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by bsoqk 5d ago
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Spain, this happens because people are extremely dependent on government handouts. Most people dislike the government's policies, but they are afraid of having to work, so they don&#x2
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by bsoqk 6d ago
Since 1978 Spain has spent 100% of the time under left rule.
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by bsoqk 6d ago
>most of the working industries were cheaply sold to friends of the dictatorship That is completely false.
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by bsoqk 8d ago
If LLMs scraping the web is robbery then piracy is stealing.
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by bsoqk 9d ago
That’s as if you linked an article from Meta that says Facebook is good for you. Please, I live in Spain. I know what getting screwed with prices looks like.
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by bsoqk 9d ago
It’s a win-win scenario for wealthy people. Poor people always get screwed in any kind of free trade deal, since prices of goods always rise to the highest possible point in the entire free trade zone.
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by bsoqk 10d ago
Years ago I shat on Woz here because he kept doing more and more histrionic things to stay relevant. That was years before his crypto. Obviously my comments got flagged. Good to be vindicated.
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by bsoqk 11d ago
Most of those contractors have so much work that scaring away customers is a feature.
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by bsoqk 11d ago
Putin must be really happy - whatever happens in Europe, he's blamed for it, making him look omnipotent. Most countries would love to have that kind of power. It’s so much more likely to be the farmers, but it's easier to blame Pu
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by bsoqk 12d ago
Tangentially related: If I wanted to play Half-Life: Alyx, and spend as little money as possible whilst still having a good experience, what do I need? (I already own a beefy desktop computer)
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by bsoqk 14d ago
With dietary fraud you’re only defrauding yourself.
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by bsoqk 15d ago
It’s interesting to me that people find so much meaning in their jobs. To me work is just the means to obtain the money I need to actually live my life.
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by bsoqk 15d ago
"Cool clock, Ahmed"
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by bsoqk 15d ago
Are you sure King Richard would do that? I don’t think he would do that at all. Being king is good because you’re above everybody else.
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by bsoqk 16d ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040331-00/?p=39... >During the Luna studies, that people’s reaction to Luna was often, “Wow this would be a great UI for X,” where X was “my dad” or “my employees” o
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by bsoqk 17d ago
Not all outcries have to be entertained.
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by bsoqk 18d ago
>the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta failed to detect 332 ads containing CSAM this year Considering the amount of ads they handle that seems... reasonable? Not to mention the stupidity of calling the result of nudify a
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by bsoqk 18d ago
Maybe they should have used Arabic words.
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by bsoqk 18d ago
>They're also landing big customers in Europe for the right reasons. We've been migrating all of our AI automations from Gemini to Mistral because of the fear of data transfer regulations. Maybe they don't apply to us (we
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by bsoqk 18d ago
So, like humans? Code didn't just appear in my brain, I learnt it from reading it everywhere else.
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by bsoqk 20d ago
We stopped having APIs because of Cambridge Analytica.
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by bsoqk 21d ago
> The market for natural diamonds will cease to exist when you can buy lab-grown versions for a couple bucks. Just like the luxury watches market ceased to exist when you could buy quartz watches for 10 bucks.
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by bsoqk 21d ago
They also don’t allow code about cryptocurrencies. They are strongly ideology-focused and it’s a matter of time they ban something you want to upload.
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by bsoqk 21d ago
>The more I use it, the more I have to rely on it to make changes/ fix things in the same system. In the end, I come out feeling empty; no intuitive knowledge of the system "I" built or fixed. Most of us build a system to
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by bsoqk 21d ago
Have you tried blocking him? It’s always seemed an effective strategy to me when I want to stop seeing someone online.