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by autoexec 5d ago
The citizens are accountable to the extent that they have power over what their government is doing and support their actions. In the US the average citizen has effectively zero influence on the actions of their government and the overwhelm
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by autoexec 5d ago
It's good to see an optimist! Here's hoping you're right about the midterms.
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by autoexec 5d ago
There's a lot of very dangerous scientific work that gets done because we've put safety measures in place to protect workers and the public to the best of our ability. This allows the dangerous work to be done as safely as possibl
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by autoexec 5d ago
I think more important than the percentages are the reasons why someone would steer others away from their chosen profession.
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by autoexec 5d ago
When multinational trillion-dollar companies do it, it's purely for greed. Tax avoidance for moral reasons is dubious to start with, but at least ostensibly the motivation isn't the same as what drives thieves and muggers.
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by autoexec 8d ago
It's not magic, but that doesn't mean it doesn't work most of the time. From https://cellebrite.com/en/blog/the-access-gap-is-closed-what... : Here’s what that looks like in practice in 2026: iOS: C
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by autoexec 8d ago
This is absolutely the case. Sometime the person responsible will be the person using the AI, sometimes the people responsible will be the people who created that AI, but actual humans must always be accountable when AI is used to cause har
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by autoexec 8d ago
It might not happen, but it's already passed the house and has support in the senate.
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by autoexec 8d ago
I hope we'll find out the details of AI's potential involvement when the current administration gets called into the International Criminal Court to stand trial for their war crimes. I don't expect that to happen, but I'
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by autoexec 8d ago
They don't need your pin, they can just hack the phone take all your data anyway. ICE has a contract with Cellebrite
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by autoexec 8d ago
> Therefore I think the ritualistic act of paying money to get access to something does have a purpose. It inherently establishes the value of information to you, makes it an investment that you need to recoup by using it. The same can b
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by autoexec 8d ago
Anyone who has handwashed many dishes could tell you that cold water will work, but hot water works faster and with less effort. It's no different for your hands. For best results use hot water to wash your hands and cold water to rins
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by autoexec 8d ago
> They are destroying books that they bought. It should not be controversial that part of ownership is decided how to dispose of the owned object. By your reasoning, if I could afford to buy every surviving painting by Van Gogh and Rembr
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by autoexec 8d ago
Yeah, I'd agree. I think that the Japan's public transportation, even in Tokyo, wasn't at all stressful. Maybe I'd feel differently if I had to be shoved in, but that was easy enough to avoid and even at the times when i
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by autoexec 8d ago
I think high housing prices can impact people's decision about when/if they start a family, but other factors do as well. Rural Japan might be inexpensive, but raising a family there can be less attractive for a lot of other reaso
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by autoexec 8d ago
The ability to clearly and effectively communicate, and the ability to know and recall the facts of a case is always going to be important. It'd probably be a more fair system if judges and jurors couldn't see the attorneys or eve
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by autoexec 8d ago
Don't most browsers do this natively? Firefox saves single pages as html. Chrome saves pages as mhtml which isn't supported in firefox but can be easily converted if there's ever a need.
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by autoexec 8d ago
> And how do they pollute water sources? In the case of one amazon data center, they were pulling in water that already had nitrates in it due to agricultural run off, but it wasn't enough nitrates to cause a problem for anyone unti
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by autoexec 9d ago
It's Leopardus tilcayo aka 'tilcayo tiger cat' and it's very cute. Wikipedia doesn't have a page dedicated to it yet. Bonus pics: https://www.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/0
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by autoexec 9d ago
> the delusion that your children will want the items you’re planning to bequeath to them, especially the kind of furniture that used to be called antiques but that young people for some time have referred to derisively as “brown.” This
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by autoexec 9d ago
Yeah, the entire rest of the world has pretty much been stuck being ruled by unelected billionaires who only want to take advantage of them at every opportunity. It's a problem. It's starting to change though. The EU is starting t
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by autoexec 9d ago
Man, passwords sure are nice aren't they! All you have to do is remember one because your password manager remembers all the rest of your randomly generated passwords for you and as long as you keep a backup of the password database yo
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by autoexec 9d ago
> It seems to me more like accountability is the issue. Exactly. Seems like a fairly easy thing to solve. If AI does something harmful and a human directed that AI to do something in a way that a reasonable person would expect to result
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by autoexec 9d ago
Even better: force them to release every scrap of data they trained their AI on.
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by autoexec 9d ago
> I find it even harder to trust elected leaders from any party. You can vote out an elected leader, but not Sam and Dario. It's very weird that you're so willing to give up any kind of power and want to be ruled by unelected b
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by autoexec 9d ago
So I guess the AI companies can stop with their plans to infest AI with ads and they'll instead fully fund themselves by using their AI to gamble on stocks and the prediction market right? Surely the chatbots will just print money!
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by autoexec 9d ago
> if we would spend time making people learn computers or software they use daily better - we wouldn’t need AI agents There's no amount of skill/efficiency/productivity a human worker can reach that will make employers giv
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by autoexec 9d ago
being annoyed and forcing yourself is how everyone learns Emacs
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by autoexec 9d ago
The article walks the headline back pretty quickly. Parts of human brains in mice becomes "pieces of brain-like tissue" made from skin cells and formed into "collections of connected, living cells" followed by a line on
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by autoexec 9d ago
> until now no one has had the insight or bravery to ask the question, "What if we just made people more mouse?" Exciting stuff. This is making mice more people, but either way it's an exciting day for mice everywhere.

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