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by dane-pgp 4y ago
While it's true that the PRC has settled many border disputes, it still has many remaining, and not merely those relating to islands and the South China Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_of_th
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> abusing humans via slavery The difference, of course, is that previously some states wanted to be able to categorize some people as being mere property, whereas this time some states are worried they won't be able to categorize so
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> he was on a train to Zhengzhou from a city without any documented COVID-19 cases when his health code turned from green to red. ... The protester was required to wait in a local library for 12 hours before being escorted out of the cit
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China Accused of Weaponizing Its Covid Tracker to Stifle Dissent(extremetech.com)
11 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|1 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Ok, but that means that you are the fetus's enemy, and society has an obligation to choose a side in that fight to the death you are proposing, to make sure that the correct side ultimately wins.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I was worried that using the word "regulated" would clash with the term "well-regulated", as I am aware of the interpretation you mention, but I still wanted to bring the second amendment to mind. My point was that the C
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Now I have an image of Priti Patel dressed as Gru, slapping little yellow Minions who are trying to write legal briefs. Can someone get an AI to generate a JPEG of this?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The moral question in this case isn't "Should you be able to unplug the violinist?" but "Should the violinist unplug themselves?". As an adult who is profiting from a crime committed against you, they are morally ob
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Do you think the ACA would have been more or less likely to pass if it had mentioned a federal right to abortion (which would have benefited zero people for the next decade)?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the principles that the country was founded on. It might be better for the country if those principles were applied to other questions, like "How should a militia be regulated?" and "Which plants can adults consume?&quot
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This only applies to "private communications data" and not other controversial aspects of the Snoopers' Charter like the intelligence services' access to unspecified "bulk personal datasets", but apparently cha
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Liberty wins landmark Snoopers’ Charter case(libertyhumanrights.org.uk)
46 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|7 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> their [job] to prove you stole it. That's a sound legal principle, but unfortunately it doesn't apply in all situations and in all jurisdictions: "If the defendant is considered to have a criminal lifestyle, the court ..
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It links to another article which reveals: > Eight of the 15 camera modules will be used for see-through augmented reality experiences, six modules will be used for "innovative biometrics," and one camera module will be used fo
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Vogt said that “as soon as the end of the year” it may have “hundreds” of vehicles “covering all of San Francisco.” It's getting harder for the doubters to claim that this is all just a fad and self-driving cars will never become
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
That reminds of the old Simpsons episode, "Lisa the Tree Hugger", where she meets a boy who is a "level 5 vegan" and thus "won't eat anything that casts a shadow."
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I appreciate that the EFF is being very principled here, but it also seems a little naive. Basically I think there are two threats that users face, and efforts to defend against them are in tension with each other. The first threat is that
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yeah, there's got to be some sweet spot between "formally verify all the things" and "i guess this diff looks okay, yolo!". I'd say that if you're designing a system which has the potential to disconnect h
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> a supermajority of miners as well as economic nodes (such as exchanges) Is there a formal way of defining this? Maybe it's possible to at least define "a supermajority X% of miners, weighted by blocks mined in the last Y days
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Is a big portion of Reddit mods trying to cover-up "Epstein" crimes? No, just the ones that were linked to u/maxwellhill, the lead moderator of r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology: https:/&#x2F
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
It's interesting that the same technology can be used for both anonymous reputation, and rate-limiting, in a decentralised way. I think that a lot of online services would be simpler to implement (and simpler to federate) if they coul
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'll have to take your word for it.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
The short, truthful answer to that question is "no one". The long, incorrect answer is that below are the permissions granted to users after reaching certain thresholds of total upvote points: * 1 point - unlocks commenting * 5 p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Is it possible to increase the price of fossil fuels by increasing demand for plastic (and then burying/sequestering rather than burning that plastic at the end of its useful life)? I know that plastics tend to use different parts of t
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
So you suggest that we give up all privacy (including the privacy of all our online passwords), and lose access to every page that a government censor might take issue to, just to prevent the hypothetical problem of the government over-
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> both answers involve you "agreeing" with a principle about the supreme court Yes, that's exactly the problem! I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that was a limitation of how the options were worded. &gt
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Wow, I think I got 100% on the test! Admittedly, after going through all the questions I noticed what contradictions it was trying to trigger in my thinking, and I had to go back and audit my decisions to make them more consistent, but I th
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
This criticism was addressed by Nick Cammarata of OpenAI, who said that: > “it’s all about the prelude before the conversation. You need to tell it what the AI is and is not capable [of]. It’s not trying to be right, it’s trying to compl
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> LaMDA’s remarkable aptitude at Turing’s Imitation Game LaMDA hasn't participated in such a game though (as far as I know). The rules of a Turing Test are inherently adversarial, which is completely different from Lemoine's p
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Why don't the councils let the people on each half of the street vote for a new name for their half? The two votes could take place years apart, so it doesn't strictly need the councils to be closely cooperating. I suppose the fa

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