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by GJim 7mo ago
*sigh* Dodgy companies are a bigger danger to my (and your) privacy and wellbeing than the American NSA will ever be.
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by GJim 7mo ago
A reputable company will follow the GDPR and not share my personal data without explicit opt-in consent. Dodgy LLMs are anybody's guess.
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by GJim 7mo ago
Famously, the 'Trump Tariffs' were almost certainly determined by LLM, hence tariffs being applied on uninhabited islands. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=trump+tariffs+decided+by+a
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by GJim 7mo ago
You're not. Really you don't understand the impact Trump has had. Since 1945 America was a solid partner that could be mutually trusted by us all. That trust has been lost for good. There is simply no coming back from that. _Tha
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by GJim 7mo ago
> It is not hard, at all, for roughly 1/3 of Americans to understand this. Sorry, but I don't think they do understand. America has managed to piss off Canada FFS. And lets be honest, you've got to work really hard to pi
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by GJim 7mo ago
I don't think that is the whole picture. I suggest a significant cause is Trump's arrogance and only listening to the advice he wants to hear.
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by GJim 7mo ago
Not to mention the first gulf war had UN support. (Back when the USA respected international law).
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by GJim 7mo ago
> And they'll get wars and the same shit after they vote the other way too Eh? Are you seriously comparing the disaster that is Mango Mussolini to the likes of (practically any) former president of the USA? My friend, if all candida
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by GJim 7mo ago
Some people wonder why kids climb trees.
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by GJim 7mo ago
Disappointing somebody has seen fit to "drive-by" downvote your post that simply describes your truthful personal observations. Presumably they don't want to engage in discussion, which is precisely what this topic is about
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by GJim 7mo ago
> _Human_ body weight. Fraid not. No medical professional in Blighty weighs people using imperial measurements. The only people who really use them are the elderly and (bizarrely) the type of crappy slimming magazine seen at supermarket
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by GJim 7mo ago
anime?
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by GJim 7mo ago
> GDPR is entirely unenforced, The fact that in the UK/EU no reputable company is now sharing data without our explicit opt-in permission suggests you are talking bollocks. As for disreputable companies.... don't do business
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by GJim 7mo ago
> ensuring a world-class onsite experience Bloody liar! A 'world class' dump can only ever be achieved on the relaxing environs of ones own kazi. Never the workplace bogs.
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by GJim 7mo ago
> In the UK, I just buy from Waterstones or local bookshops In Blighty, if you can't buy locally, consider www.hive.co.uk Hive allows you to donate a cut of the profits to a local independent bookshop of your choice, anywhere in the
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by GJim 7mo ago
Hard disagree! Such things have existed for millennia. What's more surprising is that people claim to be surprised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtesan
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by GJim 7mo ago
> I've always assumed that committed conspiracy theorists are just trolls rolling with it As a schoolkid, our physics teacher was a flat earther. He drove us kids mad arguing with him that the earth is spherical. Canny bloke.
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by GJim 7mo ago
> Guess how they lean politically. I don't know. Tell me. FWIW, our own publicly funded media tends to get criticised equally from fruitcakes at both ends of the political spectrum, so they are clearly doing something right!
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by GJim 7mo ago
> Is the number of people high enough to make them right? The term you are looking for is 'an argument to popularity'. It's one of many such logical fallacies. https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Logical_fal
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by GJim 7mo ago
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck..... then we have to entertain the possibility we might be dealing with a duck.
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by GJim 7mo ago
You're American aren't you. There is a reason I can tell. (Hint: It might be something to do with the prison system).
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by GJim 7mo ago
> Government should recognize that its current regulations are insufficient and look for ways to refine them. The shear hostility by many people on here to data protection law (hello GDPR) suggests you are going to have a hard time getti
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by GJim 7mo ago
> I wonder if the breached data is entering AI corpuses. One would like to think the creators of AI have been prudent enough to ensure AI output obeys data protection law; however the laissez-faire approach the USA takes to data protecti
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by GJim 7mo ago
Frankly, using correct English grammar is the difference between knowing your shit, and knowing you're shit.
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by GJim 7mo ago
> it became common among the british aspirational middle-class in the 70s to adopt french words in an attempt to appear cultured Mon dieu Rodney!
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by GJim 7mo ago
To be fair, it is apparent the tide is turning and awareness of data privacy is growing; even if this is unfortunately due to the increasing damage data breaches are causing.
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by GJim 7mo ago
This is Britain! Most town museums of any size will have an Iron Age cremation urn full of burnt bone fragments on display. The ashes weren't exactly ground up back then. https://learn.folkestonemuseum.co.uk/objects&#x2
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by GJim 7mo ago
Eh? Common knowledge in Blighty where the majority of funerals are cremations. I'm puzzled why you appear to have a problem with this process?
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by GJim 7mo ago
We solved this by stating we would only accept applications by snail mail. Magicly, the spamming stopped, and we only had applications from good genuine candidates with a real interest in the role. The job of any technology (like email and
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by GJim 7mo ago
So deliberately set the alarm off. Guaranteed to provoke a response.

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