Hokusai

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by Hokusai 5y ago
> You can't trust a company to do the right thing. I agree to some extend. But for any society to work there needs to be a minimum of good will, if companies continue pushing the boundaries of what is reasonable they are going to en
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Thanks for saying that out loud. Companies have become accustomed to blame others for the company own behavior. Nobody forces then to fly that planes, they do it because they want.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, has been sued over the 2020 killing of a federal security guard, a move that aims to challenge a federal statute that shields websites and social media platforms from liability for what users
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That is also true for the police. Usually the police is incompetent if you want to be funny, or they are suffering humans. The police as a hero is also USA propaganda.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> wokeism is the theme of the day That billions of equipment and resources provided by the woke cabala? Let's talk about that instead of military covered intervention in society. As a citizen from An USA allied country, I find distu
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> I’d much rather the bag and everything in it to be functional, ugly anonymous and replaceable. If the bag gets stolen, I should be able to walk into the nearest mall and replace everything that was in it without a second thought or sin
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> you want to get the government involved? For games? The government is already involved, I cannot copy the games from my friend because the government does not allow me to do it. The government protects Ubisoft from me hacking them, or
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> You have the right not to pay money to companies that won't give you the guarantee of ownership and access that you want. I have way more rights than that. Or if not I will fight to get them. I do not want to depend on the good wi
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Because laws are not about justice. If you get something stolen you need to go to a judge to get a sentence that gives it back to you. You cannot take justice on your hands and expect to not be punished.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> I don't really care too much about what the Terms and Services say It does not matter even if you care. You do not have negotiating power to change them. It is a 'my way or highway' situation. And the government should b
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> We may also close long-term inactive accounts to maintain our database. How many kilobytes takes too store ownership data? I can just imagine that tracking data is thousands of times bigger. > The crazy thing about this is that it’s
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> there is way too much identity politics now It's a strategy to divide the working class. With raising inequality you need to do something with the people that are unhappy. Or you give them money, and reduce inequality so they are
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> But waste is proof. Proof is valuable (not a waste) I do not want to live in such a society. I do not want to order live in a society were rich people invest in wasted CPU cycles to proof how rich they are meanwhile scientist have prob
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> President Biden’s controversial pick to be the Treasury Department’s comptroller of the currency is a USSR-born and educated professor who has praised the former Soviet Union’s lack of a gender pay gap while recently advocating for end
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by Hokusai 5y ago
It's not very good. I tried different pictures and the results are almost random. A picture from a cartoon returns from logos to any type of drawing. A picture of a battery returns cars and shops. A picture of food worked as expected a
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by Hokusai 5y ago
I really don't know if the web is satire or for real. I tried the manufacturer site: https://www.synergisticresearch.com/accessories/ethernet-swi... I still do not know.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> call something you disagree with pseudoscience You are right, this is just bullshit. It does not pretend to be a scientific study, I over interpreted what it was saying. > There is very little that one can learn from psychology (wit
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by Hokusai 5y ago
This is just pseudoscience. No studies, no test, just a guy opinion. Stop clarifying people this way. It's not useful, it's not insightfully. I have seen coworkers fighting for one thing but not another. One fights against bad wor
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> most of humanity is... challenged Most, no. Everybody is blind to one perspective or another. Also, time is limited and attention is limited. Do not think that others are just stupid because their focus or knowledge does not overlap wi
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> in mice It will be interesting to know how long can we extend that live of mice. I guess that before immortal human beings we should achieve mice immortality.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
That is there best argument to fight now for good conditions, the more robots in the future the less leverage to negotiate. On a second note, if robots replace humans. Who is going to buy products? Because humans without jobs do not have mo
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by Hokusai 5y ago
The solution is regulations and unions. If it's not Amazon it will be something else. Many people do not have time or money to look for alternatives. I never buy on Amazon but directly from the providers, but that takes time that I hav
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> The estate of George Orwell has approved a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four, which reimagines the story from the perspective of Winston Smith’s lover Julia. I do not expect "Julia" to be an exceptional book, but, fo
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Who would invest in Chinese real estate now It's not that true for Western countries after the 2008 financial crisis? It seems to not have stopped housing bubbles.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> no reason for it to be distributed Many decisions are taken to increase market value. It makes sense a distributed ledger based on blockchain if that increases the shares value, but I guess that you mean that it does not improve the pr
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by Hokusai 5y ago
So, anyone that had a personal attachment to that music is dead. The current goal of copyright is to let companies own the culture you grew with. All the movies, music, books and games that defined who you are will not enter the public doma
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> negligent in building the algorithm Otherwise it would be a precedent for creating algorithms that break the law. BTW, you are 100% reasonable I do not understand the down votes.
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by Hokusai 5y ago
> Should Facebook have been legally obligated to ban those posts? Did Facebook promoted that posts? That seems to be the problem. High hate seems to equal high engagement that equals more money. If Facebook profited of promoting genocide
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by Hokusai 5y ago
Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29463573
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Rohingya sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar genocide(theguardian.com)
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