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by gmuslera 3mo ago
In some way they are telling that they respect your privacy. Or they have your data (and then do something with it, now or later), or no one will. They could provide some Google-style takeout to get your data before deletion, but that may n
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by gmuslera 3mo ago
The predecessor of the N9, the Nokia N900, with Maemo, is not even mentioned in the article, and it caused a buzz at least in the circles I were back then. And it had one of the best physical keyboards for a smartphone back then. The N9 was
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by gmuslera 3mo ago
If systems are not ready, then there is plenty of room of systems doing it the wrong way.
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by gmuslera 3mo ago
Suppose being charged by time used to run your tasks. Then your task takes -1 second, you will be charged zero, 1 second, or 18 quintillon seconds?
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by gmuslera 3mo ago
"Right" without use case can be wrong. And by use case I include scale. For a small team, few machines, some in-place infrastructure may worth it. Smaller than that may be overkill, bigger than that may not be enough, or end being
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by gmuslera 3mo ago
One problem with trying to make satellites invisible is that you are making them invisible. Probably the dynamics up there are not the same as down here, or try to apply logic that doesn't work in that environment, but with secret, or
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
The "Who watches the watchers?" question is not rhetoric once you take into account present and near past abuses of those that perform surveillance and the ones that have power over them. And it is far bigger and pervasive than sp
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
Time matters in some of the categories there. What if a meme (I don't know, money, the tragedy of the commons, some future cult of the dead or whatever) works as a great filter and wipes mankind and any civilization that develops it at
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
Never cross a river 4-feet deep on average. A heatstroke may not let you see how cooler the rest of the year may be.
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
Dead people doesn't count. At least until is their turn, I suppose.
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
Is not about doing something never been done before. Feels more like doing something that can be sold, because else there could be legal problems, competition, captive markets and so on. That is about the current state of the world, not you
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by gmuslera 4mo ago
We have to distinguish "our" dreams from, let's say, cultural ones. A lot of what we want, what we perceive as living a full life, having fun and so on comes from culture (and increasingly in the last decades/centuries,
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
At some point they should stop using the European part of the name.
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
The Postel's Law (or Robustness Principle) is related to this, be conservative with what you do (i.e. try to closely adhere to standards for your outputs) and flexible in what you accept (at least up to some point).
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
Homeopathic AI
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
It is not just twice as fast, the pressure to keep rising the rate is still building up. CO2 emissions keeps piling up for centuries, more sea ice is permanently melting, permafrost is thawing at an increasing rate. Positive feedback loops
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
Even not participating in elections have consecuences, at least for proper democratic countries. But in countries where participation is mandatory, at least you can say that most of the (national) negatively affected people got what they vo
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
It is not a war on the web, but on how it was traditionally used (and abused). And that "traditional" way was shaped by google too. As you want a cookie, i put you in a table, napking, serve you a bag of cookies and hope that you
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
"Narrowly", missing a ball of 12k km of diameter by 90k km.
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
The problem on the side of closed source software is that if there had been leaks of source code, the vulnerabilities and exploits may remain unknown for long time.
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
It is not the same world. Food distribution networks exists, so local lost crops may or not affect food availability (economy will be different) in most regions. Also it will be different in absolute values, the difference with the average
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella Meadows. More things I lived and worked on would had made more sense if I had read it a decade earlier. There had been a lot books that were influential, but appeared not too long before I read them
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
It is not trivial, nor as simple as just deleting the app, without understanding what ties us there that can't be changed with just that particular act. We are social animals, our culture has been driven to making social contact throug
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
The elephant in the room is the man in the room. AIs are still tools controlled by people, specially people in power. Even with their own agency, they have their base prompts and biased information feed controlled by people in power. AIs ar
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by gmuslera 5mo ago
There are a lot of assumptions in those laws, and they were exploited by Asimov himself in his short stories and books. Redefining what is human, adding a zeroth law, weakening laws, lack of understanding of human nature (i.e. lending an ar
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by gmuslera 6mo ago
There are not obvious solutions for all use cases, because some of those use cases implies sharing with others under different conditions (because they are role passwords, device/software passwords and other ways to be unique even if m
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by gmuslera 6mo ago
More like 13 years ago, when Snowden revelations made the reach of this public. Nothing was done, and this kept expanding till today state of things. No one should be surprised. And over the domestic surveillance, that had some complaints b
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by gmuslera 6mo ago
The first thing that came to mind reading the article is that you need only 60ish digits of pi to calculate the circumference of the universe with a resolution of a Planck length, or something like that. You can have all the digits you want
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by gmuslera 6mo ago
The contract is still there, the humans taking decisions at some layer are still there. Decisions were made, risks were dismissed, and that won't protect production data if some of those risks happen. A database won't survive a ma
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by gmuslera 6mo ago
RAM prices skyrocketed because there is really a lot of not so known players with infrastructure to run heavy language models, from the good ones and the bad ones, and the good ones turned bad because their speculation didn't worked ou

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