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by bo1024 4y ago
See you next week
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by bo1024 4y ago
Agree with a lot of this, but what a sad situation if the best we can hope for in "control over what it does" is distrust my own device so much that I install firewalls to keep it in check. A much better version of this vision is
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by bo1024 4y ago
Great point. I find a theme in this essay of confidence, speaking quickly, and perhaps charisma being associated with intelligence or depth of thought. I've met enough brilliant people (often women) who speak softly, slowly, or without
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by bo1024 4y ago
- That smart people manage to find their ways into positions of wealth and power, doesn't necessarily imply that you need to be smart to occupy those positions effectively. In other words, they might be wasting their brains on those
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by bo1024 4y ago
(1) The examples he gives of "non-mathematical" concepts are pretty mathematizable. Randomized controlled testing -- mathematics can prove why this is a good idea. Occam's razor - usefulness can be formalized in the machine l
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by bo1024 4y ago
But fair use, as I understand it, is only about outputs, not inputs. (Licenses can apply to inputs.) A copyright violation occurs when one produces a work that infringes copyright. In this case, Google made digital copies of the books and s
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by bo1024 4y ago
The Flickr example is wild. How was nobody sued for that!?
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by bo1024 4y ago
There are two issues -- (1) feeding copyrighted material in to an AI model, and (2) getting copyrighted material out . The latter is obviously a violation of copyright, full stop. The former, to me, is obviously not a violation. If it we
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by bo1024 4y ago
I like to read things on HN because they're interesting, not because they're right or wrong. Maybe most people were voting on this because they think it's right or wrong, not because it says anything new or interesting (I don
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by bo1024 4y ago
That's just ignorant of the large amount of interesting blockchain-related ideas and research going on (again, most of which you don't mention in the article).
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by bo1024 4y ago
This doesn't seem to cover any new ground or engage with anything interesting outside of finance. Is the author telling all of these researchers (Stanford, MIT, Columbia, etc) that there is nothing interesting or new in blockchain? ht
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by bo1024 4y ago
It might have third party trackers (Facebook, Google, Twitter, typekit.net whatever that is, etc). It might also have first party trackers of e.g. your mouse and keyboard that you’d rather disable.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Ah, bummer.
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by bo1024 4y ago
I have been running Fedora (35 I think) for about a year. I'm happy with the battery life while in use -- not blown away, but happy -- but it does still drain with the lid closed unless shut down. Everything else is perfect.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Maybe worth a try: https://guides.frame.work/Guide/Fully+Resetting+the+Mainboar...
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Regulators have the ability to swing the entire market.
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What percent of a Google search screen is now ads?
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by bo1024 4y ago
You frame it as just thumb drives, but I would think something similar is happening with a huge fraction of Amazon products.
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Or preregistration domains for nonprofits that aren’t on your service (or not yet).
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by bo1024 4y ago
Looking forward to following answers to this! I can vouch for git repositories being easy to host on a VPS. I use a private git repo as my daily backup tool for my documents. A public one should be easy too. Access management for particular
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by bo1024 4y ago
I don’t follow. If you record my https traffic to my banking website, do you now “own” my bank account? Did you “seize” it? Do you “possess” it? No, no, no. you have a copy of a pile of bits that are meaningless to you without my encryption
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by bo1024 4y ago
"Feds seize song 'Stairway To Heaven' from Florida Man, surprised to find him listening to it anyway". Point being, lawyers can pretend that information is property, but some things obey physical laws and other things do
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by bo1024 4y ago
The one can be a special case of the other...
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Great point, probably most approaches break if the site is doing that.
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I thought the main goal was to help Iranians communicate with each other.
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by bo1024 4y ago
Can people use a steganography app to communicate via innocuous images? 1. Take a picture. 2. Use app to insert message into picture, encrypt with passphrase. 3. SMS picture to friend or upload to Iranian equivalent of imgur (if any is up).
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by bo1024 4y ago
I'm sorry if I gave offense, but I'm not sure what about my analogy you're objecting to and I would be glad if you could help me understand. I just meant to illustrate that an endeavor can be a fair and just meritocracy, but
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by bo1024 4y ago
Again, you're focusing on the question of meritocracy which is not the only interesting question here.
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The word "bias" doesn't appear in the actual research study, nor "discrimination". I don't see that it addresses anything of the sort.
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One interesting aspect of this article is a framing of diversity of people by where they were educated.

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