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by advael 5y ago
Again, use whatever you like most, but you're mistaking a lack of conflict with Apple for a lack of control. You like the way Apple's products work for you. Great. You can own media you've produced, and don't particularl
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by advael 5y ago
Sure. I've met multiple cocaine users
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by advael 5y ago
Every time I read about police investigation techniques that justify the use of mass-surveillance, deception, and entrapment, I grow closer to fully rejecting the legitimacy of criminal law and criminal justice. The less legitimacy I assign
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by advael 5y ago
Some things never change. Talk about switching OSes and the entire comment thread becomes about dancing around calling people wrong about their aesthetic UX preferences I think if anything, this post illustrates that no matter how many peop
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by advael 5y ago
Almost certainly the latter will "win" in the sense of getting widespread adoption. If current technologies are any indication, this will lead to people, like the poster you're responding to and myself as well, who view propr
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by advael 5y ago
The more general model of "local password that unlocks a key" seems like better security at every turn, and something that's feasible to implement on any system. This leaves attackers with the same options they'd have wi
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by advael 5y ago
I would have been surprised even as recently as ten years ago. Now, I am not. American society has been fractured for quite some time, and is only growing more fractured, exactly because of how easy it is in the current political climate an
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by advael 5y ago
That's the problem with metrics though. You can make anything sound plausible. Once a model has been presented to you, you can come up with an endless stream of just-so stories for why it measures what you were told it measures. Noneth
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by advael 5y ago
I think they were being facetious. Yes, mask compliance was probably a bad example, because this was politicized from both sides pretty much right away. I think the general point stands though
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by advael 5y ago
I got a dual-major in psychology in undergrad, and while it's not been an exceptionally useful degree, it did bequeath me with an enormous dose of skepticism toward psychometrics like this. The replication crisis solidified that skepti
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by advael 5y ago
It's a mantra at this point that polarization has gotten out of control, but one of the biggest effects it seems to have is this reverse-psychology effect I'm in a big American city, and I remember that until the online kids and s
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by advael 5y ago
The quality of the service for every one of the positive examples you mention has degraded since the largest firms involved have become effective monopolies that could get away with exploiting either their customers or their labor, or both,
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by advael 5y ago
Sort of. You can see that each successive version of the essay contains what the author had written before, to which she had added more. She then lets GPT3 continue from wherever she's left off each time. It's actually an inspirin
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by advael 5y ago
No, the ending seems completely in line with what the model does well. What is impressive about GPT3 is that it seems good at keeping track of really long-term dependencies in long sequences of text, giving the impression of being able to
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by advael 5y ago
I like how the article goes into detail about how the social safety net and investment in putting computers in every home provided by Sweden may have fostered a situation where both people are likely to create startups and those startups ar
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by advael 5y ago
All you need to hear from this article is that no one outside of the company can independently audit the software Any such solution should be dead in the water as a source of meaningful forensic evidence, period
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by advael 5y ago
Moore's Law isn't a physical law of the universe, it's an observation of what is ultimately a short window of progress extrapolated into a guiding principle. More like an aspirational metronome than a "law" per se.
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by advael 5y ago
Society managed to not collapse for quite a long time without the ability to spy on every aspect of someone's life. Does the capability existing suddenly make it necessary? I don't buy this argument at all
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by advael 5y ago
There's no way to stop shit like this from happening at scale if we keep making exceptions for law enforcement and international espionage Until people stop accepting busting drug dealers by tapping their phones, they're going to
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by advael 5y ago
I see kind of a silver lining here, in that it has the potential to get US-based lawmakers to care about mass data-harvesting enough to make some laws about it. I imagine that privacy laws are easier to get through congress if the perceived
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by advael 5y ago
A monopoly of any kind subverts both the free market and democracy, and there is literally no such thing as "wasting taxpayers' money" at the federal level in the US, because the US issues its own currency
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by advael 5y ago
This is why broad averages aren't always the most useful statistic. The number of complete mirrors required to make the data trove fairly robust is much lower than the number of people in the world, and the prior commentor's quali
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by advael 5y ago
I came here to say roughly this, so thank you for saving me the trouble
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by advael 5y ago
The netflix complaint is a pretty confusing one. The last time I used windows was back when Netflix was a DVD rental service, and while there was a time when you had to go get Google Chrome to stream via Netflix on linux, even that hasn&#x2
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by advael 5y ago
I will once again register my hope that this causes at least a significant portion of windows subscribers to consider non-proprietary alternatives. Linux distros are fundamentally more useful computer systems, open source communities have d
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by advael 5y ago
It's amazing how no amount of altering the deal to be worse for consumers seems to get people to mass-exodus from these proprietary platforms, despite the existence of numerous alternatives
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by advael 5y ago
I've yet to hear a good justification for why there is any accepted legal case for banning any work of fiction for things like "obscenity" in the US given the first amendment, nor other jurisdictions with similar foundational
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by advael 5y ago
I've moved my sim card over to a pinephone, and I have to say, the main pain point right now is battery life. I think the thing is a great little linux system, and while the UX of things like Phosh isn't perfectly slick, it can co
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by advael 8y ago
Fame is a cost. Some important, meaningful, or even just fun things incur an increased likelihood of accumulating fame, though not all of them. If what you want to do is worth the risk of attracting attention, the tradeoff can be worth it,
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by advael 9y ago
I'm actually curious about how the current situation arose. We clearly have some historical trust-busting (e.g. Bell, as the article points out), but the concentration of market share in a ton of industries is pretty obviously too high

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