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by dahart 8mo ago
It took me a minute, but yes I completely agree that whether more GPRs helps depends on the code & compiler, and that there’s plenty of code you can’t inline. Re: MMIX Yes! Theoretically it would help if the hardware could dynamically a
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by dahart 8mo ago
People accessing sites in other countries via VPN proves absolutely nothing. We are talking about what would happen on US based sites like Google and YouTube, sites that don’t and can’t ignore US law.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Okay, I see what you’re saying. I was assuming the compiler or programmer knows the call graph, and you’re assuming it’s a function call in the middle of a potentially large call stack with no knowledge of its surroundings. Your assumption
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by dahart 8mo ago
You can try to stop the payments, but you won’t stop the ads. I’m talking about the same reasons billionaires pay far lower tax rates than you and I. When that much money is on the line, they will find (or make) a legal way. (Anyway, it’s a
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by dahart 8mo ago
Nearly all large U.S. corporations adhere to the data retention rules and right to delete GDPR rules for EU citizens because they also operate in the EU, and nearly all of them proactively adhere to the GDPR for US citizens just to keep thi
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by dahart 8mo ago
No, that’s a straw man. For the fifth(?) time, whether it’s foreign or not is irrelevant, and only you suggested they’re evil. The criteria proposed was whether it’s targeted based on personal content or not, and I’m not alone in not liking
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by dahart 8mo ago
False.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Obviously sites not based in the US don’t have to follow US laws. And obviously using a VPN circumvents local laws. Again, I’m not going to do any of this, but you answered your own question: one way the US could enforce this would be to re
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by dahart 8mo ago
We also have an existence proof that region-specific laws can change web advertising practices globally with the GDPR.
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by dahart 8mo ago
And? Those ads aren’t on other platforms, and they won’t go away if you ban compensated advertising. Surely you’re just being completely naive if you think banning “compensated” advertising would change the advertising rather than the compe
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by dahart 8mo ago
It is really true, but yes there are some specific exceptions. In general: “Copyright protection does not extend to names, titles, short phrases, ideas, methods, facts, or systems.” https://www.copyright.gov/engage/writ
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by dahart 8mo ago
I don’t know, maybe by not showing the targeted ads? By putting legal liability on the US based advertising channels & distributors? By making it illegal for US sites to share an individual’s tracking and history information with advert
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by dahart 8mo ago
This argument doesn’t make sense to me. Generally speaking, having more registers does not result in more spilling, it results in less spilling. Obviously, if you have 100 registers here, there’s no spilling at all. And think through what h
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by dahart 8mo ago
Why are you assuming that the hosting locale is even relevant? I’m not going to ban anything, but if @phire’s idea was law, it would probably ban anything advertiser from choosing which ads to show you based on your personal data. It’s irre
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by dahart 8mo ago
Copyright does not cover ideas, period. If you write your own novel and use your own word choices, even if you copy the plot structure exactly and the same character names while writing a new book, it’s not even considered a derivative work
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by dahart 8mo ago
Even though I gave an example of a huge swath of advertising that isn’t “compensated”?
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by dahart 8mo ago
In the 2024 preface: > Copyright holders worry about how to exercise control over the use of "their" creative material for training models; but that begs the question of whether copyright holders ever had, or should have, a rig
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by dahart 8mo ago
I don’t understand what you mean about shareholders and pro-bono, can you elaborate? Apple advertises Apple products on Apple channels, and Apple’s shareholders love that, and it’s not “pro-bono”. I don’t think you have the incentives corre
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by dahart 8mo ago
Isn’t hearing some Spanish from time to time expected in Miami, whether you speak it or not? I expect to hear Spanish and I live nowhere near a coast… And you prefer that advertisers read through your posts/emails/history/eve
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by dahart 8mo ago
In this hypothetical scenario, why are you assuming in-app advertising would be any different from browser advertising? Re-read @phire’s comment above; the proposal was to get rid of targeted advertising that uses your personal data to make
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by dahart 8mo ago
Seems like you missed the point; banning compensated advertising wouldn’t fix the problem at all.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Correct. The proposal is to not be able to use your posts to determine which ads to show. But showing you ads in Spanish because you’re in southern Florida or Puerto Rico would be acceptable.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Promotion of anything at all is advertising, with or without compensation. The word advertising is pretty well defined, and the dictionary definitions don’t usually mention compensation, e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/
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by dahart 8mo ago
What opinion is sharply divided and why? Far more in favor than against completely supports my speculation that basic income for artists is easier to publicly justify than basic income for all. You argued sharply with that, but have so far
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by dahart 8mo ago
For Facebook alone, it’s less than 30x. The “family” in “Family Daily Active People” is also referring to “Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, and other services.”
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by dahart 8mo ago
Overwhelming consensus is polarising? How so? It sounds like the exact opposite of polarising.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Why do you say that? Isn’t the fact that it got approved evidence that it was easier to justify subsidies for artists? I don’t know what you mean at all, why is this “so polarizing”? A lot of the art world already runs on subsidies, and it’
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by dahart 8mo ago
> does only the arts deserve this Baby steps. Everyone deserves it, but getting there in one step is politically impossible almost everywhere in the world. Nobody’s saying only the arts deserve subsidies. It’s just easier to justify. But
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by dahart 8mo ago
Yep, just like a real camera.
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by dahart 8mo ago
Try tapping on the target value

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