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by gojomo 4y ago
Free speech has absolutely been a central value, since the time of founding, as evidenced by its prominent spot in the 'Bill of Rights'. It hasn't always been fully respected, but for the most part the trends have been good.
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by gojomo 4y ago
I agree that having some of the world's broadest protections for free speech is important to the US political stability, & its technological/cultural/economic power. But, hasn't the UK's "current system of
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by gojomo 4y ago
While language seemed difficult for AI for a while, it now seems to be falling quite rqpidly to recent techniques. (It reminds me a little of the early years of aviation. In 1901 the US Navy's chief engineer called manned flight a &quo
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by gojomo 4y ago
Interesting! Which city, and is there a writeup with more details?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Stable Diffusion for amateur space-telescope astronomy.
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by gojomo 4y ago
Has this alleged lack of quality video caused total consumption of televised entertainment to decline recently?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Yep! "Restyle that last scene, showing different mixtures of fear/concern/excitement on male lead's face. Try to evoke a little of Harrison Ford's expressions in his famous roles. Render me 20 alternate treatments.&
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by gojomo 4y ago
> Certainly we're very, very far away from that level of cinematic detail and crispness. Can you quantify what you mean by "very, very far away"? With the recent pace of advances, I could see feature-length script, sto
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by gojomo 4y ago
"Not helping"... who or what? Musk is now offering to execute the signed deal – which is the only thing Twitter asked to court to enforce. So it's absolutely helping resolve the dispute faster, without further legal costs or
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by gojomo 4y ago
I think Twitter Inc agrees with you, as they've made no request for damages. Shareholder lawsuits are weird; maybe someone who owns Twitter Inc stock could claim Musk's actions caused them to sell early, or otherwise suffer losses
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by gojomo 4y ago
I don't find that too odd, because I believe the plaintiff, Twitter Inc, can more-or-less get a stay on request, especially if it's likely to make any further burdens on the court become moot. So wording it this way is just being
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'Examination Day' by Henry Slesar (1958; ~1200 words) [pdf](web.archive.org)
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by gojomo 4y ago
Thankfully, internet attention-harvesting business models have provided us with an emergent, decentralized 'Handicapper General' functionality. That saves us from the abuses that a formal, centralized agency that enforces equality
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by gojomo 4y ago
That you can find discussion with a focused search doesn't really address the opinion that "the people who usually talk about [privilege]" haven't "properly acknowledged" things like beauty privilege. Certainly
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by gojomo 4y ago
Lesson learned: if anyone wants to try the same move, choose someplace where the host pays at the counter, before sitting down with the food. (What are some of the best Bay Area eateries that work that way?)
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by gojomo 4y ago
Thanks for the context! I hope a highly-developed EU nation like Finland can ensure all owed wages are paid.
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by gojomo 4y ago
Very interesting! Do you know if Sweden's northern generation surplus via something robust against gas-shortages, like say local hydropower?
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by gojomo 4y ago
"unpaid immigrant labor"? Are you alleging slavery in European power-plant construction?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Where will they "import cheap electricity" from if none is being exported?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Will they nab offenders via remote-sensing, like a thermal camera aimed at windows? Or by subpoenaing records of 'smart home' thermostat companies?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Human children get practice in importance of distinguishing legitimate commands from those-that-should-be-ignored via games like 'Simon Says'. What if you prompt GPT to follow a 'Simon-Says'-like protocol, ignoring any r
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by gojomo 4y ago
That essentially every professionally-developed website I visit seems to have concluded differently makes me doubt your analysis - or, if your analysis is technically true, that that analysis is relevant to real websites' needs.
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by gojomo 4y ago
So, in a theoretical world that doesn't exist, where every website does extra engineering to defer a disclosure until later, it's less of a burden. (But still a burden at that later point.) Can you point out a few prominent site
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by gojomo 4y ago
What I still don't get is: Wouldn't it be worth it for the EU to fix the silly GDPR cookie requirements? They burden sites & users with billions of extra meaningless interactions every month for no net gain in privacy – and po
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by gojomo 4y ago
> But if nothing else, we can assume that there's less money in politics because campaigns are less expensive. I don't think this is self-evident even for money, if the money is simply being spent in ways that can't be t
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by gojomo 4y ago
Fellow fiftysomething here who considers AppleCare, like other paid-extended-warranties, a racket. (If Apple, with all their data, think it's a net-profitable offer, I must be net-losing on the deal versus the default of self-insurance
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by gojomo 4y ago
When you pass laws that can't practically be enforced, or that everyone figures the insiders/incumbents have already tilted in their favor with de jure or de facto immunities – such that they're only ever used unevenly agains
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by gojomo 4y ago
How do you know there's less money in politics if it's gone dark in harder-to-measure ways?
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by gojomo 4y ago
Why would SBF particularly care about proof-of-work, when he can make plenty, maybe more, from proof-of-stake? He's donated to climate-change charities & declared FTX to be carbon-neutral. He might even see an angle for profit in h
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by gojomo 4y ago
Reference? (They can seemingly use 'water damage' as excuse to limit what kind of damage is repaired under the warranty, even if it technically isn't completely "voided" – see Apple's support page: https:&#x2F

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