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by jack_pp 2y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to just have every port blocked except for a very simple application which has no privileges and just writes ASCII to some file? Such an application would be very easy to audit
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Religion as taught in schools or many (most?) churches is indeed mostly indoctrination. I've gone the full spectrum, from practicing Christian with a real fear of God as I was taught since I was a kid until 13 then atheist until 25 the
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Bitcoin is the only really useful crypto that fundamentally has no reason to die because of basic economics. It is fundamentally the only hard currency we have ever created and that's why it is revolutionary
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Sure but with work if you escape the cycle you are left with money and skills that are useful in real life. Games are just a temporary sedative that can lead to depression and anxiety about the real world while not providing anything truly
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Regarding videogames and TV, to some people it isn't. Videogames for some people provide such an effective escape from real life it becomes like a drug in it's short term effects. Similar to alcohol and other substances, for some
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by jack_pp 2y ago
If it identifies the card and the govt can identify you by your card then isn't it by definition identifying the person?
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by jack_pp 2y ago
I don't know if I'd trust cheap knockoffs to give me accurate information on my health. Hell I don't even trust expensive health tracking gadgets, I remember watching some YouTube videos showing how different watches give you
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by jack_pp 2y ago
The scooter has gps as well as your phone and they require a photo anyway. The company can check that you ended your ride correctly, what happens after that isn't your liability.
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Economy is shit, what do you expect. Very few humans have the financial luxury to release free software and not try to monetize it at all.
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by jack_pp 2y ago
I don't know man, I'm not even from the US and I meet a lot of people being concerned about wokeism being imported into our country, do you have any proof of your allegations?
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Considering a ton of podcasts talk about it and they're not in the tech bubble I'd say it's a pretty important topic especially in the US.
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by jack_pp 2y ago
What is this topic that's only in vogue in tech circles? Wokeism?
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by jack_pp 2y ago
On the other hand, the choice might have bad in the beginning but it is hard to go the better route now, meaning a rewrite to switch to the better way would cost way too much time and resources. In this case ignorant people would be way bet
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by jack_pp 2y ago
You should study ML/AI advanced mathematics. I was struggling to comprehend some math concept, read the theory on my own and tried hard to get it for like 5-6 hours until I went to a colleague that scribbled a drawing and made me under
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by jack_pp 2y ago
That's because they are different, police can come with a warrant to check your house for illegal activity but they can't monitor you remotely 24/7 with barely any human intervention and store everything you do indefinitely.
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by jack_pp 2y ago
So your assumption justifies judging Tesla owners? Doesn't seem very enlightened of you either
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Hearthstone mostly works. Wow doesn't
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Doesn't inhibit them but makes the activity not pleasant because your mind is attaching the work itself to external motivation. You don't do it because you want to (for the pleasure of it), but for a paycheck and humans don't
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Maybe if you earn 10k+ monthly and play a free game you don't mind buying shiny things for 50-100$ monthly
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Haven't read it but I remember reading about a study where they would watch some kids play with toys, record which were their favorite ones and then in another play session give them sweets for playing with their favorite toys after wh
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by jack_pp 2y ago
To add to this, for them money is like ice cream, comes from parents rarely and gives them temporary pleasure. That's why I think it is good to pay your kids for chores or good grades so that they start learning financial responsibilit
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by jack_pp 2y ago
I found some of those jokes good, definitely better than I would've ever written them. If you watch shows about comedy like say Hacks you'll see human comedians riff on stuff and a lot of the off the top jokes get discarded or imp
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Because kids aren't utilitarian. They want shiny things impulsively now in whatever niche game they are playing at the moment. Or want to keep up with their friends who got cool stuff to keep status. Doesn't matter to them that th
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by jack_pp 2y ago
And then there's me that configs vim to use the system clipboard by default
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by jack_pp 2y ago
In Romania we have YouTube channels that do only investigative reporting and people fund them through YouTube membership, super tips and Patreon. Can look up recorder Romania if you are curious
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Isn't blender good enough? Never edited video in my life except with ffmpeg but I know blender supports it
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Could, or meta makes you irrelevant with by reproducing your trick and giving it away for free
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by jack_pp 2y ago
I don't think anyone is saying that AI containment is impossible, rather than a risk we shouldn't take lightly. For example let's say we take it seriously and only run GAI in a bunker with a self destruct mechanism and no int
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by jack_pp 2y ago
Ah, I knew that phrase but never connected it to the title "mother of learning" (web novel). Thanks for that tiny epiphany
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by jack_pp 2y ago
> Women have been framing marriage as a work contract Not all women. It is there job of men to figure out this kind of woman and not marry them > There is no great benefit to sitting and spending your whole life dependent financially

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