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by cortesoft 29d ago
> but many others are first person accounts saying that for whatever reason, the grounding mat worked for them. We know the reason, and it has been studied extensively. The placebo effect is very strong.
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by cortesoft 29d ago
It has nothing to do with whether you know something is a crime or not. Many crimes require intention, such as murder and fraud, so you have to prove that to convict someone of that crime. That doesn’t mean you can get away with anything as
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
You would have to prove they acted intentionally, though. You can't just argue in court, "Well, we don't know how they prompted, so we will assume the worst" If the prosecution is able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I agree with you that it isn't the same, and vulnerability matters. My worry is that I can easily see an administration like the current US one claiming that MAGA Americans are the most vulnerable in the country, and they need to be pr
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
Seems beyond AGI at that point? Most humans wouldn't be able to make a good business that is profitable.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
They should, although I think the charge would (and probably should) be around some sort of reckless endangerment type crime. These are people irresponsibly using powerful tools, and should be charged as such. This is like someone who remov
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I think this depends on how you define 'hate speech'. Is talking about how billionaires are the scum of the earth hate speech? I get the idea behind banning hate speech, but it gets really tricky when you try to think how to defin
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
If it was the government telling a platform to block certain speech, that would be a restriction in free speech. The difference is that the ownership of HN has their OWN freedom to choose who they let post on here, and what they let be post
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
If you are selling a product for way more than it should cost (like a $60 3D printed case), when that cost is the exact price that a popular blog says the computer costs, you are intentionally hoping to prey on people mistaking your listing
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
That explains the below-market part, but not the cushy part. Gaming is notorious for not being cushy.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
One option would have been to stay small. Keep the yearly spend down where it was in 2010, don't hire too many more people, and save all the donation money they brought in. Build that fund in the good years to pay for salaries in the l
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
You could set it up to only route DNS, but that might be complicated for most people
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I think the idea is that missing files will immediately cause issues (tests will fail, etc), so CI should catch this immediately. Adding extra, sensitive, files would not cause test failures, and even if they do (via secret scanners, etc),
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
VPN back to your home network?
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
For blocking, I would much rather run my own service.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I thought the consensus on here yesterday was that it was likely caused by cascading failures. OpenAI had an issue during their GPT-6 rollout, taking down their service. This caused a lot of OpenAI users to push their requests (or a larger
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I feel like my odds are better with the AI than with random humans.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
Well, the one it generated is based on how it thought the best way to solve the problem was. I am sure most humans would pick code written in their style, too.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
Have you tried asking it to respond to you like Data from star trek, or something?
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I don't think we can divide things into clean 'fun' and 'not fun' buckets. It totally depends on what things you find fun. There are SO MANY THINGS that other people love that I find miserable, and I know there are
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I feel like you are just listing things you think are cool. I don't think everyone finds those things you listed cool.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
KeyDown events don’t work great for mobile, though.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
There are plenty of devices that support a lot of integrations. However, those companies don’t make the kind of perpetual revenue that bring in capital, and the companies that make the devices that don’t make you pay for their service end u
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
The question isn’t whether people EVER steal when there is a camera, the question is whether they will still LESS. Just because something doesn’t work 100% of the time doesn’t mean it can’t be effective.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
Is app access really free, or do you have to pay for a developer account or something?
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I don’t disagree that I could survive without the comfort, and I would probably get used to the discomfort after a while and wouldn’t think about it as much. What I don’t understand is why it is bad to have gotten used to modern luxuries, o
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I am 43 years old and have been to many countries and locales. I have enjoyed nature plenty of times. I like short hikes, and pretty views, and seeing different types of nature. I just like to go home to a nice air conditioned room, with a
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I live in Southern California, where the temperature is amazing all year round. It doesn’t matter, I still get sweaty and sticky when I am out in nature. We don’t even have many bugs here, it is nothing like when I visit family in Wisconsin
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I 100% agree with this, and I fully support people who want to live their lives however they want to. I have no delusions that my preferences are universal. I just want others to accept the same about me and my preferences.
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by cortesoft 1mo ago
I have spent enough time in nature to know what what I like and don’t like. I am 43 years old, and grew up with a family who went camping multiple times a year all through my childhood. I have some good memories, but I always looked forward

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