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by altacc 4y ago
Activist investors are individuals with significant power who seek to enrich themselves by making life much worse for large numbers of people, without recourse, election or accountability. They are one of the significant negatives of capita
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by altacc 4y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to automate this by pairing the speech synthesis with a ML model that understands the context of the text it is parsing.
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by altacc 4y ago
No, I really don't do any of those things. Everything is online these days, which is a different attack surface. I also don't think that my iPhone is listening to me, for advertising or blackmail purposes.
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by altacc 4y ago
This is what security systems used to be and they’re still available. People like the idea of being able to see into their houses themselves but don’t like the idea of anyone else being able to see into their houses. The very small likeliho
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by altacc 4y ago
First it’s about what’s easily controllable. Second it’s about threat impact of the release of any media taken from my house. I am very boring and so audio of me asking my wife what she wants for dinner for the 15,000th time wouldn’t cause
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by altacc 4y ago
I knew keeping all my old dHTML scripts from the 00s would pay off eventually!
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by altacc 4y ago
My reluctance in having an internet connected camera in my house 24/7 is why I bought a LIDAR vacuum. For similar reasons I had the security cameras removed from the house when I bought it. I've worked in IT long enough to know no
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by altacc 4y ago
You bring up the notion that the wide spread introduction of washing machines might not have had an effect on how people use their time. Go and read up on that because the the introduction of labor saving devices had a MASSIVE effect of how
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by altacc 4y ago
It sounds like you're saying that Tesla has no competition if you ignore their competition. You can't be dismissive of Chinese EV makers, who are rapidly encroaching on western markets and are reshaping the motor industry. Here i
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by altacc 4y ago
The real error is probably that some fraction of this is children of those men, as in many family homes men are the ones who login to YouTube on the TV or other devices. That may or may not be beneficial depending upon whom the advertisers
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by altacc 4y ago
There's quite a big market for this, such as a lot of the Nordics, where -15C for a few days is common enough that not having heating then would rapidly become an issue as homes freeze quickly. At those temperatures you have heating on
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by altacc 4y ago
Most of that article seems to be talking about an omicron wave, not delta. You were selective in your quote as that article states "we found higher levels of protection among those who received two doses of BNT162b2 compared with those
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by altacc 4y ago
The vaccines were primarily developed for the alpha and delta variants, where there was a significant difference in effectiveness between the Sinovac and RNA vaccines.
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by altacc 4y ago
I'd modify your statement to be "covid might be causing immuno-deficiency in some people". There is some evidence that long covid, affecting about 7.5% of those who get covid, is the result of a suppressed immune system [exam
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by altacc 4y ago
I wonder if being forced to spend more time at home during the pandemic reset people's exceptions. To your point specifically, we used to be one of those families. Once we had children it did not work out a benefit for my partner to wo
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by altacc 4y ago
From this article and others that I have read, it is also about work/life balance. Pay is getting better in some places and that gives options. Previously those working 14 unsociable hours a day seemed to be either highly paid execs or
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by altacc 4y ago
Indeed. The whole point all along was that Twitter as a private company could moderate content as it saw fit. Let us now try and score some internet points by pointing out that the new buyer disagreed with that idea enough to spend $44 bill
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by altacc 4y ago
Hmmm, at this rate we’re going to have to create Elon News ;) I think it’s interesting to see somebody who thought content moderation was a simple problem realise that content moderation is actually an incredibly difficult and, in some ways
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by altacc 4y ago
I think the spectrum exists most places but it’s a minority of countries where there is such a strong divide and intentional polarisation between only 2 political choices, with those in the relative middle having to choose the lesser evil d
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by altacc 4y ago
I’m not sure I qualify as a spokesperson for the entire “left” ;) It seems a lot of people are pointing out the massive amounts of hypocrisy Elon is displaying, as well as how fickle & fragile the concept of free speech is when it comes
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by altacc 4y ago
That tweet says that free speech will be limited by law. For that to be relevant to ElonJet he would have to specify which laws ElonJet broke. People can change their opinions but if you’ve made big public statements about that opinion, spe
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by altacc 4y ago
I'd add that whilst people generally have a low trust in governments, I personally have zero trust in corporations and the idea of access to space being solely the preserve of commercial entities is an uncomfortable one. Historically b
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by altacc 4y ago
The problem seems to be that they sold too many cars with a negative margin. I've heard stories of people selling their cars sight unseen to Carvana for above market value and it seems they were left holding too many cars as the second
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by altacc 4y ago
Yes, automation is nothing new and we're all still working. It changes the jobs and then typically the company can use the gain to expand and so needs to hire more.
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by altacc 4y ago
If his example is Instagram then the lesson is that you didn't use to need many employees to get rich via venture capital and buy out, which are the main goals of many tech founders. Instagram and tech in the early 2010s is not a compa
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by altacc 4y ago
the Overton window basically. That's where the constant vigilance and discussion comes in, to keep open the possibility of moving the window. for example, I still hear a LOT about conspiracy theories, anti-vaxx, etc... even though I do
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by altacc 4y ago
Not PP but in my opinion there is a big difference between how the law addresses speech that makes people interested in a different government and speech that promotes extreme ideologies. For example, if you look at countries like Russia, C
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by altacc 4y ago
Yes, both can have the same effect of selecting the editorial content of the photograph. With both methods (plus the selection of what photos from an event to publish) a photographer or their editor can choose what to convey. For example, i
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by altacc 4y ago
> Where does the line lie? Putting aside the discussion about these particular photographs... There are clear lines, especially for certain types of photography. For things like reportage, documentary and true nature photography, the sim
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by altacc 4y ago
Skimming that list, it seems to be bulked up by many who faced objections and protests but still spoke at the talks they were invited to. Them attending to talk whilst having protests is respecting free speech of everyone. Those whom object

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