beloch

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by beloch 2mo ago
My main point is that people shouldn't just swallow the noble and lofty sounding PR. These guys are the same as everyone else in the sector. Don't ignore the harmful or scummy things they'll inevitably do. Hold them accountab
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by beloch 2mo ago
They make many bold promises, but their core goal is neatly encapsulated on the website: "Imagine a future where a handful of people can conduct scientific research and engineering tasks much more rapidly, and with higher quality, than
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by beloch 2mo ago
Blockbusters and tax credits started the trend, but green-screen filming sure accelerated it. Now that so many movies are almost entirely CG, it really doesn't matter where the green screen studio physically exists. The silver lining
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by beloch 2mo ago
"For the experiment, I started by taking a day completely off coffee." ----------- This is an anecdote, not an experiment. What's anecdotal evidence worth? Yes, caffeine consumption should be appropriate and appropriately ti
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by beloch 2mo ago
What is theory without observation? Science was turbocharged once we recognized the need to make testable theories and then actually conduct tests, always ready to toss a theory, no matter how beautiful it was or who came up with it,
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by beloch 2mo ago
"As such, it seems trivial to suggest that it is in our interest to continue to seed them the most human-centric bias possible. We want them to have a bias that humans are valuable. That kids are innocent. That war is bad. That life is
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by beloch 2mo ago
To provide a basic level of consumer protection, governments should: 1. Recognize that paying for a game implies ownership . Developers must not employ methods that remove purchased games from online stores or become otherwise unplayable.
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by beloch 2mo ago
Yes, you'll fail to find some things locally and have to order it online. The key is not to go to Amazon first , because then you're guaranteed not to find the local alternatives.
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by beloch 2mo ago
Stop using Amazon and see what happens. I stopped using Amazon early last year (because Canadian). I was forced to find local shops for the stuff I was getting online and, to my surprise, a lot of those specialty retailers are still out th
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by beloch 3mo ago
This reminds me of the Pangeos megayacht from a few years back. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pangeos-terayacht-turtle/ TL;DR: Pangeos was a concept for a floating free city that trended a few years bac
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by beloch 3mo ago
"But University of Alberta AI ethicist Mohamed Abdalla says the findings reflect the incentives facing commercial AI developers, rather than solely a failure to uphold scientific norms. “It’s not the company’s job to advance science, r
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by beloch 3mo ago
Only if the authors pay for it. https://authors.acm.org/open-access/acm-open-for-authors-hom...
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by beloch 3mo ago
"But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point. Any serio
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by beloch 3mo ago
This ruling might feel good viscerally, but it also reinforces Googles own scraping as perfectly legal. At its inception, Google probably viewed this lawsuit as win-win. Either they successfully sue a competitor into oblivion or establish
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by beloch 3mo ago
If they try this, multiple random people will write bots to republish everything instantly . The cash gusher they expected will turn into a trickle and the white house will look like a bunch of greedy Ferengi that lack the lobes to pull o
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by beloch 3mo ago
This thing is going to be conundrum for archaeologists if historical records don't survive. - Is it a religious site like a pyramid, church, or stonehenge? Nope. - It sets up all sorts of star alignments consistent with constellations
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by beloch 3mo ago
Flock was pitched as the triumph of technology over criminality. It's surveillance network was supposed to end crime. However, when people witness extreme criminality thriving unpunished at the top levels of U.S. politics, the lie be
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by beloch 3mo ago
The next time you hear people claiming that Canada's dairy tariff's are unjust, unfair, etc.* ... Bear in mind that they only kick in after a quota that's never been reached because Canadians generally perceive U.S. dairy a
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by beloch 3mo ago
Given that AI exec's have been careful to lavish praise (and cash) on Trump for the last few years, I suspect bailouts will not be off the table.
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by beloch 3mo ago
Autonomous driving is still nowhere near 100%, so why suddenly jump to fighter jets? Is this more of Hegseth's foolhardy bluster and injected testosterone? The tech isn't ready. They should start with golf-karts, not fighter pla
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by beloch 3mo ago
"Our incentive structures reward conformity over bold inquiry." This is pretty rich coming from an administration that has cracked down on education institutions for lacking loyalty to Trump, installed student monitoring programs
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by beloch 3mo ago
Unreliability is a cost. While the U.S. was the default, cheap and reliable option, it was virtually impossible to uproot settled patterns of behaviour. You just couldn't do the volume necessary to become competitive. That's ch
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by beloch 3mo ago
It's important for Americans to realize that Carney is probably the most Euro-focused PM Canada has had in living memory. He was the governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020. His relationships and predilections all run more
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by beloch 3mo ago
These new tariff's explicitly violate CUSMA/USMCA, which Trump personally signed. That treaty does include a clause for pulling out, but that isn't being properly exercised here. Failing to use the proper termination clause
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by beloch 3mo ago
Full tit-for-tat retaliation for tariffs? That'd harm our own economy as much as the U.S.'s. We want fewer tariff's. Not more. Trump is most likely just trying to distract people from his Iran debacle, the cover-up of hi
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by beloch 3mo ago
Maybe if Trump weren't tariffing our lumber so much more of those trees would be providing cheap homes for Americans instead of burning! We're sorry America, but you're getting out trees one way or another . We're a l
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by beloch 3mo ago
There needs to be a carrot or stick to discourage this kind of practice. Perhaps when companies sue users for piracy, the valuation of what was "stolen" should be dependent on the nature of that company's sales practices. e
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by beloch 3mo ago
Some music is a lot like abandoned video games. It can sometimes be tricky to figure out who owns the rights and, even having done that, more difficult still to track them down and get their permission. Also, it's not a given that th
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by beloch 3mo ago
Just to leapfrog off of the calculator notion... There's a difference between capability and mastery. If you have a calculator, you are capable of doing basic arithmetic (probably). If you can do fairly complex arithmetic in your hea
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by beloch 3mo ago
Archaeology is an unusual discipline in that it incorporates so many others as tools. Chemistry, physics, geology, CPSC, you name it. It's difficult enough to figure out what people were doing based on ruins and trash pits. It'

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