Faark

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by Faark 7y ago
I totally agree with consciousness being an emergent property. But can a bigger system have consciousness when individual parts of it are already conscious? I don't see why this should necessary follow. I'm sure there are somewhat
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by Faark 7y ago
They certainly don't have a lot of programming experience. I can see them developing something with a bunch of complexity, experiencing a bug, being unable to identify what's causing it (partially due to not having good tools), th
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by Faark 7y ago
> of course, they might just choose to walk short distances Walk or choose a competing service. Both seem hardly acceptable, if you want to be the default go-to option to capture the market.
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by Faark 7y ago
> I've come across a significant minority of people who need that "www" as a clear signal that it's a website Now more than ever. Before they opened the tld floodgates you could be pretty sure [word].[commonTld] could
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by Faark 7y ago
I still prefer what they made us do for the test: Write the program on paper.
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by Faark 7y ago
Unless actual malice is involved, the neighbor will probably just wonder why the wlan is shit and buy a "better" (stronger) one. Sounds much like a good old coordination problem to me.
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by Faark 7y ago
> Keep in mind that the transitional years, after the governmental collapse, but before western institutions stepped in, were worse than regular life when the eastern systems were functional. Are you talking about the post war years? Yea
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by Faark 7y ago
> Who wants to do nothing all day long? As someone having participated in a support group for people excessively using online/digital media: It might not be a very satisfying life, but it's seems easier than ever to distract yo
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by Faark 7y ago
Yeah, but space needs to be profitable, not just accessible, for private companies to take over investments. Even as SpaceX fanboy, I have a hard time imagining this any time soon. Space based internet constellations have a huge resurgence
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by Faark 7y ago
I mean, yeah, being against those in power isn't a good idea in authoritarian regimes. At the same time, people describe living in former east germany as the most easy-going / carefree time of their life. Being taken care of as lo
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by Faark 7y ago
Or, you know, some just want to get away from the other individuals. That is, if we are talking about something comparable to current humans. Immortal super AIs might don't care about idling in the void for a few million years, just fo
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by Faark 7y ago
> your employers could get it easily anyway I really hope that would be illegal here in the EU. It being physically possible (or even easy) doesn't make it okay. Not having the dataset easily available is one safety layer to prevent
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by Faark 7y ago
How kind of you to make this decision for all of your relatives. They now better take care to not leave any DNA traces when protesting against some upcoming authoritarian government. And no, those databases won't be deleted before a wa
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by Faark 7y ago
> Even an under-provisioned network that tries to fairly deal with optimizing for both low volume low latency applications and high volume latency tolerant applications at the same time while filtering out bad actors can still be net neu
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by Faark 7y ago
This sounds a lot like how this Vox video [0] describes the situation in Hong Kong. Except without the intentionally established scarcity to keep prices and thus gov revenue up, leading to shitty living conditions. I'm not sure there i
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by Faark 7y ago
> Internet providers use government regulations, not available market forces, to keep out competitors. High initial investment cost have totally no role to play at that. Or landlords allowing only a single ISP [0]... that's just par
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by Faark 7y ago
> There's a strain of Unix sysadmin criticism against DoH that says it's wrong for browsers to co-opt DNS resolution at all, and that they should use the system's resolver. It's perfectly reasonable. I don't want
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by Faark 7y ago
Yes, calling out concrete examples of waste would make it a lot easier to understand if this is about actual mismanagement or about a different ideology were priorities are / how narrow the mission is supposed to be.
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by Faark 7y ago
I agree, "being political" as in defending and fighting for what is right comes at a cost and people (or companies) have other priorities as well. But be aware those wanting to move away from what we consider right will be thankfu
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by Faark 7y ago
> For that reason, I support the government acting as an employer of last resort. I like that concept as well. But there are problems. Quality of work is one. Another is the complication of getting something useful out of that manpower.
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by Faark 7y ago
Divisive times will cause damage. Either as the collateral you mentioned when trying to stop it, otherwise when the winning side will change society. Ignoring problems generally increases the damage they cause, so not tackling it earlier mi
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by Faark 7y ago
You conveniently forgot the "use existing profits that would have gone to owner to instead cover costs", something that seems to actually happen in combination with the others instead of the usually doomsday prediction before intr
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by Faark 7y ago
> Think of it this way [..] Yes, being politically active all the time is not something we generally expect from most people / companies. Especially of the latter, since after all, their primary reason of existence is to make money
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by Faark 7y ago
I also like single issue communities. They are indeed a great escape from broader conflicts and focus on specific interesting stuff. But calling them non-political just because it's not the place to argue about e.g. what politics this
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by Faark 7y ago
> how soon before the civilian ones resemble the police ones This doesn't feel like a strong argument. A police uniform doesn't become useless just because bad guys could wear the same.
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by Faark 7y ago
I wish. Mine just removed the SMS option. I now have to install an App that wants full telephony access. And is obviously only available in the google play store, requiring me to accept google terms. Is it safe? I don't know. Doesn&#x2
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by Faark 7y ago
Keep in mind MMOs have a persistent world. In CoD, meeting a cheater can ruin a 20min (? haven't played in a while) game session. In an MMO, it might screw up the entire economy. Thus off-loading authoritative work to clients is pretty
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by Faark 7y ago
How many accessibility laws does this violate? Does it work with a screen reader?
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by Faark 7y ago
You don't think the behavior of a CEO can reflect company values? And I'm not surprised they make less effort verifying that for a longtime aerospace contractor and instead focus on the rocket startup that had a bit of a PR mishap
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by Faark 7y ago
> You can’t do that with encryption. Isn't the most effective way to get around encryption to compromise the endpoint? Obviously not after the fact, but I doubt a highly motivated and well funded police force would find ways to get

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