cultureswitch

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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Social network apps with scrolling feeds are literally online slot machines. People get stuck in the machine zone. It's exactly the same thing, minus the explicit money transaction. This design should be regulated the same way slot mac
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I'm not against a TikTok ban. It is essentially a slot machine. And it is explicitly designed like one. My problem with this is that it is this design which should be illegal, not one app or another. Instagram and Facebook feeds aren&#
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
There's some historical evidence to suggest that this is true for capital accumulation. Since the first agricultural settlements and civilisations, loans and debt became a feature of human life. This caused cycles of concentration of c
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
This is wrong. Yes, Rainforests don't burn as often, by virtue of being extremely hard to burn. Forests in semi-desertic and temperate/dry climates naturally burn frequently.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Wildfire damage has very little to do with global warming. Spain and Greece have very similar, extremely fire-prone climates yet Greece spectacularly burns every year whilst Spain just manages its forests with regular controlled burns and a
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Still more humane than "terminated"
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
A community is defined by the selection process. People who aren't sensitive to the general offensiveness of these communities come from all backgrounds and are effectively tolerant of each other in ways that are meaningful to them.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Series like Paradise PD are more trash and less politically edgy. I think you're right.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I can read it, so it's not even (yet) shadowbanned.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
We want to protect the rights of every single human being without a single exception.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
You've got an axe to grind don't you? Does it really not seem obvious to you that the damage of a single sexual harassment in a park outweighs any number of online interactions?
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Everyone who has any knowledge of machine learning knows that you don't evaluate your model by testing it on parts of its training data. The issue is, the training data for GPT-4 appears to be "everything".
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Having any such binary expression is considered a severe violation of coding rules for certified software (avionics, medical...). There's a good reason, because it's my almost always hiding a bug. And in gray cases where the dupli
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
It's likely we developed specialized parts of our brain to be very good at swinging from branches specifically.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Try the Plex app on your TV.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Get ad nauseam if you want to scale this
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The Commission is the governments of the member states. Which makes it ironically the most corrupt and undemocratic part of the EU, despite being literally made of people elected through national elections. People who say member states ar
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Did we ever stop to consider the theory of harm of CSAM circulating in private communications? Because I don't see how bytes being copied around in secret actually hurts children in any meaningful way. Obviously it is wrong to create c
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
And yet the UK which left the EU is by leaps and bounds way ahead in the race to become even more of a surveillance state than any one in the EU.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
It is species-ending, but not for humans. And human-made climate change is far behind direct over-exploitation and habitat destruction due to sprawl and agriculture in terms of what things are actually killing species.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Norway is forcing EVs everywhere, generates tons of waste due to overconsumption of cars and uses oil money to do it. It's an abhorrent policy.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
This. EVs are still cars. They still move ten times more mass than what is actually required to get Mr Boomer to his job and back. They're still extremely inefficient transport solutions for anything but vacations. They still cause tra
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
I'd rather have Apple's hypocritical "only we may spy on our users" approach than Google's. But anyway, I use GrapheneOS.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
> ASCII only for talking to the computer is a bit of an outdated concept at this point It's not. The mapping between ASCII and keyboard keys is clear. Wherever unambiguous English text is required (for example programming and docume
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Using 5 technically different extremely similar glyphs for 4 extremely niche corner cases of typography is nonsense. Text is not written only to be read visually by a human on printed paper. Arguably, text today is almost never used that
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
WYSIWYG editors make this problem worse, not better. It is extremely common, if not expected, for a WYSIWYG editor to change the character that has been typed by the user to a different character which the editor thinks better corresponds t
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
It's funny we're having this conversation when the real, _actual_ bug is this: > The specified behavior of groff is that an ASCII "-" (Hyphen-Minus) in the input becomes a Hyphen in the output. This makes no sense and
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
The reality of abuse from cops, politicians, managers, HOA presidents, faculty deans and virtually any position of partially unchecked power is that these positions attract exactly the kind of person who would abuse that power. The fact of
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Not if you're in one of the other islands.
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by cultureswitch 3y ago
Google can block you at any time for any reason. Terms of Service are never relevant. If you're doing something many other people do, you're okay. Besides, suppose they do block you. What's the worst that going to happen? If

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