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by gretch 3y ago
And it's so obvious as to why/how in retrospect Everyone knows sending an innocent person to prison is really bad. But if you throw "they're not well..." in front of it and you have all the green lights you need.
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by gretch 3y ago
> People who saw the same marketing messages from the same people to believe the same things, who would think it. Yes, except all of the people who don’t. Let’s do a little experiment. Pick any 1 position or belief that I don’t hold and
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by gretch 3y ago
It turns out that it takes a lot of energy to hate/antagonize random stuff going on - you don't get paid and there's no benefit to you. Eventually you just get too busy living your actual life to continue the feud. Real prote
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by gretch 3y ago
I hope the story was lost in translation or surely doesn’t apply to fire hydrant fines. If not, seems very unethical -> see fire, park in front of hydrant to get the story, impede fire department fighting the fire
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by gretch 3y ago
It'd be a ridiculous expectation for society to keep. I've been paying for Netflix - this month they probably took off 20~30 movies due to licenses ending. You're gonna say, hold on, I haven't had a chance to watch all t
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by gretch 3y ago
Honestly it's like there's an entire position to the argument that just does not recognize the agency of people. They weren't people who decided to attack or harass others - THEY WERE BRAINWASHED. If anything bad happens, it&
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by gretch 3y ago
Okay I feel bad for those people in Mexico. I don't live in Mexico though. I don't have a stake in what their govt or industry does. It literally just isn't my world and I don't have any stake or power on what goes on th
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by gretch 3y ago
> immune to advertising like you think you are (but aren’t really because nobody is) No one is fully immune to advertising but some people are definitely more resilient than others. To study your example: we are all exposed to pretty muc
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by gretch 3y ago
Small restaurants doing delivery doesn’t make sense as an example. The only structures that were torn down were things that required capital and upkeep. So for example, once you starve the beast of the taxi industry, then the fleet decays a
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by gretch 3y ago
> we were putting everything on a credit card and not worrying about the bill that eventually had to be paid We (consumers) didn't put anything on a CC. VCs did. And I count that for the blessing it was. I ordered tons of subsidized
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by gretch 3y ago
In such a world your digital wallet Id becomes just as important as your credit card number and you’re back to where you started.
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by gretch 3y ago
Yes it does. Source: I just tried it on my phone right now. platform - iOS (don't know about others). Also, possibly not possible for all songs or countries in the world.
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by gretch 3y ago
Or maybe this guy was sufficiently motivated anyway. And if he had did a search for “running plan for beginners to get in shape”, he would have gotten pretty much the same place. I think LLMs are very powerful as a tool and believe in their
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by gretch 3y ago
Let's be more precise with the analogy. I don't think anyone has ever been convicted of wire fraud for looking around the store front, as in your analogy. Please cite a case if I'm wrong. I'm sympathetic to this cause. B
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by gretch 3y ago
What makes it worth saying is that I was actually trying to give helpful feedback to those in your position. Here's the first paragraph again: >You should know that this type of argument is likely to hurt your own position when deli
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by gretch 3y ago
> accessing a computer or website you're not authorized to access (even if the website has trash security) What does having "trash security" have anything to do with it? In the real world do you look at a convenience store
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by gretch 3y ago
> . It is very common among people who organized or were very active in summer 2020 anti-police violence protests to have caught charges in the last few years for completely unrelated things. I participated in these protests, as did many
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by gretch 3y ago
Disclosure: work in big tech. > It is here, right now. You should know that this type of argument is likely to hurt your own position when delivered to a moderate middle. You're basically telling people to ignore what they see and h
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by gretch 3y ago
Why can’t you also run ads on searches for their company? And if they buy both sets of ads, then they just have to pay for all of those leads? And if they do that, then what are you doing with your marketing dollars?
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by gretch 3y ago
? You can show causation by having a test group and a control group. Just get N people. Have the control group eat pot cooked popcorn and have the experimental group eat microwave. You can’t get causation by just observing, but once you are
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by gretch 3y ago
I fully agree with this. A couple months ago I tried to do a quick hack project where I could get the computer to play a sound and render an image when there was a keystroke. Turns out with python, without additional libraries, you had to r
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by gretch 3y ago
Nothing has happened yet, and it’s easy for anyone who wants to opt out to do so. Transfer your domain and close your google domain account. The bigger point though is that you are right, but it also applies to literally every business sale
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by gretch 3y ago
It’s definitely more equitable. It also gives everyone the same incentive to not start shit (even though few ppl are in position to instigate a war) because it could be you and your family that’s sent to fight it. However, when you’re actua
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by gretch 3y ago
Well maybe his job is to guard what exists at the top of the elevator. So yeah, controlling the single point of entry and the only keys to the kingdom could be super effective compared to watching it on a TV screen. You don’t know anything
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by gretch 3y ago
I read a couple of pages and it looks good. I’m not a complete beginner but it’s still filling in some gaps in my knowledge. I appreciate the author’s work and giving it away for free. That said I feel like it’s skipping some explanation fo
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by gretch 3y ago
If you are very confident that the buyer is legit and not evil, then you’ll be fine. Imagine though, that this information you willing sold to a shady party was used in a big hack. Say national security or an oil pipeline or something. Do y
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by gretch 3y ago
Because if this exploit is ever used in breach of the computer fraud and abuse act, now you are down as a conspirator. When you sell this to another party, are you going to report it on your taxes? If you do report it, is your buyer going t
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by gretch 3y ago
Yup, GP underestimates the difficulty of being a serious criminal. If you try to sell your exploit on the black market for 133k but mess up and walk into a federal agent honey pot, now your in jail for 10 years. Even if you did successfully
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by gretch 3y ago
You’re comparing their existence to your modern standards. But in the moment all those people found their lives to be just fine. By that logic you live in absolute hell compared to the future humans of the year 3000. Doesn’t feel like it th
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by gretch 3y ago
Was this meant as a retort? If so can we just pretend I said 200 instead of 150? I feel like that’s pretty much the same thing given that both are but a drop in the ocean of total human existence.

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