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by danaris 1y ago
Right. That's exactly my point. Most people are not paying attention to these things. That's tech news ; it's only for nerds and IT people (but I repeat myself). If you think about Google, even about the possibility of Goo
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by danaris 1y ago
I...think you may be in a bubble if you believe this. I've never talked to anyone outside of tech circles like this that has any inkling that Google just shutters people's digital lives with no warning or recourse. In general, wit
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by danaris 1y ago
I suspect they meant Nvidia, not Netflix; after all, the letters in MANGA are exactly the initials of the companies listed in the post they were replying to.
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by danaris 1y ago
Oh, well, then I guess we should all just give up and deepthroat the boot, right? Don't be absurd. Fascism rose in Germany, and was defeated. Fascism rose in Spain, and Italy, and was defeated. We can defeat fascism too. We will defe
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by danaris 1y ago
This is unhelpfully reductive. First of all, it's misleading in its categorization: "half of people who voted in the last election " is not the same as "half of all eligible voters ". Second of all, a lot of the
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by danaris 1y ago
Except that to all appearances, most of the time ICE isn't actually bringing them before people who actually know the law: they're throwing them in concentration camps. Or even when they do end up before someone who knows the la
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by danaris 1y ago
I got the nanotexture on my current work M4 MBP—it doesn't completely eliminate reflected light, but it diffuses it a lot . If I were in a dark room with a light source positioned perfectly to reflect off my screen in my face, I would
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by danaris 1y ago
...I'd have to say that seems like a radical reading of the text. No; you can adjust screen brightness just fine with the built-in settings, including with the F1 and F2 keys (plus the Fn key if you've got them set that way). This
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by danaris 1y ago
[Citation needed] The Republican aversion to governing is a very new thing. Like, sure, the "government small enough to drown in a bathtub" philosophy is not particularly new, but the idea that Republicans in Congress should activ
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by danaris 1y ago
> Why would ANY global business still rely on U.S. Tech? First and foremost, because it takes time to switch. Secondly, because there are a lot of things that just don't have realistic alternatives. For a large agency, especially
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by danaris 1y ago
Please note the distinction between "govern" and "rule." The Democratic Party is not seeking to rule . They are seeking to have the government do its damn job . The Republican Party is seeking to rule, but not govern
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by danaris 1y ago
Gotcha, thank you; that's much clearer!
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by danaris 1y ago
But there's also precedent in the other direction: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. - https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/13-354 > While it is certainly true that a central objective of for-pr
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by danaris 1y ago
Sure, it is a negotiation, and the shutdown is because neither side will agree to certain things the other side wants to do. The Democrats won't agree to making the awful omnibus bill cuts permanent and essentially defunding the ACA,
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by danaris 1y ago
I'm sorry, can you clarify that last part? The federal government will begin funding what were formerly federal programs...?
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by danaris 1y ago
> Who benefits? In addition to what the other replies are saying (I think they're all at least partly right), Trump benefits. Right now. He's getting to be the King he always believed was his right and due.
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by danaris 1y ago
Sure. But this is exactly why we'd be better off with open-source software, hardware, etc, managed and maintained in a distributed fashion by nonprofits in many different countries. (I have no idea if there's legally such a th
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by danaris 1y ago
> You don't need to go the reductio ad Hitlerum route. And yet, when the people at the top, the ones implementing these strategies and policies, are explicitly lionizing Hitler in a variety of ways, on top of mimicking his polic
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by danaris 1y ago
And yet, we're clearly way into the period of diminishing returns. I'm sure there's still some improvements that can be made to the current LLMs, but most of those improvements are not in making the models actually better
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by danaris 1y ago
> Using software is not one of the exclusive rights of Copyright holders. To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, no court has yet denied the long-standing presumption that, because a program needs to be copied into memory to
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by danaris 1y ago
...YYyyeah, that says a lot about you, and nothing about the project in question. "Forced you to lie"?? Are you serious? If the project says "no AI", and you insist on using AI, that's not "forcing you to lie&q
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by danaris 1y ago
.... but if you pull the lever and let people talk about suicide on your platform, your platform will actively contribute to some unknowable number of suicides. There is, at this time, no way to determine how the number it would contribu
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by danaris 1y ago
> I think we’re reaching the limits of what “more” can achieve esp. at Amazon’s scale. At some point, we will run out of people to sell things to. See, that's the problem with tying all these amazing advances in automation and labor
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by danaris 1y ago
> if the government violates the constitution we have this 2nd Amendment and plenty of moral precedent from the founders. Yeah? How's that working out right now, when the government is unquestionably violating the Constitution lef
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by danaris 1y ago
There's a qualitative difference between knives and publicly-available LLMs. Knives aren't out there actively telling you "use me, slit those wrists, then it'll all be over".
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by danaris 1y ago
Then... Maybe the tool should not be available universally. Maybe it should not be available to anyone . If it cannot be used safely by a vulnerable class of people, and identifying that class of person sufficiently to block use by them,
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by danaris 1y ago
And the reason for this brokenness is all too easy to identify: the very wealthy have been increasingly siphoning off all gains in productivity since the Reagan era. Tax the rich massively, use the money to provide for everyone, without que
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by danaris 1y ago
Those are two different definitions of "free market". The definition you are using is a very strict one, and is only really useful for comparing "market economies" to "command economies". That is clearly not wh
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by danaris 1y ago
> I don't claim to know better. You very much do, if you're calling into question the statements in the article that it's fine.

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