_DeadFred_

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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262204 "Flock amplifies existing bugs. Sounds like Flock is the error."
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
No, that is why you vote for the person who isn't the fascist. But that was too much to ask in the last election. Just not voting for the fascist isn't enough. You need to support/improve/give energy to the alternative.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Telling that op didn't respond to this simple question.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
You bring up murder and atrocities in order to.... just wave away murder and atrocities? Gross. Keep sweeping for horror.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Bob is the town mayor. The police want XYZ. The police request from flock a detail breakdown of everywhere that Bob went in the last 5 years (this example is after flock has been around a while) and then feeds that into AI looking for patte
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
This has always been how the dystopian sci-fi future works. If you can get just get to 'the <future/decayed sounding name> zone' you are outside the big brother tracking. It's also why a big brother system will al
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
In the United States legal system, when you take a plea because the Government was threaning you with a 20 year sentence the judge requires in court and under oath for you to state that you were not coerced/pressured in any way to take
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Look at the quality of discussion here. It's all just 'America is dead/dying'. Nothing of note. No talking about the crazy inflation in Iran, the government officials discussions on how they can't afford replacing t
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Did you miss the 1970s and the impact of Vietnam (that lasted through to the 90s for that generation)? The malaise about American from the 70s through the 80s? The corporate raiders of the 80s and the destruction of so many Americans lives
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
What? Tiananmen Square was not more benevolent. When I worked in the bay area we had a ton of Chinese Americans who happened to be college students when Tiananmen happened who then stayed instead of going home. Do you people no longer work
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
So much better https://www.google.com/search?q=china+execution+van
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
But China is already in decline before reaching this ascendancy. I think new models will result in new structures, not just a switch from the US to China.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
As sophacles put it so well: "Flock amplifies existing bugs. Sounds like Flock is the error." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262204
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262204 "Flock amplifies existing bugs. Sounds like Flock is the error."
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
No, cheap books came from the invention of cheap printing. But the quality of works was going down because printers were just printing with zero copyright protections. Copyright is what brought the wealth of works worth reading that were th
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Disagree. The printing machine was killing the industry allowing copies where people earned nothing. Copyright was created to ensure quality works existed to be copied.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Actually no. The original copyright laws were created in part because of the realities of needed profit motive to have high value writing done, time consuming compilation work done. It was even titled "An Act for the Encouragement of L
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
One California town found Flock's license plate cameras were wrong 71% of the time https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/06/california-town-says-flo...
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Bankruptcies normally impact whole families. So 530,000 bankruptcies could easily be 4,000,000 people impacted, per year. Over the last 20 years that is over 20% of the population.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
This was tried and we ended up with intellectual property rights because encouraging the creation of works was more important than having zero/poor quality works but a free for all.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Yeah, us American's don't even want lower Childbirth mortality, longer lifespan-healthspan, lower murder rates, paid vacations, lower worked hours per year, job security, etc. Those things are just for crappy countries. You sure d
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
The big beautiful bill just cut off 4 million people's insurance assistance including mine. But nice, blame the uninsured people for not having insurance because of... checks notes.. the unrelated programs they don't qualify for t
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Actually medical debt is the norm for why people face bankruptcy in the USA. 65% of US bankruptcies are due to medical debt. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/medical-b...
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
100,000,000 American owe $220 billion in medical debt. https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/scheinman-institute/blog/healthc... In the US medical bills are half of all debts sent to collections. 41% of US adults have healt
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
The above listed Washington, Idaho, Vermont, and Oregon are all industrialized societies.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Do Alfalfa growers traditionally use limited (and funded at large expense by the local community) municipal water hookups to grow their crops? Are alfalfa growers asking for new water hookup permits to access these resources? Because DCs ar
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
The question is does DC building bring added costs to local communities. My small town has a backlog of home builders waiting for permits because of constrained municipal water capacity. We are still paying off the bonds for the last capaci
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Did they commit that they were only going to use 1 million gallons? I got the impression they committed to not using the communities water?
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
1. So basically the majority of rural people, so you are saying rural Americans should fight against every AI datacenter built in their area if they want to keep access to drinking water. OK. 2. The existing homeowners were there first.
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by _DeadFred_ 2mo ago
Why sweep for them? The industry promises/makes commitments with the intention of not keeping them and going through back channels. F em. They are a scumbag/untrustworthy/'we only technically broke the law' industry

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