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I agree. The fundamental problem is moral rot in western governments in general. I am nit saying the rest if the world is better BTW, just the problems and history have less in common.
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Salford
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> Copyright is what brought the wealth of works worth reading that were then printed using cheap printing Evidence for this statement? > If the only money is in private works for private libraries, that is where the quality stuff is g
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Actually it grew out of censorship and monopolies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne#Background Cheap access came from the invention of cheap printing . The laws were passed to restrict it.
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I did not think the companies making them are western. India has plenty of its own, and has been making skin lightening cosmetics for literally millennia.
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Its still a huge and growing business and one that AI helps https://tech.yahoo.com/ai/articles/call-centres-using-ai-whi...
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> I really don't understand why people are YOLO'ing containers on their bare metal OS. You know about the people who do not bother with the container? Quite a few make “No problem so far” comments on HN discussions.
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The first study referenced is in the US, and across 443 occupations.
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> Actually not: the copyright claim would be particularly egregious in, e.g. the UK, because if the publisher has not even acknowledged or attributed contributions to Claude, then Claude's copyright is infringed I think you are wron
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Email clients have a much better UI too.
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Most articles submitted here do work without JS in my experience, including this one. I just tried the current top five articles and all work, except that github does not load everything (the main text does load, the commit message and tim
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I should have clarified I was agreeing too. > Being that this is the internet True and funny and depressing at the same time.
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1. The copyright claim is valid in places where LLM output is always covered by copyright. 2. It may be valid in places where sufficient human contribution makes AI code covered by copyright. Even if it is not covered by copyright everywher
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SQLite has been public domain for a very long time, and has been very widely used on that basis, with no problem. There are some other countries where this is true.
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There are also various events where you can visit historical buildings, and some include private homes. A lot of them seem to require booking these days whereas it used to be more just turn up. Many listed here: https://www.herit
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Africa is not a country.
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> The British empire was outnumbered 10 to 1 and still managed to control a large portion of the world for a while It also had the support of a lot of the population of the areas it controlled and at least toleration by the majority. Mo
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by graemep 2mo ago
I confused by this comment. You do not know the politics of people here but I should before making a comment that agrees with yours? > come from all across the political spectrum My point is that people are far more likely to call someth
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Its only a conspiracy theory if people on the other side of politics believe it Nothing like politics to make people miss the beam in their own eye
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So not just HOAs but very much US?
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its a few years since I read Liu Cixin's books and even longer since I read Greg Bear's, but the technology was very different, and it was not as uniformly hostile. The primary technology used to destroy civilisations in Bear&#x
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What flaws? Do they apply to variants such as Greg Bear's and related ideas such as berserkers?
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Yes, definitely, but there is a lot you can do about as the article explains. Rice is great with some foods.
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I think legal requirements are a US thing. I had only heard of it in HOA run places though. Here in the UK there are no usually legal requirements, but it might be a social problem as your neighbours will not like it.
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by graemep 2mo ago
I get where it comes from, but it is a very narrow view of the world. Its only really "a lot of non-atheists" in the US and maybe parts of the Middle East, and even then its not a majority of them AFAIK.
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> As a NoScript user, I see a lot of similar content served via websites as well. I tend to hit the back button. If the site has something I really then I enable temporarily reenable JS and then use reader mode.
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They still do. My first thought was that virtual desktops and moving when you hit a screen edge gives you may of the advantages of this.
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A significant number of mega fauna species is hunted to extinction whenever humans arrive. > If your evidence is the total extinction of American megafauna The evidence is the extinction of most American megafauna species. > In fac
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Schools in the UK now have lockdown drills.
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> Putting on my atheist hat for a minute What is atheist about your comment? Nothing I can see. God has a plan for us does not contradict the evolutionary factors.

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