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by gwright 3y ago
I don't think that is relevant to my comment. Whether the material is purchased, borrowed from a library, or legally reproduced under "fair use", I'm still asserting that I don't "owe" the creators any of
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by gwright 3y ago
If you study copyrighted material for four years at a university and then go on to earn money based on your education, do you owe something to the authors of your text books? I'm not sure how we should treat LLMs with respect to public
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by gwright 3y ago
> I think the argument that humans are naturally willing to harm infants for personal gain is not at all true. Who is making that argument? There isn't even agreement on the assertion of "harm" in the particular context of
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by gwright 3y ago
> Late stage capitalism at its worst. Any evidence that ignorance, greed, and opportunism is unique to "capitalism" or "late stage capitalism"? Seems to me you are just making an observation about human nature, which
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by gwright 3y ago
It is definitely impossible if we all give up on that principle. I'm not willing to give up.
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by gwright 3y ago
I'll bite. Explain why you think Machiavellian tendencies is something that is particularly associated with "democracy" as opposed to other systems of government. (I'm ignoring the fact that the US is a constitutional re
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by gwright 3y ago
Anyone else tired of this Machiavellian approach that gives up on trying to persuade through rational and informed discussion?
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by gwright 3y ago
I'd like to see some specifics in where you get the $5.7 trillion. More specifically how was the problem of intermittent power solved? I'm not aware of any grid-scale solution to this problem unless you include vast amounts of h
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by gwright 3y ago
> Honestly, people just need to organize unions. That's the only effective counter to policy like this. This seems like a non-sequitur to me. You seem to be suggesting that unions magically understand the best way to organize each a
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by gwright 3y ago
> but as a simple matter of factual data it's been two decades since US Republicans could claim a slight edge on US Democrats in the popular vote (percentage of entire voting population) and four decades since they had any significa
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by gwright 3y ago
This response seems to be spinning a narrative that Democrats have a significantly broader support in the US than Republicans, but I think that is somewhat misleading. Independents have stronger support than either of the major parties. Her
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by gwright 3y ago
I believe that is just the newer sets of locks. The older set doesn't have that recycling mechanism.
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted since there is considerable evidence that a new fissure might open very close to this area. The three eruptions in the last few years on the peninsula have not been far from Blue Lagoon.
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by gwright 3y ago
Not my experience, nor my team's experience over almost 10 years of using this approach.
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by gwright 3y ago
> why spend time on a ‘nice’ commit history in a (smallish) feature branch when you can squash merge later. Several reasons: * facilitates much better code review discussions * enables use of git bisect to locate bugs * all
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by gwright 3y ago
I think the competition argument is stronger when considering competition between states. What seems more towards the toxic side is when within a state some businesses get tax breaks and others don't based on lobbying effort and not b
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by gwright 3y ago
This suggest to me that we should have a more sensible taxing system not that we should build a tax system in which the government must observe all transactions.
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by gwright 3y ago
Are you suggesting that police services should operate like a service for hire? It isn't clear to me if you think the victim should hire the police to investigate (and thus decide if their price is lower than re-purchasing the item) o
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by gwright 3y ago
Maybe we need to develop some iconography to annotate text and images that were produced/generated with AI/ML? Like we have U+2622 to indicate a radiation warning. Similarly, U+2620 for poison, U+2623 for biological hazard, U+26A
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by gwright 3y ago
I assume that means that every person accessing the pages also needs a github account? I don't mind a requirement for a github account for anyone contributing to the repo but I would like authenticated access for viewing the pages tha
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by gwright 3y ago
Apparently GDPR doesn't cover this case specifically but several enforcement authorities have issued some guidance. The only reasonable approach that I've seen is to maintain a log of deletion requests and ensure that if a backu
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by gwright 3y ago
I'd be surprised to hear about anybody deleting records on backup systems (i.e., backups that exist for disaster recovery purposes). It would be pretty difficult to do that in a commercially viable way (but I'm open to hearing abo
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by gwright 3y ago
Has anyone identified an easy/feasible way to add SSO authentication to github pages?
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by gwright 3y ago
Could you share what markdown/git tooling you've identified?
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by gwright 3y ago
My observation from this is that the process by which humans assemble and summarize information, at least at a somewhat high level, is pretty darn close to the way that LLMs do it. I think that falls apart when you want to talk about deeper
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by gwright 3y ago
Well that certainly seems unexpected.
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by gwright 3y ago
I'm a little rusty here, but I think you are talking about the fact that the exit status of the child process has to remain available until the parent process can reap it. Until that happens the child process is in the zombie state. Yo
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by gwright 3y ago
The typical way of dealing with "bad people" is to subject them to the criminal justice system (or vigilantism if the problem is bad enough and the criminal justice system is inadequate). This tends to reduce, but not eliminate, t
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by gwright 3y ago
I don't know about a "practical solution", but there are research efforts to think about new ways to build internets that mitigate some of these problems. Here is one that I'm aware of: https://named-data.net
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by gwright 3y ago
I was just trying to clarify some muddled discussion about different layers of the networking stack. The original comment about port names instead of port numbers didn't seem to be made with an understanding of the different layers.

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