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After three years working with them, I think that AWS is an ok-ish business to work with... they are expensive, and things "mostly" work, and you start noticing all those other digits after the "99.999" or whatever of re
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Judging by fan adoration, I get this feeling that anime in Japan are not made by ginormous animation companies trying too hard to produce the same samey conformant goop as everybody else, which seems to be a problem that EE.UU. and Europe d
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You have a point that a powerful malicious AI can still be unplugged, if you are close to each and every power cord that would feed it, and react and do the right thing each and every time. Our world is far too big and too complicated to gu
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I think we have killed science fiction with all sort of dumb things, but specially social media. And I don't mean that people spend more time on social media than reading (but they definitely do), but that in social media everybody is
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This. In many places of Europe, for example, the salary after taxes and mandatory employer contributions become between 30% and 40% of what the employer disburses. The employee is aware that his 20k raise will become more like 6k, and it&#x
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That's the thing with narrative art. It doesn't click the same way, or at all, with everybody. And there is nothing wrong with that. Art that tries too hard to be appealing to everybody ends up being tepid. To me, for example, wit
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There is something to what you say; like, Marcos Rubio has probably benefited from that sadism. Materially though, I think the Americans are worse off for it. With that said, the average Cuban is so down that they don't get a chance of
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I was discussing today with a relative how Cuba's Fidel Castro framed the public opinion in the country in such a way the nation is currently... having a very hard time. Even after Fidel Castro's dead. Worse, Hugo Chavez imported
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> is this not one of the most disturbing, disgusting, psychologically troubling and damning ideas ever to be put to words/brought to awareness? . Hmm? Hell has depths. Your yard might be a little too short to measure them? In that
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Also, in case you haven't guessed it yet, all of this can be used to fingerprint a browser's identity--but not a user. In my previous company we had a piece of software that reported all sort of HTTP/2 packet traces, which th
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Yes they do. One particularly annoying one is about pricing: price can't be zero. If you write as a hobby and don't care about making a dollar, then Amazon gets in the way. Sure, you can publish in Amazon and charge 1 USD, but the
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> Did that ever work, except maybe in tribal societies? Maybe I don't understand your comment, but I think our societies were/are tighter in many places and epochs. Maybe it's not so in cities and suburbs in the modern Wes
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This is partially on the author, and I say this as somebody how writes as a hobby. It's not too difficult to publish on the Kobo store, and there are other stores out there. Of course, it's difficult to compete with Amazon when it
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Indeed. But I have another point of view: what if our society is utterly broken? To see what I mean, imagine a world where that level of effort would cure any disease, even aging. How would that split us?
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Where I live, specialists can't even speak English, so I doubt very much that they are up to date on anything. And I live in a first-world country.
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So I guess it will be very hard, in a pure Darwinian meaning, to evolve an organism from scratch. But relax that meaning a little by fixing some things and letting only some things evolve, and I suspect it's already possible.
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It could be argued that people who voted for Trump were in the "not college" spectrum[^1], and thus, they would approve of both the anti-woke and anti-science move. In fact, I would be as bold as saying that most who voted for Tru
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> The entire thing is little more than a thought experiment. Yes. Nobody can predict the future. > but the idea it'll happen any day now, and by accident is bullshit. We agree on that one: it won't be sudden, and it won&#x27
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I know I'm an oddball when it comes to the stuff that crosses my mind, but here I go anyway. It's possible to stop developing things. It's not even hard; most of the world develops very little. Developing things requires capi
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> I know it's not this easy but I grind my teeth thinking that if someone, somewhere has an epiphany today, this person can be back to full health in no time Your are correct, and I understand the feeling. Not a great consolation, b
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That terrible brutal grief is what death leaves us every time. I remember Jake's posts. He fought, and he all of us to fight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZYNADOHhVY
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Only 6500 years? That's incredibly recent for such an influential language. For comparison, Sargon of Akkad died only 4000 years ago, and there are written records from him. True, he didn't speak Indo-European, but Afroasiatic&#x2
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Indeed. The EU will search for a way to keep allowing citizen data on American intelligence agencies, because there simply is no alternative politically affordable. It would take American SWAT teams regularly raiding the streets of Belgium
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This is spot-on. A corollary is that the best way to fight these diseases is by doing "maintenance" early on. But we currently don't have good enough models of all those multiple systems, and a functional, "good" st
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For those that rely on social media, this is probably the biggest upside to there being social media platforms... not all of them will take you down at once. Other than that, this is probably because the content owner has a product called &
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>> for purely AI There is a big balloon full of AI hype going up right now, and regrettably it may need those data-centers. But I'm hoping that if the worst (the best) comes to happen, we will find worthy things to do with all of
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The aggregate value of each soul that goes away is staggering. Bram is a good example; his work in VIM and his help to children in need will be sorely missed. I wish we were doing more to break that cycle.
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I agree with you; all of those needed vastly more computing than was available in a PC. If anything, the power of modern hardware has made a lot of it more available in personal workstations. Though it is true that hyped-for-the-masses pers
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Those glorified token predictors are the missing piece in the puzzle of general intelligence. There is a long way to go still in putting all those pieces together, but I don't think any of the steps left are in the same order of "
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It is a supported feature in the epub 3.0 standard. It's possible to distribute an epub with audio, and have the audio sync to the HTML elements that form the ebook's text. And there is an e-reader that actually supports this feat

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