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by Frieren 1y ago
For AI companies visibility is more important than the actual product. This is a characteristic of many bubbles were getting the word out is the only thing needed to get investors. Investors are scrambling to put as much money in AI as poss
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> The title is like saying that sending a magnet link to a copyrighted torrent file is distributing copyright material. I interpret that the article is about AI being trained on personal data. That is a big break of many countries legisl
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> Let's say it was coded extremely well, but nevertheless a more advanced exploiter wreaked similar havoc. A doctor kills a patient because malpractice. Could that patient have died anyway if the patient had a more critical conditi
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The share value of the big AI players is based on the idea that AI copilots can replace a good part of software developers. A tool that just helps to increase productivity a few percentage points is worthless as a product to hype share pric
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> I do not know why you need to bring political ideolgy into this. Proceeds to discuss politics...
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> prediction: nothing will follow from this except the low effort stuff (i.e. nothing but speeches and expenses) Hundred million contracts with zero results. Conservative ideology is based on the idea that certain people is just above ot
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> Note that the Pull Requests were introduced by the Open Source Software community. "Pull requests" by that name maybe. But code reviews existed way before that. As soon as code was written, programmers started to ask for peer
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> In the private sector, there's a slightly more direct link between job underperformance and being fired. Not in my experience. Connections are most important than competence in big corporations. The bigger the company the most is
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> and liable legally—when they breach consumer privacy, collecting, monetizing or sharing personal information without express consent This part is even more important. Personal data is being used to train models. All is very dystopian w
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> They’re clearly trying to start rationalizing that now, including with AWS where they’re starting to address some of the bloat there and lack of a coherent strategy at scale outside EC2, storage, and a few other core services. So, now
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> no option to change or cancel online. Could this be done on purpose to reduce donations? Some states seem to not like publicly funded anything.
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> Some political faction has decided to push for legislation and needs to sell it to the public. Yes. Chinese direct sales have no taxes (as they divide orders to below the taxable amount). So, taxes are coming to Chinese goods and this
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> The Chinese, due to either luck or competence or both China banned foreign tech to allow for local tech to grow. The EU has tried to be in good relationship with the USA allowing big tech to dominate the old continent. I think that the
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A wall-text just to say: "People do not find AI that useful so they are not adopting it even that top executives are extremely excited about it because do not understand nor care about what AI can really do but about hype and share pri
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Welcome to the unregulated world of the Internet, where rules do not apply and everything is fake. The internet has become a battleground for countries, and corporations. But we still treat it as it was just a hobby for techies. Until the I
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Ecology and economy are the same thing. The only way it is misaligned is because quite often the environmental impact is an externality. E.g. A big oil corporation gets the profits of selling oil but the environmental price is paid by every
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Social media is NOT sharing user created content. They are pushing for "engaging content", they have editorial styles, etc. And it makes sense, nobody wants nor can read all posts if they were not curated. But that means that soci
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Inequality is wearing down Democracy. Money votes, and money is being concentrated in just a few hands. AI is just one of the means to lie to citizens, but way before AI existed, when power and money concentrates in a few hands, democracy a
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by Frieren 1y ago
Are that the average rich person? I know very hard working people that created their companies and got rich, they treated their employees fairly and were smart and capable. They are not your average rich person. Your average rich person is
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> he goes back to thinking about his next genius business plan The reverence that people has for rich people astonishes me. Rich people is just average people with money. Actually, they are probably worse at their jobs because they need
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* citation needed
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None day to day. I may use a tool time to time, but I do not use anything daily (on purpose at least, as all software nowadays has AI running in the background that I do not care for).
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> trying to impress their bosses and curry the next promotion There are companies where the entire upper echelon is like that. Full of career people that is only looking up to get a promotion and ignoring their responsibilities toward t
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> Instead, the challenge is to proof [prove] that an admin team can manage users and their data, software and devices with or without Active Directory and without Microsoft Windows within a migration period of rather 2 years than 20 yea
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> it's not impossible That is true for almost all security. It is not impossible to break cryptography, but it is costly enough as to not be viable in most cases. Most of security is about to make it costly enough to break as to not
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Important for all countries, except maybe oil producer countries, for that exact reason. Importing energy is high risk for any country. Solar and wind are locally produced, less prone to have chock points and as a plus they are environmenta
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> GDPR: “Any judgment of a court or tribunal and any decision of an administrative authority of a third country requiring a controller or processor to transfer or disclose personal data may only be recognized or enforceable if based on a
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> Spicy. European courts and governments will love to see their laws and legal opinions being shrugged away in ironic quotes. The GDPR allows to retain data when require by law as long as needed. People that make regulations may make mis
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While writing code I think about what I am doing, improvements, etc. To write easy boilerplate code helps me to find improvements or even realize that there is some risk I overlooked. It is a zen state that helps with the deep thinking part
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> Amazon has made it very clear in recent months that you do not purchase kindle books you purchase a license. Courts will decide if it is a purchase or a renting. Companies can say whatever they want the law is the law.

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