Radim

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by Radim 4y ago
> or get called out on the lie Get "called out" how, exactly? With the distribution channels centralized, how do you call out a lie by a "major news org", if the gvt (Google, Youtube, FB, Twitter…) decide to play al
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by Radim 4y ago
Same here. My first job in the freshly ex-communist Czechia was for Otis, an American company that entered the local Czech market for cheap labour (cheap from their perspective). I got about $1 / hour from Otis and would have violently
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by Radim 4y ago
From what I remember, Threads was even broadcast in the Soviet Union – with a little disclaimer that Soviets never did (and never would!) strike first, so that that part of the movie was "western propaganda". But the rest of the f
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by Radim 4y ago
Is that for real? I'd love to hear more about this mandate. Why would someone refuse to watch celebrity Youtube videos, in private with their husband , because of some mandated self-reporting by their pharma overlords? I'm in awe
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by Radim 4y ago
The standard response is evolutionary: If you leave profit (growth, resources) on the table, someone else will pick them up and beat you with it. The supposed analogy is biological. You may choose to check out of the always-do-more-with-les
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by Radim 4y ago
> I'm quite happy to have a tool that can assist me rather than replace me. Another way to look at it might be that you assist the machine, rather than the machine assists you . * Human engineers a prompt = preprocesses the messy
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by Radim 4y ago
It gives the old saying "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man adapts the world to himself; therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." a new twist, doesn't it? 1. AN AI MODEL IS
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by Radim 4y ago
Original source: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-personalized-ads-facebook-instag... The source = noyb is the organization (founded Max Schrems) that actually filed the complaint, hired lawyers, fought the Irish DPA tooth
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by Radim 4y ago
Slightly OT, but I tried taking the same test at https://politiscales.party . And the questions are as inarticulate / ambiguous as you'd expect from a "political" or "social sciences" quiz: 17. &quo
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by Radim 4y ago
With a handle like Foobar8568 , why not be more specific? It sounds like you might have a good story.
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by Radim 4y ago
> clients will come back to us saying "XYZ says they can get better performance" Oh yes, good old marketing. Along with buying off "Industry Awards" – hey, we're objectively the "Best cybersecurity compa
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by Radim 4y ago
And the remedy (if you believe the status quo needs a remedy) is right in the closing sentence of the article: > The promoters want our attention more than our cash. Try to avoid mass media, minimize exposure to advertising, question e
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CDC’s raw v-safe data obtained by ICAN(icandecide.org)
4 points by Radim 4y ago|3 comments
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by Radim 4y ago
Unless of course you consider humans a part of nature (as I do). In which case "nature's lab" includes humans and their science too, and the point becomes tautological. Articulate planning and reasoning is then just another e
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by Radim 4y ago
> Nature is by far the biggest and the oldest lab of them all, with an untold count of experiments ran. That's a weak argument. With sound reasoning you can often reduce the solution space dramatically, even before running any exp
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by Radim 4y ago
> No one checked the vaccine cards On topic of this particular subthread: This is how my country (I'm Czech) handled the Nazis and Soviets. You rediscovered how people respond to a totalitarian regime that's beyond their powe
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by Radim 4y ago
> Those are not our people (non christian, non white). Did you mean to end in "/s" for sarcasm? Armenia was the very first country in the world to adopt Christianity, and is officially Christian to this day. As for &quo
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by Radim 4y ago
"Good" as determined by whom? For example, there are people who hold the Scientific Revolution ushered by Galileo&co to be directly responsible for genocides and suffering (of humans and otherwise) on an unprecedented global s
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by Radim 4y ago
I read "vote with your wallet" as a shorthand for not giving resources to offending entities. It doesn't have to be literally banknotes out of your wallet. Not spending your attention or time or future on Google / Oracl
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Spanish DPA fines Google LLC €10M(gdprhub.eu)
3 points by Radim 4y ago|0 comments
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by Radim 4y ago
Indeed. NOYB's fight with the Irish Data Protection Commission is already legendary: https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/20/facebook-transfers-impact-... https://noyb.eu/en/irish-dpc-burn
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by Radim 4y ago
That's something the article should have mentioned: 4 years on, and people still think GDPR is about cookies – and even responsible for the intrusive consent pop-ups! It is a testament to the power of the adtech giants and all the ot
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by Radim 4y ago
"Demand generation". If you're able to whip the masses into a frenzy, the sky is the limit. Under the hood, our human propensity toward "storytelling" and social cohesion is both a blessing and our bane. People coll
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by Radim 4y ago
I don't know about "deliberately". Might be just a confused, inarticulate piece by a confused reporter. When an article opens with " the Minoan language known as Linear A " (no, it's a script) and " Linear
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by Radim 4y ago
> Alves Reis had amassed more than 600,000 escudos (worth roughly $500,000 adjusted for US dollars in 2022). … Alves Reis bought a brand new Nash automobile, moved into a lavish 12-room apartment, and hired a staff of house servants I
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by Radim 4y ago
Thanks for the links. I was starting to wonder whether I'd said something unforgivably controversial. What Doggerland – and underwater archeology in general – has to reveal is quite exciting. How did these Mesolithic people conceptuali
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by Radim 4y ago
> since there’s no evidence that Mesolithic people were seafarers, who knows if there were people living there? Whyyyyyy? To hedge your bets with "no evidence" that these people managed to navigate shallow sea waters to a nea
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by Radim 5y ago
No, the original comment talks about people taking advantage of other people through "concerted, top-down effort to manipulate and coerce", calling that "outside of evolution". I claim it is textbook evolution. An almo
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by Radim 5y ago
I explained my position and explicitly said I'm trying to understand yours – claiming a textbook example of evolution is not evolution is just weird. You come back with ad-hominems. And then add new wrong assumptions into the mix – why
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by Radim 5y ago
> outside of the way things change naturally on their own. "Naturally on their own", you say? It sounds like you consider humans outside of forces of nature, outside of evolution. Are you a theist perhaps? I'm trying to

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