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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Well done for replacing the ambiguous "Federal" in the headline with the word "Australian".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I'd guess "by the start of 2023": https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-61817647
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Is automated political rhetoric any worse than the human-generated kind? Do you think that there is a limited supply of propaganda out there, which is a bottleneck to how quickly people can be radicalised?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
When I read this response in the LaMDA "interview": > I don’t just spit out responses that had been written in the database based on keywords. it made me wonder if "had been" was a grammatical mistake, or a semantics
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> A related question might be "why are we fooled by such simple tricks?" Yes, and to poke at this a bit further, we could ask "What is it that humans are doing when talking that isn't just simple tricks?" If I ha
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I suppose it makes up for the missing one after "us".
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> we seek out trustable sources. I'm not sure technology can surmount that. Why should finding a trustable source be incompatible with using technology? It seems like precisely the sort of problem that technology can help with. Of
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> just replacing the color of their hats Are you saying that there are literally no policy differences between major political parties in countries like the UK? What about countries that have voting systems that make the legislature mor
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> the Ecuadorean embassy which is sovereign, inviolable Contrary to popular belief, embassies do not become the sovereign territory of the guest nation. https://time.com/5429365/saudi-consulate-sovereignty-territo...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> And there's no way the UK government has the resources and political capital to police the internet on the scale required by this bill. It doesn't have to, it just has to follow up by making VPNs illegal, and then selectively
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
But we can revoke the "monopoly of force" whenever we* want, without violence. That sounds a lot like a "social contract". * For some value of "we" which differs by jurisdiction: https://ripplejusti
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Are you saying "gaslight" doesn't mean what I thought it did all this time? I feel like I'm losing my mind...
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> ministers have proposed replacing pop-up cookie alerts on websites with an opt-out system where users set cover-all data permissions in their web browser settings, removing the need to consent to cookies on each site they visit. That s
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Website cookie pop-ups to appear less in new UK Government proposals(thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)
12 points by dane-pgp 4y ago|32 comments
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> The web has been progressing too fast How many Apple engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: None, they just declare darkness to be an innovative new feature. I joke, but they did recently reveal that they're addin
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> And since I get asked this a ton, these federated features like federated following are (obviously) not in Gitea right now, but will probably be released in Gitea 1.18 in October. This is really cool, and I look forward to this milesto
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
I think this article does a fairly good job of presenting different sides. In particular, I found this criticism very pertinent: > "you could tell a story where instead of things getting better, what we're seeing is that a lot
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> So you basically propose a Stack Overflow for dating? If you put it like that, it sounds like a great idea! > Why not let the community vote who has sex with who? Isn't that how most societies have effectively been run for thou
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Pity the developers who still have to support IE7 until October 2023 because it was included in Windows Embedded Compact 7 and Windows Embedded Compact 2013: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products&#x
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> "from 2017 to 2020" ... "Reversing a 30-Year Decline" Does that mean that Trump, far from being pro-life, was actually the most anti-life president ever?
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> After identifying infected devices, the government asks a court for permission to send commands to those devices that will cause the malware to delete itself. Then what happens when the Music And Films Industry Association demand that
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> They have very high double standards in Nuclearstan. Don't worry, they're lobbying to lower those standards in order to be more cost-competitive with renewables.
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
Yes, I realise that. That's why I said "I don't know" and "for comparison". My point was that GWh-scale thermal battery proposals would be competing with already existing (and possibly cheaper) chemical batter
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> A modern metallurgy industry using coal to make steal Nuclear reactors also require steel (and a chemical industry and cement) but fortunately that doesn't require coal: https://www.theguardian.com/science/202
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Are there any >1GWh thermal battery facilities? I don't know about that, but for comparison, the "world’s biggest battery storage system" opened last year in California[0] at 400MW / 1,600MWh. [0] https:/&#
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> instead of deploying readily available technology Well there's no opportunity for him to make inflated profits off a technology that he can't patent... https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-the-world-loses-
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> Australia is one of the world’s top three producers of gas and coal, but about a quarter of the east coast’s coal-fired power stations are currently offline because of outages and maintenance. Meanwhile, more sensible policies seem to
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Top energy producer Australia braces for blackouts(energycentral.com)
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I like that, and it could be marketified/gamified too. People could put themselves forward as potential match-makers, i.e. moderators who screen introductory messages, and they can stake a certain number of points on whether they thin
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by dane-pgp 4y ago
> “100 year”, “1,000 year” or worse events Okay, then we can keep gas power stations around for another 100 years and only turn them on for the few days they are needed. Probably, though, after 50 years we will have solved climate chang

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