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by Frieren 7mo ago
> That sounds like an architectural problem. Each time a Linux system library changes a space, billions or trillions of lines of code around the world are affected by it. To encapsulate complexity does not mean to eliminate complexity. I
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> I can You can because, I guess, your project may have a small scope, few people working on it, no dependencies etc. I cannot, because each line that I change has an effect in millions of other lines and hundreds of other people, and mi
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by Frieren 7mo ago
This is a case of "depends on the project". For very small projects, code may be the main bottleneck. Just to write the code is what takes most of the time. Adding code faster can accelerate development. For larger projects, desig
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> in 2 strokes seriously hurt Chinese oil imports. USA, Europe, and many other countries depend on China for manufacturing. I doubt that this is going to solve inflation. But it will fill the pockets of a few people in oil rich countries
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> It worked in the 1980s In my country TV has always been regulated. Pornographic movies could only be shown at late hours, there was no data gathering nor targeted ads, and nobody could reach children privately thru TV. Not all parents
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> "Trust" in this situation is a weasel word for surveillance Is all security a weasel word for surveillance? You answer a valid argument with a meme. It is very unproductive. How do you suggest to disallow children access to
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Tax evasion always looks like a good idea until a non-corrupt goverment gets elected and the tax office goes after you.
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> how it could be used against the users We are not anymore their clients, we are just another product to sell. So, they do not design chips for us but for the benefit of other corporations. 3. Unskippable ads with data gathering at the
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> One explanation is the fine turned a complex moral obligation into an ordinary financial transaction. Income proportional fines solve the problem. The fine should be a deterrent, but not create crippling debt. That is impossible withou
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> Are training data counted as input? It is quantum legality, to use copyright input is legal or illegal depending on the observer.
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Just one of many examples: The broad economic impact of inequality https://www.hbs.edu/bigs/economic-impact-inequality > the level of agency you have in the way your country works is better now than ever before. any
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> "In many pre-industrial societies, daily life followed the rhythm of sunrise and sunset, which naturally shaped circadian rhythms." Having an office job that allows for flexible hours, I start my working day at different time
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Depending on timescale. If you mean it is better than 200 years ago I agree. If you mean better than 20-40 years ago lets say that it is debatable. But if we go onto larger scales it flips again. Before the rise of cities, smaller societies
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> This change only means that a change requires a mandatory referendum rather than having to launch a referendum. This seems a way of making sure that a future with Switzerland being part of the EU requires a vote to adopt the Euro. I do
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> For all the things it is easy to lament about the world, it’s disputable that we live in a time of abundance, medicine, knowledge, and opportunity I do not think that for the west the problem is a lack of technology but a lack of oppor
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> That for me is evidence that the law is made for the companies (probably by the companies too). Yes, everything is becoming more and more convenient for big corporations while individual citizens need to navigate an ever increasingly c
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by Frieren 7mo ago
Billions of living human brain cells have played Doom in a number of different devices for a couple of decades now. What would be surprising is for dead human cells to play anything at all.
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by Frieren 7mo ago
> New technologies and increased digitalisation of financial transactions pose additional challenges, such as the convergence of different types of criminal activities like fraud, cybercrime and financial crime into one. Economic and fin
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by Frieren 8mo ago
Capitalism is dead. Welcome to the age of aristocracy were image and standing with power is more important than creating any value whatsoever. Lies are rewarded and action on good faith punished. It is a shame that CEOs act like Kings and Q
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by Frieren 8mo ago
> It turns out changing the answers AI tools give other people can be as easy as writing a single, well-crafted blog post almost anywhere online. LLMs are a security nightmare at all levels. And I doubt to be something fixable and it is
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by Frieren 8mo ago
As it should be. All corporations must follow the law. If the police has an order signed by a judge then it is lawful and a necessity for society to work to follow the law. What is horrifying are big corporations giving access to all user d
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by Frieren 8mo ago
> does not have native VAT support If citizens do not have access to high quality tools that allow them to exercise their rights that rights are "de facto" invalidated. If corporations are allowed to implement regulations in fa
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by Frieren 8mo ago
> Woof. How about we let users decide, thanks. Are they deciding with full understanding of what does it mean to accept such terms or are they just "accepting" to stop being bothered with pop ups. The industry loves to give peo
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by Frieren 8mo ago
> There should be global opt in/out. They should not be. That there is people willing to give their data to big corporations and foreign countries by extension puts everybody at risk. It is a matter of national security and it shoul
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by Frieren 8mo ago
Big tech wants all the chips and they get them. That is Stalinist level of absurd planning. People is missing the point. Mega-corporations distort the market. This is not capitalism this is old aristocratic ruling by power. If all these mon
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by Frieren 8mo ago
Antitrust laws exist for a reason, when judges and goverment stopped enforcing them it created the age of mega-corporations. AT&T did not had the level of control of the economy that modern tech companies have, and yet got split to make
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by Frieren 8mo ago
> Government is full of paper pushers who hav eno higher wish but to live comfortably on tax payers money until they retire. Even billionaires are into getting as much tax payer money as possible. But they get the big numbers. Report Say
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by Frieren 8mo ago
It is well know that big corporations take good regulations and change them to make them: 1. Easier to bypass for themselves. 2. Create extra work for incumbents. 3. Convince the public that the problems are solved so no other action is nee
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by Frieren 8mo ago
There was never any move to align the USA and Europe politically, it always has just been an economic and militarist alliance. If currently there is still a lot of support for USA companies inside the EU is because individual politicians ha
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by Frieren 8mo ago
100% exoskeleton is a great analogy. An exoskeleton is something really cool in movies that has zero reason to be build in reality because there are way more practical approaches. That is why we have all kind of vehicles, or programmable ro

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