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by Terr_ 2mo ago
To quibble/add-nuance: The words have diverged into a false-friend [0] situation. It looks like the same word, but the correct/standard meaning depends on which language is being used at the time. If someone is writing English and
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
"We never thought authoritarian politicians would go against OUR sector of the economy," sobs consortium that donated billions to the Authoritarians Controlling Economy Party. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Not to be confused with the Elixir ORM. ( https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto )
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Yeah, sign-language versus spoken-language is just an implementation-detail for which signals Koko was reproducing. In some parallel-universe where Koko was a parrot "speaking" English, we'd have the same set of philosophical
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Blockchain is almost always the wrong solution. Especially since in most of the cases where it's not-totally-insane to use, the right solution is still the classic distributed database which already existed. In those, the ledger i
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It just tells you about their intended audience: Investors rather than consumers. Nowadays, every company—even huge ones—prefers to be seen as a "growth opportunity", so they are trying to play up their ability to create new pro
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
The end here reminds me of "The Log: Real-time data's unifying abstraction" [0], which has unfortunately had a bit of link-rot since 2013. One complication in this approach involves access-windows: What if my system is only s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Another problem is that several "small" states can exploit their disproportionate power to pull up the ladder behind them, since any changes to state makeup have to pass the Senate.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
It's interesting to imagine how different the entire security landscape would be, if every human was natively capable of easily transcribing many more bytes of data and noticing when two sequences don't match.
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While "financial nihilism" is part of it, I think we should be putting even more attention towards the forces that are trying to deliberately encourage it for profit. Kind of like pathological gambling: Sure, some people are susce
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"Oh no, someone might pirate my advertisement, and show it make even more people see it for free !"
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Those are the right questions: While I'd personally prefer full copy/import/export control, having the ability to set up an second key in advance is functionally-similar to having a backup of the first one. If I had my '
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
That would actually make it an order of magnitude dodgier-AF. Dodgiest-AF? I'd rather be scammed by people who can at least theoretically go to jail for their crimes.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
But for which country, state, province, or city? Put in the hierarchical angle, and we're kind of back at domain names.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I assume it's tied somehow to SMS character limits, where somebody decided a couple extra letters of content was worth it somehow.
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I wonder how we could describe this so that aging non-technical executives understand. "It's like your real salesperson showed up in a wrinkled suit smelling of booze, telling me that your product could be seen in the back of an
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm not sure that's a very comforting comparison: It's not clear that guns have that level of deterrent effect, and a world where everyone is shooting ar everyone else with guns is supremely wasteful . Better to strike at th
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I hope that this is satire of LLMs, or satire of day-traders on drugs, but I fear it is neither.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Iran actually has reasonable anti-air defense. They're not a bunch of guys running around with AK-74s. To help put that in perspective versus Iraq: Iran's GDP today is a ~7x stronger than Iraq's was (in 2003) relative to
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I don't see how that relates to any of this. If I record a video of a crowd in public, under US law I have copyright to that video. The crowd isn't creating the record, I am. The issue of which group (Flock/police/city)
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Plus the current US President has purged most of of the military leaders who might resist any unwise or unlawful orders regarding nuclear weaponry. (Or just in-general, for that matter.) Potential orders he mused-about during his first term
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Wow, that burned away my prepared benefit-of-the-doubt and "hear them out" budget way faster than I expected. > Those who support transgender people and those who are transgender people are mentally ill. There is is, implied
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Since when is "assigning virtuous environmental brownie-points" the topic of discussion? I think it's very straightforward. Here's a recap of the thread, you can see it in the quote for the first item: 1. khanhnguye
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Perhaps, but was it untouched by design, or was it untouched because it wasn't economically feasible for them to exploit it? Those two are very very different when it comes to assigning virtuous environmental brownie-points, and the la
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Or even that people are using them for the same things, but there is a chaotic element to how it works, and people are getting different outcomes due to small differences that we humans don't think ought to matter.
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Necessary is not the same as sufficient. If I want my ox-cart to fly, I need to add wings, but that's probably not all that needs changing.
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No, they're all orbiting the Earth very badly. :p
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> the freedom is more about being able to lean on other people to do that Alternately: The collective capability is what makes important lasting changes, but individual capability is still a required building-block to get there. Much
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> A central part of every student’s retelling was that despite their AI use, they retained artistic control over their output and could exercise agency to think and improve for themselves. [...] > The illusion of control that AI users
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If I had my 'druthers there would be legal rules around the rights of customers to access their information, using an API key limited to reading past/pending transaction data. I suppose an extra-paranoia feature might be letting p

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