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by JW_00000 3y ago
The Executive Order [1] is clearly more focused on the former. Some of the things they mention (I haven't read it all): * creating chemical/biological/nuclear weapons * biohazards * outputs that could threaten to critical inf
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I think fake nudes could also be illegal (because you're using someone's image without their consent).
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by JW_00000 3y ago
While I agree in a general sense, it might make sense to regulate the tools themselves. An analogy is gun control laws. Murder is a crime, whether it happens with a gun or without, so in theory there would be no need to regulate guns (&quot
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by JW_00000 3y ago
And still our nuclear power plants, air traffic, and other infrastructure aren't constantly down because of malware.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I also have a Boox, but do you have good suggestions on how to get articles or books on the device and sync? I end up not really using them because there are so many options: e-book apps from different stores (e.g. Amazon Kindle) or that re
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Interesting. As a point of comparison, here are the official statistics of the Belgian railways: https://punctuality.belgiantrain.be/nl/dashboard Last year, 10% of trains were delayed by > 6 minutes; this year 12%.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
If you give StableDiffusion a copyrighted work and ask it to generate a slight variation, the output will still be a derivative work.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
What I don't really understand is, do people really have than many physical documents that they need to keep track of, that such a system is worth it? E.g. to file my taxes (in Belgium), I think I only ever need a few (maybe even only
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by JW_00000 3y ago
It contains 100s of Twitter embeds.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Surely everyone earning over $100k is investing some of that?
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by JW_00000 3y ago
How could GPT-(arbitrarily large number) learn to write code for an architecture for which there is no training data?
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by JW_00000 3y ago
To be fair, did 1970 really feel that different from 1960 for the average person? Also, between 2010 and 2020, cancer death rates declined from 173 to 144 per 100,000 population, i.e. a 17% decrease in the US [1]. [1] https://www
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Just scan a QR code. The Netherlands has iDeal and Tikkie; Belgium has Payconiq; not sure about other European countries.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Note that the restriction only applies to _cash_ money. If I have €100,000 in my bank account and do a transfer to another bank account, it happens for free and (almost, depending on the circumstances) instantly. If I go to the bank and ask
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Is it possible to have no bank account in the Netherlands? Don't you need one to pay taxes? (I think it's a right to have one and banks must offer a free option.)
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by JW_00000 3y ago
This system does not attempt to influence what you spend your money on, except when you're laundering money or want to use it buy illegal things. Not saying such systems don't also exist (e.g. food stamps, tax reliefs, different V
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by JW_00000 3y ago
But tax avoidance/evasion is not a solution to that problem.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
This proposal does not forbid bank deposits of > €3000.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Why do you assume this proposal is targeting farmers specifically?
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Not saying you're wrong, but isn't it strange to respond to an article that attempts to answer a question by summarizing several scientific studies, with something akin to "ignore that, do this instead"?
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by JW_00000 3y ago
But you only know the derivative in retrospect, hence, he buys when the price has gone up (over 3 months) and stops when it has gone down. To me, it seems better to buy when the market has gone down for three months.
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The article is talking about VC in tech specifically, but I wonder how much applies to the stock market as a whole. The US was in a bull market from 2009 to (start of) 2020, so many "young" investors never experienced a recession
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by JW_00000 3y ago
> is the S&P500 lower now than it was three months ago? If the answer is "yes" then maybe stay in cash and put that money in when the answer is "no". Wait, isn't that the wrong way round? You're waiting
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The link doesn't work for me. It does work with the "www." prefix: https://www.vitalik.ca/general/2023/07/24/biometric.html
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Or maybe the author is not discarding the hypothesis that, in the southern hemisphere, frames tilt backward due to the Coriolis effect ;)
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Agreed. On my Twitter timeline lots of people are saying "the world will be completely different in 6-12 months' time". On October 17th, 1980, most accountants' work day still looked the same as a year before. It took de
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Isn't that always the case when you have rule of law and separation of powers? The legislative body comes up with the law; judges just apply it. E.g. if the law says "murder carries a penalty of minimum 5 years and maximum 30 year
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by JW_00000 3y ago
The title is quite deceptive. Reading the Wired article, Apple seems to be pursuing a trademark in Switzerland on a depiction of an apple (without bite mark, and in black-and-white). The Swiss authorities granted this but only on limited pr
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by JW_00000 3y ago
I genuinely think Spotify and Netflix, and other streaming services, have been the biggest blow to torrent sites. For the average user, it's just so much easier to pay $10/month (or even less when you share your account with frien
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by JW_00000 3y ago
Isn't that a case of the phone manufacturer lying, and not the carrier?

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