dealing with relationships when using a non-relatio
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by ElFitz 6y ago
It’s not just an abstraction layer over SQLite, or any database, for that matter, even though it is even often used and thus thought of as an ORM. It does have a persistence layer, but it is not it’s persistence layer. See https:/&#
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by ElFitz 6y ago
That’s the thing. It isn’t an ORM, even though it’s often used like one
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by ElFitz 6y ago
I still remember how bewildered I was when I realized how easy it was on my first Mac to trim or convert an audio file, crop or resize a picture, build a pdf from images or sign a damn pdf ^^
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by ElFitz 6y ago
You know what? Let’s A/B test! ^^
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Why even bother with "neuro-advertising"? Just get the brain to release dopamine whenever the subject thinks of one of your clients’ products. And when they think of the implant. "- Oh, so you’re going to get that implant? -
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by ElFitz 6y ago
Or you’d have to pay a premium to access x+ years old movies. Which would be a smarter move.

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