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by brainwad 7mo ago
Most of the push for e-voting in Switzerland is from the Swiss abroad (10% of the electorate), who have a right to vote, but whose exercise of that right is subject to the vagaries of the international postal system. I personally have had p
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by brainwad 7mo ago
Yes, that would be stupid, which is why it doesn't work that way. The basket is weighted according to how much people spend on each item. Eggs are not weighted the same as rent. The CPI does have a problem with not updating the basket
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by brainwad 8mo ago
We are talking about US corporations deciding to/not to provide tech to the US government. That's completely orthogonal to your concern.
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by brainwad 8mo ago
For adults, I think a legal opt-in-only policy would work well. And require reconsent with every major algorithm change.
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by brainwad 8mo ago
Imagine what the Russian government tells its citizens about (blocked) European and American foreign news, and then you will see why this is a terrible argument. The mark of a free country is that nothing is blocked, because the citizens ca
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by brainwad 8mo ago
Hate to break it to you, but European countries have equivalent foreign news propaganda services: Deutsche Welle & France24, for example. What's good for the goose is good for the gander. If European countries weren't such nan
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by brainwad 8mo ago
Let's be real, this is just protectionism. The most popular prediction market in the world is DNS-blocked, in the hopes of redirecting you to some crappy online casinos instead.
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by brainwad 8mo ago
I don't think you are morally responsible for unforeseeable consequences, either. Here the law follows the common moral intuition.
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by brainwad 8mo ago
I don't think that's true, actually. You aren't responsible for things that can't be reasonably foreseen, usually. There are a few strict liability offences in criminal law, but libel isn't one of them. We don'
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by brainwad 8mo ago
If the code you wrote appears to be for something completely different, say software to write patches for open source github projects - yes. Why would you bear responsibility for something that couldn't have been reasonably foreseen? T
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by brainwad 8mo ago
The opposite of chatbot isn't human. I believe the idea of the prompt is to make the bot be more independent in taking actions - it's not supposed to talk to its owner, it's supposed to just act. It still knows it's a bo
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by brainwad 8mo ago
The whole point of OpenClaw bots is that they don't have (much) human oversight, right? It certainly seems like the human wasn't even aware of the bot's blog post until after the bot had written and posted it. He then told i
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by brainwad 8mo ago
People say the universe is "infinite" because spacetime's curvature is, as far as we can tell, flat, and so it should continue in all directions without ever wrapping back on itself (unlike, say, the Earth, which has spherica
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by brainwad 8mo ago
Internships at my employer pay 6 figures. I've never seen a minimum wage SWE internship.
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by brainwad 9mo ago
People already freak out about the sustainability of the welfare state supporting just the elderly with worker-dependent ratios of 3:1 or 2:1. Imagine if also all the working age population got welfare, it'd be completely unworkable.
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by brainwad 9mo ago
No, it's about being able to hire more people at the same hiring bar and comp for companies hiring at scale, like (pre-2022) big tech. If you limit yourself to only hiring Americans in your US office, then you are at a talent disadva
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by brainwad 9mo ago
When you buy services, is your bar good enough, or do you look for best value for money? And are those who try to optimise bigots merely for not buying from their local provider? But anyway, the decrease in hiring in the US will be mostly d
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by brainwad 9mo ago
I graduated 15 years ago, and I think the exams in my degree were actually the most LLM-proof part of the student assessment. They were no-aid written exams with pencils and paper, whereas the assignments were online-submitted code only tha
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by brainwad 9mo ago
Food stamps are an inherently paternalistic program. The whole point is to ensure people get enough to eat, even when they can't or won't provide for themselves. Same with other voucher or in-kind welfare programs in housing, heal
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by brainwad 9mo ago
If they want total freedom, they don't have to spend food stamps. They can always provide for themselves. You are right, a single box of cake mix once a year is fine. But between banning processed foods, or allowing everything, the for
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by brainwad 9mo ago
For exceptional items, can't the parent pay for them from non-SNAP money? For instance from the child tax credits they also get? SNAP's stated purpose is nutrition, not making birthdays fun.
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by brainwad 9mo ago
That's not really a lot of protein on a low carb diet like they are suggesting.
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by brainwad 10mo ago
Google considers the consumer's side, not just the publishers. Users often don't want to visit someone's website (and then dodge ads and cookie/newsletter/notification popups). If the query can be answered without v
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by brainwad 10mo ago
There are little link icons at the end of each paragraph. They open a list of sources.
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by brainwad 10mo ago
How old are you? Most millennials grew up with unfettered access to the internet, including porn, because our non-digital-native parents were easily outsmarted. We were fine. This seems like the same helicopter parenting fallacy that has al
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by brainwad 10mo ago
I think it actually is a radical totalitarian demand, if the only accepted form of age verification is government ID scans or selfie face capture. People should have a right to serve content without having to deal with the SPII of their cl
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by brainwad 11mo ago
> Why would they have customers in the first place if all they offer is reruns You can ask the same question for cable TV, but it's not dead. Netflix also started as purely "reruns" and was still quite popular. > Creati
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by brainwad 11mo ago
I am generally anti-copyright; but it's not really a pro-creator policy to curtail copyright; it's pro-consumer. > If everything older than, say, 35 years were suddenly in the public domain, available to be distributed by any o
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by brainwad 11mo ago
> I don’t see how this can be true. Reduced copyright terms mean price for old stuff goes down (to however much hosting and bandwidth costs). This means more funds are available for new content. Because this syllogism doesn't hold.
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by brainwad 11mo ago
I mean, it's pretty generous. In most other domains, if you sell something of yours, it's gone and you have no right to claw it back later.

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