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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
I'm not an AI booster, nor an AI detractor. I like tech and progress. I'm mortified at the possibility of a data centre being built next to me at some point in the future [1]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
My conflation of social media and smartphones comes from reports of ICT skills declining in children due to overuse of smartphones and tablets to interact with technology. I used this as a decent proxy for the main means kids will interact
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
> Denying a phone to one child is to isolate them among their peers. This is a worthy tradeoff if you genuinely believe social media to be as damaging for your child as you say it is.
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
Parents have the choice of handing smartphones to their children. If cognition and future is that important, surely a parent wouldn't wait for government intervention
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
> As a parent, I completely agree. What's stopping you from doing this so far? Handing a child a smartphone is a decision parents can make, withholding access to a smartphone is also a decision parents can make.
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
Huge win for surveillance capitalism. If Agentic AI is the future of online interaction, shopping, etc., a signal of "this is a verified human being" is golden to advertisers.
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
Both is usually the right answer, since you can use LLMs to do query expansion and effectively increase the recall performance of your retrieval algo
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
The ratchet ratcheting: client side scanning, then remote attestation to ensure client side scanning works, digital identity verification, etc etc.
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by budududuroiu 4mo ago
Haven't been in an office since the start of COVID. Between being lucky enough to have a great coliving setup with dope housemates, and now having access to co-working cafes in Taipei that have genuine communities, I feel more social t
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by budududuroiu 5mo ago
I've heard people on HN make the argument that a blanket ban is better because their kids won't feel it's unfair that only their family implements strict internet blocks
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by budududuroiu 5mo ago
I'll repeat this over and over: Most EU politicians are aware of needing to lead from positions of deep unpopularity for the next 10-20 years, they're just setting the stage to have the tools to suppress dissent at their disposal.
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by budududuroiu 5mo ago
I personally find AI art both visually pleasing at an unconscious level and vapid at the same time
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
I didn't drink for 8 months in 2025, then I went to friends' weddings in Eastern Europe where it's expected to drink. After about 2 months of binging, I'm back on the no-drinking train. I think what made it stick for me
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
> “AI” is a political project – I have also sometimes called it a narrative – whose purpose is the shifting of power and agency away from people and organizations towards centralized power structures. Why is this necessarily a bad thing
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
Ok, moms provide structure. Not sure why you need to highlight that. Important thing is that kids receive structure early in their lives.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
Was in Tokyo today, if I didn't see the news, I wouldn't have noticed there even was an earthquake. Surprised others said they felt it.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
The breakdown of the welfarism as there's simply not enough workers to feed the welfare state. The economic stagnation. The discontent with the current bureaucratic and unelected elite that makes up 2/3 of the Trilogue.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
Structure
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
EU leaders are aware that for the next couple of decades, they will have to lead from a position of deep unpopularity. This is the "solution" to that problem, not whatever they're claiming is the problem.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
This might get me back to using X. I only want ML content, nothing else.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
> Yes political violence is NEVER justifiable. That is the one and only correct answer if you wish to live in a modern society. Political violence is a daily occurrence in modern society. You find it acceptable because it is sanctioned.
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
Thanks for your comment. It's good to hear from people that want this, as to understand which voters politicians are relying on for support for passing this at a legal level. However, I fundamentally and ideologically disagree with you
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
From the Claude Code codemap leak, it seems like Claude Code is sending metadata about the binary that is sending HTTP requests
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
Normative vs prerogative state [1]. See US v. Swartz compared to Meta use of LibGen for Llama [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_state_(model)
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
> For a fanatic-led state to possess nukes is a dangerous situation and it may be worth it to try and prevent it. So, when are we bombing Israel to prevent the world being held hostage by nuke-wielding religious fanatics?
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
I don't buy the superstate argument, since the EC consistently avoids or waters down attempts towards federalisation (full fiscal union, directly elected Commission, Parliament with legislative initiative, yada yada). Making a supersta
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by budududuroiu 6mo ago
> China burns significantly more coal than the USA and Europe combined Which is expected when both Europe and the US outsourced most manufacturing to China. It's actually surprising China is so low given they're literally the f
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by budududuroiu 7mo ago
iOS was supposed to prevent phone theft by making phones brickable through iCloud. Now, phone thieves just ask you at knifepoint or gunpoint to log out of iCloud
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by budududuroiu 7mo ago
It's clear that post-COVID, white collar employees had the upper hand over their employers. Quiet quitting and other stupid acronyms, lengthy LinkedIn posts about "this generation doesn't get their hands dirty" was the c
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by budududuroiu 7mo ago
> Meanwhile, developing countries like China and India are projected to account for 35-40% of total global emissions in the next decade, far outweighing the impact of individual lifestyle choices in the West. Sure, but that's still

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