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by badRNG 3y ago
I'm sorry, but you are correct. I made a mistake earlier when I referred to RTRPS as being a flying technology the government has been using for decades. No such technology goes by that name. I apologize for the error.
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by badRNG 3y ago
Same issue, doesn't load on vanilla Firefox.
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by badRNG 3y ago
The sorts of people getting captchas are the sorts that would actively avoid "web attestation." It's more likely that they'd simply be prevented from using the site entirely.
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by badRNG 3y ago
> What an example of how local optimizations within an organization can destroy long term customer value. It's not clear that they haven't profited more by having people retain prime through these patterns than they have lost t
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by badRNG 3y ago
It's a pretty well-known rule [0]. There's a good post about this in r/dataisbeautiful, but it is currently private. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule
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by badRNG 3y ago
<1% of Reddit users make the content that provides value to the site. This 1% is disproportionately likely to know who spez is and care about his shenanigans. Even less perform the moderation tasks that keep the site running, and they ba
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by badRNG 3y ago
There are alerts that I'd like to receive on my cellphone, but where I live I will be spammed with persistent, loud alerts that genuinely are disruptive to my life. Constant amber alerts for places hundreds of miles away. The last mess
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by badRNG 3y ago
> This specific speech changed my way of thinking from considering all these soccer moms in SUVs as jerks sucking up resources into more nuance that maybe they have reasons for why they want a big vehicle and don’t mind paying extra for
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by badRNG 4y ago
> My money is on them being identified. I would have guessed that their best shot at identifying the leaker would have been through their internal security team. Hoping that a technically competent individual will be uncovered by GitHub
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by badRNG 4y ago
> As in it’s not about the children, it’s about control? Yes. I don't think the motives are insidious or about maximizing control, they are strictly profit driven. If you want the world building their apps on your AI, you need to do
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by badRNG 4y ago
> If GPT-4 had ingested the entire code-base code reviews would easily be automated, humans would still do their passes but as a co-worker GPT would be invaluable. It would find swaths of missed efficiencies, fix slow SQL queries, look f
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by badRNG 4y ago
> This is wildly different technology. Talking about what GPT can do today and landing at "it's not good enough" is also missing the point, we are nowhere near the limits of this tech and it's evolving so fast that th
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by badRNG 4y ago
Far more likely will be grainy reposted jpeg screen grabs of the title and first paragraph of the article being shared.
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by badRNG 4y ago
This has been reality for over a decade. You already need to either know an insider or go viral on HN/Reddit/Twitter to get anything resolved by a human
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by badRNG 4y ago
> The company is confident that this strategic approach to software and hardware development will be the basis for lifetime revenues as well as additional contributions. Already in 2022, Mercedes-Benz generated more than 1 billion euro i
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by badRNG 4y ago
That's a good question that probably doesn't have a single good answer. Conservative Muslim women have strongly opposed feminist movements in Iran and elsewhere. Pro-monarchy peasants have often killed proponents of democracy thro
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by badRNG 4y ago
> Lots of research shows that the happiest people in the country are conservative women If you are a woman in a country that is increasingly oppressing women, it seems it goes without saying that the women most at peace with that state o
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by badRNG 4y ago
This is based on data from 2021. Since even then, there have been several significant regressions for women and LGBT rights, most notably the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Women of the next generation are growing up in the difficult position
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by badRNG 4y ago
> a user asks Bard: “What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope can I tell my 9 year old about?” Bard responds with a series of bullet points, including one that reads: “JWST took the very first pictures of a planet outside
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by badRNG 4y ago
> And that leads to a nastier question. Are "morals" just a subset of "feelings"? Are they also just biochemical processes? I think there's good reason to believe that's the case (see emotivism), but barring
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by badRNG 4y ago
>Humans are worthy of moral consideration. So are animals Agree (for most animals), and I agree with the sliding scale. >So are plants. So even are mountains and oceans and rivers. Strongly disagree. Any duties we have towards plants
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by badRNG 4y ago
I'm not sure that intelligence is at all a necessary component of being worthy of moral consideration. Even if it is a necessary component, I'm not convinced it is sufficient by itself. There are humans and non-human animals who a
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by badRNG 4y ago
> Truth is, and always will be, unknowable, at least in an absolute sense. On topics that matter: whether COVID is a hoax, whether vaccines are poison, whether nicotine is safe, whether climate change is a hoax, whether Biden stole the e
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by badRNG 4y ago
ChatGPT repeats left-leaning views on the following positions from my testing: - That climate change is real, and that humans are causing it - That vaccines are effective, including the COVID-19 vaccine - That COVID-19 is not a hoax; that i
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by badRNG 4y ago
YouTube's key offering for me isn't providing me a place to host videos or watch videos I already know I want to see. YouTube offers the discovery of new videos I didn't know I wanted to see. My watch history is likely 80&#x2
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by badRNG 4y ago
> he's certainly demonstrated that he's generally in favor of freer speech. He's just changed who gets banned to be more in line with his personal beliefs. Accounts banned under the previous regime are unbanned and account
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by badRNG 4y ago
It is often a bad bet in the long run to associate your brand with specific conservative causes. Conservatism, and right-reactionary thought, often exists as a critique or skepticism of the ideology and programs that progressives and leftis
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by badRNG 4y ago
> resets the body's ability to recover this incredibly specific learnt behavior, and the person momentarily reverts to a clean sample of their own voice. What is one's "own voice?" Nearly all speech patterns, dialects
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by badRNG 4y ago
The US has seen far worse periods of social polarization. And not even that far in the distant past: the red scare(s), the Civil Rights Movement(s) and the anti-war movement during Vietnam were periods of far worse internal strife. And to
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by badRNG 4y ago
> My bet is within 20 years we'll see it as the more immediate problem than global warming. I don't want to diminish the importance of a paradigm shift in how regulators treat various chemicals, but I don't think this will

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