TGower

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by TGower 1y ago
The double whammy of conflation with bribing immigration officers and being done by Trump will be hard to get past, but evaluating the policy on it's own it seems like a net positive. Everyone who uses this must really want to be here
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by TGower 1y ago
Blueprints can be a great learning tool, if you double click a node it will open a VS window with the actual C++ code function.
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by TGower 1y ago
Many major VPN providers claim to keep no logs, and some have had third party audits supporting that claim. Subpeonas don't do anything if the company doesn't keep logs.
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by TGower 1y ago
In the context of "Law requires age verification for social media sites" and "This is an example of the kinds of onerous regulations physical business owners have to comply with being forced on website operators", I took
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by TGower 1y ago
Sounds like we are in agreement then, the root of this was >A blog is speech, but I wouldn't say that deciding to operate a social media site is speech.
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by TGower 1y ago
I agree, there are better grounds to oppose such measures than "this violates the notebook factory owner's freedom of speech" though.
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by TGower 1y ago
Good to know, that does shift my opinion a bit. There is a spectrum from surveilling individuals to gathering population statistics. I'm not sure exactly where data that identifies a user to a group size of ~250 falls, especially given
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by TGower 1y ago
It seems like you missed the specifier "of places and people". Books are not people or places, but an IP addresses at any point in time is tied to either a specific person or place. > They're upset about google building do
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by TGower 1y ago
So they are not the speaker for the purposes of liability, but they are the speaker for the purposes of first ammendment protections? That doesn't make sense to me, but it certaintly wouldn't be the most confusing law on the books
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by TGower 1y ago
Sure, speech happens on and is facilitated by social media sites, but that doesn't imply that operating a social media site is a form of speech any more than operating a notebook factory is.
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by TGower 1y ago
Surveillance definition "Systematic observation of places and people by visual, aural, electronic, photographic or other means." If you are pinging someone's IP to determine their physical location, you are engaged in a form
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by TGower 1y ago
> A social media site is speech (and/or press I suppose this is what confused me then, as it seemed obvious that e.g. the Facebook reccomendation algorithm isn't speech, so if a social media site would be considered speech it w
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by TGower 1y ago
Is there a single company out there making it's money selling access to an area code database? GeoIP databases are much higher resolution and use active scanning methods like ping timing. If a company was spam calling me to estimate di
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by TGower 1y ago
I would disagree, for example section 230 reads "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." The content
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by TGower 1y ago
If selling the physical location information of users isn't surveillance capatalism, then the term doesn't mean anything. "We don't surveil people, we just try to find out where they live and sell that data"
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by TGower 1y ago
A blog is speech, but I wouldn't say that deciding to operate a social media site is speech. That said, there are plenty of good reasons to oppose this law.
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by TGower 1y ago
A few tradeoffs you might not be considering: EV battery packs operate at voltages that are seriously hazardous. Consumers coming anywhere near those plugs is a non-starter, so even more bulk, weight, and complexity would need to be added t
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by TGower 1y ago
It's less about upfront prevention and more about removing cheaters from the playerbase over time. TPM hardware ban means you'll have to buy a new CPU in addition to a new copy of the game in order to play again after getting caug
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by TGower 1y ago
> The cloned repo might not be compilable/usable since the blobs are missing. Only the histories of the blobs are filtered out.
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by TGower 1y ago
The only way to include a book in a training dataset for LLMs without violating copyright law is to contact the rights holder and buy a license to do so. Buying an ebook license off Amazon isn't enough for this, and creating a digital
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by TGower 1y ago
People aren't buying Harry Potter action figures as a subtitute for buying the book either, but copyright protects creators from other people swooping in and using their work in other mediums. There is obviously a huge market demand fo
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by TGower 1y ago
I did some napkin math and the amount of energy used from burning buried coal and oil since the industrial revolution began would warm the atmosphere about 3 degrees C. The assumption that all of the energy would be dumped into the atmosphe
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by TGower 1y ago
Economies of scale. The humanoid form can interact with all of the existing infrastructure for jobs currently done by humans, so that's the obvious form factor for companies looking to churn out robots to sell by the millions.
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by TGower 2y ago
Svalboard uses opto-interruptors, not hall effect sensors, though it does use magnets for return actuation instead of springs. The keys are either on or off, no floating point value like you get with hall effect so some of the features desc