ecb_penguin

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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
Do you think the OSD is law or something?
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
While most people follow the OSD criteria, there is nothing that says open source software must follow it. Nor is the OSD the only set of criteria or the only definition. Open source means the source is available. Anything else is just poli
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
Training data is not source code so that's irrelevant
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
> songs like those ARE his usual fare these days I've seen him recently and those are not his usual fare: https://www.bobdylan.com/setlists/ He played a couple of his most well-known songs, a few off his recent
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
You're absolutely wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation > correlation does not imply causation correlation CAN imply causation. You missed a word making what you said completely wrong.
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
> Having transcations on a ledger forever Do you think cash transactions don't have even more detailed ledgers? The "tried and true fiat" has been used to catch criminals for centuries because banks keep very detailed reco
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
Yes of course you do. If you're being stalked, contact your local police department.
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
This was controlled for in the study. I swear sometimes people only exist to look for flaws in studies they didn't read.
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by ecb_penguin 10mo ago
And of course, sometimes a correlation does in fact imply a causation!
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Facebook doesn't exist in a free market. It IS a market. It is a market that exists in the free market. > And an unfree one ruled by a dictatorship that you can't vote on. Ok, so don't use that market. You're not
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> For example laws preventing monopolies (government approvals of mergers, for example). Can you show me the federal code that includes number of customers? Do you think monopoly rules are about size or behavior? Do you think a small mom
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> That would be the sensible idea in a free market. Absolutely nothing stopping you from starting a social network > But that ship sailed LONG ago. I'm pretty sure there are hundreds? thousands? of startups ready to launch that a
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
"As a European, I much prefer technological stagnation over bundled messenger apps" Fixed it for you.
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
It's the European way
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Well, I suppose that's one take on it. It's the correct take. Facebook had 800M users on the day Messenger was released. > I would argue that people are in the app because Facebook gave out Facebook Messenger Why would y
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Please for the love of god make it a legal requirement that messaging must be made available as a separate app Please for the love of god do not make legal requirements about how to build an app and what features can be included. >
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
You are not allowed unauthorized access regardless of how the key works. > I am allowed to send any traffic I wish to public-facing hosts No you're not. Denial of service is a federal crime. > I have no responsibility to refrain
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Doesn't this posture also criminalize white-hat hackers, whose disclosures would protect you from the people who actually want to do damage? There is no law for "white-hat hackers". You don't get to break into a sys
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
Because people think they are clever and are trying to separate the act from the intent. Unlocked doors, open windows, any lack of security doesn't give you permission to enter. Just as "incrementing a GET request" doesn&#x27
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> How much innovation is needed Enough to make it worth it to switch, but not so much that it's hard to switch > often iteration is better and cheaper Fortunately React has had major changes over its lifetime that iterating with
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
That is the point! You don't need companies like Paypal... Companies often offer services that are "not needed" because people like convenience, ease of use, etc. You don't need Paypal to use Bitcoin, but there's no
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Do you believe this limit on lifespan is a uniquely human condition No > or do you believe that it's impossible for any animal whatsoever to have a long lifespan Let's pick an arbitrary timeframe and declare that as long N
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> This is perhaps the single worst form of argument I've ever seen. It's because you didn't understand it > 'how can a cancer cell live indefinitely but other cells cannot' Cancer cells are damaged cells mutat
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Did someone prove mice have souls that go to heaven or hell while I wasn't looking? What does this have to do with a soul? The comment was about people treating life extension as a religion based on faith more than evidence. Nothi
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
Everything you said was more popular when rates of sex were higher, so clearly your thoughts aren't correct. On top of that, red states that push abstinence only have always had higher rates of teen pregnancy, again suggesting your ide
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
Is someone being forced? Can you call the police?
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
Really? What does it say?
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
Can we ban questions like this? Though I recognize this person is a perfect YC candidate by asking why you can't connect a home connection to a rack of GPUs.
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
It's wild how awful Europeans are. From Irish laundries, Belgians in the Congo, to Dutch South Africa. Now Denmark and Greenlandic women.
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by ecb_penguin 1y ago
> Ten years ago GenAI couldn't produce two coherent sentences. Depending on the question, it still can't. It's kinda crazy how you view repeating probabilistic outputs as "coherent sentences". > We've com

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