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by Iv 5y ago
Yep, but despite this Matrix is superior in several key aspects: - One client, even like Element, allows you to access several networks. I think that having just Element instead of Slack+Telegram+Signal is already a CPU saver - lightweight
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by Iv 5y ago
> Did they learn nothing from the antitrust cases of the 2000's They learnt that all they risk is a slap on the wrist a decade later, and a fee that's a drop in their profits.
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by Iv 5y ago
For as long as we make intelligent algorithms, people will continue moving the goalposts by changing the definitions of intelligence. We have an algorithm that can learn to outperform humans at any deterministic game and learn the rules by
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by Iv 5y ago
Nuclear proliferation is like our training wheels for all the dangerous techs that are to come. If you are worried about it, look into how world governance works, how international norms are agreed on, and take a partisan stance against the
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by Iv 5y ago
No, Washington invaded Afghanistan, despite arguably Rumsfeld wanting to target Iraq at first, but being told they did not have a case. 911 hijackers were Saudis and Osama Bin Laden was Saudi but it was decided to not look at KSA at all. Th
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by Iv 5y ago
Isn't it common to make a lot of claims under slightly different formulations in order to make one of these stick? Epic wanted to poke holes in Apple's walled garden and did poke a small one. That counts as a win.
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by Iv 5y ago
China's great firewall has been using statistical analysis to kill connections that it suspects to be unauthorized encrypted channels.
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by Iv 5y ago
Also, with centralization came a loss of diversity. It was easier to find video content in my native language (French) on eMule than it is on youtube. And yes, I feel nowadays I devote a CPU core and a few GB of RAM to just text messaging.
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by Iv 5y ago
I think if we removed the need to earn money to get a decent living, we would have a lot of people teaching for free. Most people are not motivated by money, they reluctantly accept that they need to earn a living, but it is not a big drive
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by Iv 5y ago
Where is that?
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by Iv 5y ago
Adam Smith was not the libertarian thinker that 21st century conservatives seem to think he was. He was an economist genuinely interested in understanding society's emerging mechanisms. Wealth of Nations is his most famous book becau
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by Iv 5y ago
Making an evolving/learning machine stay in sync with its creators' requirements is called the alignment problem. Publications are made on this. They gave some smarter sounding names to grey goo and paperclip scenarios. An interes
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by Iv 5y ago
My bet is advertisement. We know it is detrimental to informed decision, to market efficiency and to mental health. This is just an opinion that can't be relayed on any outlet that depends on advertisement (90% of them maybe?)
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by Iv 5y ago
GPT-3 is not trained to produce true statements. It is trained to output credible sentences that could be found on internet. It is a master bullshitter and will never say "I don't understand what you mean" if it can wriggle a
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by Iv 5y ago
That's hilariously enjoyable
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by Iv 5y ago
It took me a while to understand that market valuation should not be linked to GDP, but to the integral of GDP. Every year, companies add a portion of the GDP to their overall value.
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by Iv 5y ago
> their material contribution to society hasn't increased fourfold, If their contribution to the top 1% increased 400-fold, does that balance out?
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by Iv 5y ago
Le Figaro is notoriously bad at sorting facts from right-wing rumors. That squatter theme is a recurrent subject to scare their typical landlord readership. Find primary sources for that.
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by Iv 5y ago
In my case, the difference in intuitiveness is that I am used to things crushing because of weight/force but not because of pressure. If you have a bottle of 1 kg of water and put it on a plank between two stools, what matters to know
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by Iv 5y ago
> There is essentially no lateral component to gravity Yet you can distribute the weight of a structure on larger bases. If you put two columns on pennies on a steel plate, the pressure under the plate will be higher than if you put only
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by Iv 5y ago
It is very counterintuitive when you reason in terms of weight though. If you imagine a pile of rocks for instance, it makes sense that the strain on the base of a pyramid is lower than on the base of a column of the same height and base ar
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by Iv 5y ago
What I don't understand is why this is not more common. I plan to build one for when my parents are unable to walk around independently. Who wants to call a nurse everytime they need to go to the bathroom? An exoskeleton gives you some
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by Iv 5y ago
Trade sanction ARE effective and are arguably much more effective than military operations at changing a country's behavior. The main negotiation leverage in talks with Donbass forces or Iran government is the suspension or extension o
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by Iv 5y ago
Go visit Japan, South Korea, Germany. I am the first one to be vocal of US imperialism, but you can't deny that it is US influence that caused several modern countries to be democratic.
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by Iv 5y ago
No. The point was to draw a line between the countries who respect humans rights and are willing to be judged and punished when they don't and the countries that did not. Of course China and KSA would never join. And that would give ot
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by Iv 5y ago
Bill Clinton signed the treaty that made the US join the ICC. GWB withdrew that signature. People have been used to so many cynicism that they have forgotten that countries doing the good thing is a possibility.
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by Iv 5y ago
The turning point regarding the US' stance on democracy and human rights has been, IMO, GW Bush's withdrawal from the International Criminal Court. There we were, in a world where USSR had collapsed, China not risen yet, with a US
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by Iv 5y ago
Oh, a tech from a decade ago adapted on the closed SDK of a closed device! The fact that they have to write a paragraph promising that everything is local and that videos don't get sent online, curiously, makes me even more suspicious.
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by Iv 5y ago
When explained the way decisions are made in Japan, I encountered a notion that I wish was more considered: the idea that taking a decision is a separate process than applying the decision. Since then, I have wondered why no companies tried
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by Iv 5y ago
Try cynicism today! Signal your understanding of issues and non-indifference while exonerating you of any action!

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