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by hnbad 3y ago
That's not the entire truth. The government could abolish (or pause) the "debt brake" or raise taxes, however neither option is acceptable to the so-called liberal party that is effectively acting as the king maker in this co
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by hnbad 3y ago
The fun thing about those experiences in professional settings is that the non-native speakers struggling with $5 words will liberally use $10 words ($50 words? I don't know how this is deals with inflation) that are part of the specif
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by hnbad 3y ago
I guess it's time the French gave up on the colonialist idea of the "Francophonie" and accepted that French is evolving independently in other countries just like English, Spanish, Portuguese or Dutch. I wonder how much of th
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by hnbad 3y ago
I recall hearing that most modern nations have certain limits on civilian casualties for each military target which usually vary depending on the target's strategic and political importance. IIRC for Bin Laden it was said to be around
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by hnbad 3y ago
Okay, how's this for nuance? There are plenty of news stories about shepherds killing or severely injuring toddlers. Heck, even the POTUS' shepherd has injured and hospitalized multiple people: https://www.bbc.com/
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by hnbad 3y ago
I'd say "ignorance is a choice" misrepresents this as a problem of individuals rather than structures. Miss Mogg isn't the problem. The world would not be much better if she took the time and energy to try to learn about
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by hnbad 3y ago
The flip side of this is privilege mindset: you have success in your life? Your upper middle class upbringing, social safety net, financial security and financially successful peer group played no part in it, it's all because you worke
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by hnbad 3y ago
In what way is this argument any more productive than showing up to Pluto with a plucked chicken and yelling "BEHOLD! A MAN!"? We can make all kinds of navel-gazing arguments about why LLMs and humans are identical but at the end
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by hnbad 3y ago
He has demonstrably lied about his education, lies about his family background and keeps getting caught making statements that sound plausible if you know a little about the field but nonsensical if you are an actual domain expert (e.g. nea
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by hnbad 3y ago
Yeah but that was never a distinguishing property. All gaming journalism was pretty bad at the time and continues to be bad. This is why the fig leaf of "ethics in games journalism" was so attractive to anyone not paying close att
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by hnbad 3y ago
I see three options: * he's lying, i.e. he's knowingly deceiving his audience to create hype and raise the stock price which he financially benefits from * he's bullshitting, i.e. he's embellishing what he knows is in de
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by hnbad 3y ago
This must be a troll comment. Humans don't rely on vision when driving because it's superior, humans rely on vision because that's all we have. Actually that isn't even true as we also use our ears and with assisted driv
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by hnbad 3y ago
Given Elon's obsession with "it should see like a human does" i.e. only relying on vision and nothing else, I don't think FSD will ever be feasible and safe tbqh. This would be trivial to avoid if the car had an actual s
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by hnbad 3y ago
The problem with this widespread belief is that there is no such thing as a "pit bull". Or rather, there are many and some of the breeds are entirely unrelated. Likewise news stories are usually thin on the specifics and fail to i
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by hnbad 3y ago
This may vary by country but where I live cat breeders have actually started taking measures to avoid inbreeding even when this means foregoing "pure breeds". Inbreeding tends to be a bigger problem for dog breeds because they&#x2
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by hnbad 3y ago
Specifically Kotaku's bad reputation primarily stems from GamerGate.
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by hnbad 3y ago
> Social media is valuable, that’s why people use it. That doesn't follow. Neither of those two statements seems self-evident. People typically follow social media for a number of reasons and to my mind novelty and the pretense of a
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by hnbad 3y ago
This may be an unpopular opinion but there won't be a Twitter replacement. There may very well be a "next big thing" but it won't be like Twitter the same way Twitter wasn't like MySpace or MySpace wasn't like
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by hnbad 3y ago
Simple: explicitly state what regions you provide your service to, optionally use cheap/free IP geolocation to block users from regions you don't wish to provide your service in and wherever you have to record a user's region
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's also a sovereign citizen level of legalese. It doesn't matter what omg.lol states it believes. If anything, this demonstrates clear intent to violate users' privacy and be non-compliant with international data protecti
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by hnbad 3y ago
I've been to a Chinese AYCE in Germany that has another spin on this: cheap meat like deep fried chicken is available as part of the regular buffet but the other fish and meat is only available at a separate buffet where you pick out c
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by hnbad 3y ago
That's not "wages", that's "average wages". I don't expect much but I at least expect a passing knowledge of statistics and intellectual honesty. If most people have nothing and one billionaire joins the g
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by hnbad 3y ago
Unless you propose that there should be more corporations than people, I don't see how the number of companies significantly alters the power dynamics. We literally have industries where the number of job openings vastly outnumber the
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by hnbad 3y ago
Tesla doesn't have to agree but then the workers don't have to stop striking. It's called collective bargaining for a reason. It's no less unreasonable for the workers to keep striking until Tesla gives up than it is f
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by hnbad 3y ago
We say "voters" when we mean their representatives too so this doesn't strike me as surprising even if you could argue that it's not really their decision if it's a representative system rather than one of delegatio
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by hnbad 3y ago
The name doesn't ring a bell but apparently most of the author's works are on Less Wrong and there's a lot of woo about the "Singularity" (although they seem to have moved on to another term for it because too many
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by hnbad 3y ago
Also GA requires opt-in in the EU (even if some sites try to be clever and illegally make it harder to refuse than to accept) whereas presumably their first-party tracking is done in such a way consent is not necessary (e.g. sufficient anon
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by hnbad 3y ago
I was oversimplifying, I guess. Lawyers will generally tell you what law something may violate but they will offer context. Something can be legal or illegal depending on what information is available. A good lawyer will tell you not only
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by hnbad 3y ago
That assumes they do so in a really stupid and straightforward way. LLMs already exist to "AI-wash" copyrighted material in ways that technically don't violate copyright. I'm pretty sure someone will find a way to create
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by hnbad 3y ago
It's either the Italian or Libanese Communist Party. But I don't think that's what they meant either. They probably meant PLC, which OP mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controll

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