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2mo ago
I assumed that when he asked "What might those be?" he was talking about privacy preserving ways to address that same false justification. I'm not sure how you took it some other way.
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2mo ago
They could start by verifying the address of the house they're raiding. Way too often this doesn't happen and the police murder someone because they got the wrong house. They should identify the occupants of the house. The victim
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2mo ago
There are arguments to be made about regulations and the problems we face because of the number of guns in this country, but as long as we have a right to own them the possession of one can't be used as an excuse to execute someone
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2mo ago
> It explicitly said in the article that he pulled out a gun. A gun that he legally owned and had every right to have on his person as an unknown individual was breaking into his home. If police don't identify themselves they should
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2mo ago
There should be a national license that can be revoked making officers ineligible to hold any position in law enforcement anywhere in the country.
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2mo ago
Roku collects an insane amount of data on users. Basically everything that they can get their hands on > Roughly twice per second, a Roku TV captures video “snapshots” in 4K resolution. These snapshots are scanned through a database of c
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2mo ago
> I already suggested the U.S. government ban all Chinese products which have a computer in them that's connected to the internet. Personally, I think every other country should ban any product made by Google, Amazon, and Microsoft
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2mo ago
> Yeah, it's like—a cheap streaming stick AND it poisons the advertising well? Keep in mind that it's your IP and identity associated with those clicks and anything else criminals decide to do with your IP address. That means y
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2mo ago
There's nothing that can't be worked around or compromised in some way. Even the face scans and ID scans being used today are being circumvented. In the end we do need parents to parent, but websites should help. The easiest way w
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2mo ago
> We can vote for politicians that fund projects and facilities for general use and welfare. Putting aside the increasing efforts to limit our ability to vote for change, we have to fight against very well funded campaigns trying to conv
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> The only acceptable solution would be for apps and websites to simply include a recommended age. Allowing parents to configure their children’s devices to block services that require users to be older than the specified age or that do
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2mo ago
> Voters get the services they vote for. It's hard to feel bad about a small backwoods town of idiots who vote to shut down their public libraries ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/book-ban-lgbtq-jamestown-michig...
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2mo ago
Malls have been in decline for decades. Public pools barely exist anymore either. ( https://www.poolmagazine.com/pool-news/america-is-losing-pub... ). If you're in a wealthy city you probably still have a decent com
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2mo ago
Don't get me wrong, some of my favorite fictional characters are AIs: Lieutenant Commander Data, Johnny 5, R2-D2, Marvin the Paranoid Android, EDI, they're all great. If they were real I wouldn't doubt their intelligence for
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2mo ago
> If someone wants to pay a couple bucks on tokens and get an ok solution to a problem faster than they can hire someone, they are paying for some kind of intelligence. By that measure I can get a kind of intelligence for free using Wiki
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> I'd say it's fair to describe LLMs as displaying some form verbal intelligence. All of the intelligence in their "verbal intelligence" comes from the humans who wrote the text they were trained on. Anyone can sound
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2mo ago
> For better or worse there will definitely be services that AIs will use to get bodies (human or otherwise), for a fee. Humans will use "AI"s to get humans. LLMs don't have agency, or desires of their own. Humans need to
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2mo ago
As people start to feel that they have no realistic chance to meaningfully improve their economic situation by any other means they'll grasp at whatever hope for a better future they can find. I mean, consider the lottery for example.
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2mo ago
The UK is still better a lot of ways but there's a reason it's called "the America of Europe"
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That's a false dichotomy. Those workers can get hired by a competent business who can afford to pay a living wage and doesn't need the government to subsidize their labor expenses.
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2mo ago
> At best all you can say is that if you decide to hire, it cannot be lower than some minimum That's pretty reasonable. Nobody should be working 40 hours a week at a job and not make enough to support themselves. Any company who can
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It's because the most massive costs an American has like healthcare, child care, and higher education are free or vastly less expensive in Europe. Americans spend all their time at work for a very impressive number on their paystub whi
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Is it tolerance for exploitation or are people just realizing that as poor as their odds are while gambling that's still the best chance they have to make the money they need. A healthy society offers the public better ways to have the
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> Inhaling a mixture of propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, nicotine, and flavoring does not...That’s like worrying about Halloween candy being spiked with LSD. The heavy metals, pesticides, and toxic chemicals in ecigs do though. If r
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2mo ago
> Ecigs worry me the most since you really cannot tell what someone truly has in there, it could be nicotine, it could be “legal” THC or other random nonsense, I wouldnt know, it all looks the same. You're more likely to get heavy m
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What passes for "AI" these days hasn't successfully replaced workers doing even the most menial jobs. Several efforts have been made by massive corporations to get "AI" to take fast food orders at the drive thru and
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> You can never know anything about what anybody will do in the future? You absolutely can know something about what someone will do in the future. You gain those insights by looking at their past and present behavior and the behavior of
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> why work hard if everything you need is paid by someone else? So they can buy things they don't need but just want. So they can really splurge on their many luxurious vacations for example. People in Europe work harder than Americ
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free or heavily subsidized healthcare, childcare, higher education, and excellent public transportation?
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according to the website they played a lot of jazz and instrumental stuff, but I was surprised to see songs by The Smiths, The B-52s, Moby, Smashing Pumpkins, Aphex Twin, R.E.M., Sublime, James Blunt, and Pink Floyd. They must have had a de
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