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by ilovetux 3y ago
In my teens, I was able to trip every day for a long period of time using dextromethorphin Hydrobromide.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
This is a somewhat cynical take for the last two on your list. Amazon: - currently hosting AI/ML generated reviews submitted by users of the site[0] - Using AI-generated review summaries (search for "AI-generated from the text of
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> Neither privacy abuse nor cops lawlessness are "young". Agreed, but I was trying to comment about digital privacy which is a fairly new issue. > constitutional amendment would allow for a general principle. US laws really
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> The landscape of what "digital privacy" means is rapidly changing How could congress even begin to keep pace with that rate of change? They certainly have not been keeping pace, and arguably going backwards in a number of are
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> Whenever I've opened up a DoD website to several users, my hard drive tends to get wiped long before I discover performance issues. I love the sense of humor on this site.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> When they do bad things they do so in our name - whether or not you want them to do it...Transferring the cost to them for acting the way society wants them to act is not the answer. This _maybe_ works in some abstract way, but each po
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I disagree. I think if it's not in the form of a constitutional amendment, then we will be constantly at risk of having it repealed or lessened or made irrelevant by superseding laws. I understand that we can not go around amending the
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by ilovetux 3y ago
That's a feature, not a bug.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I don't know why it needs to be so drastic. We could start by enforcing the 4th amendment. Then we could actually hold officers accountable for their actions. Qualified immunity should be scaled back drastically and any LEO which viola
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> Last month, Elon Musk slammed advertisers that left X, saying they would kill the social media platform. Slammed is a pretty strong word for a juvenile temper tamtrum that he shared with the world.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
yet
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by ilovetux 3y ago
There is an ongoing question about whether AI can be trained on copywritten works. If the AI pioneering companies are able to push back against the entire publishing industry and have nothing more than a conversation about it, then why woul
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by ilovetux 3y ago
You can opt out of the personalized ads, but you cannot opt out of the data collection, storage and correlation.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> In Sweden we generally prefer to avoid laws whenever possible, deferring to best practices, common sense and business agreements. I think I would've agreed with this sentiment in the past. However, the last 7-8 years in the US hav
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by ilovetux 3y ago
Which book?
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords-and-peasants kind of thing So, Elon Musk has zero self-awareness. Good to know.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
The problem is that if AI enables mass spying, then the costs will no longer be prohibitive to target an individual because the infrastructure could be built out once and then reused to target individuals at scale with AI doing all of the c
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I am not talking about consequences for failure. I am talking about consequences for crimes. Let them quit. They were trying to fire them anyway. They shouldn't even have their jobs at this point anyway...they should be in prison.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I can understand why a person might commit an act of abuse. Anger, fetish, frustration it all makes a sort of sense, but what I cannot comprehend is why leadership was actively preventing investigations and sanctions. It makes no sense unle
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by ilovetux 3y ago
From the Director of the FBI, I would expect better than this. > query applications either would not meet the legal standard to win court approval; or because, when the standard could be met, it would be so only after the expenditure of
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> Not to mention all the self-righteous posturing of lawyers absolutely convinced this system epitomizes "justice". I always had respect for the legal profession, but the way the Supreme Court is acting and the fact that nothin
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by ilovetux 3y ago
Nothing is binding. They are all exempt. This is just theater and means nothing.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
There are two main reasons: First, and probably the largest motivator, is that if you fire someone without cause they will typically be able to collect on unemployment insurance which would increase the employers premiums each month. Second
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I feel like there is a balance here between connotation and denotation. Personally, I would not use ether unnatural or abnormal because they have negative connotations even though, by definition, they might be correct. If I had to chose a w
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by ilovetux 3y ago
> The generation after that allowed the workers to form unions That is a very interesting way of describing that process. Lives were lost in that battle.
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by ilovetux 3y ago
You might not be seeing it here in these comments, but there are definitely workplaces where you are scoffed at if make a request like taking the afternoon off to go see your child play soccer. These places thrive on people forgoing any per
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by ilovetux 3y ago
But then where would all the money to burn on VR product pipe-dreams come from? /s
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by ilovetux 3y ago
I find that depending on the day ahead I can choose a benefitial breakfast. If I am going to be doing heavy lifting all day theb a high protein breakfast will leave me feeling good after all the work is done. Meanwhile, if I am going to be
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by ilovetux 3y ago
While it is not a law (in my area at least), I would not buy a car without a recent inspection. I would support a law that requires a special, more in-depth inspection in order to sell a car. My area has a (kind of) similar law...if you are
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by ilovetux 3y ago
Even with tons of new users, how would Mozilla be able to fund continued development of Firefox? Mozilla will need to find a way to raise funds.

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