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by bananalychee 1y ago
If that were the case I'd expect them to block UK IPs (or ignore the threats entirely) rather than fighting it legally.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Great, thanks for the link.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Does it actually? I don't think I've seen a case study with hard numbers.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Well I can parse my nginx logs and don't see that happening, so I'm not convinced. I suppose my websites aren't the most discoverable, but the number of bogus connections sshd rejects is an order of magnitude or three higher
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by bananalychee 1y ago
If you live in Europe it probably has more to do with over-regulation than anything AI-related.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I self-host a few servers and have not seen significant traffic increases from crawlers, so I can't agree with that without seeing some evidence of this issue's scale and scope. As far as I know it mostly affects commercial conten
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Not really. Even in English there are only a few possible ways to spell out a given sound. With Chinese characters that mostly goes out the window, making speaking and writing more or less orthogonal skills. Not entirely since there are cla
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Of course it does in the US tech bubble, if you talk to people who haven't been using Macs for 30 years you might hear a different story. While Apple makes good hardware they also have plenty of blunders, especially in recent years, mu
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Except consumption correlates with income and wealth, and it's already not uncommon for states to exempt necessities like food and clothing from taxation, which keeps them affordable without a convoluted bureaucratic system. Implemente
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by bananalychee 1y ago
The incentive structure in academia exacerbates that by encouraging authors to hype up their findings and obfuscate any deficiency in their models. Withholding information and making results difficult to reproduce is a symptom of that, as a
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by bananalychee 1y ago
It's too bad to see otherwise intelligent people refusing to engage with any statement or action of the US federal government in good faith. However I suspect the point you cited is far more relevant to this move than the distraction t
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by bananalychee 1y ago
You are trying to walk between the lines and perhaps that's an attempt to avoid being flagged, but it is disingenuous to insinuate that the only objection to the pandemic population control exercise was that it was "fake". Th
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by bananalychee 1y ago
We've been there for a while. Most people get their news from social media networks that persistently funnel users into content silos that validate and reinforce their beliefs, and even traditional news outlets fall prey to biased and
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Very dramatic, but funding scientific studies is no antidote to groupthink, authoritarianism, and cruelty towards the non-conforming, in case you missed the last 5 years. There's a pretty clear causal chain between the abuse of public
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Perhaps it would help to frame the problem as domestic travel being too expensive as opposed to international travel being too cheap. By the way, overtourism is not a "there's too many Americans/Europeans who can afford vacat
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by bananalychee 1y ago
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Went to middle/high school in the 2000s and had not one second of home econ or shop or anything related to it, not even theoretical. The only tools I remember working with other than a pair of scissors, compass and ruler were a glue gu
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by bananalychee 1y ago
The SLF infestation was met with a whole lot of handwaving, of "look how dangerous this is", but not much in terms of concrete solutions. Then the population naturally stabilized as predators started feeding on them with basically
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by bananalychee 1y ago
These days it seems preferable to the Western alternative of politicians blatantly lying about their class to avoid the label.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Is it so blatant, or does it just seems like it because of the sheer amount of spin being spun? I can think of a few stories that I think qualify as evidence of overstepping, but I can also think of several from 2021-2024. I don't like
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I don't think that autonomous buses would be as cost-effective as private vehicles, since you'd want someone to be on board for security on a shared vehicle even if they're not in the driver's seat. Labor is the most exp
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Credit scores in the US function similarly to this risk assessment you describe, with the caveat that there is no standard way to measure risk without a credit history. In my experience, it does not take very long to establish that baseline
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Allegedly, they believe a system with inputs similar to human vision is best suited for interpreting signals on roads designed for human eyes, and conflicting signals from LIDAR makes disambiguation challenging when combining sensor types.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Alcoholics know that they drink, chain smokers know that they smoke... Obesity has an impact on longevity that is on the same order of magnitude as cigarette smoking. I would hope that it would come up during a checkup. If it doesn't,
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Dispensing from editorialism is a choice, yes, but that only translates to bias if it's done inconsistently. Meanwhile, while contextualizing, and to a greater extent reframing, can also be done in a fair and objective manner, doing it
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by bananalychee 1y ago
What the author presents as "sincerity" comes off as injecting (his) biased views into reporting. The post devolves into a tedious series of anecdotes that ostensibly prove that "context" can reframe a story, and he argu
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I think about half of the Japanese albums I tag have a mistake of some sort on Discogs, such as wrong okurigana or kanji usage. I've corrected some of them myself, but it happens so often that I've mostly given up. In the end it&#
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I don't believe that Google's AI Overviews or even LLMs in general are to blame for the decline in traffic to news websites. ChatGPT launched with the GPT-3.5 model in November 2022 without a web search function, and had a trainin
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I assume one would develop tolerance to those acute symptoms from repeated exposure.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I commend you for your efforts and I'm sure they were appreciated even by those who switched to English with you. It sounds like you were in the infamous long awkward intermediate stage of language learning. Depending on the cadence of

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