Teever

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by Teever 3mo ago
It comes down to the simple reality that "I am because we are" and as such any time a human being is oppressed we are all oppressed. One could make the argument the people who live in liberal democracies have an obligation to help
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by Teever 3mo ago
Have they announced how they’re going to make it game only? A whitelist based on a hash of the executable? That seems cumbersome.
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by Teever 3mo ago
Sortition is the term you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition Western democracies would be far better off with some sort of legislative body that was comparable in power to the existing bodies
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by Teever 3mo ago
I think that's a great start and I see a something close to a doubling from 2.42B to 4B but it stops there and this most recent fine is under a billion. What we need to see is that exponential function. Everyone here should have at le
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by Teever 3mo ago
Given that Larry Page and Sergey Brin still control Alphabet, still act with impunity, and show no signs of slowing down yes, they are absolutes correlated events.
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by Teever 3mo ago
That is the incorrect way to apply fines. The first fine should sting and the second should be damaging to a company and the third should be crippling. The EU has been fining Google for years to no avail.
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by Teever 3mo ago
If the cost of penalties doesn't exceed the cost of the offence then it's a winning move to offend. The correct solution to this is to have fines scaled to the value of a company and an exponential doubling of fines for every re-o
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by Teever 3mo ago
GEORGE WASHINGTON The first President of the United States of America, George Washington, was also a wealthy Virginian plantation owner with 8000 acres of land and the people that he forced to work on it. Washington started with ten slaves
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by Teever 3mo ago
Walter, you sort of gave the game away with this last post when you wrote 'It is wrong that Franklin, Jefferson, and Washington kept slaves.' It was wrong, but by whose standards exactly? Not the standards of the time as half the
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by Teever 3mo ago
It absolutely is science-fiction. This recent event is more or less the plot-line to my favourite X-Files episode named Killswitch which was written by William Gibson.[0] This episode also features one of the coolest intros of any televisio
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by Teever 3mo ago
This should have been obvious to me before but for whatever reason reading your comment made me realize something. The hardware that nvidia is selling can be used against them because it can generate the code that is lacking for hardware fr
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by Teever 3mo ago
Anytime you see someone repeatedly doing a bad thing the reason they're doing it is because they want to do it and there are isn't sufficient push-back or consequences for doing it. Until a country that is defended by nuclear we
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by Teever 3mo ago
I'm sure it takes a lot of time and resources to plan and pull off an epic heist but it is unusual to see people like Thomas Crown being accused of creating value, as they're usually accused of committing theft.
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by Teever 3mo ago
You're sort of right. What the US is doing in Canada right now is more comparable to what Russia was doing in Ukraine in the early 2010s[0] The upcoming Alberta separatist referendum that is funded and boosted by foreign agitators isn
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by Teever 3mo ago
> I don't think you can 100% ensure your queries have absolutely no biology and cyber keywords inside. I’m pretty sure that I encountered this the other day. I gave it a copy of a paper by biologist Michael Levin and mentioned off
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by Teever 3mo ago
It likely will. The exact way you do something is dictated by your motivations and means to do it. If you lack the correct motivation and have insufficient means you’re less likely to accomplish your goal and more likely to cause unintended
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by Teever 3mo ago
I worked at a hospital delivering food and I also went to school for CS and I heard about both opportunities to draw men to nursing and women to compsci. The reason that you didn’t hear about them was that you weren’t looking in that area.
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The Gates Foundation met with Epstein about 30 times despite staff concerns(apnews.com)
16 points by Teever 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Teever 3mo ago
These kinds of programs have existed for decades. You've been wondering about that not because these programs weren't there but because you weren't looking for them. There are a lot of good reasons why we want more men in nu
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by Teever 3mo ago
It's frustrating to see open source used as a tool to damage market competition and therefore consumer choice. But it's also interesting to see that reality didn't quite turn out the way that Sam is musing here and instead ot
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SCC affirms 7-2 that methods of medical treatment cannot be patented in Canada(canadianlawyermag.com)
3 points by Teever 3mo ago|0 comments
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FCC pays $340k/year to keep 100's of empty Alaska buildings wired for internet(propublica.org)
37 points by Teever 3mo ago|16 comments
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by Teever 3mo ago
Hackernews users are not immune to developing parasocial relationships with strangers on the internet. The fawning that some users do over others because of their careers is really unbecoming. I wish the kind of people who did this stuff wo
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by Teever 3mo ago
Copyrights and patents don’t exist for the purposes of maximum economic value extraction for inventors and authors. They exist to maximize the production of scientific and artistic works and do so by incentivizing creators with a limited ex
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by Teever 3mo ago
Can you elaborate on your comment? I can see the link between it and the subject that I raised but I don't understand the point that you're trying to make in the context of the conversation.
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by Teever 3mo ago
[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries. https://
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by Teever 3mo ago
A $13 billion dollar Meta datacentre was recently announced for a location near me: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/meta-data-centre-alb... There's a kaleidoscope of issues with this that result
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by Teever 3mo ago
Is it the case that Canada has been implemented substantial forest fire prevention practices? I’m not an expert in forestry. It it doesn’t seem feasible that Canada was every really doing any large scale forest fire prevention simply due to
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by Teever 3mo ago
I recently came across a video of the author discussing this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05375 I’ve been mulling it over the past couple of weeks. I’m not sure what to make of it.
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by Teever 3mo ago
Oops! https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/bill-gates-face-us-...

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