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by eganist 3y ago
And they often do. Apple of all companies certainly could've afforded to pay.
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by eganist 3y ago
> They just haven't developed a product that complies with Chinese law Strictly speaking then, Meta is banned in China for not complying with Chinese law.
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by eganist 3y ago
No, they generally stand down heated topics even when it's something the hive mind would agree with. There are delicate ways of talking about these things that GP and plenty of others have a history of having a hard time employing. At
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by eganist 3y ago
> Net positive for who? It doesn't seem to be a net positive for Ukraine, who have effectively lost an entire generation of young men. Men who laid down their lives to defend their homeland. This isn't a serious counterargument
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by eganist 3y ago
It's net-positive activity full-stop, not just economic activity. The US dollar thrives because it's backed by the full faith and credit of the United States Government. Which in all practical terms means it's backed by our g
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by eganist 3y ago
I didn't think I could be more in favor of a total social media ban for kids, but here I am. Seems like a ban for anyone under 16 is in order and a separate tenant for 16-17 to help kids navigate their way through the minefield before
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by eganist 3y ago
I'll reply with a bunch of anecdotes, so please bear with me. A few trends over the last two decades: * targeted monetization of everything under the sun * a total shift towards a subscription economy for nearly everything digital. * a
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by eganist 3y ago
The ROI is the mitigation of a third world war by a mad despot and the consequential preservation of lives that would otherwise have been lost. It's a hugely valuable investment once you look at the historical costs of appeasement. Als
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by eganist 3y ago
> It's unbelievable how much we've sent Ukraine while Americans are suffering at dire rates. Indeed, it's unbelievable how little we actually sent via pallets (compared to past US wars) v. how much we sent in the form of g
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by eganist 3y ago
I mean if freeways adjust to have minimum speeds of e.g 55mph instead of the current 45 (and even that's only in some states), it would solve this by constraining such a car to cities and backroads.
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by eganist 3y ago
https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/997915455681... There's a good outline of fairphone-related options here.
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by eganist 3y ago
> One side of this claim: https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/shopping/amd-leaps-after ... The stated claim was "According to the news and tech blogs AMD is always ahead of nvidia in all regards."
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by eganist 3y ago
> According to the news and tech blogs AMD is always ahead of nvidia in all regards. But then, you have real life... Do you have examples of both sides of this claim?
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by eganist 3y ago
Encountered the same. My hope is that there's a pricing scheme for people like us; may be worth reaching out.
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by eganist 3y ago
> connecting their output to anything important is a very bad idea for now. This may be true for images, but at least for text, treating an LLM as an untrusted person in your threat models will at least allow you to apply defense in dept
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by eganist 3y ago
Any analysis on how Satya Nadella comes out on all of this? Or what impact this might have at all within Microsoft?
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by eganist 3y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/musks-twitter-has-been-sued-... He's pretty bad at honoring contracts too
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by eganist 3y ago
Not sure why Satya would be privy to this disagreement let alone admit it if he is, and I'd assume Altman and Brockman would be incentivized to provide their own perspective (just as Ilya would) to represent events in the best possible
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by eganist 3y ago
> then I haven't seen it Unless I'm missing something, this stands to reason if you don't work there. Kinda like how none of us are privy to anything else going on inside the company. We're all speculating in the end,
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by eganist 3y ago
For all we know, the dev day announcements were the final straw and trigger for the decision that was probably months in the making. He was already the brand, and there likely wouldn't have been a convenient time to remove him from the
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by eganist 3y ago
The immediate firing is from our perspective. Who's to say everything else wasn't already tried in private?
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by eganist 3y ago
Interesting. At least against public companies, this could be a viable alternative for reporting serious issues that aren't taken seriously in said companies' vulnerability disclosure programs. ("Hey, E Corp clearly knew abou
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by eganist 3y ago
> [stub for offtopicness] Is this a new thing? Because I love this.
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by eganist 3y ago
Yeah but then you can just underdeclare until you're willing to sell.
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by eganist 3y ago
So a public option in the education sector. Neat, and something hopefully many of us across parties can get behind for core degree programs. I wish literally anyone would do this for the healthcare sector too.
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"[Facebook] Encrypted notification emails are going away soon"(facebook.com)
3 points by eganist 3y ago|3 comments
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by eganist 3y ago
Received this notification about 4 hours ago. "Encrypted notification emails are going away on Dec 5th. Review your settings." I'm assuming usage was literally hundredths of a percent if not less, but it was one of the first
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by eganist 3y ago
Farsi is solely the name of the language. Persian could describe the language or a number of other things, such as the culture, the people, etc. Farsi and Persian are interchangable in the context of the language, and plenty of Persian Amer
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by eganist 3y ago
Related ancient Persian technology: the yakhchal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakhch%C4%81l ) (a.k.a the ice pit). We still use the same word in farsi for refrigerators today.
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by eganist 3y ago
> kidnapped my wife So like, what's the full story here?

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