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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Weird that ID's still don't have, say, QR-codes or something similar with a cryptographic-signature to verify that the info's accurate. Or chips like with credit-cards. Lots of different ways stuff like that could be done.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Sounds like Teletext was basically a digital-magazine protocol. This is, a TV-station would continuously broadcast the latest Teletext-magazine for Teletext-clients to cache. Then users could view articles from their local cache. Reference
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Just skimming the Wikipedia page, it sounds like almost all Teletext was read-only, which the entire protocol was designed around. But since you stressed their plans being " read-only ", was there something else to it?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yeah, sorry, perhaps indulgent on my part. I enjoy different perspectives, being both why I'd advocate what I did above and why I'm so curious about your comment about smartphones -- which, I imagine, for you was merely a passing
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
These concerns seem pretty hypothetical because AI's going to be putting everyone out of a job before such things could be an issue anyway. That said, even in a hypothetical primarily-human labor-market, market-dynamics would fix the p
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Everything's good! I guess my main thought would be that narratives are written by many different authors, using different styles, telling different stories. So I'd imagine that there's stuff all over the place -- including
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Seems like you should be able to find just about anything. There're a lot of books out there. Are you looking for a narrative set in modern-day America, but in an alternative timeline in which texting/smartphones weren't a
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
That's one site I'm iffy on enabling JavaScript for.. is there an alternative host for the release?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Seems like there's a ton of stuff out there, so it's kinda whatever you want. No need to read just new-publications, though. If you want to read Greek mythology, Euclid's " Elements ", biblical texts, or whatever,
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
If you want random book suggestions online: https://recommendmeabook.com/ Or you can just search a few random words on Google/Amazon/whatever, then pick a random title. The article's other point seems to be t
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
tl;dr- Humans may consider their own intelligence as a reference-model from which to conceptualize AI. Biases in self-conception may undermine that reference-model, thus undermining conceptions of AI. Earlier version: https:/&#x2F
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's hard to guess what point you're trying to make. My best guess might be that you're trying to represent a belief that words have context-free meaning, and then you're very short in your own communication in part due
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's better to understand what people are trying to say than to misattribute false interpretations. For example, in this case the speaker clearly wasn't trying to equate Romani to swindlers. Any logic arriving at such a faulty co
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yup! Dunno if modern medications may also include other active-ingredients to compliment lithium, but lithium itself is pretty much the same thing as sodium or potassium in terms of its simplicity as a chemical species. Since lithium has a
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Are you suggesting that the term " gypped " may've been racist? Presumably because its etymology may be a reference to a stereotypical behavior attributed to gypsies, which some might regard as a racial-slur for [Romani peop
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
On some sites, folks will up-vote things that they agree with and down-vote things that they disagree with. Or, sometimes up-votes are a mode of expressing emotional-support or communal-acceptance. Maybe that's what you're used
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It sounds like you're proposing that they have to remove illegal-content, but host legal-content, right? For example: say someone's advertising a new drug of questionable legality (say, Δ-8-THC). Presumably a hosting-company, uns
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
If hosting-companies become responsible for determining what's legal/illegal, then they'll have reasonable cause to become an authority on the topic. It'd probably make them more influential and powerful rather than less
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> It’s not that Google should be forced to carry stuff, they should be forced to not discriminate because they don’t like it. ISIS propaganda is illegal and should be taken down for that reason. Bright-line rules like that worry me. Thi
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yeah, guessing that it's the URL. Beyond that, it looks like a basic spreadsheet of weather-data. Kinda neat to see how much attention such a URL can draw to an otherwise-unremarkable page.
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
That sounds really horrible. ..so they just snatch people up and abuse them on any slight pretext, depriving them of even water for days? That seems bad enough like someone should've tried to fix it by now. I guess there'd be is
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I can't believe it. This is too much. All the facial-recognition software is supposed to do is point out similarities in pictures, and then humans can see if they agree. That's it. None of the silliness after that is due to the
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Are these stories real? I mean: > Williams was wrongfully arrested in 2020 for federal larceny after he was misidentified by the Detroit Police Department’s facial recognition software after they used a grainy image from the surveillance
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Looks like a relevant law might be " 18 U.S.C. §1203 ": * https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1203 * https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> The kidnapping was carried away by an Australian professor and a couple American guys working there, Did charges ever get filed against the kidnappers? Like back in the US? And was the professor reported to their university?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Your ad does mention crypto/anonymous and money/finance a good bit together. That's probably enough to add to a perception of shady-ness for someone just passively seeing an ad as they scroll by on a webpage. Just to note it
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
You might want to get some feedback on ads before posting them. Some of the advice you got seems reasonable. Personally, if I had to make an ad for a similar product, I might try to get a good picture of the software graphing something, wit
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Yeah, the current patent-system is completely ridiculous. To pick out one especially bad problem: it's too inconsistent, relying on legal-battles to resolve inconsistencies. And then people are just afraid to do stuff, because they do
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It's definitely a policy, in that it's a design-decision that could be changed to make it operate differently. For example, if a good majority of a crypto-currency's miners elected to fork to a new policy, then it'd jus
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> That's the big innovation. You're right that a lot of folks don't want features like that, though I just had to point out that this isn't an " innovation " by any wild stretch of the imagination, but rathe

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