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by _factor 2y ago
Government regulation of toxic waste dumping negatively impacts profit margins. We have the data to prove this, very frustrating situation.
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by _factor 2y ago
We can’t ask every car driver to be a mechanic. Specialization is born of finite time and is valuable.
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by _factor 2y ago
If you go to your government’s office and they give you a list of names of known advertisers, then walk along your merry way and use the list to not engage those advertisers, the only trust you need is the source of the information on that
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by _factor 2y ago
Yes, but the gas money went to someone else. That spending ability is now lost from the consumer and equally gained by the producer. Extracting a valuable resource is adding value out of thin air (literally with gas at times), but you cou
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by _factor 2y ago
How is value created? Every accumulation of wealth is countered by an equal loss of wealth somewhere else. If you’re in a service industry and devise a process that saves $20 per transaction for a customer, then charge $10 for it, you’re
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by _factor 2y ago
Sure, Ted. I’ve let user HAL access feature “door locks”. I’ve corrected all permissions accordingly.
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by _factor 2y ago
This is how we get to big brother 1984 status. Slowly and gradually in the name of public safety. First you limit information deemed “harmful”, next you make it illegal, then you use your powers to make your own rules. With the corporate
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by _factor 2y ago
It’s amazing how much the luxury car industry has advertised what is essentially a shaking and noise complement to going fast. The “smooth” revs. The “visceral” feel. The “connection” to the road. It’s just a few metal cylinders going up
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by _factor 2y ago
“I’m a vegetarian, but I’d still scarf down a steak.”
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by _factor 2y ago
You’re confusing your terrorist groups.
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by _factor 2y ago
Even better, take a physical object and slice it precisely in a ratio that contains your data in the fraction!
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by _factor 2y ago
In our disturbing legal climate, many judges would say yes.
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by _factor 2y ago
It’s apparent to me that the law has jumbled a bunch of archaic concepts of what “copying” means in order to transfigure the argument into a technically obscured realm. A library allows one person to read one book at a time. A digital libr
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by _factor 2y ago
I’m pretty sure the Red Hat model is to profit off the community efforts while creating convoluted complications in the name of security so they can send their high paid consultants to your business and get paid even more. Was it profession
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by _factor 2y ago
Musk has done some impressive things for himself. Along the way he’s helped out society. Now it seems as though he’s done with that and cares more about changing it match his image.
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by _factor 2y ago
You would need hardware support to do this effectively. Telling a piece of software “no one is looking at your memory” as the OS doesn’t take into account rootkits and hypervisors.
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by _factor 2y ago
One with an absurd amount of money that actually focuses on improving society and science. Instead we have Musk, and you’re probably right.
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by _factor 2y ago
Bloom filters really need to be more present in today’s technology landscape. They’re like magic for certain problems. I believe they have much wider uses than the current subset they’re relegated to.
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by _factor 2y ago
Time = Distance / Velocity A simple middle school formula really spells it out clearly. If you’ve no distance or velocity, you don’t have time. If we pretend that velocity is heat (electron excitation, though technically a cloud), you
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by _factor 2y ago
This exists: https://aihorde.net/ I haven’t tried it, and not the norm, but I agree it should be more common. We have a global supercomputer with higher latency, but still a supercomputer.
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by _factor 2y ago
> When?! Diplomatic agreements between nations throughout history. Your land has water, mine has food, we set the value of trade and baseline the currency. The unavoidable cost is the minimum time and labor to transport and extract the
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by _factor 2y ago
“WebGPU is supposed to be properly sandboxed.“ GPU must therefore provide open API for proprietary processing space. Magic “packets” are therefore possible to execute arbitrary functions on “sandboxed” DMA devices. Still a problem until we
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by _factor 2y ago
Exchange rates used to be pegged to labor. The futures market obfuscated that and is controlled by a central bank through government issued subsidies which cause food surpluses which “should” reduce the price of produce.. if not for the ma
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by _factor 2y ago
I think the bigger issue is security. GPU access is too interlinked to kernel drivers. I’ve seen WebGPU and even WebGL crash otherwise stable systems.
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by _factor 2y ago
Very accurate. We now have this magic technology that can duplicate books we had no problem lending for free when we were physically constrained. Now that we’ve advanced, we still use archaic constructs to artificially limit information.
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by _factor 2y ago
My interpreter only accepts print and addition to a predefined variable. Let the attackers print and count all they want. The problem isn’t the execution, it’s the scope of what it means to “execute”.
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by _factor 2y ago
And cigarettes have benefited the lung cancer research centers. Just because it works doesn’t make it the best course.
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by _factor 2y ago
If a former employee of mine uses proprietary information to build a competitor, I’d be upset. The key is what is classed as proprietary. You start barking up the software patent tree and you never know what the lawyers will throw back do
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by _factor 2y ago
If we can prove entanglement still exists on a per particle level, hawking radiation is just a correlation fix that uses massive black hole lifetimes to reintroduce particles when they no longer affect the time ordering. Experiments showin
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by _factor 2y ago
We all share a single photon in some theories. When time has no meaning, it can run through the whole universe in a strobe. Large correlated events need to exist because smaller correlations do. It only makes logical sense if you try to r

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