alkonaut

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by alkonaut 7mo ago
Doesn't it just limit property tax to 1% while saying nothing about income tax? Is it this? > the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, s
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by alkonaut 7mo ago
> The legislature refused to add an amendment forbidding the threshold from ever being lowered Wouldn't such a change have to be made by the same legislature with a similar majority? Or was this some sort of constitutional change th
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Maybe if we had a really terse and unambiguous form of English? Whenever there is ambiguity we insert parentheses and operators to really make it clear what we mean. We can enclose different sentences in brackets to make sure that the scope
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
> But if I want to sell something based on your photo, then I need to ask your permission. Do you understand now? I understand, and I disagree. I think if you send video to Meta who uses it to make money (and likely offer you free servic
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
This seems it should be very easy to validate. Force the AI to make minimal changes to the code under test, which makes a single (or as few as possible) test fail as a result. If it can't make a test fail at all, it should be useless.
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
I still don't understand how it makes a difference if the agent is a human or a bot?
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
This isn't about recording. Recording was always ok. I could always record you in public. You could be part of my personal video collection, or I could use the clip of you in journalism. But if I record you and use it in a TV commercia
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
You cared enough to post in "who wants to be hired" but you don't care about actually being hired? I think you might be a "free man" longer than you want...
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
> Being in a public space means you are consenting to being recorded; I think we all know the black/white of: you can record all you want. You can not use my face in a commercial. That idea has served us well for a century. The prob
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
> This happens constantly when multiple AI agents work on the same codebase What? Is the idea of "multiple agents" of flesh and blood writing code that far fetched now?
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Did you make a wrong turn? /r/asshat is over there -> You posted a message in "Who wants to be hired" at almost the same time as you posted this. Do you think a potential recruiter would read your comment history? Sig
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
> in most places in public you should have zero expectation of privacy (in the US) Shouldn't there be a discussion about what that means? What _is_ privacy? Is it completely black or white, all or nothing? Are some kinds of privacy
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
And I think we need to redefine privacy as something that isn't black or white. In a bathroom or in my home I expect complete privacy. In the street I expect _less privacy_ but it doesn't mean I have "no expectation of privac
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Maybe if we weigh legitimate use cases against privacy and end up deciding that the privacy is more important, then we just don't accept those use cases? That is: we invent new awesome life-changing technology and we just... don't
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
That's something created/accepted as a reasonable state of affairs simply because no one could imagine the resources needed to record and track every person everywhere (Or, we could - but it was fiction). Being in public was consi
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Because a government represents the interests of the voters or else we get rid of it . The risk is that voters care about other issues more and get policy that they don't agree with in the package. That's always a risk. But if eno
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
How is this an OS concern? Shouldn't age verification be a government concern to implement a system which does a privacy preserving verification? And until such a system exists, there should be no laws about online verification at all?
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
From invasion or forced regime change? Yes (But I don't think the nukes actually helped in that regard).
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
It's inconvenient to make people criminals over night with new regulation, but it's by no means impossible to do so. I can't install a Ring doorbell if it takes a picture of the street outside my house. That was preexisting r
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
I don't mind anyone taking my photo in a public place. That was always legal. It's what's done with it that could be illegal. E.g. if they use my photo in a commercial without my consent? Illegal. If it was also illegal to (f
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
This sounds like a regulation issue to me. If it's regulated it can't be inevitable that "most people" are breaking the law. And if there is a resistance among people then hopefully it will be regulated (I'm talking
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Proving, that the idea that "no matter how good you are at anything there's some 8 year old who is much better" held true even before social media had to tell it to my face every day.
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
I just hope the whole thing comes crashing down and we can buy GPUs and RAM again. I mean I might not have a job in that economy, and my pension might be screwed but I'll have 192GB ram so I should be fine.
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
I'd like something similar to his first prototype: Battery powered if needed, and 10 minute refresh (or scheduled push). But the key is that it has to be sub $500 total cost, and work free or locally. If I need to pay for a service or
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
The article is a bit muddy on what is hope and what is product. Can we _really_ buy a solid state lidar today? At what cost? When can I have it delivered? The article starts out without saying it but my takeaway at the end is "Not $200
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
I think the weather where cameras/sensors start having problems is much better than zero-vis whiteout. If we could make sensors that lets an autonomous vehicle drive reliably in any snow/rain where a human could drive (although ca
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by alkonaut 8mo ago
Did Amazon hit any major setbacks? Like some antitrust issue? There was talk in Europe about how Amazon should be legally responsible for everything sold on the platform in terms of safety, authenticity and so on even if things are sold dir
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Yeah did they test any of this? Did they run a pilot and ask 1000 users did you use it? Did you like it? Is it better with this than without it? It's as though they think some "AI revolution" will come, and all they need to d
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
I don't see a future in which we play at 4K at top settings either without AI upscaling/interpolation. Even if it were theoretically possible to do so, the performance budget the developers have going forward will be assuming that
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by alkonaut 9mo ago
Well as I said, I consider myself compensated with intellectual challenge/stimulus as part of my compensation. It's _why_ I do the work to begin with. Or to put it another way: it's either done in a way I like, or it's p

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