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by Valakas_ 4y ago
"Blaming the victim" - commonly used abusive manipulation tactic used to reverse victim and offender. And you just did it. The other option to why "everything in today's america seems to be a serious threat to democracy&
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
When you're going to cook a frog, the water doesn't immediately start boiling does it? Extreme situations, often don't start extreme.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
We need the StableDiffusion's equivalent of language models - open source and released to the public.
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I understand that different companies may want a part of the pie, and that's fine. Competition is good. But for us consumers, there should be a central place, where we can find everything, and they those companies that offer shows can
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Of course we can blame them for not trying. Why spend the money? Because it's the right thing to do for humanity. But hey Google is not a charity, what matter is stock growth, therefore we're excused of throwing ethics and empathy
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
I can't wait for a few years, when ChatGPT is replaced by something 10^x more powerful, and then comments like this look like nonsense of someone who lived in a past era just like we now similarly make fun of comments from people that
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Billionaires should not exist. When one gets to a certain amount of wealth, TBD, there they should get a golden plate saying "Congratulations, you won capitalism" and from them on, tax rate is 100%.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
I don't think it was *invented* to sow division, but I agree with you that it can definitely be used for it. There's different ways to categorize things - lower-class, middle-class and upper-class is a sort of intuitive way which
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
If the state doesn't apply the money optimally, i.e. it's not doing its job, then that's the problem that needs to be fixed.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
It's a form of Stockholm syndrome and a coping mechanism against immense, inescapable pain. It's the 4th F of trauma coping mechanisms: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn. When something is very painful and inescapable you can: Fight it,
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
This goes back to the root of what creativity really is. Some say creative people don't have anything special in their "brains". They are just able to mix match stuff they already know in different ways, that others didn&#x27
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
At some point, people will still be predicting fusion in the next 10 years, and then it will happen in the next.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Brutal honesty, you mean. Where often the person is more interested in the "brutal" part than the honesty.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
I think the issue here is that CSAM is and often was used as an excuse for invasive privacy breaking measures. Nobody can "not" think of the children, so whenever someone would argue against a measure, all they can say back is &qu
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
> If I go out on a date and my date sends me money on chain, I now know their public key and can look up every past and future transaction they make. Not with Monero.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
To add to that beautiful quote: https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e...
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
This is the point the vast majority of people miss. When we predict the future, we use, without noticing, a lot of things from our current reality and technological perception. This becomes really clear when you look at "future" p
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Not on cash, not your fiat.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
In fact, banks count assets of their clients as liabilities because it is in fact money in their possession (read: control) that they owe to their clients.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
To be fair, in the time he created a company that pushed electrical vehicles to be mainstream, and made reusable rockets a possibility and not just a dream which is helping push mankind to again explore space what exactly has Twitter accomp
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
The way I see it, the current ridiculously high salaries of SWE, the easiness of it, how little so many seem to do valuable work, is in a big part due to inefficiencies in the system, due to novelty of SWE and how invisible it is. In my fie
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
"(...)if gasoline has an energy density about 100 times higher (well, 60 times) why are dragsters not even faster?" Because the limitating factor stops being the power, and becomes the grip to the road.
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Because what matters was never productivity but competition. That's inbuilt into the capitalist philosophy. With that, it doesn't really matter that X company's productivity skyrocketed if Y's company, X's competito
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
Housing market should crash through the floor AND private equity funded businesses barred from using housing as an investment vehicle.
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He clearly doesn't know what a monopoly is.
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No. It's not "just like". People with Cluster B personality disorders, especially the ones at the end of the spectrum with ASPD/psychopathy crave power over others. They enjoy looking into the eyes of someone while life
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I dont understand why some people still go by brute force memorization when there are better methods. Those that our brain naturally uses. You won't see memory champions using Anki for competitions as their main memorization tool that&
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by Valakas_ 4y ago
World 1: zero copyright infringement. Everyone pays. No one pirates. More people write books. (as will be more money in it) World 1.1 Pays your bills. Doesn't make you rich. More crappy books. More high quality books. World 1.2 Can m
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I think you live in a different world than 99% of the people where money is not an issue.
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They're booming because they're benefiting from our work. Copy + paste only works for some time until you start needing to create your own original things. But without copyright what's the point? Someone else will quickly tak

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