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by heartbeats 4y ago
> The Revolution of dignity has absolutely no signs of a coup. It resulted in presidential and parlimentary elections. This is a non-sequitur; the transfer of power was extra-constitutional, so it can't be ruled out by this fact alo
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Ships aren't autonomous vehicles; they don't passively "sail". A ship has a captain who makes an active decision to depart from port. It is non-serious to use the passive form here. Also, more importantly: if we can agre
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Surely, the following two statements can be true at the same time? 1. Binance is run by criminals and all sorts of people would go to jail if anyone looked at their books. 2. Binance is solvent. Not saying this is the case, but there's
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by heartbeats 4y ago
I think the big innovation here isn't in its grasp of language, but in the way it's able to access data. Comparing ChatGPT against ELIZA or GPT-2 isn't the right comparison, you should compare it to something like SQL or Goog
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Real interest rates have been positive. Unless you were saving in a mattress, your purchasing power increased.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
They don't have to spend it per se ; by conventional economic theory, as long as they keep it in the bank, it's enough. Keynes: > Europe was so organized socially and economically as to secure the maximum accumulation of capit
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by heartbeats 4y ago
LinkedIn is pretty walled, and it's a cesspool. What prevents Brian Jones, a 100% legitimate human being, from pasting in a few GPT-generated posts to improve his posting activity? At the end of the day, you have to filter on quality.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
We've had regular GPT for several years now, and nothing has happened. People predicted this with the OG Transformer model from OpenAI, and yet the fake news apocalypse didn't come upon us. > Won't it result in 1000s of bl
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by heartbeats 4y ago
What about steganography? If you change subtle details about spelling, spacing, formatting, etc by the source IP, then you can look at one of their pages and figure out which IP it was scraped from. Then, just add goatse to all pages reques
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by heartbeats 4y ago
That's far from "easy" - if it were so simple, people would be able to extort big money from drug markets for doing it.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
No, that's not true. The first hop (last from the service's PoV) is basically randomly selected. Unless you restrict it, there will be thousands of possible IPs.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
What exactly are you trying to convey here? Who else is big within the DDoS protection market? It's not like you could start up your own.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
It's true that the existence of DDoS-Guard, VanwaTech, and a few others technically makes it an oligopoly, but you're still at the mercy of large corporations. I do not work for CloudFlare.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Everything you've put forth is an exception to the norm because those [...] are regulated industries whose behavior is governed by rules which are the exception to the default, which is free association. My specific argument is th
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> It's obvious to everyone else that they are, in fact, a hate site, and that their purpose is to organize harassment and violence. I don't think it's obvious. It sounds possible, sure, but they vigorously deny it, and whe
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Private companies are, in some countries , required to do just that. For instance, in Germany, banks have a legal obligation to provide people with basic accounts, even if they would not like it. I can't take seriously the idea that c
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by heartbeats 4y ago
The entire point here, though, is that the Farms vigorously dispute having done any such thing. How are you to determine who's right? To me, it seems by far fairer to make those decisions, as a society, via the court system and the law
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by heartbeats 4y ago
How do you know it was them? It wouldn't make much sense for them to SWAT Marjorie Taylor Greene, now does it?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Does it work to repeat "I'd like to cancel my subscription" over and over again, without answering their questions? If so, why isn't this more prevalent?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Why would it need a civil war? It could be done peacefully. Grant that people wouldn't want to abandon their friends (on both sides!), but surely nobody would feel it worthwhile to fight a war over people in other states having the rig
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by heartbeats 4y ago
So what's the strategy then? To be blunt, it doesn't seem to me like the US and human rights are going to have the best possible relationship in the next 10-20 years. Wouldn't it be better then to cut away from it?
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Grant this, but at some point, there's still a lack of majority support somewhere. >50% might support cutting Wyoming down to size, but <50% support removing the supermajority requirement for constitutional amendment.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Are there some other (non-politically controversial, not subject to heavy litigation) well-known uncodified rights in the USA? I don't live in the USA, so certainly none of my rights are codified there.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> Yes, this is how the system is designed to work. It's a bad system, but the system cannot be fundamentally changed in an environment much short of political unanimity. The biggest changes to the system only came after a civil war.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> There are 50 states in the US. Each state gets 2 senators. States with low populations (think, Wyoming) tend to lean republican while the few states with high populations tend to lean democrat. The end result is these rural states end
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> The next problem is that in order to pass new laws, you need to have a super-majority in the senate, a majority in the house, and the presidency to go along with the law. Pretty difficult when the republican party has decided they want
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by heartbeats 4y ago
> In Roe, the court didn't write a law saying abortion was legal. It struck down laws stating that it was illegal. That's an important difference. I don't get it - this seems like sophistry. Isn't the end result the s
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by heartbeats 4y ago
But in that case, what's the problem? If you can't get the legislation through because it isn't popular enough, that seems like a pretty solid case of "Won't fix: working as intended". Congress still has the ab
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by heartbeats 4y ago
Do you have any proof of this claim? You say that there "is no denying that the GDPR was a catalyst". Well, in what way did it catalyze it? Static pages do not need any GDPR compliance anyway.
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by heartbeats 4y ago
People from out of state. The native Californians would not have to pay, since they already live there.

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