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by eesmith 2mo ago
I also failed to follow the logic of that quoted part. Free software is the four freedoms you mentioned - use, study, modify, and redistribute. There is no obligation to accept anything, for any reason. I don't think the argument that
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by eesmith 2mo ago
"Other than TSA" sounds to me very much like "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" In the early 1990s, my girlfriend was scared of flying. I went with her to the gate for emotional support. I also sometimes
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by eesmith 2mo ago
This UN report isn't about "foolish uses of freshwater." This report praises AI as a part of the next technological revolution, but points out there are problems that should and can be addressed to make its benefits more equi
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Yes, I've mostly stopped eating meat because of its environmental impact. I've also stopped flying, and buy most of my clothes second-hand. So of course it makes sense to also minimize AI use. We can easily do many things, and unl
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by eesmith 2mo ago
It has been an issue for decades. So what? It isn't like ignoring the topic will make it go away. The report I read does outline the advantages, starting off in the executive summary, after the AI-generate image, with: "Artificial
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Okay, but this summary of the UN report is emphatically not "only looking at the downside". From the piece: "“This report is not a case against artificial intelligence, a technological transformation that is improving the liv
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Yes. And two seemingly unrelated things can share deeper similarities.
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Since California produces about 80% of the world's almonds, it also means that the global water footprint for almonds is about the same as the global water footprint for AI. More directly, a global analysis does not mean the AI data ce
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by eesmith 2mo ago
I agree with your link that the unsustainable use of water for almond farms causes problems, and agree that these problems are quite similar to that of water use for AI, so both should have high scrutiny. Quoting your link: > Almonds use
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by eesmith 2mo ago
I'm having a tough time making the few pieces I know fit together. When Simonyi started at Microsoft there were only 40 employees. He was the head of the then-new applications group, which I normally don't think of as being a prog
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Alternatively, since Simonyi was at PARC, just up the road from Apple, he may have known the story and shared it, which got re-attributed, as happens in the game of telephone.
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by eesmith 2mo ago
Related story about Bill Atkinson at Apple, reporting -2000 lines of code, at https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html . Perhaps that's the one you are thinking of? It's certainly likely that it h
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by eesmith 2mo ago
I nearly always use DDG in noai mode. A couple of hours ago I failed to find information about the origin of 'click piano' - a setting on my electronic piano - so I decided to try Google Search, only to be hit with the "click
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by eesmith 2mo ago
> With the bicycle the Wright Brothers patented the left-hand thread. I tried to verify that a couple of years ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709428 . It does not seem to be true. https://www.w
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by eesmith 2mo ago
So in the country you live in, a shop owner is free to kick out women from his phone store, simply for being a woman. India banned discrimination on the basis of caste back in 1947. Does that something you can imagine with your "third-
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by eesmith 3mo ago
This was a tangent starting with "I find the RealID opposition baffling." at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983452 . I oppose Real ID because I don't understand the problem it's trying to solve,
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by eesmith 3mo ago
There is a tautological issue here - before Real ID everyone had to accept state-issued ids because that's what people had. How does Real ID guarantee (1), (3), or (4) better than the state-issued non-Real IDs? Places are not required
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by eesmith 3mo ago
That still doesn't tell me what problem it is supposed to solve.
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by eesmith 3mo ago
From that link, 'All this keeps the game interesting and fun, taking weeks and sometimes months to complete'. Some people in the US take longer than that to get Real ID. Like, elderly black people born in the Jim Crow era where bi
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by eesmith 3mo ago
It is called "TSA ConfirmID". https://www.tsa.gov/tsaconfirm-id "If you are unable to provide the required acceptable ID, such as a passport or REAL ID, you can pay a $45 fee to use TSA ConfirmID. TSA will th
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by eesmith 3mo ago
The major European exception being the UK, which doesn't issue identity cards and somehow manages. (Apparently Andorra doesn't either.) You might consider it part of the Anglosphere mentality as Canada, the US, Australia, the Baha
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by eesmith 3mo ago
> I’m a strong supporter of the concept that people should pass an evaluation and get a permit to have a child. Of course that, like literacy tests for voting, will never be gamed.
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by eesmith 3mo ago
Okay, so how do you get from 'market-rate housing' to 'luxury apartments'? FWIW, I'm saving up for an apartment. As I understand it, the Vienna model has city-owned housing ("government agency"), but also
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by eesmith 3mo ago
Bear in mind that those conclusions are for a different student population -- country of course, but also age range: Czech schools: "The new measure, which has been at the center of heated debates in recent months, will apply in kinder
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by eesmith 3mo ago
The headline is "Socialists should embrace luxury apartments." Do you think socialists should embrace higher prices for everyone over longer times for everyone? Even without an explicit wait list, I've been saving money for y
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by eesmith 3mo ago
I don't feel like paying with my money, I don't feel like paying by giving up my privacy, and I don't feel like paying by training Google reCAPTCHA or giving it my attention. When you say "reconstructing from having read
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by eesmith 3mo ago
I didn't, as I am not a subscriber. My views are similar to rekabis. Could you perhaps summarize the evidence? I mean, Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism sounds fun and all, but at what cost to the environment? Is it warmed-ove
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by eesmith 3mo ago
I fundamentally do not understand your advocacy. You started with: 'Am I the only person who thinks its odd that my government (US) thinks its can tell me what time to get up and go to bed?' How do you have the timezones you want
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by eesmith 3mo ago
FWIW, that's existed for a while. Source at https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/tree/master/third_party... with downloadable binary at https://cosmo.zip/pub/cosmos/bin&#x2
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by eesmith 3mo ago
> Also unaddressed is how the military will square a program that screens troops for low testosterone with the FDA's stance that testosterone replacement therapy is approved only for men with a diagnosed medical condition affecting

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