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by beloch 3mo ago
"Avoid even audiobooks. Big corporations want to grab your attention by trying to market audiobooks as books for busy people, but don’t fall for the trap. A book is just boring black text on a white page because that’s how it’s meant t
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by beloch 3mo ago
For those who grew up post-iPhone: wearable computing was a huge, dorky trend in the 90's and early 2000's. Well, not exactly huge, but hugely dorky. Some people came to class/work/etc. absolutely strapped with a pleth
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by beloch 3mo ago
One of Cline's main points about the bronze age collapse is that it wasn't any single thing. It was a systems collapse. The societies of the time were likely resilient enough to deal with "just a drought", "just a
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by beloch 3mo ago
You might be able to mount an image of the original CD and let it detect that, depending on how schmancy their copy protection scheme is. To be fair though, I used nocd mods back when some of these games were released just so I wouldn&#x27
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by beloch 3mo ago
"But most people use Steam anyway, I hear you say. That's true, but you can still own your games on Steam. Very easily, in fact! Steam doesn't apply a hard DRM for games on their platform, you can bypass it and play your game
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by beloch 3mo ago
Saying, "Oh, you just have to baby it and it'll probably be fine!" is probably not the best way to counter claims that EV batteries are unreliable. Also, consumers currently are the ones taking on liability in adopting new
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by beloch 3mo ago
If batteries are actually lasting, then it's easy to counter the propaganda. Manufacturers simply need to make sure batteries are replaceable and offer guarantees that they'll be replaced on the manufacturer's dime if they de
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by beloch 3mo ago
Might be. Might not be. To put it another way, would you want this waste water diluted and dumped in a lake you swim in or a river you fish in without proper study and regulation?
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by beloch 3mo ago
This is one of the data centres that went to the extra expense of building a closed loop cooling system that would, supposedly, not waste water on a continuous basis. Apparently, even these are not so clean to set up. Governments are go
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by beloch 3mo ago
1. Imagine a video game like Red Dead Redemption where each NPC is voiced by AI and can respond to you in a convincingly human fashion. Their responses and even the plot of the whole game can change based on your interactions with NPC&#x27
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by beloch 3mo ago
The U.S. health system is incentivized in a way that's simply not sane. With socialized medicine, the state has some very constructive incentives. People who get sick and stay sick don't produce as much taxable income, so keeping
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by beloch 3mo ago
There appears to be some controversy over whether DOGE's cuts directly caused this specific outbreak[1]. --- "Though it appeared DOGE did cancel funding to the FAO, which works to monitor and control outbreaks of screwworm, in
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by beloch 3mo ago
While some forums had up-votes long before reddit came along, it was reddit that used them to rank and promote posts/comments. This provided some benefit, but also opened up a huge vulnerability. It became easier to find high quality
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by beloch 4mo ago
"This year, the economist decided that both the midterm and the final exams for his course would be of the take-home, closed-book type (there is a certain tradition of this at Ivy League schools). “It’s a very nice kind of exam, becaus
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by beloch 4mo ago
- Go stand in the Hagia Sophia and tell me the Romans did little to improve architecture and engineering. - I won't defend the Roman record on slavery, but I will point out that the Greeks (particularly the Spartans) were slave societi
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by beloch 4mo ago
AI companies are in a bit of a double bind here. Countries such as Canada are in the process of implementing regulations to prevent repeats of the Tumbler Ridge incident. A disturbed person was basically attaboy'd by AI into a mass sho
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by beloch 4mo ago
>Unlike most other nuclear reactors, Candu reactors don't require enriched uranium. Ottawa says Western allies are turning away from Russia, one of the world's key suppliers of enriched uranium. Even if Canada winds up relying
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by beloch 4mo ago
"South Koreans are hoping to change that with a $60 billion submarine deal Hanwha Ocean is trying to sign with Canada; it would be the largest military procurement deal in Ottawa’s history. But the peninsula faces a formidable opponent
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by beloch 4mo ago
Fining parents because of the bad actions of a foreign tech company would generally fit the definition of "political suicide" for any government dumb enough to do it.
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by beloch 4mo ago
1. A tech solution like this is unlikely to work since kids will be highly motivated to circumvent it and will likely be more tech savvy than their parents. 2. Leaving whether or not to allow social media use up to parental discretion creat
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by beloch 4mo ago
A correction: "One mayor refused to cooperate because he thought the program was a distraction cooked up by the ruling United Conservative Party." The UCP was established in 2017 and has no relation to the Social Credit Party that
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by beloch 4mo ago
"Once the owning class owns mostly everything and has intelligent machines that serve them, The Economy crashing will not have real consequences for them." ---------------- This assumption is not necessarily valid. If things ge
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by beloch 4mo ago
I'm not saying capital guys have no place. Should they be rewarded to the tune of a trillion dollars though, especially if most of it ultimately came from government coffers? That seems extreme to me. The people closest to the money
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by beloch 4mo ago
Consider what happens in academia. Imagine that making a ground-breaking discovery in physics came with a prize of a billion dollars. One good idea, and you can retire. Would that not harm science? Many scientists would keep working afte
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by beloch 4mo ago
>I hire more employees and I take $50k profit per house but I build 20k houses and make $1B. I earn $1B. This is the "rock star" fantasy. You do something that becomes wildly popular and can then walk away while still making e
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by beloch 4mo ago
Should the author of a tool like jqwik have the right to control how it's used? We know what the opinion of AI companies is. Authors who do not consent to their works being scanned and used have been completely ignored. If you'r
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by beloch 4mo ago
The Swiss didn't vet their clients. If Vladimir Putin wants to contract a data centre on your soil for the privacy, you can always have regulations that say, "No.".
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by beloch 4mo ago
If a politically stable nation with a good international reputation were to guarantee government respect for data privacy for data centres housed on its soil and run by its companies, that nation could become the Swiss bankers of data.
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by beloch 4mo ago
The collection of metadata is almost certainly bad for people even if they do nothing wrong. It can (and will) be sold if regulations and enforcement are not airtight. It will almost certainly be leaked as a result of incompetence, neglig
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by beloch 4mo ago
This is bold considering the uncertainty in the Canadian market right now. For those not familiar with the situation... Before Trump 2.0: ---------------- The auto sectors of Canada, U.S. and Mexico were highly integrated with parts and v

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