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by greiskul 3y ago
How many people are currently starving to death in Europe right now because they cut ties with Russia? If Brazil were to suddenly cut all Russia imports, there would be places in Brazil with actual famines.
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by greiskul 3y ago
> It is also hard to get patients to agree to having tests done at 5am or 9pm, so it's a case of diminishing returns. In the US? With health care prices as they are? There are people that travel to entirely other countries for acces
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by greiskul 3y ago
And the name of this very website we are talking on is derived from lambda calculus. The y combinator is a fixed point combinator in lambda calculus.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yes, please. Do not use LLMs as a substitute for Google search. If you are looking for factual information, just use google, bing, or duckduckgo. You should only use ChatGPT for things that you are able to review it's work. Technology
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by greiskul 3y ago
Anything that endangers mutually assured destruction does not make war less likely, but instead more likely. Also, militarizing space risks making Earths orbit unusable, since when you have a death laser satellite, that is a valid military
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yup. One of the most complex bug I ever fixed was caused by a race condition. It took me 2 weeks to investigate and fix it. The final result was a couple of lines (like 5).
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by greiskul 3y ago
Not close resemblance. Copying. Andy Warhol didn't happen to paint it similar to that photo. If he had, there wouldn't haven been a case, since copyright doesn't cover independent creation. Andy Warhol painted it by copying t
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by greiskul 3y ago
Hmm... so would written chinese be one language, and all the spoken language different languages? They just developed a script based lingua franca.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yeah, I don't speak chinese, but there are many european languages that use accents to change sounds of vowels. In portuguese, the difference between grandmother (avó) and grandfather (avô) is just in how you pronounce the o. I am extr
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by greiskul 3y ago
Exactly. They want to have AI as a service. If any startup could do it's own AI on the cheap, this would not be possible (or at least not so profitable). They don't mind having other big competitors, they think they can win over b
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by greiskul 3y ago
Yes, when I had to take university entry exams in Brazil, all parts of the exam were in person, including writing the essay, with a mandatory topic only disclosed when the exam starts. Preventing ai cheating might become more difficult for
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by greiskul 3y ago
That's not how sale of physical products work. If you go to a store and buy a box and take it home, without the people at the store making you read and sign a contract, you own it.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Users have been trained on Windows to click OK, automatically, without reading, on any pop-up that appears.
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by greiskul 3y ago
You know, contracts are just pieces of paper. They can easily be faked. Yet try going on court and say that a contract with your signature is invalid because it could be fake. Your argument will be rejected, because it doesn't matter i
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by greiskul 3y ago
If all the money goes to the park, none is going to the poor people. Seems like you are advocating for a system where rich people get to go to public parks, and poor people get nothing. And if you are doing a raffle for park tickets, you ar
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by greiskul 3y ago
For something physical, specially something run by the government, you can ask people during account creation for some identification like full name + date of birth, not allow duplicate accounts to enter the same raffle, and check the id of
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by greiskul 3y ago
Developers find themselves in tnis situation sometimes and are not sysadmins. I had this situation before, and I would need to google to know what lsof does and how to use it. And so do many others that are commenting positively here.
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by greiskul 3y ago
From my understanding, don't you have to reinstall the apps every week since they expire and disappear from your phone? That's an awful experience for daily use.
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by greiskul 3y ago
Neither my switch nor my steam deck fits inside of my pants pocket. They are also not the device that dominates almost every human beings life. Cellphones and their evolution of smartphones is probably the single biggest technology revoluti
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by greiskul 3y ago
> For example chat history or email is important for the legal process. People need to prove conversations happened. I just send a whatsapp screenshot to my boss where my previous manager approved my day off. I could easily doctor such a
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by greiskul 3y ago
> My worry here is how the big apps will just publish instructions on how to sideload and then escape the controls and safety that the App Store provides. Android has sideloading since forever, and this doesn't happen there. The num
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by greiskul 4y ago
I think if we had an economic model to support this, we would definitely be in a way better system then we are right now. So many artists and musicians don't have the resources right in our current system, and have to seek day jobs or
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by greiskul 4y ago
I would be very surprised if it didn't. Ethereum still has to deal with a hugely distribuited database updating all nodes, where VISA only has to update however many copies they keep, which will certainly be order of magnitudes less. B
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by greiskul 4y ago
Quantum computing is theoretically able to attack many of the public key encryption algorithms we use. Hardware encryption of HDs doesn't use those algorithms, it uses symmetric-key algorithms, that are not vulnerable to quantum attack
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by greiskul 4y ago
They could use a scheme that allows numbering afterwards. In Brazil, houses are numbered based on how many meters they are from the start of the street (and odd/even depending on the side of the street). The start of the street is the
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by greiskul 4y ago
Well, it is supposed to be a Justice system, and not a game. While it is very easy to forget that, and many of the participants in it clearly don't behave as such, the outcome of it should be to be just.
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by greiskul 4y ago
> Hell the thing you're blackmailing doesn't even have to be true, they can just find an ex lover and blackmail that person to say you raped them or whatever, and well even if you beat the charges your kids get tossed into DCS&
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by greiskul 4y ago
It's not about the software being complicated to install without Docker. It's about Docker making the installation process uniform no matter the software.
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by greiskul 4y ago
From popular internet knowledge, games are more expensive in Australia then NA (Including digital distribution). Would you say that Australia is subsidizing games for Americans?
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by greiskul 4y ago
> Usenet readers to offer both features could have been developed. And running private leaf nodes (as a number of people did) would have been possible. Instead people moved to other platforms and reinvented many wheels, not always in a b

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