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2mo ago
Why should the US be fighting Mexican gangs? Mexico should send their own army to fight the criminal gangs. If we want to send our army after gangs we have plenty of them right here in the US. We could start with the ones in our Sheriff
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2mo ago
It's not an ideal situation, but since the Mexican government refuses to do its job and protect their people and uphold the law what choice do they have? Right now these people are just doing whatever they can to survive but it's
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2mo ago
> It sickens me when people use the word plagiarism to describe LLMs. Particularly when they use words and language that they themselves have plagiarized -- words like "love" and "economic" -- where do you draw the li
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2mo ago
> We can get mad about it, but it just is what it is. Ultimately for most people the loss of these jobs are a net-benefit because it's the result of better or cheaper alternatives. AI will not give us that result. It will give us sh
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2mo ago
> I think people underestimate just how much users scorn buggy, flaky technology. Users do hate it, but they are also very used to being forced to use it anyway. They've already been beaten into a state of resignation and learned he
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2mo ago
Same link without the useless tracking: https://youtube.com/@myroncook
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2mo ago
Constantly nagging the user is a liability model that also works well as a dark pattern for cases where you want the user to be less secure.
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2mo ago
It's not new to LLM companies, but it does seem like they're leaning away from the standard "Hey, don't blame us if this doesn't work" and are moving into "It's now your fault any time our software fu
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2mo ago
...because the self-driving feature turned itself off after detecting the crash in the fractions of a millisecond before the crash was recorded
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2mo ago
You can still get quality services and products. It's still possible to get a well cooked steak, but they are going to get harder to find and vastly more expensive and many people will be priced out of them entirely and will have to se
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2mo ago
Robotaxis will have to pass the costs of depreciation, insurance, gas, maintenance, tires, parking repairs and all the rest onto the consumer anyway, and then also charge consumers even more because they want to stuff their pockets with cas
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2mo ago
These senators who don't want people to gamble on, profit from, and create/fuel horrific disasters all have Ds after their names while the person they're begging to do something to stop this, Michael Selig, has an R after his
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2mo ago
It's always like this. "Our AI did a very scary thing during an internal and unverifiable test/simulation/roleplay that can't apply to the real world use of our products! Quick news media, look how powerful and scar
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2mo ago
> Because a single autonomous vehicle operating in a shared fleet can replace multiple privately owned cars, the widespread adoption of this technology can’t help but reduce new-car sales volumes. The idea that that a huge number of peo
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2mo ago
> There are far easier ways one might permanently inhibit these cameras than cutting them down and taking them away. Like what? Setting them on fire or shooting them might be easier, but it's more dangerous.
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2mo ago
It wasn't private property. It belonged to the people and the people decided they didn't want it. It's bad to see people being forced to break the law to retain their freedom, but it's a good thing that folks are still w
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2mo ago
The RIAA/MPA still goes after individuals, but they target them with settlement offers to avoid going to court. 3k and an admission of guilt is a lot less than it would cost to get a lawyer and fight back in court so people do pay them
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2mo ago
Rip them to a hard drive and they're yours forever.
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> Movies getting pulled out of streaming services is why I started to buy physical DVDs again Me too, but sadly more and more shows aren't getting physical releases at all anymore.
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> Sure it's annoying to find a streaming service but once done it generally works. On streaming services shows get silently censored or edited, or episodes are just outright removed (and get re-numbered so you don't even realiz
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2mo ago
Blu-Ray is risky from the DRM side of things. Those disks can be disabled at anytime and can just stop working if the players are offline too long or the manufacture's servers go down. Rip them to your hard drive if you want to keep be
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If we had a sane copyright system everything older than 10 years would be in the public domain
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Spider solitaire
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It's reasonable that if health insurance companies are collecting data on the types of groceries people buy, that they will use that information in ways that they feel will benefit them. You can lead a man to data, but you can't m
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2mo ago
It's weird that you're skeptical about this website's motivations while seemingly less interested in the motivations behind companies spending a ton of time and money going to court to keep people from being able to know what
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2mo ago
The one titled: Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You — And It Could Raise Your Rates The article says that health insurance companies are buying data from data brokers and using algorithms to set prices according to what you d
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2mo ago
This should get you started at least. Keep in mind that nobody is going to tell you that they charged you extra or didn't give you a job offer because of data collected from a data broker. No one is going to be transparent about how th
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2mo ago
No, your IP will be easily tracked to you as an individual. You'll just suffer the consequences of whatever your streaming stick does with your IP. If your stick clicks a bunch of ads for fast food your heath insurance bill goes up bec
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Exactly. That's the problem I have with the "restricted to adults" header. Ideally the header wouldn't have a "safe for kids" value either because what one parents feels is safe will be very different from what
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It's been done. Here are a couple of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Content_Rating_Associ... https://www.rtalabel.org/page.php?content=howtofaq Use of those kinds of headers nee
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