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by alexb_ 4y ago
All art is subjective, which of course makes detecting funny business way harder.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The blog post about the EU proposal is insanely scary. It "boasts" about 88% accuracy in "grooming" and 90% accuracy in new CSAM. And it also has this line, which is just so obviously horrendous: >the proposed obliga
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Consider that large tech corporations will literally never do anything that isn't furthering their goal of making more money. What effect does this type of banning have on the viability of competitors? It makes competitors attract thos
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by alexb_ 4y ago
https://4channel.org/ic/
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Make sure your art isn't the wrong type of artistic!
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by alexb_ 4y ago
In a few years, when a generative text model that's actually open is made, erotic text will 100% be a main use. But of course people don't like thinking about that...
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Where there's a dumb requirement, there's a waiver.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
There is a large body of thought that encourages censorship of ideas which might bring people to undesirable conclusions. It feeds in on itself, and this is what happens.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The example I first heard about this problem for was with portapotties. At what point do you stop looking through the line of open portapotties to find the cleanest one? So I guess that's a use.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I don't think you understand how asymmetric information in markets works. I would suggest reading "The Market for Lemons".
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by alexb_ 4y ago
> But, when the car is in motion, the driver really shouldn't be messing with the stereo or most anything else in the center console. In a fantasy world where everyone follows every single rule, correct. In the real, actual world, I
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>The touch screen, since it can have scrollable menus, gives significantly more customization opportunity than pure physical controls allow. You can do this while also having actual physical interfaces. You just have to put actual effort
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Prediction markets are awesome, and I really wish there wasn't an insane amount of unnecessary regulation artificially pushing it down. Sports betting is legal pretty much everywhere now - who cares if it takes the form of a prediction
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Technology Connections is a really good channel about how the technology of everyday things work. Highly recommend.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Can confirm - I'm young enough to have never used a map. If I did not have a GPS, I wouldn't be able to move anywhere.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I think a lot of people have personal preferences that they feel compelled to justify morally in some way in order to rid any cognitive dissonance that could happen. So they make up reasons that it's "-ist" to be against what
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Maybe in America...
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Did you not read the part where thousands upon thousands of people trying to unionized were murdered?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Over two thirds of teens never using Facebook is gigantic. I knew facebook was declining, but I didn't know it was that bad.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
One part of the bill which is being overlooked is Part 4, Section 1: the requirement for all user to user services to provide the option for User Identity verification. It's easy to write it off as an "option" now, but this i
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Unfortunately for that idea, I would like my phone to actually just function normally, and have support for programs that Android uses. You are making perfect the enemy of good here.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
That's what Reddit is for.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
If I were really rich, I would spend a gigantic amount of money for the sole purpose of fucking over Comcast.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
All of these assume you need the government to keep track of who spends what money - something that MANY people would heavily disagree with.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
These are interesting reads - I wish HN had a save feature so I could keep track of them.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
It's very easy to be pro-shunning when you are on the inside.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
https://archive.ph/nHJGU
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Too many parties interested in exploiting the lack of privacy are making the lack of privacy laws painfully apparent. What incentive do they have to change? If anything, this seems to suggest the exact opposite, that privacy will never
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I didn't even know there was no storage limit - that seems like an immediate way to get your platform used to store non-code data in very large quantities.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I actually didn't know it was on mobile, so I searched for "Papers Please" on the Google Play store. Only complete garbage came up, and I had to actually go to the website to find a link to the game (which only has 5k downloa

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