elmo2you

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by elmo2you 6y ago
You are correct, sir. Although it might also just be for using his own powers and not per se foreign ones. In most systems like these, any form of violence (by citizens) is used as an excuse to respond with (disproportional) repressive viol
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I fear that because of the asymmetric power/financial balance between the parties involved, such a choice could easily lead to a kind of war, in which the companies will have the upper hand. They will have may more means/resources
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by elmo2you 6y ago
What about criminal liability? I know that it's highly unlikely that Microsoft will ever get what it truly deserves (at least as long as the USA remains what it is), but still. I find it rather telling, how many argue that Microsoft is
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by elmo2you 6y ago
.. but keep your eyes peeled, for cases where the latter is intentionally used as a lame excuse for any of the two former (or Kolmogorov's razor itself, for that matter).
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I don't think there is any excuse for how Ghost.org terminated an account like this. Maybe they have a fancy TOS, but the bottom line here is that they destroyed somebody else's work/investment/value, and apparently only
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You can bet on it that this is part of a larger game of chess. Certainly not the rebellious resistance fight of an underdog, as it is mostly being presented. More like cannibalization between several large and ruthless corporations, and mos
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> This is a trap many programmers fall into. You should be parsing, not validating. Maybe it was an unfortunate choice of words on my part. Additionally, and I only meant to indicated how it was promoted/advertised, rather than make
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I get you point(s) and I guess you mean well. Statically typed languages do essentially what you said. They mostly (if not only) move data validation from run time to compile time. In dynamically typed languages, this often doesn't hap
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Not per-se, indeed. But if that urge for validation is for something that's fundamentally wrong and/or only supports an person's failure to critically assess their own actions, then it usually is narcissism.
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by elmo2you 6y ago
It may depend on age, overall knowledge of CS (including its history) and level of experience with multiple programming languages. Maybe the article itself does not literally support the idea, but it might still be inferred from it. It migh
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That is indeed often the case with young narcissists (I don't know if it applies to this person, don't know him/her). That said, I remember the shocking arrogance and total disregard (for anything but their own ego) of a few
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by elmo2you 6y ago
In addition to what other people already mentioned (how it is illegal), it may depend on jurisdiction. Also whether the country of origin of the source has an extradition treaty with the USA, or if the USA can otherwise (e.g. extrajudicial
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I highly doubt that. Ever since I had my first encounters with AI, somewhere in the early 90s, one thing has remained rather constant: the extraordinary successes of AI originate mostly from when it is used for tasks we humans perform natur
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Please, don't get me wrong. I'm not sure if you did, but it appears that you might have. I do not really have any personal issue with my condition. Everyone who needs to know does, and it's never a show-stopper for anything e
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I have dyslexia (or slysdexia), and I do get this negative "vibe". If fact, I get it very well. Over the years I've seen my share of these "fonts for dyslectic people". I often looked at them with high hopes, only t
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Many far smarter people have said this before, far more eloquently than I can, but in short: Cloud Computing (and SASS even more so) is little more than just another attempt to recreate access/info monopolies, essentially the same prof
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I do get those points, and I can agree with all of them. Just with the exception that I no longer believe that there is anything that can save the USA from itself (as in: literally nothing). It's not that there aren't initiatives&
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I don't remember if he was reporting on any of these 3 guys. But I do remember that a huge media outlet/conglomerate was quick to accuse Krebs of wrongfully accusing somebody (no idea how they got that, behind a paywall) and how h
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I think you are touching upon an important point there. Because from the little I know, it appears that experiments with UBI have been largely more successful in places where people appeared to me smarter. Smarter, as in capable to make les
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That is indeed pretty much what it says on the tin. However, to be fair, it has always been the most greedy and self-interested, with already the most disproportionate power to rig the game in their favor, that have been most vocally advoca
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That is what worries me too. Not so much the current state of affairs, in which maybe several thousand to tens of thousands units driving around. But as the production scale goes up, so do the chances of hitting those unforeseen (or willful
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by elmo2you 6y ago
The underlying problem here might as well be considered a fundamental shortcoming of pure/fundamental capitalism. I make no claims about the value of alternatives, or even if there are any (better ones, that is). Anything that is (no l
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That particular model? No, I was not aware of it. But that production hydrogen cars exist, yes I did. However, proof of their existence isn't proof of their safety. I have no doubt that they are (mostly) safe, even in almost every imag
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Fair enough. Thought then I'm sincerely even more surprised you would say that any fuel tank on fire is a (relatively) equal problem. As for hydrogen rapidly escaping and going straight up because of its low density, those properties I
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by elmo2you 6y ago
It's the huge difference in reaction speed that makes all the difference. Even in their gaseous/vaporized forms, conventional (fossil) fuels react comparatively slowly compared to hydrogen, like a sweet retriever puppy compared to
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Aside from the (obvious) energy density downside of hydrogen as a fuel, there is another substantial problem. Hydrogen is challenging/expensive to store/contain. Kind of the direct result of it being the smallest atom we have. Eve
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by elmo2you 6y ago
While that final conclusion might definitely be true, have you even considered how that exact behavior may already led us to a rather nasty reality? A reality in which many companies might regularly get away with malice by just claiming inc
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I don't think you even understand me a little. I'm not here to debate you (or anyone). I will point it out, when people respond with something that is either incorrect or not applicable, but more out of courtesy than to convince a
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That is a nice plausible theory indeed. In fact, it is one that is quite popular among certain people here too. Only one small snag: I can ensure you, from the info I got first hand from people working inside the healthcare system (on sever
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all of that is accurate. You sincerely did not notice the 180 degrees turn in the narrative regarding the pandemic, at the beginning and again after the election? However, my point was that the

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