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by bko 1y ago
> If it was a serious enough problem to warrant government intervention the larger public would be championing this cause. > They aren't. Nearly 70% of Americans support tougher laws restricting children’s access to adult content
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by bko 1y ago
> They are going to start restricting VPN usage as well [1] From your own source: > A government spokesperson said VPNs are legal tools for adults and there are no plans to ban them.
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by bko 1y ago
There are things that are already illegal on the internet. Pirated media is generally illegal, which is meant to protect corporate profits. Most people are okay with such restrictions. But when it's actually about protecting children a
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by bko 1y ago
I don't think eu and the thing that gave us the cookie banner is a model of good governance.
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by bko 1y ago
How is it fair? I would think if two parties commit the same crime they should be charged the same. Isn't fairness in law defined as being blind to the perpetrator? Google doesn't do stuff to be evil. It does so bc it makes econom
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by bko 1y ago
It helps to be knowledgeable about this stuff. But since so much was at stake, couldn't you find a lawyer that would work on some kind of contingency?
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New app lets people buy tickets for strangers wedding(perthnow.com.au)
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by bko 1y ago
Hard disagree, I think I here are great men and they drive history. Its nice to valorize the every day working man, and I'm likely such a person. I mean a lot to my family and maybe a handful of others but I won't shape history no
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by bko 1y ago
Happiness in it of itself is not good. An addict might be "happy" in the throws of his addiction. It's not "good" And it's certainly not fulfilling. It's typically surface level feeling of satisfaction. We
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by bko 1y ago
There's bad behavior among a lot of people who did great things. Do you feel the same way about MLK based on his FBI files? If everyone was super nice and pleasant we would likely wouldn't have made any progress.
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by bko 1y ago
[written from my iPhone] I think the net effect of people like Jobs is a huge positive in this world. Why do you judge people that did great things by the standards of everyday interaction. You think this could be related? Perhaps there is
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by bko 1y ago
Happiness is a positive emotion, pleasure, or contentment. It tends to be episodic and reactive, arising from enjoyable experiences, satisfying desires, or reaching short-term goals. I am "happy" watching Netflix (smile). I am not
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by bko 1y ago
Happiness does not mean good and fulfilling. Having a family is hard. For instance, people with children are consistently less "happy" than their childless peers, yet many choose to have children knowing that. If you optimize for
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by bko 1y ago
> Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about Happiness, which is Smiles minus Frowns For me happiness is a terrible life goal. Sure it's nice to be happy, but its such a vapid meaningless emotion. If I were to optimize for
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by bko 1y ago
> Has society really become this dangerous that we must deploy these things? From the article: > Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders o
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by bko 1y ago
Then we'll probably do what we do with other professional medical fields. License the AI, require annual fees and restrict supply by limiting the number of running nodes allowed to practice at any one time.
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by bko 1y ago
Most as in < 50%, sure. However a lot of parents do. > Nearly 60% of households in the U.S. have a net worth of $100,000 or more after accounting for debts, with 29.2% having a net worth of $500,000 or more. If you live your life thin
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by bko 1y ago
Yes this still counts as "alone". Stop diminishing hard work and talent. A lot of parents give their kids 6 figure amounts, almost all of them don't do anything with it.
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by bko 1y ago
Can't you invest in technologies like desalination? For instance, over 3/4 of Israel’s drinking water comes from desalination plants, mostly from the Mediterranean Sea. Deleting emails to save water usage is not the answer
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by bko 1y ago
This is all just so exhausting. Why can't we ask why we just treat this as an engineering issue. If there is some issue with public water supplies, how can the government build infrastructure to mitigate those issues? You see the same
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by bko 1y ago
I have a sense this is one of those issues that people don't know how they should feel, but some narrative of how we as enlightened technologists should feel will form. On one hand, people don't like Google owning chrome as they h
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by bko 1y ago
I think this is true and why programs like like Pluribus, Libratus and DeepStack have outperformed professionals in both heads-up and multiplayer no-limit Texas Hold'em. It's not reading social cues like traditional players, but j
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by bko 1y ago
I think it's balanced by having him or her learn skepticism, game theory, information asymmetry, and adverse selection, among other useful skills.
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by bko 1y ago
'Wrapper' in this instance is your primary source of value is a prompt. I think you can think of it as how long would it take someone to come up with the product given enough information about the product. Take for instance an app
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by bko 1y ago
I've used Claude Code but not the vs code plugin. I get enough value from the auto-complete that I'll use Cursor regardless, but I don't think it's worth $20 for that. But now it's subsidized so I easily spend over
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by bko 1y ago
I don't know, it seems like I'm the minority but I like Cursor. I think it adds value beyond the terminal style editors. Yes it relies on the Claude model but I get a lot of value from the visual component, history, auto-complete,
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by bko 1y ago
People like to think that employment is pretty much the only good that does not result in a mismatch of supply and demand from a price floor. Take for instance a proposal that says "no one is allowed to sell their used car for less tha
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by bko 1y ago
> For some reason AI seems to bring out articles that seem to fundamentally lack curiosity - opting instead for gleeful mockery and scorn I think its broader to all tech. It all started in 2016 after it was deemed that tech, especially s
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by bko 1y ago
It's pretty incredible a model like Genie can deduce the laws of physics from mere observation of video. Even fluid dynamics which is a notoriously difficult problem. It's not obvious that this would happen or would even be possib
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by bko 1y ago
So based on your experience, your food budget went up about 28% from pre-covid? They have a lot of discretion, it's not formulaic. If it was, ironically it would be great to privatize! Here are the specs, and provide proof. Easy. Here

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